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  Site review by Polly Nomial Yesterday 06:41 am

On paper, this disc looked very enticing & imaginative with a carefully thought through progression of music transcribed or written by Americans. Unfortunately the pedestrian performance of the Rossini transcription at no time sets the pulse racing in the great storm or galop sequences; the ... more
Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes - Gergely Bogányi      (2 of 2 found this review helpful)
  Review by Fugue June 17, 2013

This 2-disc set boasts "Direct Cut pure DSD," which is supposed to maintain native DSD throughout the entire production process. This disc certainly clearly captures his Fazioli piano--if a bit close and dry...too bad it isn't m-ch. I do hear some damper thumps here and there, however. Bogányi's ... more
  Site review by Castor June 17, 2013

Marek Janowski's consistently fine cycle of Bruckner symphonies for PentaTone continues with this release of the 2nd Symphony – a work seemingly discussed more often for its many versions and revisions rather than its undoubted musical strengths. There are effectively four versions of this symphony ... more
  Site review by Polly Nomial June 16, 2013

In both performance & sound terms, this is probably about as good as one could ever hear this music arranged for 4-hands, 1-piano. The Piano Duo Trenker/Speidel pace the music well and point up the material as best they can; there are few moments throughout the two symphonies where one quibbles at ... more
  Review by Discspinner June 13, 2013

The previous reviews pretty well sum up the excellent playing and overall excellent sonics of this recording. I do note one slight issue on my system and that is the constant low sub woofer rumble on track 6. Not present on the other tracks, but it's there on 6. It's as if the orchestra next door ... more

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