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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 30 - 32 - Kodama | wilbur - Yesterday 09:41 pm

This is an outstanding disc, and certainly up there in terms of the quality of performance with the very best. Probably has not gained the attention it deserves on account of ...

Mozart / Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos - Dörken / Vogt | hiredfox - August 13, 2019

Strange isn't it how few modern artists are prepared to tackle the Brahms Concertos. Certainly the works are lengthy and moderately difficult to learn but neither is at all ...

Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol 5 - Gardner | breydon_music - August 16, 2019

Everyone to their own, but Gardner is one of a number of current conductors who never quite do it for me - everything sound enough but seldom anything life changing in its ...

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet: Spin | grsimmon - August 15, 2019

Even though it's clearly marked as SACD on the disk itself, my player will not recognize it as an SACD. Strange. I don't think it's my player b/c I don't have this problem ...

Bill Evans: You Must Believe in Spring | SteelyTom - July 18, 2019

Perhaps the best-recorded of any of Evans's studio albums, albeit reissued here in 2-channel, hi-res PCM. Worth the price of admission for 'Gary's Theme.'

John Coltrane: Standard Coltrane | breydon_music - August 16, 2019

This is the second time AP have issued a SACD transfer of this title. Curiously this one has the same catalogue number (but a different prefix) as the first one from well over ...

Schubert: Impromptus - Pires | DYB - August 16, 2019

Just finished listening to this... Pires' interpretation is for the ages. But what about the sound? It's very good. Esoteric did whatever they do upscaling standard 16 bit ...

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Bizet: Carmen - Karajan

Sony Classical (Japan) SIGC-41 (2 discs)

Stereo Single Layer

Classical - Opera

Bizet: Carmen

Leontyne Price (Carmen)
Franco Corelli (Don José)
Robert Merrill (Escamillo)
Mirella Freni (Micaela)
Monique Linval (Frasquita)
Geneviève Macaux (Mercédés)
Jean-Christophe Benoit (Dancaire)
Maurice Besancon (Remendado)
Frank Schooten (Zuniga)
Bernard Demigny (Morales)
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Sängerknaben
Wiener Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)