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Yes: The Yes Album | Downunderman - August 6, 2024

Agree with Analogue on this one. Really surprisingly good.

Foreigner: Foreigner | Downunderman - August 2, 2024

This one was released in June 2024, some 14 years later than the original appearance of this title on SACD in August 2010 which was mastered/released by MoFi ...

801: 801 Live | Downunderman - August 23, 2024

Released April 28, 2024, as a single disc SACD hybrid in a card sleeve. A bit surprisingly for a Japanese SACD release the disc is made/glass mastered by Sony DADC in ...

Yes: The Yes Album | aubullience - August 25, 2024

Both the SACD and 45 rpm releases of this album by AP are the hands-down winners in their respective (hi-res and analog) formats.

Bruce Springsteen: The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle | Downunderman - August 5, 2024

Not an OMR but MoFi seem to have got lucky with their source tape all the same. My experience of this album on CD has been of a very clean, slightly bright and thin sound ...

Yes: 90125 | Paul - June 29, 2024

This is without a doubt the definitive audio edition of this classic 80’s Yes album! I’ve been listening to this album for 40 years and it’s like listening to it for the ...

Stravinsky: Symphonies - Slobodeniouk | hiredfox - Today 01:10 pm

Thanks for your excellent review Graham. I follow your advice on the Chandos recording and have deleted this one from my wish list.

Van Halen: Van Halen | aubullience - August 25, 2024

I can't say it better than Downunderman did. IMO his characterization of it is accurate in all respects. And oh yes, misspent youth!

Classics at the Pops - Kunzel

Telarc  SACD-60595

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

"Classics at the Pops"

Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel (conductor)

All

Recording

DSD recording

Tracks

1. Ottorino Respighi: The Pines of the Appian Way from The Pines of Rome
2. Sir Edward Elgar: Nimrod from Enigma Variations, Op. 36
3. Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
4. Jaromir Weinberger: Polka and Fugue from Schwanda, the Bagpiper
5. Hector Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9
6. Camille Saint-Saëns: Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah
7. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves
8. Giuseppe Verdi: Grand March from Aida
9. Dmitri Shostakovich: Festive Overture, Op. 96
10. Claude Debussy: Fetes from Nocturnes
11. John Philip Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever

Works (10)

• Hector Berlioz: Le Carnaval romain, H 95
• Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man (1942)
• Claude Debussy: Nocturnes, L 91 Fêtes
• Edward Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 'Enigma' No. 9 Nimrod
• Ottorino Respighi: Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome), P 141
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47 Bacchanale
• Dmitri Shostakovich: Festive Overture, Op. 96
• Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves (1934)
• Giuseppe Verdi: Aida (1871) Gloria all'Egitto
• Jaromir Weinberger: Švanda dudák (Schwanda the Bagpiper): Polka and Fugue

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