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In Reply to: Erich Kunzel, Paavo Jarvi and Telarc posted by Teresa on February 14, 2007 at 08:18:51:
if Telarc CD's made in Cincinnati float your boat. Jarvi's predecessor, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conducted some great performances on Telarc CD's during the '80's and '90's, including a knockout Rossini-Respighi "Boutique" coupled with a transcription of Rachmaninoff's Cinq Etudes-Tableaux", a beautiful Mahler Ninth...and a Soundstream Ravel that renders Paavo's "La Valse" tepid.
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....best Beethoven SACD recordings, and probably best in last ten years.
Harry
That's useful.
Regards,
Geoff
I've been buying Telarc CDs dirt cheap between $1.00 - $5.00.I would never believe a low resolution redbook CD could not only actually be listenable but also sound this good. Did Yamaha perform a small miracle? Or all the new players for 2007 this good with CDs? Was there some major advance in chips this year? This player premiered at CES this year. I would not believe it if I didn't hear it with my own ears. And I still really don't believe it; it is just too fantastic. The very idea that CDs could not only be pain free but enjoyable as well. It is heresy. And I would not blame anyone for not believing me.
I haven't heard any non-Telarc CDs yet, but I will check some out of the library this weekend.
SACD and CD are likely to remain a diversion as I first thing I wanted to hear when I got home was Felix Slatkin's Fantastic Percussion on Liberty / Bel Canto Real Time duplicated 7 1/2 IPS Reel to Reel tape. But I will try to squeeze in an SACD later this evening.
"Music is love"
Teresa
Teresa,I have no idea what kind of magic they worked on the new players. But I tell you, a month ago I bought a McIntosh MCD201 and since than I listen 90% to SACD's. Before that it was just vinyl. I bought quite some Telarc's lately. And BIS, they are incredible too. I mostly surf on http://www.classicstoday.com/ and read the reviews over there. Btw, if you like jazz, you've got to try the redbooks from www.mapleshaderecords.com, awesome.
Enjoy the music.
Rudy
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AvianArt
the excellent Turina and Dukas SACDs which I seem to remember Teresa admiring some time ago.But in addition to the discs you mention--and some fabulous Richard Strauss, especially 'Death and Transfiguration'--there remain the Bruckner symphonies. The recordings of #6-9 rival Chailly as the best Bruckner of recent memory. Critically largely ignored, they were a monumental achievement of interpretation, cultural and spiritual empathy, and de luxe orchestral playing. I heard them all live in the concerts antecedent to the sessions. Having heard--and not too long before--live Bruckner performances in London concert halls from the orchestras of Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, Leipzig, Hamburg, Munich and Chicago, I had never heared the Cincinnati playing bettered.If you don't believe me, read the critiques on Amazon.com!!!
The recordings had a resplendent olde-world glow that matched the performances. I cannot begin to understand why--given the rather astonishing popularity of Blessed Anton these days and given the paucity of Bruckner on SACD--Telarc has not rushed to release these gems on our chosen medium. But, as you so rightly say Jim, the CDs are definitely not second-best!
As to why Jesus is no longer in the Queen City, there lies a story worthy of Hanslick's activities in Brahmsian Vienna...........
Wonderful performances.Wasn't aware of the Hanslickian intrigue. A shame. In the wake of the Turina, I'd looked forward to far more J L-C/Cincy SACD's.
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