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Bill Evans Trio: Waltz for Debby | Mark Werlin - August 5, 2023

From the CDJapan page for this release, English translation: "Features SHM-SACD format. Features remastering in 2023 (192khz/24bit), using the US original master tapes." A ...

Schumann: Piano Works, Vol. 1 - van Poucke | Marcus DiBenedetto - September 26, 2023

Adrian, looking forward to your review! I too have an advance copy (DXD surround). In my opinion, it is outstanding music, both the composition and the playing. Note: TRPTK ...

Nørgård: Symphony No. 8 - Storgårds | Adrian Quanjer - September 17, 2023

I did not know. Bissie kept quiet about it. Thanks for the info Athenaeus. It ties in with what I see happening. BIS have been selling out lately, Channel Classics sold, ...

Nørgård: Symphony No. 8 - Storgårds | Jan Arell - September 21, 2023

I copy what I wrote two weeks ago in a comment to another record: I just randomly picked a recent Bis recording. What are your reactions to Apple's acquisition of Bis ...

Bill Evans Trio: Bill Evans at Town Hall | analogue - August 25, 2023

I was a little concerned upon my first listen when the audience was pushed far back but once the music commenced, when I heard how closely miked Evans piano was.......I just ...

Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 4-6 - Mravinsky | DYB - September 18, 2023

Ok so...I got the new 2023 remasters. And it was a waste of money, sorry to say. (The Rozhdestvensky fillers may be worth it, but I'm only talking about the new remaster of ...

Nørgård: Symphony No. 8 - Storgårds | Athenaeus - September 21, 2023

Well, the fact they immediately closed BIS's online store and no longer seem to sell discs certainly bodes ill. I'm not against streaming, but — like quite a few other ...

Xenakis: Pléïades, Rebonds - Kuniko | Paul Brouns - September 25, 2023

Oh and thanks to John as well for adding this release.

The Mercury Masters - Janis, Dorati, Menges, Kondrashin, Rozhdestvensky, Skrowaczewski

Mercury Living Presence  4853607

Stereo

Classical - Orchestral

Works by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schumann, de Falla, Guion, Chopin, Pinto, Mussorgsky, Mozart, Copland

Byron Janis (piano)
Minnesota Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati, Herbert Menges, Kyrill Kondrashin, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (conductors)

All

Recording

Analogue recording

Resolutions (1)

• 2.0 LPCM 24bit/96kHz

Works (29)

• Frederic Chopin: Études, Op. 10 No. 5 in G flat major
• Frederic Chopin: Études, Op. 25 No. 3 in F major
• Frederic Chopin: Sonata for Piano No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35
• Frederic Chopin: Waltz No. 3, Op. 34 No. 2 in A minor 'Valse brillante'
• Aaron Copland: Sonata for Piano (1941)
• Manuel de Falla: El sombrero de tres picos - Ballet (1919)
• David Guion: The Harmonica-Player
• Franz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage: Year 2 Italie, S. 161: No. 5 Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
• Franz Liszt: Concerto for Piano No. 1 in E flat major, S. 124
• Franz Liszt: Concerto for Piano No. 2 in A major, S. 125
• Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody, S. 244: No. 6 in D flat major
• Franz Liszt: Valses oubliées, S. 215: No. 1
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Songs Without Words for Piano Book 5 No. 2, MWV U 181 Op. 62
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Piano No. 5 in G major, K. 283/189h
• Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition for Piano (1874)
• Octavio Pinto: Three Scenes from Childhood
• Serge Prokofiev: Concerto for Piano No. 3 in C major, Op. 26
• Serge Prokofiev: Toccata for Piano in D minor, Op. 11
• Sergei Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1
• Sergei Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
• Sergei Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
• Sergei Rachmaninov: Morceaux de Fantaisie for Piano, Op. 3 No. 2 Prelude in C sharp minor
• Sergei Rachmaninov: Preludes for Piano, Op. 23 No. 6 in E flat major
• Robert Schumann: Arabeske for Piano in C major, Op. 18
• Robert Schumann: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54
• Robert Schumann: Novelletten for Piano, Op. 21
• Robert Schumann: Romances for Piano, Op. 28 No. 2 in F sharp major
• Robert Schumann: Sonata for Piano No. 3 in F minor, Op. 14
• Peter Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano No. 1 in B flat minor, TH 55 Op. 23

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