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Audio News for July 8, 2016
Six of the Most Inspired Single Notes in Classical Music Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Notebook to Have Iris Scanner – Samsung’s new Note 7 (due for release August 2) will have both a fingerprint reader and an amazing new security feature – an iris scanner. All you have to do is look at the smartphone, no button-punching is required to lock or unlock your phone. It will have 64GB of internal storage and should deliver over 20 hours of video on one battery charge. Amazon Beats Wal-Mart in Consumer Electronics – Best Buy May Be Next – Despite its already gargantuan size and the market share it has gained over the past few years last year it was able to accelerate that growth to the point where it now commands a 17% share. It’s clear that Amazon will become No. 1 sooner instead of later. Only a bit more than a third of the top 25 CE retailers saw higher sales last year. Everyone else suffered falling sales. It is hoped that use of Best Buy’s Geek Squad service and repair division might somehow offset Amazon’s low pricing, but services only represent 4% of the total revenue of Best Buy. […]
SCHUBERT: Complete Symphonies, Masses & opera Alfonso und Estrella – Soloists/Berlin Philharmonic/ Nicolaus Harnoncourt – Berlin Phil. – (8 SACDs + 1 Blu-ray stereo only)
FRANZ SCHUBERT: Symphonies, Masses and Alfonso und Estrella (TrackLists below) – Berlin Philharmonic Orch./Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Berlin Phil. BPHR 15006 [Distr. by Naxos] – The set contains 8 CDs, and identical content on one Blu-ray audio disc in 2.0 PCM + Bonus video: Nikolaus Harnoncourt in conversation [in German w/ English subtitles] (38 min) HD 1080P 16×9 – Region free – TT: 613:30 (6/5/15) ****: For Schubert completists – all the symphonies, two masses and a rather unknown complete opera . This is a ‘monster’ set of all the Schubert Symphonies, along with Schubert’s final two masses, plus there is a a rare recording of the opera Alfonso und Estrella. This massive set contains 8 SACDs, 1 Blu-ray audio disc that has all the music from the SACDs in DTS-HD MA 2.0. That disc also contains a video interview with conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt. [$123 on Amazon…Ed.] If you want to download the music, the set gives you a code to download FLAC files in 24/48 for any digital devices you own that can support the format. The performances were recorded between 2003 and 2006. I listened to everything contained in the set over several days, and found the performances consistent […]
BEETHOVEN: Missa Solemnis cond. by Harnoncourt, Blu-ray (2013)
Revelatory? Not quite, but certainly new and different, more from an interpretative standpoint than an orchestral one.
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VIERNE – WIDOR – LANGLAIS: Masses – [TrackList follows] Choir and Organs of the Cologne Hohen Dom – Organists: Winfried Bönig & Ulrich Brüggemann – Motette
Three shorter masses featuring double organs, and three interesting organ solos.
JOSQUIN: De beate virgine; Ave maris stella – Tallis Scholars/ Peter Phillips – Gimell
Do the Tallis Scholars ever make a bad recording?
HAYDN: Missa in honorem BVM, “Great Organ Mass”; Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida, “Heiligmesse” – Soloists/ Trinity Choir/ Rebel Baroque Orchestra/ J. Owen Burdick – Naxos
Sprightly and infectious readings that may not be the last word in these seminal works, but are darned exciting.
EGON WELLESZ: Mass in F, Op. 51; I Sing of a Maiden; Offertorium in Ascensione Domini; Missa Brevis, Op. 89; To Sleep, Op. 94 – Christ Church Cathedral Choir/ Stephen Darlington, director – Nimbus
A noted musicologist proves equally adept as a composer.
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