Monthly Archive: April 2014
The Great Beauty, Blu-ray (2013)
One of the best foreign films of the year.
NIELSEN: Flute Concerto; GRIFFES: Poem for flute and orch.; MARTIN: Ballade for flute, string orch. and piano; IBERT: Concerto for flute and orch. – Thomas Jensen, flute/ South Jutland Sym. Orch./ Giordano Bellincampi – Danacord
Four lovely flute concertos, well-performed in hi-res multichannel sound.
“Basso Bailando” – PIAZZOLLA: The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires; ROTA: Divertimento Concertanto for double bass & orch.; FALLA: Seite Canciones Populares Espanolas – Rick Stotijn, doublebass/ Malin Broman, v./ Lavinia Meijer, harp/ Swedish Radio Sym. Orch. – Channel Classics “Oblivion” – SCHOENFIELD: Café Music; PIAZZOLLA: The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires; Oblivion; La Muerte del Angel; Libertango; TURINA: Circulo; ALBENIZ: Tango – Gelius Trio – Thorofon standard CD
Two fine tango/Spanish albums with just strings – no bandoneon.
“Basso Bailando” – PIAZZOLLA: The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires; ROTA: Divertimento Concertanto for double bass & orch.; FALLA: Seite Canciones Populares Espanolas – Rick Stotijn, doublebass/ Malin Broman, v./ Lavinia Meijer, harp/ Swedish Radio Sym. Orch. – Channel Classics “Oblivion” – SCHOENFIELD: Café Music; PIAZZOLLA: The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires; Oblivion; La Muerte del Angel; Libertango; TURINA: Circulo; ALBENIZ: Tango – Gelius Trio – Thorofon standard CD
Two fine tango/Spanish albums with just strings – no bandoneon.
STRAVINSKY: Solo Piano Works = Piano Sonata; Etudes; Ragtime; Polka; Tango; Valse; Piano-Rag Music; Prologue to Boris Godunov; Serenade in A; Circus Polka; Two Sketches of a Sonata; Firebird Suite: Sel. – Jenny Lin, p. – Steinway & Sons
Jenny Lin provides a fertile cross-section of Stravinsky’s solo piano music, its diverse styles and percussive magnetism.
* “Symphonies of Wind Instruments” = HINDEMITH: Konzertmusik; Symphony in B-flat; SCHOENBERG: Theme and Variations; STRAVINSKY: Symphonies of Wind Instruments; ROLF WALLIN: Changes – Royal Norwegian Navy Band/ Ingar Bergby – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD
*********** MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH ***********
Great works long overdue recordings of this quality and format.
Home Page for April 1, 2014
Our drawing/giveaway for April is for a dozen of the new Universal/DGG Pure Audio Blu-ray albums of classic symphonic recordings by Karajan, Kleiber and Fricsay. Two Pure Audio Blu-rays each will go out in early May to three AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who register on our simple form this month, and two others each will go […]
Audio News for April 1, 2014
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Editorial for April 2014
Universal and DGG Records have donated six of their new Pure Audio Blu-rays for this month’s drawing. This is the first time these classic symphonic recordings by Karajan, Kleiber and Fricsay have been available in hi-res (96/24), playable on any Blu-ray deck. The four Blu-ray selections you see here and on the Home Page will […]