Renaud Garcia-Fons Trio - Arcoluz - DVD + CD Live Recording - Enja/Justin Time
Published on August 07, 2008
An extraordinary bassist who plays more often with his bow than plucking his instrument. |
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John McLaughlin – Floating Point (CD)/Meeting of the Minds – Abstract Logix ABLX 011 – CD + DVD
Published on July 31, 2008
A generously-proportioned CD along with a “making of” DVD that documents his latest encounter with the musicians from the East.
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Contrapunctus XVIII; LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: String Quartet Op. 131; ERNST KRENEK: String Quartet No. 1 Op. 6 – Beethoven Quartet – Audiomax (MD&G) multichannel SACD 2+2+2 plus multichannel DVD-Video (2 disc set) - Audiomax
Published on June 24, 2008
Everything is here you wanted to know, hear and see about the art of fugue and were afraid to ask. |
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The Jacques Loussier Trio Play Bach - 1989 Munich Concert
Published on June 13, 2008
Bach’s music seems to be forgiving of every sort of of reformulation, but Loussier really has done something unique here. |
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CNY (Central New York) Jazz Orchestra - Then, Now & Again - CNY Jazz Orchestra CD + DVD
Published on May 23, 2008
Sounds like a first rate big band on the CD, never mind the DVD. |
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Italian Opera Arias = VERDI, BELLINI, DONIZETTI – Natalie Dessay, soprano/ Concerto Koln/ Evelino Pido, conductor + bonus DVD - Virgin
Published on May 02, 2008
Dessay dances with these roles like Astaire with Rogers; there is no fluff here, only substantive and serious music that takes a real star to bring it to life.
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Andreas Öberg, guitar - My Favorite Guitars - Resonance Records
Published on April 24, 2008
First American album by the hot young Swedish guitarist |
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Mike Garson - Conversations with my Family - Resonance Records - CD + DVD
Published on April 23, 2008
The final result made me think of the fine Stan Getz albums with strings and orchestral backing, only with piano as the main instrument instead of sax.
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Blue Man Group - How to be a Megastar Live! - Rhino DVD + CD
Published on April 08, 2008
The whole thing lays on the irony with an iron hand. |
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Eric Alexander Quartet - Prime Time - High Note (CD + DVD)
Published on March 27, 2008
Eric Alexander reaches new heights… |
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Chamber Music Palisades - SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet; DEBUSSY: Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp; & BROCKMAN: Feast of Fives - 2 discs: Disc 1, Side 1: Complete 16:9 video with DTS 5.1 & many bonus features; Side 2, DVD-A audio-only side; Disc 2: CD - AIX
Published on February 27, 2008
The disc provides the usual feature overkill of AIX, with a dizzying variety of choices among the audio programs |
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BOCCHERINI MADRID - Ophélie Gallard, cello and direction/ Rolf Lislevand, guitar/ Sandrine Piau, soprano/ Pulcinella chamber music group - Naive DualDisc
Published on February 12, 2008
Spanish-influenced works of Boccherini plus two video documentaries on Gallard's ensemble and their recording of the works. |
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VIVALDI: The Four Seasons; VIVALDI in Venice - Concerto for violin & cello in B flat major; Concerto for 2 violins and 2 cellos in D Major; Concerto in A major; Concerto in D minor; Sonata a quattro in E flat major “Al Santo Sepolcro” - I Musici - Decca
Published on December 18, 2007
A 1988 film made in Venice paired with a bonus CD of an earlier non-Four Seasons Vivaldi recording by I Musici |
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“Missa” - Missa Luba - Troubadours of King Baudouin/Guido Haazen; ARIEL REMIREZ: Misa Criolla - Jose Carreras/Coral Salve de Laredo/Choral Society of Bilbao/Jose Luis Ocejo; Misa Flamenca - Maitea Choir/Coro Easo/Torregrosa + Missa Luba film - Philips
Published on December 17, 2007
All three folk masses plus a color film of the Missa Luba on a separate DVD |
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Canadian Brass “Seen and Heard” - CD of some of their shorter hits (see below); DVD “Canadian Brass Home Movies” - Concert - Philips Special Edition CD + DVD
Published on December 17, 2007
We see the popular brass quintet in action, as well as get to know them better via bit of their home movies. |
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“Piazzini Meets Mozart” - MOZART: The Complete Piano Concertos; The Complete Piano Sonatas; Performer video interviews - Carmen Piazzini, piano/ St. Petersburg Soloists/Michael Gantvarg - Edition Hera 2 DVDs
Published on November 12, 2007
An amazing compilation of 16 1/2 hours of music on just two discs, at the same resolution as standard CDs! |
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Marvin Stamm Quartet - Alone Together - Jazzed Media JM 9002
Published on October 22, 2007
A sweet CD/DVD set from Marvin Stamm |
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STRAVINSKY / DEBUSSY - Katia et Marielle Labeque, pianos + videos by Tal Rosner - STRAVINSKY: Concerto for Two Pianos; Five Easy Pieces; Three Easy Pieces; Ragtime; 3 from “The Five Fingers;” Valse, Tango; DEBUSSY: En blanc et noir - KML Recordings
Published on August 31, 2007
The Labeques engaged young videographer Rosner to provide images for most of the selections they perform on one and two pianos on the music CD |
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The Essential Kitaro - Domo Records CD + DVD
Published on August 04, 2007
The opening video is a performance of the gorgeous main theme from the Japanese TV series The Silk Road (also on the CD) |
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Richard Pinhas - Metatron - Cuneiform Records
Published on August 01, 2007
Pinhas is passionate about sci-fi and uses words of Wm. S. Burroughs and Philip K. Dick in these works |
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David Gray – Life in Slow Motion – RCA/Sony
Published on June 13, 2007
A two-sided CD and DVD DualDisc version of the popular album from the best-selling, award-winning British singer/songwriter.
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Philippe Herreweghe 1981-2007 Retroperspective - Harmonia Mundi 2 CDs + DVD
Published on June 10, 2007
Celebrating the conductor’s 60th birthday, and all chosen by him
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Genesis - A Trick of the Tail - CD + DVD with both DTS 5.1 mixes and 5 videos - Atco/Rhino
Published on June 08, 2007
One of the several Genesis reissue sets, issued on SACD + DVD everywhere else but North America... |
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Ernest Ranglin, guitar – Order of Distinction; AIX Collectors Edition 2-disc DualDisc & 2-sided DVD (one side DVD-A)
Published on June 07, 2007
The sound is full, liquid, and offers tremendous separation and sense of space—an audiophile’s dream! |
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Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - The Hidden Land - 2-sided disc with CD one side and 48K PCM Stereo other side, plus 3 video performances - Columbia
Published on April 01, 2007
I'm giving this DualDisc four stars strictly due to the continually creative music of all sorts coming from Bela Fleck plus the clever and humorous short film on the band - not for the DualDisc format |
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