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Home Page for September 2015
Our September drawing is for three sets of the new 3-CD box titled The Perlman Sound. It features many of the most popular works and recordings from the complete edition of 77 Perlman albums on 59 CDs, and proves why Itzak Perlman is regarded as today’s supreme violinist. Here is a complete list of all the selections on the 3 CDs. The complete set includes recordings Perlman made for Warner, EMI and Teldec over a 30-year period. To be considered for this month’s free drawing for three readers you must register using our simple form HERE. (And please give us your full name and your address or we won’t know where the send your recordings if you are one of the winners.) The winner of last month’s drawing for the 53-CD Mercury Living Presence Vol. 3 set will be announced on our Editorial Page, where you will find more details on this month’s drawing.
Editorial for August 2015
Our August drawing is for one set of the huge Mercury Living Presence Vol. 3 set of 53 reissue CDs (issued by Decca Records), including ten never before released. Here is our review of the set, and here are details on all 53 discs. All you have to do to be considered as the winner of this huge set is to register this month using our simple non-intrusive form (and be sure to list your accurate address and email address). The lucky winner will be announced in this space next month. The two winners of the 7-CD set of all nine symphonies of Antonin Dvorak conducted by Jose Serebrier – our July drawing – are: Mark Brauer, St. Paul MN, and Lawrence Schulman, Mount Desert, ME. The sets will be shipped out soon. Congrats to both! [audaud-hr] EDITORIAL AUDIOPHILE AUDITION began as a local program in San Francisco and then in 1985 as a weekly national radio series hosted by John Sunier, and aired for 13½ years on up to 200 public radio and commercial stations. In September 1998 its web site for program listings was expanded to this free Internet publication. August 2015 is our 197th issue. All disc reviews are added […]
Home Page for January 2015
For January 2015 we have two fine new jazz CDs going to six AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers. One is Such Sweet Thunder, by Vance Thompson’s Five Plus Six featuring the core quintet with six additional horns. Their debut CD is full of panache and surprise, and includes music of Ellington and Monk plus country and folk. Here’s our review of it. The second CD is Lonely City, from vocalist-composer Allegra Levy. This is her clearly autobiographical debut album, and is a lyrical collection of 11 originals. Pictured are the covers both CDs. To be considered, just register using our simple form on the site, and you may be one of the lucky six readers. More details on our Editorial Page, plus the name of the winner of December’s major SACD set. Here is our Best Discs of 2014 List
Editorial for February 2014
Motema has donated six copies of their GRAMMY-nominated 2010 album Water, by Gregory Porter to go to six lucky AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who register on our simple form this February. Jazz Wise said Porter had “outstanding original songs, erudite lyrics and social comment, top drawer musicianship and improvisation, and a voice to die for.” Porter just won a Grammy, he’s a nominee for FM Jazz in the UK, got SoulTracks’ album of the year, iTunes’ Jazz Vocal Album of the Year, one of NPR’s Top 10 Albums of the 2012, NPR Music’s 100 Favorite Songs of the 2012, and the Edison Music Award for Jazz Vocal Album of the Year. The NY Times said, “outstanding original songs, erudite lyrics and social comment, top drawer musicianship and improvisation, and a voice to die for.” “Gregory Porter has most of what you want in a male jazz singer, and maybe a thing or two you didn’t know you wanted.” He is undoubtedly the next big male vocal jazz star. To be eligible, just register this month via our simple non-intrusive form, and we won’t share your email address. The six winners will be listed in this space next month. GUEST EDITORAL by Dr. Mark […]
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