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Mendelssohn Project, Vol. 5 - Gurewitsch | Adrian Quanjer - February 17, 2025

With High-Resolution quality recordings, the name Detmold keeps popping up. For instance, like here, with the MDG founders and sound engineers, Werner Dabringhaus & Reimund ...

Mendelssohn: Symphonies 1-5 - Otaka | hiredfox - March 4, 2025

Thanks John

Italiana! - The Philharmonic Brass | hiredfox - March 2, 2025

A new SACD label. Whoopee! It deserves our support.

Bud Powell: The Amazing Bud Powell | Mark Werlin - March 10, 2025

It's a compilation of two sessions, both recorded at WOR studios NYC: August 9, 1949 (quintets with Fats Navarro and Sonny Rollins) and May 1, 1951 (piano trios). It makes ...

Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5 - Gulda, Stein | DYB - February 26, 2025

Contrapunctus, I agree with you 100%. Tower (and Esoteric) are releasing so many titles that have been issued previously, in some cases these are 3rd SACD editions. I do not ...

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 1-15 - Gulda | Contrapunctus - March 5, 2025

The new release of Beethoven's piano sonatas by Universal Japan, featuring Friedrich Gulda's 1967 recordings for the Austrian label Amadeo, shows some slight differences ...

Mendelssohn Project, Vol. 1 - Schuch, Gurewitsch | Adrian Quanjer - February 25, 2025

I now own the whole set. It is of superlative quality and includes the youth solo concerti played with great elan underscoring the mesmerizing beauty. With a dwindling number ...

Iyer: Trouble - Koh, Rose | Mick Head - February 22, 2025

John Adams' music came to mind at first ("Trouble") and what a superficial comparison that turned out to be! These works all show a textural originality and a compelling sense ...

Camel: Nude