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Jethro Tull: Stand Up | Downunderman - April 26, 2023

Thanks MW - I do wonder about the flat transfer of the master tape thing on occasion and this release is one of those occasions! It might have been better if they had dragged ...

Jethro Tull: Stand Up | Mark Werlin - April 25, 2023

Downunderman (and any other Jethro Tull fans), you need to hear the Steven Wilson remixes of This Was, Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung, and Thick as a Brick in 24/96. The sonic ...

Roxy Music: Flesh and Blood | SACD-MAN (threerandot) - May 17, 2023

An album filled with wonderful grooves, but the standout here is "Over You" when the sax come in with the keyboard and there is this incredible outpouring of feelings of joy ...

Harry Belafonte: Belafonte Sings The Blues | Mark Werlin - April 27, 2023

RIP Harry Belafonte (died April 25, 2023). Some Amazon third-party sellers are attempting to sell this SACD for exorbitant prices, but as of the date of this post, it is in ...

Rachmaninov: 4 Piano Concertos, Paganini Rhapsody - Ashkenazy, Previn | DYB - May 30, 2023

Contrapunctus, I agree. For me the Decca Japan issue is really spectacular. Esoteric's choices continue to confound me. So many of their recent issues have been released very ...

Rachmaninov: 4 Piano Concertos, Paganini Rhapsody - Ashkenazy, Previn | Athenaeus - June 1, 2023

Indeed! In June they will also release Milstein's recording of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas. A great set! The thing is, though, that Tower Records released this one on SACD not ...

DOS: In Sight | Rafael Méndez - April 12, 2023

It is an extraordinary sounding album (in fact one of my favorite demo albums). The bass sound is absolutely natural, the atmosphere intimate, and Bianchini's voice wonderful. ...

Michel Petrucciani Trio: Estate | Rafael Méndez - April 12, 2023

It is Hybrid Stereo SACD

7 Concerts 1978-1982 - Celibidache

Altus  ALTSA1002 (3 discs)

Stereo Single Layer

Classical - Orchestral

Works by Verdi, Hindemith, Prokofiev, Brahms, Schumann, Ravel*, Debussy, Wagner, Mozart, Sibelius, Tippett, Mussorgsky, Kodaly, Dukas, Faure

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli* (piano)
Marie McLaughlin** (soprano)
Gwynne Howell** (bass)
London Symphony Chorus**
London Symphony Orchestra
Sergiu Celibidache (conductor)

All

Works (21)

• Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 1 in G minor
• Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
• Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
• Claude Debussy: Images for Orchestra, L 122 CD 118: No. 2 Ibéria
• Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune for Orchestra, L 86 CD 87
• Paul Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) - Symphonic Poem (1897)
• Gabriel Fauré: Requiem in D minor, Op. 48
• Paul Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis der Maler' (1933-34)
• Zoltán Kodály: Dances of Galánta, K. 79
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504 'Prague'
• Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition for Orchestra (1874) (arr. Ravel)
• Serge Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Suite No. 1, Op. 64bis
• Serge Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100
• Maurice Ravel: Concerto for Piano in G major, M. 83
• Maurice Ravel: Ma mère l'oye - Suite for Orchestra, M. 60
• Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole for Orchestra, M. 54
• Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61
• Jean Sibelius: En Saga - Symphonic Poem, Op. 9
• Michael Tippett: Ritual Dances
• Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino - Opera
• Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg, WWV 70