Ode to Pentatone!

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With all the talk of other labels (Channel?) pulling the plug on SACD, it seems Pentatone, judging by the rapidly accelarating pace of new releases, is going strong.
Pentatone has such a long tradition of excellence. They were the recording arm of the legendary Phillips Classics label. When the label stopped recording in the late 1990's (after the Universal merger) the recording team staged an employee-buyout, where they bought all their recording equipment and struck out on their own re-christened as Pentatone, with the mission of recording in DSD multi-channel.
In the past seventeen years Pentatone has become one of the premier SACD recording companies with a strong commitment to the format and multi-channel recording. Pentatone has in just a decade and a half created a rich and varied catalog of recordings, both new recordings and multi-channel releases of older analog recordings.
Furthermore, the quality of their output has been going from strength to strength. I was blown away by the new Pentatone recording of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Firebird Suite conducted by Andres Orozco-Estrada and featuring the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. After a subtle start, Andres built the pieces musical strand by musical strand into masterpieces of earth shattering power and beauty! I have never heard a more thrilling or realistic sounding recording of these works.
Moreover, I have been deeply impressed by Pentatone's recent quadrophonic releases of repetoire as varied as Kempff's magnificent Liszt recital, Echenbach's performace of Beethoven Concerti and Vasary's performance of Mozart Concerti. I am excited that these legendary recordings are being released in quadrophonic sound (most for the first time)!
With their strong schedule of new releases and quad re-releases, Pentatone has embraced multi-channel SACD and run with the format! I cannot thank them enough!
I would also like to plug the current Pentatone Sale at Arkiv music. By supporting the label, we will ensure that all those new SACD releases keep coming from Pentatone.

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/albumList.jsp?label_id=2 (Open in New Window)

Edits: 05/15/16

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Topic - Ode to Pentatone! - layman 07:52:45 05/12/16 (10)

Up to 25% off at Presto Classical --NT - lancelot 17:18:20 05/16/16 (0)

RE: Ode to Pentatone! - fantja 18:10:14 05/15/16 (0)

Also on sale at Primephonic.com - Russell 11:29:20 05/15/16 (0)

RE: Ode to Pentatone! - Ivan303 21:32:26 05/14/16 (0)

RE: Ode to Pentatone! - Felixer 12:09:07 05/12/16 (0)

Nice write-up! My understanding is that Pentatone operates. . . - Chris from Lafayette 08:27:46 05/12/16 (4)

Getty said in an SF Chron interview that he was finding it easier to get his works played. - oldmkvi 10:09:47 05/12/16 (3)

If we could just get Zuckerberg to pick up an istrument... - Ivan303 13:02:10 05/13/16 (1)

Younger Billionaires and Audiences are needed! - oldmkvi 16:08:05 05/13/16 (0)

LOL! Yes - inquiring minds want to know! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 10:21:14 05/12/16 (0)

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