I thought most of the Alia Vox recordings were older PCM recordings?
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Thank's Lute [et tu Brétté] for your most solid recommendation of this Rued Langgaard 'beauty!' Have spun it twice already.
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Ubertrout, sorry to respond late to your post [#241]. This is a Alia Vox recording issued in 2004, which clearly states on the rear: 96/24 remastered from original analogue originals. I have no idea if Alia Vox ever recorded DDD PCM 16/44.1 but I suspect being the purist Jordi Savall is, he 'probably' opted for analogue [that's purely speculation]:
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Thank's Lute [et tu Brétté] for your most solid recommendtion of this Rued Langgaard 'beauty!' Have spun it twice already.
Glad to hear you're enjoying it as much as I am, Ralphié.
Yesterday I picked up Kuniko's double SACD set of J.S. Bach's music transcribed for marimba. It's amazing how she makes everything sound good on those wooden bars. Nice n' mellow!
That’s a sweet lookin’ Marimba.. .. . ..Glad to hear you're enjoying it as much as I am, Ralphié.
Yesterday I picked up Kuniko's double SACD set of J.S. Bach's music transcribed for marimba. It's amazing how she makes everything sound good on those wooden bars. Nice n' mellow!
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There's a pretty good documentary on the BBC iPlayer website just now about Janet Baker, called, Janet Baker - In Her Own Words.
As you can probably tell from the title, it's a documentary that contains a fair amount of input from Dame Janet herself so we get to hear about her career from her perspective along with that of some talking heads. I haven't finished watching completely, but if you can access it, it's worth a watch based on what I've seen already. Here's the blurb from the website:
"In her first documentary for more than 35 years, the great British classical singer Dame Janet Baker talks more openly and emotionally than ever before about her career and her life today. With excerpts of her greatest stage roles (as Dido, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar and Orpheus), as well as of her appearances in the concert hall and recording studio (works by Handel, Berlioz, Schubert, Elgar, Britten and Mahler), she looks back at the excitements and pitfalls of public performance.
She tells the film-maker John Bridcut about the traumatic loss of her elder brother when she was only ten years old, and how that experience coloured her voice and her artistry. She explains why she felt the need to retire early some thirty years ago and discusses the challenges she and her husband have to face in old age. She also gives tantalizing clues to the question her many fans often ask: does she still sing today at the age of 85?
Among the other contributors to the film are conductors Raymond Leppard, Jane Glover and André Previn (in one of his last interviews before his death in March), the singers Joyce DiDonato and Dame Felicity Lott, the opera producer John Copley, the pianist Imogen Cooper, and the actress Dame Patricia Routledge. This feature-length film is a Crux production for the BBC, following the award-winning ‘Colin Davis - in His Own Words’ in 2013. John Bridcut has also made film profiles of Herbert von Karajan, Mstislav Rostropovich, Rudolf Nureyev and Jonas Kaufmann, as well as ‘Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70’ for BBC One in November 2018."
As you can probably tell from the title, it's a documentary that contains a fair amount of input from Dame Janet herself so we get to hear about her career from her perspective along with that of some talking heads. I haven't finished watching completely, but if you can access it, it's worth a watch based on what I've seen already. Here's the blurb from the website:
"In her first documentary for more than 35 years, the great British classical singer Dame Janet Baker talks more openly and emotionally than ever before about her career and her life today. With excerpts of her greatest stage roles (as Dido, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar and Orpheus), as well as of her appearances in the concert hall and recording studio (works by Handel, Berlioz, Schubert, Elgar, Britten and Mahler), she looks back at the excitements and pitfalls of public performance.
She tells the film-maker John Bridcut about the traumatic loss of her elder brother when she was only ten years old, and how that experience coloured her voice and her artistry. She explains why she felt the need to retire early some thirty years ago and discusses the challenges she and her husband have to face in old age. She also gives tantalizing clues to the question her many fans often ask: does she still sing today at the age of 85?
Among the other contributors to the film are conductors Raymond Leppard, Jane Glover and André Previn (in one of his last interviews before his death in March), the singers Joyce DiDonato and Dame Felicity Lott, the opera producer John Copley, the pianist Imogen Cooper, and the actress Dame Patricia Routledge. This feature-length film is a Crux production for the BBC, following the award-winning ‘Colin Davis - in His Own Words’ in 2013. John Bridcut has also made film profiles of Herbert von Karajan, Mstislav Rostropovich, Rudolf Nureyev and Jonas Kaufmann, as well as ‘Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70’ for BBC One in November 2018."
A really gorgeous voice, and of course the definitive recording of Sea Pictures. Sadly there's not much in surround, save this Pentatone reissue.
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Just placed an order for this newly released Pentatone multichannel SACD inspired by Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Review forthcoming.
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An absolutely beautiful recording [Chandos/mch SACD]
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Calliope Tsoupaki: Triptychon (2005-2013)
Greek composer Calliope Tsoupaki's trilogy for string quartet and clarinet is a bit experimental and intense, but also offers the listener an beautiful, ethereal experience. Tempos are slow and the music seems to float on air, The tranquillity is occasionally accented by impassioned gusts of emotion. Arjan Woudenberg (clarinet) and the Doelen Quartet give an excellent performance of the trilogy. Cybele Records's Binaural Recording is wonderfully immersive.
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Another one to add to the list. I have mch SACDs by Finnish composers Aho and Rautavaara and there's an ethereal quality to their works. Nice find, Brett!
https://www.allmusic.com/album/kalevi-aho-theremin-concerto-horn-concerto-mw0002704391
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Here's one for fans of organ music. Music of the great Spanish composer, Antonio de Cabezón, performed on an ancient Gothic organ.
Any 32 ft pipes on this Gothic organ ?
The organ was built in the 1400s, 32 foot pipes would have been impossible, and it doesn't have them. More info on it here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgel_von_St._Andreas_(Ostönnen)Any 32 ft pipes on this Gothic organ ?
I should mention, for those interested in organ music, that Aeolus produced a magnificent 19 SACD set of all of Bach's organ music in discrete surround sound. It's only one instrument so there's not going to be separation in the same way you'd get with a active surround mix of multiple instruments, but the surround channels capture the ambience and put you into the place so much more effectively than you can with stereo only. It's EUR 180 direct from them.
There is one seller on amazon that has a good price...of course the shipping is $22...the total cost is $192...which is still the cheapest I could find...
Is that the right one? I looked on imports but not under that title....for 19 SACDs that's a bargain...
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For those quiet, meditative evenings [Channel of China/mch SACD 5.0] Magical, Indeed!
It's the right UPC and everything else. And I don't think it could be anything else. I find UPC is very helpful for finding the deals since some sites omit all kinds of data but always get that right.
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