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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 |
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Review by Fugue June 17, 2013
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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 |
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Site review by Castor June 17, 2013
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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 |
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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 |
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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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