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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 ...

Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5 - Gulda, Stein | Contrapunctus - February 23, 2025

Lately, I've been getting the feeling that even TowerRecords is taking some questionable steps with their high-res remastering series for SACD. On one hand, I'm skeptical of ...

Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5 - Gulda, Stein | Contrapunctus - February 27, 2025

Hey DYB, I'm definitely not an industry insider with a deep understanding of the music business, but as an avid music listener and collector, I've chatted and emailed over the ...

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

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Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie - Järvi | hiredfox - Yesterday 04:38 am

Jaarvi's work with the NHK has been outstanding and the Sony recordings some of the best sounding SACD ever released. I had assumed that their partnership had ended so this ...

Bud Powell: The Amazing Bud Powell | Downunderman - February 20, 2025

Released November 2024 and a title in the [Blue Note 85th Anniversary Reissue Series Remastered by Kevin Gray] Looks like it is Dsd'd from a 96kHz/24bit source though based ...

Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5 - Gulda, Stein | DYB - February 28, 2025

Contrapunctus, unfortunately everything you say sounds about right...

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 ...

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