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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - Paray      (8 of 8 found this review helpful)
  October 16, 2005

Oh my God! Wow!!! Are you ready to be terrorized by a March that literally makes you feel as if you ARE the person being marched to the scaffold or a Witch's Sabbath that makes you feel as if Witches are right there harassing you? For the longest time I merely listened to the Symphonie Fantastique ... more
Smetana: Ma Vlast - Susskind      (7 of 7 found this review helpful)
  August 31, 2005

I have been waiting for this recording for months to come out on MFSL. I ordered it through Amazon and it kept being put on backorder until finally in August it came out. Finally! As for the recording. I have listened to it a couple of times now and, while not up there with the best of the really ... more
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade - Reiner      (12 of 14 found this review helpful)
  February 7, 2005

I have been waiting for this recording to grace the SACD format since the inception of the Living Stereo recordings and I am in no way disappointed in the recording or the performance. It is a three channel recording and as such we get a wonderfully full and detailed account of one of classical ... more
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Francesca da Rimini - Neeme Järvi        (6 of 8 found this review helpful)
  November 3, 2004

After listening to this about 5 times, I feel I can now give my thoughts on the matter. It is generally accepted that whenever a conductor comes to a work they have some idea how they want to conduct it. I'm sure Jarvi came to the Tchaikovsky 6 with some previous conceptions on how to proceed. I'm ... more
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 etc. - Neeme Järvi        (5 of 6 found this review helpful)
  October 25, 2004

Of all the releases on SACD I have been waiting for it is a recording of my favorite Tchaikovsky symphony and BIS doesn't disappoint in this release at all. I enjoyed to a certain extent the recording of the 6th symphony by this team, but it was the 1st for which I waited with hope that it would be ... more

 
 
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