Audiophile Audition Archive
Editorial for July 2013
Two exciting jazz SACDs will be in the hands of ten AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers next month who register this month on our simple form. Both from Chesky Records, they benefit from the label’s minimalist miking techniques and will make an outstanding addition to any audiophile collection. Cobbs Corner is a swinging quartet led by drummer […]
Editorial for June 2013
Evelyne Crochet’s 2006 recordings for Music & Arts of Books I & II of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier will go to ten AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who register this month on our simple form. Educated in her native France, Ms. Crochet studied with Nadia Boulanger and Edwin Fischer and was brought by Rudolf Serkin to the U.S., […]
Editorial for May 2013
Beethoven couldn’t totally escape Mozart’s influence on especially his earlier works. All of his Symphonies (including the Ode to Joy of the Ninth—which has become the anthem for Europe), plus the inventive Piano Concertos and his Overtures are found in the 12-CD box set from Naxos which we are awarding to five lucky AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who register this month on our simple form and fill […]
Home Page for May 2013
Our drawing/giveaway for May is for five readers of AUDIOPHILE AUDITION who will be selected to receive the new 12-CD box set The Complete Beethoven Symphonies, Concertos and Overtures from Naxos, the world’s leading classical music group. Beethoven laid down the foundations of the Romantic era and changed the course of music history. The set […]
Editorial for April 2013
Wagner aficionados will want to have this month’s drawing/giveaway. It is for all four Wagner music dramas making up The Ring, on 14 CDs from Opera d’Oro. Clemens Krauss conducts the leading soloists and the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus in 1953, and the set features four newly-translated complete librettos in English, plus a fifth […]
Editorial for March 2013
Conductor Pieter Jan Leusink calls this month’s drawing “the greatest and most humanly moving corpus of sacred music ever written.” It is a 50-CD! set of all 200 Bach Sacred Cantatas (which survived from about 300 originally) on Brilliant Records, and in early April it will go out to two lucky readers who register this […]
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 […]
Editorial for January 2013
A stunning updated three-volume set of the complete Beethoven Symphonies conducted by Otto Klemperer in stereo will soon be part of the libraries of five readers thruout the world who register using our simple form this month. The winners will be emailed a code for the Pristine Audio site, where they can select whether they […]
Home Page for November 2012
Our November drawing/giveaway is two lengthy DVD programs from the world’s largest producer and distributor of music programming for video and DVD, Eagle Rock Entertainment. Peter Gabriel’s Secret World is a 2 hr.-12 min. staged concert [reviewed here], and Let The Music Play – The Story of the Doobie Brothers is an authorized rockumentary of […]
Editorial for September 2012
Register Here to be considered as one of the seven AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who will be receiving one of the eight-CD box sets of the Complete Glazunov Symphonies and Concertos from Warner Classical, conducted by José Serebrier and featuring soloists such as Rachel Barton Pine. Marc Chisson and Alexander Romanovsky. Our review of this set […]
Editorial for July 2012
Register Here using our non-intrusive email-protected form and you will have a good chance of being one of the two AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers this month to receive the Complete Nine Beethoven Symphonies 6-SACD set on Challenge Records—our drawing for July. Jan Willem de Vriend conducts the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, and of course these are all […]
Home Page for April 2012
During April we will be awarding two great remastered audiophile vinyl albums to a half dozen AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who register this month—one classical and one jazz. We raved about the Ravel Quartet played by the Guarneri Quartet, and the other vinyl is baritone saxist Gerry Mulligan’s 1981 classic Little Big Horn, with six of […]
Editorial for April 2012
If you would like to be one of the six lucky AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers receiving both Lancia remastered vinyl albums this month: the Ravel String Quartet and Gerry Mulligan’s Little Big Horn – you need to register Here using our simple non-intrusive email-protected form. Gerry Mulligan’s works on his LP cover big band, small combo […]
Editorial for February 2012
To be one of the two lucky AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers to receive The Decca Sound boxed set (50-CDs!), you will only need to register this month using our simple non-intrusive email-secure form. This perfect-for-the-music-historian set features complete performances in stunning sonics by such names as Pavarotti, Fleming, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Joshua Bell, Herbert von Karajan, Riccardo Chailly, Georg […]
Home Page for March 2012
During March we will be awarding this 31-Disc boxed set of The Ultimate Piano Concerto Collection from Brilliant Classics to four AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who register this month. It’s a must-have for any fan of the piano concerto, with the complete Beethoven cycle, all the Saint-Saens, Rachmaninov and Mozart piano concertos, plus those from Weber, […]
Editorial for August 2011
Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 To be one of the dozen AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers during this month who will receive the special 3-CD set of 11 varied works by the late composer Viktor Kalabis, all you need to do is register this month using our simple non-intrusive email-protected form Here. The works range from the […]
Editorial for July 2011
Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 To be one of the dozen AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers during this month who will receive two great SACD albums from Opus 3 Records, you need to register this month using our simple non-intrusive email-protected form Here. We reviewed “Best of Omnibus Wind Ensemble Here. It contains 19 selections by this […]
Editorial for June 2011
Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 To be one of the ten AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers during June who will be receiving the two great jazz albums from Putumayo World Music, you need to register this month using our simple non-intrusive email-protected form Here. (We reviewed both jazz albums Here.) 12 jazz legends are heard on the […]
Editorial for May 2011
Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 To be one of the AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers during May who will receive the free Resonance Records jazz Blu-ray concert by the Dado Moroni Trio, you need to register this month using our simple non-intrusive email-protected form Here. We reviewed the Blu-ray Here. The varied program draws from all corners […]
Editorial for April 2011
Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 To be one of the ten AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers during April who will receive the two Linn SACDs – Ian Shaw’s "Lifejacket" and Jonathan Freeman-Attwood’s "Trumpet Masque," you need to register using our simple non-intrusive email-protected form here. Both surround or stereo SACDs are of course hybrid and compatible. Shaw […]
Editorial for March 2011
Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 To be among the 12 AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers this month who receive the two Chesky Records hi-res releases, you need to register using our simple non-intrusive email-protected form. The discs are drummer Jimmy Cobb’s Cobb’s Corner with Roy Hargrove on trumpet, and David Chesky’s latest orchestral compositions: Urbanicity and Concerto […]
Editorial for February 2011
Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 This month’s drawing-giveaway is for OPPO’s new BDP-93 Universal Network 3D Blu-ray Disc Player. It offers diversified media support – including Blu-ray, 3D, SACD, DVD-A, HDCD, FLAC & WAV, Netflix, Blockbuster & BD-Live, unparalleled video quality on both Blu-ray and DVD, high fidelity audio, and ultimate convenience. It has both […]
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