Post by onebit November 19, 2004 (1 of 173)
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If you had to pick a "most wanted to be released on SACD" wish list (3 items), what would they be? Just curious what everyone else dreams about.
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Post by seth November 19, 2004 (2 of 173)
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onebit said:
If you had to pick a "most wanted to be released on SACD" wish list (3 items), what would they be? Just curious what everyone else dreams about.
Brahms: The Piano Concertos -- Fleisher/Szell/Cleveland (Sony)
Verdi: Aida -- either a new version with Muti, or his EMI studio recording.
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen -- from the catolgue there's a lot to pick from: Solti, Karajan, Sawallisch and Bohm. I'm not sure who I would trust to head a new recording, and then who could be cast. I'd love to see Dohnanyi given a second chance with a better cast.
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Post by jazz65 November 19, 2004 (3 of 173)
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onebit said:
If you had to pick a "most wanted to be released on SACD" wish list (3 items), what would they be? Just curious what everyone else dreams about.
Soul Station- Hank Mobley
Something Else- Cannonball Adderley
Wish You Were Here
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Post by tream November 19, 2004 (4 of 173)
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onebit said:
If you had to pick a "most wanted to be released on SACD" wish list (3 items), what would they be? Just curious what everyone else dreams about.
Funny, but I was just thinking about this today. I have often thought of submitting a wish list (knowing that a few members of the industry who can actually do something about it read this forum and occasionally contribute) and have wavered between what I think is doable and might happen and dreaming ( the latter includes things like a complete new cycle of Wagner operas in surround sound).
Very tempting to cheat, as many of the folks who choose Want List items, or best of the year, where they tell you about the things they didn't pick for their 3 items, etc. So let me start and say I agree with Seth's list. Aida is an opera that seems to be made for hi-rez and would benefit greatly from surround sound. Don Carlo(s)(depending on language, I prefer Italian as being more idiomatic for Verdo but understand the arguments for French) would be another natural. I also probably don't need to choose the Mercury catalog-I'm now up to 7 of the MLP's and find them to be terrific performance wise and sound wise. I was going to pass on the 3 I don't own(Sousa, Hanson, and Roderigo) but have decided to get them after all, as the others are simply outstanding. Dorati recorded loads of Tchaikovsky for Mercury, for example, and his version of the Orchestral Suites is still, I belive, considered to be at the top.
Anyway, here's the doable list:
1. The complete LSO Live Berlioz cycle (another way of cheating, but what the heck, this is for fun), which would, of course, include the new multichannel recording of the Requiem.
2. The Bax Symphonies, on Chandos with Handley - yes, they keep saying that it wasn't recorded in MC so they aren't going to release it, but even a multichannel aficinado like myself would pop for this set in stereo SACD.
3. Tough to make the third choice. Can't decide between the Springsteen catalog or something like Handel's Giulio Cesare.
Hello, record producers out there?
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onebit said:
If you had to pick a "most wanted to be released on SACD" wish list (3 items), what would they be? Just curious what everyone else dreams about.
1. The Beatles catalog
2. Leonard Cohen's catalog
3. Pink Floyd The Wall (and the rest of their catalog)
It is hard to stop at 3, there are so many other artists which I think would benefit from multichannel SACD. Jean Michel-Jarre, Loreena McKennitt, Emmylou Harris, The Cars, Tori Amos, Talking Heads, Suzanne Vega, Andreas Vollenweider, More of Mike Oldfield than Tubular Bells, etc...
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Post by Johnno November 19, 2004 (6 of 173)
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tream said:
Dorati recorded loads of Tchaikovsky for Mercury, for example, and his version of the Orchestral Suites is still, I belive, considered to be at the top.
I don't mean to nit-pick, but weren't they on Philips, with the Philharmonia Orchestra? (The Mercury team might have been used for the recordings, of course).
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Post by brenda November 20, 2004 (7 of 173)
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seth said:
Brahms: The Piano Concertos -- Fleisher/Szell/Cleveland (Sony)
Verdi: Aida -- either a new version with Muti, or his EMI studio recording.
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen -- from the catolgue there's a lot to pick from: Solti, Karajan, Sawallisch and Bohm. I'm not sure who I would trust to head a new recording, and then who could be cast. I'd love to see Dohnanyi given a second chance with a better cast.
dear seth and tream,
the Muti Aida has been released on a remastered 20-bit DTS surround set from DTS Entertainment, licensed from EMI. Apparently the original tapes were quad. You can pick the set up for $20 US on e-bay if you can't find it anywhere else.
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Post by Sam November 20, 2004 (8 of 173)
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onebit said:
If you had to pick a "most wanted to be released on SACD" wish list (3 items), what would they be? Just curious what everyone else dreams about.
1. The Reference Recordings catalog (anything released as a HDCD)
2. The RCA film score series (See http://classicalcdreview.com/cfs.htm)
3. Szell/Cleveland Barber piano concerto
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The Decca Sutherland/Pavorati/Metha "Turandot" *from the analog source.*
The Decca Freni/Pavorati/Karajan "La Boheme" *from....*
Anything by Szymanowski: A Dutoit "King Roger."
A Spano Telarc Berlioz "Te Deum?"
Analog-source re-releases of Haitink's Philips Debussy and R Strauss.
Re-releases of DG's Sinopoli R Strauss operas in 24/96 PCM. (oh well.)
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Post by Dan Popp November 20, 2004 (10 of 173)
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Isn't is a shame there is no Alan Parsons material out? Wouldn't some of his stuff be something to hear in Surround?
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