Monthly Archive: July 2008
The David Hazeltine Trio – The Jobim Songbook in New York – Chesky Records
This is a most welcome instrumental entry in the recent rediscovery of the original bossa nova by jazz performers.
Hot Club of Detroit – Night Town – Mack Avenue Records
To the foundation of the two guitars and string bass the Hot Club of Detroit has added accordion and saxophone.
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis – Two Men with the Blues – Blue Note/EMI
Won’t set the jazz, pop or country worlds on their ears, but the whole effort is most listenable.
Edition Geza Anda III = SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana, Op. 16; Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13; Carnaval, Op. 9; Romance in F-sharp Major, Op. 28, No. 2; CHOPIN: 24 Preludes, Op. 28; 12 Etudes, Op. 12 – Geza Anda, piano – Audite
Anda’s handling of the last section of Carnaval–quick and playful–rebounds light and dark forces, childhood reveries wrapped in adult ecstasies.
BUXTEHUDE: 7 Sonatas, Op. 1 – L’estravagante – Arts
A must-have release in formidable surround sound
HAYDN: Theresa Mass in B-flat; Mass in Time of War in C – Soloists/ Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and Orchestra/ Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart/ Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra/ Helmuth Rilling, conductor – Hanssler
Rilling has always been able to get a very consistent sound no matter where he was conducting; so it is here.
DAVID MASLANKA: Symphony No. 2; JACK STAMP: Symphony No. 1, “In Memoriam of David Diamond”; KEVIN KRUMENAUER: Blue on Red – Illinois State University Wind Ensemble/ Stephen K. Steele, conductor – Albany
Maslanka’s music is always highly creative, beautiful, and wastes no space on the page whatsoever.
Audio News for July 1, 2008
Music and Medicine Are Entwined According to Surgeon; Samsung Launches Blu-ray Resource Center; Downloading Movies from Cable or Net vs. Blu-ray Rental or Purchase
Roland Petit’s ballet “Proust” (2007)
A ballet that worships at the altar of art.
VERDI: Messa da Requiem–in Memory of Manzoni – Hilde Zadek, soprano/Margarete Klose, mezzo-soprano/Helge Rosvaenge, tenor/Boris Christoff, bass/Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Audite
If music be the food of (political) forgiveness, this performance is Karajan’s Day of Atonement.
Editorial for July 2008
Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 For July we are awarding a pair of discs to ten AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who Register on our site this month. From Forte Distributors, we offer a LISZT & BUSONI program by Russian pianist Polina Leschenko on an Avanti multichannel hybrid SACD. Plus a crossover Avie CD from Jon Lord of Deep Purple. It’s his Durham Concerto, which includes solo stints by Lord, a pianist and a violinist, with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. If you register on the site this month your name could well be one of the lucky ten drawn to receive these two discs in early August. (You might mention your specific interest in the Comments field on your registration.) The three lucky winners of last month’s drawing/giveaway of the 30-CD 50th Anniversary package were: Marshall Taylor, Radnor, PA; Lee Aldridge, Albuquerque, NM; and James Verdini, Browns Summit, NC. Congratulations! Register Here for the Current Drawing General Editorial Welcome to the web publication for audio, music and home theater, emphasizing hi-res, hi-def, and surround sound for music! AUDIOPHILE AUDITION began as a weekly national radio series hosted by John Sunier, which aired for 13 1/2 years […]
MARK O’CONNOR: Double Violin Concerto; Appalachia Waltz; Johnny Appleseed Suite; Marching Along the Ohio Frontier; Johnny’s Apple Pie; Three Angel Brides; Amazing Grace – Mark O’Connor, Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg, violins/Colorado Sym./Marin Alsop – Omac
The sound is warm and comforting, production values high. If you know what you like, go for it.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
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