Monthly Archive: April 2014
The Great Beauty, Blu-ray (2013)
One of the best foreign films of the year.
NIELSEN: Flute Concerto; GRIFFES: Poem for flute and orch.; MARTIN: Ballade for flute, string orch. and piano; IBERT: Concerto for flute and orch. – Thomas Jensen, flute/ South Jutland Sym. Orch./ Giordano Bellincampi – Danacord
Four lovely flute concertos, well-performed in hi-res multichannel sound.
“Basso Bailando” – PIAZZOLLA: The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires; ROTA: Divertimento Concertanto for double bass & orch.; FALLA: Seite Canciones Populares Espanolas – Rick Stotijn, doublebass/ Malin Broman, v./ Lavinia Meijer, harp/ Swedish Radio Sym. Orch. – Channel Classics “Oblivion” – SCHOENFIELD: Café Music; PIAZZOLLA: The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires; Oblivion; La Muerte del Angel; Libertango; TURINA: Circulo; ALBENIZ: Tango – Gelius Trio – Thorofon standard CD
Two fine tango/Spanish albums with just strings – no bandoneon.
“Basso Bailando” – PIAZZOLLA: The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires; ROTA: Divertimento Concertanto for double bass & orch.; FALLA: Seite Canciones Populares Espanolas – Rick Stotijn, doublebass/ Malin Broman, v./ Lavinia Meijer, harp/ Swedish Radio Sym. Orch. – Channel Classics “Oblivion” – SCHOENFIELD: Café Music; PIAZZOLLA: The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires; Oblivion; La Muerte del Angel; Libertango; TURINA: Circulo; ALBENIZ: Tango – Gelius Trio – Thorofon standard CD
Two fine tango/Spanish albums with just strings – no bandoneon.
STRAVINSKY: Solo Piano Works = Piano Sonata; Etudes; Ragtime; Polka; Tango; Valse; Piano-Rag Music; Prologue to Boris Godunov; Serenade in A; Circus Polka; Two Sketches of a Sonata; Firebird Suite: Sel. – Jenny Lin, p. – Steinway & Sons
Jenny Lin provides a fertile cross-section of Stravinsky’s solo piano music, its diverse styles and percussive magnetism.
* “Symphonies of Wind Instruments” = HINDEMITH: Konzertmusik; Symphony in B-flat; SCHOENBERG: Theme and Variations; STRAVINSKY: Symphonies of Wind Instruments; ROLF WALLIN: Changes – Royal Norwegian Navy Band/ Ingar Bergby – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD
*********** MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH ***********
Great works long overdue recordings of this quality and format.
Home Page for April 1, 2014
Our drawing/giveaway for April is for a dozen of the new Universal/DGG Pure Audio Blu-ray albums of classic symphonic recordings by Karajan, Kleiber and Fricsay. Two Pure Audio Blu-rays each will go out in early May to three AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who register on our simple form this month, and two others each will go out to three other AUD/AUD readers. Here is our review of one of the four Blu-rays. The six lucky winners will be announced on our Editorial Page next month, where you’ll find more details this month. The 1st is/was April Fools, and if you want some music humor for the day, just enter April Fools in our site search and you’ll be taken to the April Fools specials we did in 2005 and 2010.
Audio News for April 1, 2014
Samsung Offers 28-inch UHD PC Monitor; Popcorn Time Site Shut Down; HDMI Over Long Distances; Top Home Theater Systems; Connected Living Room Market: $357 Billion by 2020
Editorial for April 2014
Universal and DGG Records have donated six of their new Pure Audio Blu-rays for this month’s drawing. This is the first time these classic symphonic recordings by Karajan, Kleiber and Fricsay have been available in hi-res (96/24), playable on any Blu-ray deck. The four Blu-ray selections you see here and on the Home Page will be random and divided among six AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who register this month on our simple form, each receiving two. Here are our reviews of two of them: Carlos Kleiber conducting Beethoven’s Fifth and Seventh, and Herbert von Karajan conducting Mahler’s Fifth. When you register for the drawing we do not share any of your information except your address for shipping. The six winners’ names will appear here next month. Here are the five winners of the 3-CD Bartok & Kodaly Quartets set from Foghorn Records, our March drawing/giveaway. Congrats to all!: Barbara Stenby, Ronkonkoma NY; Theresa Beres, Portales NM; Michael Krukowski, Milwaukee WI; Wally Babcock, Prattsburgh NY; Eric Reiff, Hampton VA. [Guest Editorial by John Siau of Benchmark] What is High-Resolution Audio? There is a raging debate over the definition of “High-Resolution Audio”. The focus of this debate has been misdirected by a lot of […]
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
