Monthly Archive: November 2014
Audio News for November 18, 2014
Home Automation Market Attracts Many New Firms; Digital Home Systems Joins HTSA; Sony Explores Sale of Operations Center; More UHD Video Options for Samsung UHD TV Owners
![“American Aggregate” – Music composed by NATHAN LINCOLN-DECUSATIS, ARMANDO BAYOLO, DAN VISCONTI, JULIA ADOLPHE, STEPHEN GORBOS, GREGORY SPEARS and JOSEPH HALLMAN [TrackList follows] – Inscape – Sono Luminus Pure Audio Blu-ray+CD](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/AmericanAggregate.jpg)
“American Aggregate” – Music composed by NATHAN LINCOLN-DECUSATIS, ARMANDO BAYOLO, DAN VISCONTI, JULIA ADOLPHE, STEPHEN GORBOS, GREGORY SPEARS and JOSEPH HALLMAN [TrackList follows] – Inscape – Sono Luminus Pure Audio Blu-ray+CD
Superb contemporary chamber music with a state-of-the-art recording.
Sun Ra = Reflections in Blue; Hours After; Mayan Temples, A Tribute to Stuff Smith – Black Saint/Soul Note/Cam Jazz (4 CDs)
1986 thru 1992 recordings of the unique Sun Ra, made in Italy.
![Dan Moretti and the Hammond Boys – Live at Chan’s [TrackList follows] – Roots Grooves](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/MorettiHammondBoys.jpg)
Dan Moretti and the Hammond Boys – Live at Chan’s [TrackList follows] – Roots Grooves
A veteran crew supplies a soul-jazz effort which brims over with the blues.
BACH: Six Brandenburg Concertos & Four Orchestral Suites (1949-53) – Fritz Reiner conducts – Pristine Audio (3 CDs)
Mark Obert-Thorn renders Reiner enthusiasts a valuable service in this restoration of the Hungarian conductor’s persuasive, “transitional” perspective on Bach.
Monty Python Live (mostly) – One Down Five to Go, Blu-ray (2014)
Last big reunion show of five of the six original Monty Python people.
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 “Choral” – Miriam Licette, sop./ Muriel Brunskill, contr./ Hubert Eisdell, tenor/ Harold Williams, bass-bar./ Chorus and London Sym. Orch./ Felix Weingartner – Pristine
The 1926 Beethoven Ninth from Felix Weingartner concludes the famed Centennial Cycle from Columbia Records, restored here in grand style.
TÜÜR: Symphony No. 5 for Big Band, Electric Guitar and Sym. Orch.; Prophecy for Accordion and Orch. – Helsinki Philharmonic Orch./Umo Jazz Orch./Nguyen Le, elec. guitar/Mika Väyrynen, accordion/Olari Elts – Ondine
This is dense, complicated stuff but also wildly entertaining.
Audio News for November 14, 2014
DirecTV Launches Multichannel UHD Today; YouTube Launches Music Streaming Service; Overall Consumer Spending Flat for Q3; Where 3D Audio Stands Now
SCHUBERT: Adrast (fragment); Szene aus Faust; Five Lieder; Ellens Zweiter Gesang; Erlkonig – Barbara Berens, sop./ Martin Nagy, tenor/ Steffen Lachenmann, bar./ Kammerchor Potsdam/ Brandenburger Sym./ Gernot Schulz – Ars Production
This release indicates “discoveries” and “arrangements”—not exactly true, but definitely some esoterica for devotees.
![Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems [TrackList follows] – Columbia/ Sony Music](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/L.Cohen_.jpg)
Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems [TrackList follows] – Columbia/ Sony Music
Cohen returns with another album of issues, which meld personal and universal.
“The Year Before Yesterday” = Music by WILLIAM KRAFT, SHAUN NAIDOO, ERIK GRISWOLD, JOSEPH PEREIRA, ISAAC SCHANKLER, NICHOLAS DEYOE /Los Angeles Percussion Q. – Sono Luminus (2 discs)
Great sound and equally engaging music in surround.
Louis Hayes And The Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band – Live At Cory Weeds’Cellar Jazz Club – CellarLive
An especially spirited outing from a cracker-jack band.
Martha Argerich Vol. 3 = BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major; SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen; Toccata in C Major; LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D-flat Major; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major – Martha Argerich, p./ Cologne Radio Sym. Orch./ Carl Melles – Doremi
Doremi celebrates the youthful Argentinian piano virtuoso Martha Argerich with a third installment of unissued radio and studio recordings of significant repertory.
STEVEN SPIELBERG Director’s Collection, Blu-ray (1971/2014)
An amazing gift box of eight great Speilberg films on Blu-ray.
* “The Argentinian Album” = PIAZZOLLA: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires; GINASTERA: Concerto for Strings; GOLIJOV: Last Round – Amsterdam Sinfonietta/ Candia Thompson – Channel Classics
************ MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH ************
Three important Argentinian composers, and works for strings in excellent surround.
Audio News for November 11, 2014
Founder of The Absolute Sound Harry Pearson Dies; Onkyo Adds Spotify Connect and New Control App; James Cameron Says 3D TV Was Premature
“A Royal Trio” = Works of Handel, Ariosti & Bononcini for countertenor – Lawrence Zazzo/ La Nuova Musica – Harmonia mundi
It’s a countertenor, not a castrato, but Zazzo show us how far along the genre has come.
SANTAOLALLA: “Camino” (TrackList follows) – Gustavo Santaolalla – guitars, keyboards, all instr. – Sony Masterworks
Lovely but there could be more.
“A Beethoven Odyssey”, Vol. 3 = Piano Sonatas: No. 2 in A; No. 17, “The Tempest”; No. 26 in E-flat, “Les Adieux” – James Brawn, p. – MSR Classics
Volume 3 of James Brawn’s series moves him back into the realm of sublime.
![“Captain Tobias Hume” [TrackList follows] – Concerto Caledonia/ David McGuinness – Delphian](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/CAPTAINHume.jpg)
“Captain Tobias Hume” [TrackList follows] – Concerto Caledonia/ David McGuinness – Delphian
A bit on the bright side sound-wise, but the brightness of the performances cannot be suppressed.
![“Perla Baroca: Early Italian Masterpieces” = Works of BERTALI, CASTELLO, CIMA, FONTANA, FRESCOBALDI, GABRIELI & others [Tracklist follows] – Rachel Podger, violin, w/ keyboard & theorbo – Channel Classics](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/PODGERPerlaSA.jpg)
“Perla Baroca: Early Italian Masterpieces” = Works of BERTALI, CASTELLO, CIMA, FONTANA, FRESCOBALDI, GABRIELI & others [Tracklist follows] – Rachel Podger, violin, w/ keyboard & theorbo – Channel Classics
A regal unearthing of some sensational music.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
