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Miles Davis: Seven Steps to Heaven | Mark Werlin - December 4, 2023

Thanks, Downunderman! I will add more about the performances. It's an album that I had overlooked, but this reissue has captured my attention and interest. The Los Angeles ...

Mahler: Symphonies 1-9 - Maazel | Contrapunctus - November 24, 2023

I have to correct my previous comment a little, I was probably a little too hasty. Also, I had only compared a single track. Now a few days have passed and I've listened to a ...

Miles Davis: Seven Steps to Heaven | Downunderman - December 1, 2023

Great review Mark and I'm 100% with you on the provenance disclosure issue. It continues to baffle me why they think being open about the source material is a negative. To my ...

Van Morrison: Moondance | Warren Ogden - December 5, 2023

The previous blu-ray was only available as part of a very expensive box set, whereas this one is available as a very affordable stand-alone release.

Thelonious Monk: Solo Monk | aubullience - Today 08:36 am

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, ...

John Prine: John Prine | Steven Harrison - December 5, 2023

I have this one now. I have listened to this recording for over 50 years on LP and CD. It never ever sounded as good as this sacd does. This is living proof that everything ...

Van Morrison: Moondance | Kveld-Úlfr - December 5, 2023

Lots of interesting remixes and versions indeed. However, to me the previous version (BD-A + CDs) did not seem to be a "very expensive" item at the time, as I had acquired it ...

Mahler: Symphonies 1-9 - Maazel | Longjohns and Wifebeaters - December 1, 2023

I guess also whether it would even be financially viable, first as a development and then a production project. Look at us here, a niche in a niche in a diminutive market ...

Opera Intermezzi - Karajan

Warner Music (Japan) WPCS-12682

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Intermezzo's & Preludes from
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Verdi: La Traviata
Leoncavallo: Pagliaci
Mascagni: L'amico Fritz
Schmidt: Notre Dame
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
Granados: Goyescas

Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan