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Mahler: Symphony No. 9 - Vänskä | Paul Hannah - June 6, 2023

Whist I think Vanska on BIS [ non-sacd sadly ] is the best Sibelius cycle ever recorded I have not really enjoyed [ good reviews or not ] any of his Mahler recordings ...

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 ...

Aucoin: Orphic Moments - Rose | David Stanbury - May 27, 2023

This album has 2 discs of music. Oddly, the first disc is a SACD while the second disc is a conventional CD!

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 ...

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 - Vänskä | hiredfox - June 6, 2023

Can't help but agree Paul on this Mahler survey.

Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 - Konwitschny | Contrapunctus - June 6, 2023

The only important work for me here is the recording of the Hiller Variations anyway. As far as I can see, there is not a single release of this impressive work on SACD.

Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 - Konwitschny | Athenaeus - June 6, 2023

Same goes for me, Contrapunctus! Like most of us here, I already have lots of Schubert symphonies in my collection. But I don't have much from Reger.

Shostakovich: Symphonies 8-10 - Petrenko | listening - May 29, 2023

A superb recording of Shostakovich's symphonies 8-10. Great virtuosity, full dynamics, a lot of details. Listened to in stunning stereo.

When in the Silence of the Soul - Rios

Eudora Records  EUD-SACD-2303

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Instrumental

Works by Fanny Mendelssohn

Paula Rios (piano)


Fanny Mendelssohn, a “sister of the Muses” has her mother would call her, was a 19th -century wife, mother and carer, but also made her own musical path and became of one the most important pianists of her time, composing over 400 pieces. The title of the album is a reference to a poem Goethe set Fanny to set it to music, highly spontaneous and experimental. Paula Ríos brings the brilliance and sensitivity needed and guides through Fanny’s piano output, including two first recordings.

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Recording

DSD recording

Works (8)

• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: 4 Lieder for Piano, HU 423/458/461/463 Op. 8
• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Allegro in C minor, HU 139
• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Allegro molto in E minor, HU 410
• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Andantino in B flat major, HU 102
• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Notturno, HU 337
• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Sonata for Piano in A major, HU 235 'Ostersonate'
• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Sonata for Piano in G minor, HU 395
• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Villa Medicis in A flat major, HU 353