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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.

Shostakovich: Symphonies 1-15 - Barshai | Dave Billinge - December 6, 2024

Given that my CD set cost less than £20 many years back, and given that the set is now on Discogs for just £2.18, this is very interesting indeed. But the cost to bring this ...

Yes: Close to the Edge | John Bacon-Shone - November 3, 2024

There is already an excellent Blu-ray with 5.1 and hires stereo.

Bach: Matthäuspassion - Leonhardt | Andre Vital - December 5, 2024

I‘ve just bumped into the SONY CD Version (2011), and it says that this recording was remastered to 24/96. I Wonder If this remastering/upsampling was the same used by BMG ...

Shostakovich: Symphonies 1-15 - Barshai | ubertrout - Today 02:39 pm

This is of course a fantastic set of recordings, and I've owned the CDs for a long time. However...these were digital recordings made 1992-2000 and do we have any reason to ...

Allan Holdsworth: Sand | Downunderman - November 20, 2024

This one from also from the same label: 801: 801 Live Given that the hybrid disk is made in Europe by Sony DADC maybe makes it more likely ...

Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch | Mark Werlin - November 1, 2024

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 ...

Haydn: Symphonies 94, 95, 98 & 99 - Järvi | hiredfox - Yesterday 11:40 pm

I bought this recording and I love it. Simply that.

Messiaen: Orchestral works - Wakasugi

Altus  ALTSA-483

Stereo Single Layer

Classical - Orchestral

Messiaen: Orchestral works

Kaori Kimura (piano - Un Vitrail et des oiseaux, La Ville d'En-Haut, Couleurs de la Cité céleste, 3 petites liturgies de la Présence divine)
Setsu Harada (ondes Martenot - 3 petites liturgies de la Présence divine)
Women of the Tokyo Mixed Chorus (3 petites liturgies de la Présence divine)
NHK Symphony Orchestra
Hiroshi Wakasugi (conductor)

All

Works (9)

• Olivier Messiaen: Couleurs de la Cité céleste (1963)
• Olivier Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (1964)
• Olivier Messiaen: Hymne au Saint-Sacrement (1932)
• Olivier Messiaen: L'Ascension (1932-33)
• Olivier Messiaen: La Ville d'En-Haut (1987)
• Olivier Messiaen: Le Tombeau resplendissant (1931)
• Olivier Messiaen: Les offrandes oubliées (1930)
• Olivier Messiaen: Petites liturgies de la présence Divine (3) (1943-44)
• Olivier Messiaen: Un Vitrail et des oiseaux (1986)