Monthly Archive: June 2005
Audio News for June 14, 2005
Universal Hi-Def DVD Shot Down; Growing Pains of HDTV Switchover; AV Receiver with HD Digital Radio; PBS Launches First Jazz TV Series in 40 Years
BARTOK: Concerto for Orchestra; Dance Suite for Orchestra; Hungarian Peasant Songs – Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra/Zoltan Kocsis – Hungaroton SACD
Three Bartok orchestral works from players steeped in his music and Hungarian music in general
HAYDN: Cello Concerto in C; Symphony No. 33 in E Flat “The Philosopher;” Cello Concerto in D – Michael Kanka, cello/Prague Chamber Orchestra (without conductor) – Praga Digitals SACD
The two most frequently-heard Haydn cello concertos of the six attributed to him
SAMUEL BARBER: First Symphony in One Movement; SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor – Bavarian State Orchestra/Wolfgang Sawallisch – Farao Classics
Live recordings made during the 2003 Munich Opera Festival, but an orchestral program
PIETRO ANTONIO LOCATELLI: Six Introduttioni Teatrali Op. IV; Concerto in A Major – Chamber Orchestra of the Brescia Festival at Bergamo/Agostino Orizio, director – Fone SACD
More sprightly concerti grossi in the style of Corelli’s; lovely string tone
ARCANGELO CORELLI: Concerti grossi Op. 6; Sonata a Quattro in G minor; Fuga a Quarttro Voci – The Chamber Orchestra of The New Dutch Academy/Simon Murphy – PentaTone SACD
Compare the string ensemble timbre here with similar standard CDs and grok one of the big advantages of SACD
PROKOFIEV: Peter and the Wolf; SAINT-SAENS: The Carnival of the Animals; JOSEF: Carnival Preparations – Soloists/Polish Chamber Philharmonic/Wojciech Rajski – Tacet SACD
Tacet’s SACD version of their earlier DVD-A – both having spatial fun with their “Moving Real Surround Sound”
DMITRY BORTNYANSKY: The Russian Album = March in C Major for 2 oboes, 2 horns & bassoon; Sinfonie concertante 1790 in B flat Major; Sonatas Nos. 1, 2 & 3 for Cembalo; Quintet in C Major; Harpsichord Concerto in D Major (Caro Mitis SACD)
The Pratum Integrum original instrument Orchestra plays first recordings of this Russian composer
Surround Yourself With A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare’s complete play with MENDELSSOHN’s complete incidental music (Nimbus DVD-A & DTS)
Scottish actors/Scottish Ch. Orch./Jaime Laredo
MAXIM BEREZOVSKY: Secular Music performed by Pratum Integrum Orig. Instrument Orchestra, Russia
world premiere recordings of works by an 18th century Russian composer
Works for Oboe and Flute by BELLINI; BERNARD MOLIQUE; MOSCHELES; JULIUS RIETZ & VIVALDI – Holliger/Nicolet/Frankfurt Radio Sym./Inbal – PentaTone
Mostly oboe concertos with one of the leading masters of the instrument, from 1970s quad masters
JEAN SIBELIUS: Pelleas and Melisande; Valse Triste from “Kuolema;” Belshazzar’s Feast; The Tempest: Suite No. 2; Andante Festivo – Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Joseph Swensen – Linn
The theater music of Sibelius in multichannel
CHOPIN: Reminiscences = Artur Pizarro, piano
First-rate Chopin recital is fresh and exciting in surround
FERDINAND RIES: Symphonies No. 7 in A minor & No. 8 in E flat Major – Zurich Chamber Orchestra/Howarad Griffiths – CPO
Struggling early 19th century composer in the shadow of Beethoven
The Very Best Of The Searchers; Silverline DualDisc
Peppy 60s-style tunes in great sound quality but little surround
The Robert Cray Band– Time Will Tell; Silverline DualDisc
Recommended musically & has Dolby Headphone option
REO Speedwagon – Live: Plus; Silverline DualDisc
Arena concert taped in 2000 with enthusiastic fans
Philips’ New Competitor to Wi-Fi & Bluetooth
Ensation is designed for high end audio and claims to solve the processing delay problem
Kate McGarry – Mercy Streets; Palmetto Records
jazz standards, great arrangments, and a voice that will appeal to some
Neil Young – Greatest Hits; Reprise CD + DVD
Young himself selected the tracks and the video is an image of the records playing on a turntable!
Rock School Soundtrack; Trillion Records
Music from a new documentary film on a real School of Rock for young people in Philadelphia
Great Conductors in Rehearsal and Performance = Karel Ancerl & Hermann Scherchen
CBC Telecasts by Ancerl (1969) & Scherchen (1966)
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
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