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August 25, 2005
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It took me a while to overcome cynicism and skepticism after the launch of SACD. We'd heard it all before, right? The closest approach to reality.....natural sound just like the finest LP played on a Linn? But then I heard this disc and knew that I had hit the motherlode: the finest Steinway was in ... more |
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August 24, 2005
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From all points of the compass, Fischer's Dvorak has attained Consensus All-World status for a performance of the 'New World' symphony.While it is, in general, well played and well recorded--doubtless converting many an SACD naysayer--one might add a couple of (doubtless) iconoclastic ... more |
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August 23, 2005
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This disc was approached with the highest expectations--and yet has proved profoundly disappointing!
First, although Bruckner subjected the symphony to endless revision throughout the years of his professorial career in Vienna, I have always cared greatly for it. In this respect alone, I am in the ... more |
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August 22, 2005
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When a "Desert Island Disc" makes it on to multichannel SACD, and at 'super-bargain' price, it's time for a "hallelujah". This performance was one of the latter releases on the (London) RPO's own label from the mid-1990s:way ahead, then, of SFSO or LSO. They seem not to have sold particularly ... more |
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