Editorial for October 2009

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Our October drawing/giveaway – for a lucky three of our readers – is for the four-Blu-ray set from Naxos, The Virtual Haydn. This trail-blazing project is a fully interactive experience encompassing three audio-only Blu-ray discs and a fourth Blu-ray video on the making of the recordings – 18 hours worth with the documentary!  The audio thruout is a choice of lossless 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio or stereo PCM.  (You must have a Blu-ray deck in order to play these.) The music of Haydn has been a lifelong passion for keyboardist/musicologist Tom Beghin of McGill University, and with The Virtual Haydn he has challenged all conventions of performing, recording and listening.  To be eligible all you need to do is register here on the site this month and at the end of the month your name could be one of the three selected!  Go Here to Register.

The three lucky winners of the 13-CD Furtwangler Audite boxed set – our September drawing/giveaway – are:  Gilbert Gaynor, Santa Barbara, CA;  John Martin, Plymouth, MI;  Howard Selekman, Pittsburgh, PA. Congrats to all three!


EDITORIAL
 
AUDIOPHILE AUDITION began in 1985 as a weekly national radio series hosted by John Sunier, which aired for 13 1/2 years on up to 200 public radio and commercial stations coast to coast. In September 1998 its site for programming information was expanded to the present Internet publication.
 
October 09 is our 128th issue, and features our recently re-designed web site for improved navigation and enhanced appearance. We’re also publishing more and more disc reviews. All of them – often over 125! – are added throughout the month as they are written and received, usually on a daily basis. The most recent reviews appear at the top of each Section Index. The Home Page lists the five latest published reviews, the Section Index lists the past two months of reviews, the Archive goes back to June 1, 2005, and for all reviews by month prior to that you need to click on the Old Archive, which goes back to 2001. The Disc Index lists all past reviews.
 
You probably have some friends who would like to know about Audiophile Audition.  Please pass our URL on to them and help expand our elite group of readers and collectors.  It’s easy to do at the bottom of every review, by just clicking on the "Email this page to a friend" link. Thanks in advance for getting the word out!

We welcome your feedback, and we have a Reader Feedback section. Please send us your comments, and we will review and possibly post them to that section. Check back with us frequently for more reviews and news, and be sure to register for our monthly giveaway! When you do, please give us the few requested facts, and include a working Email and street address – otherwise we can’t send you your winning item!  We don’t ask a lot of financial details, and we don’t share your information with anyone else.


 — The AUDIOPHILE AUDITION staff


 
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STAFF WRITERS:
Dalia
Geffen, Laurence Vittes, Tom Gibbs,
Gary
Lemco, Brian Bloom, Clay Swartz, John Henry, Peter Bates, Ron
Legum, Paul Pelon IV, Calvin Harding Jr.,
Birney Brown, Jeff Krow, Daniel Krow, Hermon Joyner, Bob Moon, Steven Ritter, Randy Haldeman, Max Dudious, Howard Herrnstadt, John Nemaric, Doug Simpson, Peter Joelson, Jan P. Dennis, Michael Birman, Patrick P.L. Lam, John Sunier.


  © John Sunier 2009 


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