| Stupendous (review from amazon.com) |
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| This is a corrected reissue of the botched Omega OVC2005 release of the same material. On this must-have release the sound is magnificent throughout (the late David Baker is responsible for the remastering), Heiller's granitic playing is astoundingly strong, steady, and clear (as good as Bach keyboard playing gets), and the pieces are immense and profound. The overall experience is hair-raising, in other words, not to say life-changing. The only criticism might be that the release is rather skimpy in length; there was plenty of room for the Toccata and fugue in d and the Fantasy and fugue in g (S.565 and 542). Get this release regardless, and don't worry about its being SACD (a technology that represents no audible improvement anyway), as the CD layer is perfect in all respects and the disc plays on the several CDPs I have tried it on.
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