Monthly Archive: March 2014
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concertos 1 – 5 – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, p./ BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda – Chandos (2 CDs)
As electric and athletic a set of Prokofiev piano concertos as you could wish, brilliantly performed and recorded.
Audio News for March 25, 2014
On Universal Pure Audio Blu-rays Being Only Stereo; Sonos Upgrades App for Their Multiroom Audio System; Seiki Offers Free UHD Up-Conversion HDMI Cable; Consumer Electronics Market in China Tumbles
![C4 Volume 1: Uncaged [TrackList follows] – C4: The Choral Composer/ Conductor Collective – 4Tay](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/C4-Vol1Uncaged.jpg)
C4 Volume 1: Uncaged [TrackList follows] – C4: The Choral Composer/ Conductor Collective – 4Tay
A well-executed disc of fresh, vibrant and contemporary American choral music but is a let down by a bad choice of performance space.
ALLAN PETTERSSON: Symphony No. 9 – Norrköping Symphony Orch./Christian Lindberg – BIS
This is essential for a study of twentieth century music!
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Fifty By Four (2014)
A fascinating and nostalgic documentary on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
WAGNER: Excerpts from The Ring & Parsifal with many soloists & orch./ cond. by Karl Muck – Pristine Audio (2 CD-Rs.)
A glorious restoration of the 1927-1928 Parsifal recordings led by Karl Muck, considered master of this opera’s especial ethos.
![Supersuckers – Get the Hell [TrackList follows] – Acetate](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SupersuckersCD.jpg)
Supersuckers – Get the Hell [TrackList follows] – Acetate
Hard rock veterans return with their best album in decades.
MOZART: 3 Piano Concerti a Quattro = Slavka Pechokova-Vernerova, p./ Members of Prazak Quartet with Pavel Nejtek, doublebass – Praga Digitals
A fine performance of three Mozart piano concertos in excellent sonics.
![PROKOFIEV: Alexander Nevsky Cantata [TrackList follows] – Chicago Sym. Orch. & Chorus/ Rosalind Elias, mezzo soloist/ Fritz Reiner – HDDT DVD-R](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A.NevskyReiner.jpg)
PROKOFIEV: Alexander Nevsky Cantata [TrackList follows] – Chicago Sym. Orch. & Chorus/ Rosalind Elias, mezzo soloist/ Fritz Reiner – HDDT DVD-R
Another fine hi-res version of Alexander Nevsky from Fritz Reiner.
![“Hymne à l’univers” [TrackList follows] – Organ recital by Mattias Wager at the Grand Organ in Stockholm City Hall – Opus 3](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Opus3OrganSA.jpg)
“Hymne à l’univers” [TrackList follows] – Organ recital by Mattias Wager at the Grand Organ in Stockholm City Hall – Opus 3
A fine program of 1930s-period French composers on a magnificent pipe organ.
POULENC: Stabat Mater; Seven Tenebrae Responses – Carolyn Sampson, sop./ Cappella Amsterdam/ Estonian Philharmonic Ch. Choir/ Estonian National Ch. Orch./ Daniel Ruess – Harmonia mundi
An apt and perfect Lenten coupling, in splendid sound and radiant performances.
“Fortuna Sherzosa” = Works of PHILIPP HEINRICH ERLEBACH, JOHANN ULICH, JOHANN PHILIPP FRIEGER & TELEMANN – Ina Siedlaczek, sop./ Hamburger Ratsmusik – Audite
A brilliant recital of mostly unknown music guaranteed to entertain and enlighten.
Paganini Variations = LISZT: Grandes etudes de Paganini; BRAHMS: Paganini Variations, Op. 35; LUTOSLAWSKI: Paganini Variations for Two Pianos; RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – Tzimon Barto, p./ Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orch./ Christoph Eschenbach – Ondine (2 CDs)
Tzimon Barto traverses several of the familiar treatments of the Paganini Caprice No. 24 by composers who relish its bravura keyboard possibilities.
Lisa Ferraro – Serenading The Moon – Featuring Houston Person – Pranavasonic Universal
A jazz confection worthy of sampling.
Persona, Blu-ray (1966/2014)
Dark Scandinavian stuff for your conjecture if you’re a complete Bergman fan.
CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor; Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor – Dinu Lipatti, p./ Tonhalle Orch. Zurich/ Otto Ackermann – Pristine Audio
Andrew Rose grants a new and powerfully refreshed sound to Dinu Lipatti’s Chopin, a colossal meeting of musical sympathies.
“David Starobin: New Music With Guitar, Vol. 8”: DAVID STAROBIN: Variations on a Theme by Carl Nielsen (2010); PAUL LANSKY: Partita (2010); POUL RUDERS: Six Pages; GEORGE CRUMB: The Ghosts of Alhambra – David Starobin, guitar/ Mari Yoshinaga & Daniel Druckman, perc./ Patrick Mason, bar. – Bridge
in addition to the musical pleasures, this disc is also useful for checking out how many strands of nuance and layers of subtlety your system is capable of.
Jacques Loussier Trio play BACH…and more, Blu-ray (2004/2014)
A fine video concert by Mr. Play Bach himself, Jacques Loussier, on his 70th birthday.
![“Duende” – D. SCARLATTI Harpsichord Sonatas; “Pandora’s Box” Sampler of Skip Sempé & Capriccio Stravagante [TrackList follows] – Skip Sempé & Olivier Fortin, harpsichords/ Capriccio Stravagante – Paradizo (2 CDs)](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ScarlattiDuende2.jpg)
“Duende” – D. SCARLATTI Harpsichord Sonatas; “Pandora’s Box” Sampler of Skip Sempé & Capriccio Stravagante [TrackList follows] – Skip Sempé & Olivier Fortin, harpsichords/ Capriccio Stravagante – Paradizo (2 CDs)
A wonderful sampler of Skip Sempé’s work with Capriccio Stavagante as well as a prime collection of Scarlatti Sonatas for Harpsichord.
Fritz Wunderlich, Der Kammersänger = Arias by HANDEL, GLUCK, MOZART, PUCCINI, LORTZING and TCHAIKOVSKY and songs – Rafael Kubelik, Eugen Jochum, Emmerich Smola, Hans Moltkau, Otto Gerdes, Robert Stolz, conductors – Clearaudio vinyl double-LP
A terrific double-vinyl reissue of tenor Wunderlich.
“Transcriptions for Clarinet Choir” = Music by VERDI, DVORAK, BACH, et al. (TrackList follows) – Orch. Mediterranea di Clarinetti/ Gianluca Campagnolo – Amadeus Arte
Mostly very nice arrangements played quite well.
Audio News for March 21, 2014
French AwoX Comes to U.S. with Wireless Products; Sony Wireless Speaker Trio; Spike in UHD TV Shipments in Q4 2013; Reactions to Neil Young’s Pono Player
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
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