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…
Now that our Grammy Nominated Respighi recording is available as a Reference Mastercuts LP, we wanted to take a look back at what critics were saying when it was first released! “Oue plays each piece to the hilt; I cannot imagine more precise, more lovingly conducted performances. As for the recording, I’m running out of superlatives – it is brilliant and weighty, with tremendous undistorted dynamics.”–Peter Aczel, THE AUDIO CRITIC “The sound given to this…