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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade - Reiner        (4 of 4 found this review helpful)
  April 12, 2008

When I read on this site about an exciting Mahler 6 from Gergiev,yesterday, I decided to play the only SACD of his in my collection, one of my first buys, his Philips'Sheherazade.The recording was as bad as I remembered it and the performance pretty average. Slower speeds than I would have thought ... more
  October 2, 2006

Couldn't disagree more. While no sonic masterpiece, given its asking price , it can be highly recommended. The surounds help open up the width and depth of the front soundstage, IMO all you should expect from this type of music in MC. Davis has plenty of experience with film scores and the ... more
Miklos Rozsa: Three Choral Suites - Kunzel          (7 of 8 found this review helpful)
  April 30, 2005

The Three Suites represented on this disc come from the high point of Miklos Rozsa’s career. He wrote them in the 50s through to the early 60s when he was composing both for Hollywood and the concert hall. Ben Hur (1959) is the most well known music in these suites. Film music buffs would cite this ... more

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