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The first thing we need to talk about is the cover. Folks, never use a top hat as an ice bucket for your champagne! It damages the silk and your hatmaker will probably never ...

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Fans of Otis Taylor will be delighted to learn that Octave Records / PS Audio have released a newly recorded SACD of Otis. Entitled "Banjo" it's available on their site now.

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ALL of the Jarvi/NHK SACD titles were produced and recorded by Octavia/Exton team. I assume it was done in DSD 11,2 MHz, as since 2019 Exton has been recording in this format ...

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It's readily available on Amazon US, Presto, and all the other usual suspects. For some reason it's the wrong info here.

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Quite a generous coupling.

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 - Fischer | hiredfox - March 19, 2023

One wonders if this SACD will ever be released. What's the latest Jared?

Williams: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Gerhardt | Gurkensalat - February 26, 2023

I have listened to this disc now, and I do not agree that the MC mix is conservative. Rather the orchestra is arranged in a circle around the listener in Tacet-style. The ...

Mendelssohn: String Symphonies 1-13 - Masur

Berlin Classics x Tower Record  0302913BC (3 discs)

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Mendelssohn: String Symphonies 1-13

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Kurt Masur (conductor)

All

Recording

Analogue recording

Works (13)

• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 1 in C major, MWV N 1
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 10 in B minor, MWV N 10
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 11 in F major, MWV N 11
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 12 in G minor, MWV N 12
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 13 in C minor, MWV N 14 'Sinfoniesatz'
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 2 in D major, MWV N 2
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 3 in E minor, MWV N 3
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 4 in C minor, MWV N 4
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, MWV N 5
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 6 in E flat major, MWV N 6
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 7 in D minor, MWV N 7
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 8 in D major, MWV N 8
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 9 in C major, MWV N 9