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Discussion: Bleibet meine Freude - Leleux, Batiashvili

Posts: 9

Post by Jonty March 24, 2007 (1 of 9)
This release comes in a square cornered box and lacks any indication on the disc, booklet or box liner that it is an SACD. I guess that it is a Germany only issue as the booklet is in German only.

If I hadn't seen it listed here then I would probably not have bought it. Sony please note.

Post by zeus March 24, 2007 (2 of 9)
Jonty said:

This release comes in a square cornered box and lacks any indication on the disc, booklet or box liner that it is an SACD. I guess that it is a Germany only issue as the booklet is in German only.

It's on Song BMG's site in Germany as a SA-CD. It was just released in the US according to amazon.com (follow the link above). The disc also goes under the name of "Voix Celeste" and the "Bach Project".

http://www.sonybmgclassical.de/artists2.php?iA=7&artist=697921&product=82876892082

Post by Claude March 24, 2007 (3 of 9)
Jonty said:

This release comes in a square cornered box and lacks any indication on the disc, booklet or box liner that it is an SACD.

Wow, that's bizarre. Are you sure your disc is an SACD?

Post by Jonty March 24, 2007 (4 of 9)
Claude said:

Wow, that's bizarre. Are you sure your disc is an SACD?

Yes. It is golden like all hybrids and the reads as an SACD in my machine.

Thank you to Zeus. I sourced my copy from Germany so that would explain the booklet notes if Sony are marketing it differently in each region.

Incidentally, I like the disc. Slightly old fashioned approach to Bach and non the worse for that.

Post by Daland March 25, 2007 (5 of 9)
I have noticed that SACDs released by SonyBMG in Germany no longer carry the SACD logo on the front cover, but only on the back cover. The Liszt recital by Arcadi Volodos also omits any reference to DSD. The discography in the booklet, consisting mainly of SACD recordings, and the recording information do not make any mention of the format.

It seems to me that SonyBMG do not wish to draw attention to the fact that the discs in question are SACDs. On the other hand, I did not find any redbook version of the Liszt recital in the shops. Perhaps SonyBMG are surreptitiously moving over to a single-inventory policy.

Post by Claude March 26, 2007 (6 of 9)
In any event (single inventory or dual inventory), not marking the disc as SACDs (not even on the discs themselves) seems illogical in my view, when they use "24bit", "DSD-remastering" and other technical info to hype CD reissues.

Post by threerandot March 26, 2007 (7 of 9)
Could this be some kind of mistake, not labelling the disc that it is an SACD?

Post by Polarius T February 1, 2015 (8 of 9)
Lisa Batiashvili Is Baffled by the West's Fondness for Valery Gergiev, and by Violinists' Obsession with Strads:

"With this Western civilization under attack from all sides, it is not right that artists who benefit from its freedom, its democracy and the richness of its cultural institutions should take sides with a system that is the enemy of that civilization."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/arts/music/lisa-batiashvili-on-violins-ukraine-and-valery-gergiev.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1

VIDEO of Batiashvili playing an encore for the people of Ukraine, "Requiem for Ukraine," at Philharmonie Berlin in protest of Gergiev ("I didn’t want to be part of this whole society of musicians who actually disagree with him totally about his position, about his support of Putin, but don’t ever say anything"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4psRgvE5Ujg#t=11

Post by Chris from Lafayette February 2, 2015 (9 of 9)
Polarius T said:

Lisa Batiashvili Is Baffled by the West's Fondness for Valery Gergiev. . .

I love Lisa, and I've had "Bleibet meine Fruede" ever since it first came out. But she's politically naïve, and her latest Bach release (on DG) is a stinker. (So sad, this mish-mash of half-hearted HIP combined with romantic unctuousness, compared with the way she used to play Bach - I'm thinking especially of that wonderful B-minor Partita on her EMI debut album!) She would do well to consider less political grandstanding and more serious musical reflection at the current point of her career.

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