Monthly Archive: September 2009
“The Art of Saxophone” = GLAZUNOV: Concerto in E flat Major; DEBUSSY: Rhapsodie; IBERT: Concertino da Camera; MILHAUD: Scaramouch suite; Creation of the World; VILLA-LOBOS: Fantasia – Mario Marzi, sax/Verdi Sym. Orch./Hansjorg Schellenberger – Arts
An excellent collection of works for classical saxophone and symphony orchestra.
Audio News for September 4, 2009
54.2% of Xboxes Said to Fail; Bose Launches New Noise-Cancelling Headphone; Crestron Sued Over Lighting System; Conductor Erich Kunzel Dies at 74; Nikon Has World’s First Projector/Camera; Apple Newspaper and Book Software
Vultum Tuum = Mary in Gregorian Chant – Consortium Vocale Oslo/ Alexander M. Schweitzer, director/ Mario Guillermo Ojeda, soloist/ Kare Nordstoga, organ – EOS
A new disc of Gregorian Chant featuring some interesting organ improvisations.
BACH: Cantatas Vol. 17 = Nos. 143; 41; 16; 171; 153; 58 – Ruth Holton, sop./ Lucy Ballard, Sally Bruce-Payne & Charles Humphries, altos/ James Gilchrist, tenor/ Peter Harvey, bass/ Monteverdi Choir/ English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner – SDG
The pilgrimage continues with a flashback to the second group of performances.
SCHUBERT: Scared Choral Music; Secular Choral Music; Music for Men’s Chorus – Vienna Choirboys/ Berlin Radio Choir/ Leipzig Radio Men’s Chorus/ Regensburger Domspatzen/ Rias Ch. Choir/ Berlin Men’s Choir/ Various conductors – Phoenix Edition (3 CDs)
Delightful Schubert choral works at a fine price as well.
Ray Charles – Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volumes 1 & 2 – with string arr. by Party Paich & big band arr. by Gerald Wilson & Gil Fuller – Concord Records
Great to have both volumes on a remastered, packed single CD.
Lights, Action, Music (2007)
Three hours of discussion about the importance of music to films, from leading film composers and directors.
Suites and Sweets = COWELL: Suite for Violin; STRAVINSKY: Suite Italienne; KORNGOLD: Much Ado about Nothing; DE FALLA: Suite Populaire Espagnole; RAVEL: Piece en forme de Habanera; MASSENET: Thais – Jessica Mathaes, violin/ Rodney Waters, p. – Centaur
Excellent programming in a debut that doesn’t talk down to us.
Editorial for September 2009
Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 Our September drawing/giveaway – for three of our readers – is for Audite’s acclaimed 13-disc remastered collection of live recordings by the great Wilhelm Fürtwangler conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, from 1947 thru 1954. Violin soloists Yehudi Menuhin and Gerhard Taschner are heard, and the program includes Beethoven’s Fifth and Sixth, Brahms’ Third and Fourth, Bruckner’s Eighth, Schubert’s Eighth, the Beethoven Violin Concerto, Fortner’s Violin Concerto, Hindemith’s Harmonie der Welt Symphony, Schumann’s Manfred and instrumental music from Wagner operas. Our reviewer raved about the high quality of these restorations due to the label’s access to the German master tapes – some going back to before tape was used for recording in the U.S. There are details on this at the Audite website, including a podcast about the remastering process. 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 lucky winner of the new Oppo Universal Blu-ray Disc Player for our August drawing/giveaway is Priece Rich Jr. of Dowagiac, MI. Our Congratulations! EDITORIAL AUDIOPHILE AUDITION began in 1985 […]
Audio News for September 1, 2009
Advantages of a Wireless Media Player; Broadcom Home Networking Platform Receives Certification; Women and Consumer Electronics; Consumer Reports Index
Shehori plays Russian Music = PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No. 7; GLINKA: The Skylark; BALAKIREV: Islamey–Oriental Fantasy; TCHAIKOVSKY: The Lark; Romance in F Minor; Dumka; Eugene Onegin Paraphrase – Mordecai Shehori, piano – Cembal d’amour
Pianist Mordecai Shehori pays homage to his distant Russian roots in this eclectic assemblage.
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