Monthly Archive: February 2013
BACH: St. Matthew Passion, Blu-ray (2012)
A period performance using modern instruments, right in Bach’s home parish.
VERDI: Requiem, Blu-ray (2012)
An excellent chance to sample the rare acoustics of St. Marks in Venice, and a performance that lives up to the venue.
Audio News for February 1, 2013
3D Is Not Dead; Carnegie Hall Concert with Ives, Beethoven & Wayne Shorter; New B & O Speaker for Wireless Music; Harman to Market OEM Upgrades and Services Thru Car Makers, Car Dealers and Aftermarket Retailers
Editorial for February 2013
A special collection of Great Piano Concertos will be part of the library of five AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers early next month who register using our simple form this month. Honoring the 25th anniversary of Naxos Records, the ten-CD box set draws on their huge catalog of piano concerto recordings and provides a fine introduction to the main body of concertos by such composers as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Prokofiev. The five winners will be announced in this space early next month. Here are the five lucky winners of the complete remastered Beethoven Symphonies set conducted by Otto Klemperer (in whatever format they choose at the Pristine Audio site). Congrats to all!: Jim McDermott, Woodford Halse, UK; Dr. Richard Goldwater, Newton Center MA; Charles Betts, Asheboro NC; Piet Brummer, Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands; Michael Simon, Hod Hasharon Israel. EDITORIAL AUDIOPHILE AUDITION began in 1985 as a weekly national radio series hosted by John Sunier, which aired for 13 1/2 years on up to 200 public radio and commercial stations coast to coast. In September 1998 its web site for programming information was expanded to the present Internet publication. February 2013 is our 167th issue, and features improved […]
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