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Recent comments

Shostakovich: Symphonies 1-15 - Noseda | hiredfox - November 4, 2025

Hi DYB. I doubt there is anything untoward about this, it's probably much cheaper for LSO Live to release all the new stuff in one box rather than issue them as new single ...

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 - Haitink | Contrapunctus - Yesterday 01:29 am

This new SACD is based on a recent remastering by UK ClassicSound, carried out entirely in the DSD domain. The regular RBCDs already sound very good. I listened to a copy of ...

Stan Getz: Sweet Rain | Downunderman - November 5, 2025

One of the later releases in the Japan released Acoustic Sounds SACD series. This one released August 2025. Notable for being one of the few in this series that has not been ...

Wagner: Parsifal - Knappertsbusch | DYB - Yesterday 07:40 pm

So I'm not a particular fan of Knappertsbusch and I don't love Jess Thomas, but this is a tremendous performance and recording all around.

Wagner: Parsifal - Knappertsbusch | SACD-MAN (threerandot) - November 8, 2025

Can it get any better than this? Knappertsbusch's association with Parsifal was a long one and this is considered by many to be the very best of his recordings of this work. ...

Telemann / Corelli / Bach: Concertos - Laurin / Paradiso | Robert Fernandes - October 26, 2025

The Album booklet from BIS indicates that Wassermusik (also known as Hamburger Ebb’ und Fluth) is TWV55:C3, not C6.

Chris Squire: Fish Out Of Water | Downunderman - November 5, 2025

This single disc Hybrid SACD edition released 2025 is Certainly a 'fish out of water', based as it is on this earlier 2018 release ...

Mozart: The Travelling Whirlwind - Wessel | EugenF - October 27, 2025

Adrian Quanjer, you are right about that: 'in Europe, Sony Austria is now the only SACD pressing plant left'. Just found on Discogs some infos: 'Later Dec 2021 Sony DADC ...

Isao Suzuki Quartet +2: Orangutan