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SA-CD Net Gives Bruckner 5 Stars
SA-CD.net’s Graham Williams gives five stars for both performance and sonics to the new Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck Bruckner recording: “Manfred Honeck has shown himself to be a searching interpreter of everything he conducts, in addition to being an outstandingly cultured musician and fine orchestral trainer. … Honeck convincingly relates the musical ideas to the literary ones outlined in the composer’s programme – something that in some respects moves the symphony closer to becoming…
SA-CD.net Reviews Miraculous Metamorphoses SACD
Graham Williams reviews the new Miraculous Metamorphoses SACD featuring the Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern: “The 5.1 multi-channel SACD is sonically streets ahead of the CD/HDCD version of these performances issued some months ago. The listener is placed some way back in the hall but the sound has a wide spread between the speakers with a convincing depth and a pleasing ambience, most apparent in the quieter sections of these scores. …the visceral impact…
SA-CD.net reviews new Strauss Recording
SA-CD.net reviewer Graham Williams gives the new Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Strauss recording a 4.5/5 for Performance and a 4.5/5 for Sonics: “the conductor’s … admiration for these works is self-evident from the incandescent playing that he elicits from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. “The work’s slow sections possess a dreamy sensuousness that emphasises the lustrous quality of the Pittsburgh Symphony’s playing … This broadness of approach extends to the delivery of the famous horn passage (from…
Tutti SACD Sampler review!
SA-CD.net has reviewed our Tutti! SACD Sampler: Review by Castor August 6, 2010Sonics: 5/5 Stars ‘Tutti!’ is Reference Recordings first release on SACD of a selection of excerpts from some of their many audiophile recordings made over the past fourteen years. The majority of those featured on this sampler date from 1996-7 and it is perhaps a shame that some more recent ones were not included. Unlike their first multi-channel release, Britten’s Orchestra – Michael…