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

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A release in the first 13 releases of the Blue Note SA-CD Hybrid Selection series of an intended 20 titles and slated to be released between 25 September 2024 and 18 December ...

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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 ...

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

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

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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 ...

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Bruckner: Symphonies 1-9, Messiaen: Orchestral Works - Wakasugi

Altus  ALTSA-1007 (4 discs)

Stereo Single Layer

Classical - Orchestral

Bruckner: Symphonies 1-9
Messiaen: Orchestral Works - Wakasugi

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 (18)

• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, WAB 101
• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, WAB 102
• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D minor, WAB 103
• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, WAB 104 'Romantic'
• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, WAB 105
• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A major, WAB 106
• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107
• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, WAB 108
• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, WAB 109
• 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)