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Label:
   Philips Classics - http://www.deccaclassics.com/
Serial:
   470 603-2
Title:
   Schubert: Piano Sonata D568, Moments musicaux - Uchida
Description:
   Schubert: Piano Sonata D568, Moments Musicaux

Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Details:
   1-4. Piano Sonata in E flat major, D568
5-10. Moments musicaux, D780

Total time: 67:38
Genre:
   Classical - Instrumental
Content:
   Stereo/Multichannel
Media:
   Hybrid
Recording type:
   DSD
Recording info:
   Recorded at Grosser Saal, Musikverein, Vienna - August 2001
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Review by Chris December 25, 2003 (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
Performance:  Sonics:
My first Philips SACD, and also done in pure DSD I think. Anyway, this is a very realistic ,very natural recording of a grand piano played in the reverberant acoustic of the Musikverein Vienna,by a master pianist.This is one the best recordings of a solo piano I have heard ,and clearly shows the advantage of SACD over RBCD.There is a much more natural rendition of timbre . Individual notes decay naturally into the venue in a way the CD layer only hints at.None of the digital hardness CD suffers from all too often. Compared to LP, which also renders piano more realistically than CD ,no wow ,no flutter, no pitch variations, and no surface noise.
A step closer to the real thing indeed.
Musically I prefer the Moments musicaux over the Piano sonata D568. It is not quite the masterwork that his later sonata D894 is.
More please, Philips!

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