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  December 6, 2014

More than a re-edition, this new DSD remastering based on the master tapes is ear-opening vis-à-vis the recorded works. A new sound dimension is offered us as we rediscover these famous scores of “Don Juan,” “Death and Transfiguration,” and “Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks” by Richard Strauss in an ... more
Mozart: Requiem - Suzuki        (2 of 3 found this review helpful)
  December 6, 2014

What a surprise! What a revelation! Mozart’s Requiem under the baton and according to Masaaki Suzuki is a musical experience that will haunt one’s spirit for a long time to come. Totally inspired and delivered with both depth and lightness, the great work by the Salzburg master is reborn in a new ... more
Chopin: Nocturnes 1-21 - Jude          (3 of 6 found this review helpful)
  September 27, 2014

Chopin’s Nocturnes certainly gave the composer a certain celebrity, if not a definite celebrity. Numbering twenty-one, they are above all the image of an inner journey whose omnipresent melancholy, related most notably to his exile, is essential to understanding the language of these masterpieces. ... more
  September 27, 2014

This third volume of the “Reminiscences” series from the label Praga Digitals is devoted to the Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and unites a Chopin recital that includes the Sonata N°2, the Ballade N°1, the Waltz N°17, as well as the Fantasy Op.49, along with the Concerto for Piano N°4 ... more
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" - Kondrashin        (1 of 4 found this review helpful)
  September 27, 2014

The Symphony N°13 “Babi Yar” for bass, bass chorus, and orchestra in B flat minor Op.113 by Dimitri Chostakovitch was premièred in Moscow in 1962 with the conductor Kirill Kondrachine and the bass Vitaly Gromadski, whom we hear on the present recording. Based on five poems by Evgeni Evoutchenko ... more

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