Glad to see BIS is still doing massive boxed sets. I hope BIS boxes up Spanyi's 59-volume CPE Bach integrale of keyboard solos and concertos - many years have passed since BIS ...
This conductors extraordinary affinity with ballet music is undiminished and it is a joy to hear the Shchedrin in hi-res sound. These performances suggest it would be quite ...
Regarding Spanyi's CPE Bach concerto cycle, the final 20th volume was released in 2014. I own the complete cycle and enjoy listening to these lovely concertos. As far as I ...
Yes, I too like Ivan's Beethoven. I look forward to this one, and more.
Pity about his missing the recording of the Ninth by one day in 2020 due to Covid restrictions coming ...
I compared this to the 2007 Rhino US CD (R2 7479). I was never overly happy with that release and can only second Marc‘s impression: On the MoFi SACD the instruments sound ...
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Comment by aubullience - December 7, 2023 (1 of 1)
Caveat Emptor- while Monk's playing on this disc is exemplary, as one would expect, in my systems the sound of the issue has a very marked stridency in the mid-treble range, even (albeit to a much lesser extent) in my secondary system, which skews slightly 'dark in its presentation. For (limited) reference, my primary system has Vivid Speakers, and contains a tube preamp offering a slight degree of added warmth; and for my secondary one, a fairly neutral-balanced Ayre disc player and electronics feeding into an old pair of Monitor Audios (which account that bit of darkness/warmth). Both listening rooms are slightly under-damped, but again, this disc is an outlier for me in terms of the aforementioned stridency to its high end. It's the only SACD for which I've ever had this problem to date (out of a few hundred I own), and perhaps the only disc of any kind with which I've had this problem in my secondary system. While the sonic defect could conceivably exist in other formats (I own neither a cd nor lp version of this recording) over the past thirty five yearsI've had my share of plenty of Monk recordings in LP, cd and SACD format, none of them displaying this kind of tonal balance.
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Comment by aubullience - December 7, 2023 (1 of 1)
Caveat Emptor- while Monk's playing on this disc is exemplary, as one would expect, in my systems the sound of the issue has a very marked stridency in the mid-treble range, even (albeit to a much lesser extent) in my secondary system, which skews slightly 'dark in its presentation. For (limited) reference, my primary system has Vivid Speakers, and contains a tube preamp offering a slight degree of added warmth; and for my secondary one, a fairly neutral-balanced Ayre disc player and electronics feeding into an old pair of Monitor Audios (which account that bit of darkness/warmth). Both listening rooms are slightly under-damped, but again, this disc is an outlier for me in terms of the aforementioned stridency to its high end. It's the only SACD for which I've ever had this problem to date (out of a few hundred I own), and perhaps the only disc of any kind with which I've had this problem in my secondary system. While the sonic defect could conceivably exist in other formats (I own neither a cd nor lp version of this recording) over the past thirty five yearsI've had my share of plenty of Monk recordings in LP, cd and SACD format, none of them displaying this kind of tonal balance.