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August 22, 2005
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Paavo Jarvi's Sibelius 2nd Symphony is wonderful, easily the best performance I've heard yet and easily the finest sounding. The Tubin Symphony No. 5 is a real discovery and I can understand Jarvi championing this fellow Estonian. Tubin's Fifth is extremely exciting, very moving and a real emotional ... more |
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August 21, 2005
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I am so thrilled Deutsche Grammophon released Russo’s Three Pieces for Blues Band & Orchestra on SACD as this is my favorite work of all time having owned it since it first appeared on LP in 1973! Then on 8 Track Cartridge, 4 Track 7 ½ ips Reel to Reel tape, once again on LP with a better turntable, ... more |
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August 21, 2005
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This is a DSD recording and has a new symbol on the case that says:
DSD Recording maybe the industry will pick up on this on.
My SACD player is the 2 channel tubed Xandak SCD-2 SACD player so I only listened to the 2 channel high resolution layer.
It is beautifully packaged and box, case and ... more |
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August 21, 2005
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The Telarc Soundstream SACDs continue to totally amaze me. They are 50kHz and only 16 Bit but sonically outperform most high resolution PCM recordings in my collection and even some pure DSD SACDs! They are amazing. Could it be the "distant" 3-microphone technique? The Soundstream Digital recorder? ... more |
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August 21, 2005
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This set of Shostakovich’s Complete Symphonies by Dmitrij Kitajenko conducting the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln is overall the best Shostakovich musically and sonically I have ever heard. Bravo Capriccio! I will only add a few comments of my own as robstl’s excellent review pretty much sums up how I ... more |
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