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Thomas Ream |
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Longtime music lover-classics (including opera), jazz and some rock, some country, bluegrass, celtic and new age. |
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SF Bay Area, California, USA |
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Multichannel-Sony SCD-CE775, Denon 4802, NHT SB3's, and equivalent in wall, Sunfire sub. Sounds surprisingly good with SACD's.
Stereo - Sony XA9000ES, Simaudio I-7, B&W 804's, biwired with Audioquest cable, Nottingham Space 294 with Koetsu Black,Simaudio LP5.3 Revox A77. |
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tomream01@hotmail.com |
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July 21, 2010
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FWIW, I indicated in the Forum that I would post my reactions to this recording after I had a chance to listen to it. The earlier review on this site as well as comments made by Kal Rubison and a few others were encouraging enough for me to purchase this SACD, despite some negative reactions ... more |
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September 12, 2005
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Performance wise, this is a winner. Davis and the LSO provide a passionate performance of this symphony (more akin to the 8th than to the 7th or 9th, in my view). The playing is excellent, with surging strings and limpid wind solos. Tempos are brisk, phrasing straightforward but without a trace of ... more |
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July 23, 2005
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Krips was a genial Austrian who, while never considered to be among the world's top conductors, made some important recordings, including Don Giovanni with Siepi, a Schubert Great C Major that some consider to rank near the top, the first stereo integral set of Beethoven symphonies (before Karajan), ... more |
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June 9, 2005
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This release is a disappointment, both for the performance and the sound. Haitink leads an OK, middle of the road interpretation without much drama or passion and the sound is dry, even tending towards strident. The soundstage is very wide and about a centimeter deep (it almost sounds like the ... more |
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June 8, 2005
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I acquired this set, originally recorded in sessions in 1961 and 1962, as part of the process of comparing performances of Beethoven’s 5th on SACD (http://www.sa-cd.net/showthread/6768//y?page=first) and have since been listening to the other symphonies. Except for the 8th and 9th symphonies, this ... more |
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September 1, 2010
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| My local classical music station (KDFC, in San Francisco) is the top rated station in the Bay Area, and does it by pursuing a personality based "greatest hits" formula - lots of individual movements from easy to listen to composers, introduced by charming people, but rarely complete works, and almost never by a "difficult" composer like Bartok. ... more |
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August 24, 2010
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| I would be OK with even digipaks, if that meant more SACD's. I vote for the change. ... more |
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August 19, 2010
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| You are right - looks like mdt has it wrong. ... more |
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August 19, 2010
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| I didn't find this on this site, but according to mdt Audite is releasing:
Order Code: AUDITE23416
product code: AUDITE23416
price: £21.00£17.87 ex.VAT
$32.69$27.83
WAGNER / STRAUSS Kirsten Flagstad, Orchestra of the Stadtische Oper Berlin / Georges Sebastian. Audite 2 SACDs
label: Audite
format: SACD
Usually Zeus is way ahead of us ... more |
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August 18, 2010
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| Our own Jared Sacks (can we claim him...sure!) was the producer of one Wagnerian conflation, the "Tristan und Isolde, An Orchestral Passion" and it seems that Channel also produced "Parsifal, An Orchestral Quest", all conducted by de Waart. Someone else produced "Der Ring, An Orchestral Adventure", which musically seems the weakest of the lot. For ... more |
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