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Allan Holdsworth: Sand | Paul - November 21, 2024

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my question. I agree with your assessment of these Holdsworth SACD releases. I still have serious doubts as to the legitimacy of the ...

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This is an intriguing surprise. I'll definitely get it; I have the regular CDs and these are outstanding performances.

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This album is also available on qobuz in DSD64 for the same price as the SACDs. I just listened to the complete album and quite enjoyed it.

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Andrew Midgley, thanks for the further information about the upcoming releases. Could you post a link to the source? Despite the reluctance of the label to cite the ...

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 - Karajan | Contrapunctus - November 30, 2024

I'm really curious about this new remastering. The versions on RBCD (even in the remastered complete 60's recordings box) don't impress/convince me.

Deep Purple: Live on the BBC | Rafael Méndez - October 30, 2024

This is without a doubt the worst sound record I have in my SACD collection; in fact, it is much inferior to a standard CD. Furthermore, this live recording on the BBC is ...

Bach: The Vocal Works - Suzuki | Mark Arnest - December 4, 2024

This is a great set if you can get it at a good price and don't already own a lot of it. But it's not all high-resolution audio. It all sounds good, but the works originally ...

Allan Holdsworth: Hard Hat Area | Paul - November 18, 2024

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Schumann: Symphonies 1 & 4 - Furtwängler

Praga Digitals Reminiscences PRD/DSD 350 119

Mono Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Schumann: Symphonies 1* & 4; Manfred overture

Berliner Philharmoniker
Wiener Philharmoniker*
Wilhelm Furtwängler (conductor)

Furtwängler was an excellent pianist and accompanied leading singers at opera rehearsals and lieder recitals by Wolf, Schubert, Schumann…. He did not consider Schumann to be a great symphony composer, yet refused to authenticate Mahler’s re-orchestrations of Symphony Nos. 2 and 3 (scores which appeared posthumously in 1927). Here we have what Furtwängler chose to bequeath to posterity, including his consummate, and as yet unparalleled, lebhaft peroration in Schumann’s Symphony N° 4 in D minor, his so-called Op. 120.

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