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The Stooges: The Stooges | Bagstiv - August 31, 2026

Fun House is also slated for release in SACD format by MFSL. Television’s Marquee Moon has been released already and sounds fantastic. I’m not sure how to suggest an ...

The Who: Live At Leeds | analogue - September 26, 2026

Hello. Always a huge fan of this album and was awaiting its sacd release. Cant say I was overwhelmed but all is not lost. I was forewarned as to deficiencies' with the tape ...

Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten - Böhm | Hade - September 28, 2026

This recording is in stereo but the sacd is no real improvement. The treeble notes are less agressive but more present, leaving the feeling that the sound is not well balanced ...

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue | Mark Werlin - September 23, 2026

The Hemiola label uses production master tapes (tapes sent to LP pressing plants) as the source for their own tape copies, and for the Miles Davis SACD. The Hemiola release ...

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue | Mark Werlin - Yesterday 01:29 pm

Thanks to EugenF and Longjohns for contributing to this informative discussion thread. It helped to answer questions about the source of the Hemiolia SACD. Several site ...

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue | EugenF - Yesterday 07:54 am

I have both sacds Hemiolia & SME SICP-10083 and for my ears they sound almost the same (there are minor differences). I like them both. I also have HDtracks (24/192) release ...

Bob Marley and The Wailers: Burnin' | Downunderman - September 1, 2026

This SACD released in 2026 and given the age of the recording plus the recording technology/tape stock available in Jamaica circa 1973 it sounds OK for its time. It was ...

The Who: Tommy | analogue - September 26, 2026

Hello: I took a chance and purchased this version of Tommy. I will keep this review short suffice it to say that as with Live at Leeds.....I was not overly impressed. I do ...

My Best 5 - Uno

Octavia Records x Tower Record  OVEP00032 (5 discs)

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Shinsei Nihon Symphony Orchestra
Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra
Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra
Osaka Symphony Orchestra
Koho Uno (conductor)

All

Works (18)

• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, WAB 108
• Carl Maria von Weber: Aufforderung zum Tanze, Op. 65
• Franz Lehar: Giuditta (1934) Ich weiß es selber nicht... Meine Lippen sie küssen so heiß
• Franz Lehar: Gold und silber, Op. 79
• Hector Berlioz: Weber: Aufforderung zum Tanze
• Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances (21), WoO 1 No. 5 in F sharp minor
• Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus (1874) Overture
• Johann Strauss II: Im Krapfenwald'l, Op. 336
• Josef Strauss: Dorfschwalben aus Österreich, Op. 164
• Leopold Mozart: Cassation in G major 'Toy Symphony'
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
• Peter Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
• Roman Hofstetter: String Quartet in F major (attr. Haydn Op. 3 No. 5 'Serenade')
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: German Dances (3), K. 605
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 Overture
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550