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December 4, 2006
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I bought this box set very soon after its release, after reading three reviews of the individual releases here on SA-CD.net. The reviews stressed the nuance and attention to dynamics and dance-like quality that I had heard Haitink bring to a performance of Mahler's First at Tanglewood this summer. ... more |
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September 29, 2006
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First Rate Ma Vlast on SACD
This is an excellent performance of Smetana's six-movement tone poem, IMO the best available today on SACD. I'm really happy to have the complete work, rather than just "the Moldau". Sir Colin's conducting is lithe and dance-like where called for; appropriately dark and ... more |
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March 1, 2006
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I am not a Mozart expert, so I'll leave most of the musical review to others. I'll give most of my comments to the sound. This CD impresses me as representing a really first class
recording of an orchestra and piano, perhaps the best I own out of perhaps 50 classical SACDS. And it is coupled with ... more |
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August 24, 2003
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Have got to disagree with the gentlemen above, for on my system (five full range thiels and a SONY c333es in bypass mode, going straight into analog this disk is one of the most revealing 'surround" disks out there. When the disk opens, my room suddenly becomes electric with the subtle ambient cues ... more |
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July 4, 2003
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Deutsch Gramaphone is not noted for its lifelike engineering, but when it comes to SACD they are doing something right. Of the several DG's I've heard, none have been bad and most much better sounding than their stereo cd versions. Moreover, they seem to be going back to the master tapes and ... more |
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