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Piston / Jones / Albert: American Symphonies - Friedel | Euell Neverno - June 14, 2018

Well played and recorded. Enjoyable, tonal and NOT boring.

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 - Karajan | Steven Harrison - Today 03:07 am

I have this one and find it to be as good as all the other Esoteric discs in my collection. I also do not have the original 1988 cd, so cannot compare to that one. In reading ...

Tchaikovsky / Dvorak: Serenades for Strings - Davis | ubertrout - Yesterday 08:59 pm

I didn't mean to stir the pot quite this much, and we're all indulging in this hobby to get closer to what brings us joy. I picked the Trondheim recording simply because it's ...

Tchaikovsky / Dvorak: Serenades for Strings - Davis | William Hecht - Today 06:06 pm

Ditto and Ditto. I always enjoys the gusts of sanity that occasionally blow though these discussions.

Tchaikovsky / Dvorak: Serenades for Strings - Davis | breydon_music - June 14, 2018

Well, I do own both of the discs mainly under discussion here - the Trondheim and the Davis. Obviously the Trondheim is the better recording! Beyond that it's a little ...

Tchaikovsky / Dvorak: Serenades for Strings - Davis | Adrian Quanjer - Today 01:55 am

Thanks Ubertrout, this is a most helpful and useful comment. Esoteric certainly do lots of people a nostalgic favour by copying and remastering their old damaged LP war ...

Grieg / Schumann: Piano concertos - Mertanen / Koivula | [Current93] - June 15, 2018

I have no such problems when playback this SACD you mentioned, but I do hear throughout the disc a good amount of background noise (seems like radiowaves) both when listen in ...

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Krebbers/Argerich/Kondrashin | Don_Angelo - June 14, 2018

I finally got my hands on a copy of this disc at a decent price, this was my first introduction to the work on its redbook incarnation. At the time the coupling was with ...

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