Australian Hi-Fi magazine features a John Sunier review for Manfred Honeck and Pittsburgh Symphony’s Bruckner Symphony No. 4 recording: “Honeck’s score section is the 1878/80 version, to my mind the most solid of the myriad choices available…There have been many fine recordings of this work, but Honeck and the superb Pitssburghians have given us a performance in phenomenal—underline that—surround sound that launches this rendition to the absolute top of the pile. The extraordinary caressing of…
Audiophile Audition‘s John Sunier has a new feature for our Respighi Reference Mastercuts LP in Australian Hi-Fi Magazine: “A pair of lavish Technicolour tone poem creations from Respighi—one extremely well-known and up against much competition, and the other only the second recording of the rare ballet suite. In Pines of Rome, Eiji Oue brings out all the wild tonal colours and passion of the composer’s widescreen musical extravaganza, using extra brass and a pipe organ…