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Hank Mobley: Dippin' | Downunderman - February 3, 2025

A release in the 2024 Tower Records BLUE NOTE SA-CD HYBRID SELECTION which is intended to mark the 85th Anniversary of Blue Notes founding. This one is from the 2nd tranche of ...

Allan Holdsworth: The Sixteen Men of Tain | Downunderman - Yesterday 09:24 pm

In comparing this SACD with my copy of the 2013 CD remaster that was glass mastered/pressed in the US I can say that the SACD is the more immediate and detailed sounding of ...

Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blue | Downunderman - February 11, 2025

Thanks Mark. A veil has been lifted :)

Joe Henderson: Page One | Downunderman - February 11, 2025

Released November 2024 and another title in the Blue Note 85th Anniversary SACD series which uses Kevin Grays vinyl remastering work. So broadly speaking Analog tape to PCM ...

Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil | Downunderman - February 4, 2025

Released November 2024 and a title in the [Blue Note 85th Anniversary Reissue Series Remastered by Kevin Gray] Looks like it is Dsd'd from a 96kHz/24bit source though based ...

B. B. King & Eric Clapton: Riding With the King | onenairb - February 28, 2025

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Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blue | Downunderman - February 10, 2025

Another title in the Tower Records SA-CD Hybrid Selection. This one released in November 2024. Sounds very good too. I have not heard earlier versions, but Mark Werlin's ...

Allan Holdsworth: IOU | Paul - February 9, 2025

Holdsworth’s classic I.O.U. album has finally arrived on the ultimate audio format… SACD! Anyone that appreciates and loves Holdsworth’s music is going to want a copy ...

In Memoriam - Ormandy

Tower Records Definition Serie  TDSA-23 (3 discs)

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite
Bartók: Miraculous Mandarin (suite); Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste
Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy (orch. Liszt)
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on a theme of Weber; Konzertmusik für Streichorchester und Blechbläser, Op. 50
Liszt: Fantasie über ungarische Volksmelodien, S. 123; Piano Concerto in the Hungarian Style (orch. Tchaikovsky)
Barber: Adagio for strings

Cyprien Katsaris (piano)
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

All

Works (10)

• Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11a
• Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106 BB 114
• Béla Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Sz. 73 BB 82 Op. 19 Suite
• Paul Hindemith: Konzertmusik, Op. 50 for Brass and Strings
• Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Weber (1943)
• Franz Liszt: Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Melodies, S. 123
• Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto, S. 714 'in the Hungarian Style'
• Franz Liszt: Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, S. 366 'Grosse Fantasie'
• Jean Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22
• Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, TrV 176

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