Thread: not on sacd,but you realy want.....

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Post by jeff3948 July 6, 2012 (11 of 21)
Celebidache2000 said:

What about this one?

Debussy: Complete Piano Music - Walter Gieseking

It's not multi-channel, but it's an SACD (4 discs) of the complete Debussy Piano Music by the most famous Debussy interpreter.

Hi Celebidache2000,

Gieseking is very good, but I can't consider this one, because it's not a digital recording, it's in mono sound, the samples I heard sounded like he was recorded in an acoustically dead studio, and lastly, the samples just sounded bad (not the playing). Although I do like listening, sometimes, to good old mono recordings, and have about 30 in my collection, I want my Debussy wish recorded in the latest technology. Microphone technology has advanced so much since 1951 and magnetic tape recording in those days was prone to harmonic distortion, pitch changes, hiss, wow and flutter, etc. The piano sound must be as life like and pristine as possible for me and it must be recorded in a moderately reverberant hall which would add the perfect ambiance to Debussy's music. Also, it must be recorded in surround sound, preferably recorded and mastered in DSD or at least HD PCM 24/88.2kHz+. I want to get lost in the music and not have the medium get in the way.

Jeff

Post by Beagle July 6, 2012 (12 of 21)
Hello Jeff,

Yes, I do hear what you are saying and, although I enjoy the rich dark mono on the Signature set, I am sympathetic to your wishes. However... it does raise the spatial conundrum: How can one be surrounded by a piano?

Post by jeff3948 July 7, 2012 (13 of 21)
Beagle said:

Hello Jeff,

Yes, I do hear what you are saying and, although I enjoy the rich dark mono on the Signature set, I am sympathetic to your wishes. However... it does raise the spatial conundrum: How can one be surrounded by a piano?

Of course, you sit inside the piano, just kidding. No, you can't be surrounded by the piano, however, if the hall has nice reverberation, the recording engineer can capture that reverberation for the rear speakers simply by pointing the rear microphones back into the rear of the hall or some other technique like AIX Records uses. These techniques will surround you with the reverberation from the hall of the piano. Try AIX records DVD-A of Chopin's Ballades ( http://www.aixrecords.com/catalog/dvd_av_prem/chopin_ballades_dvd_av_prem.html ) or the SACD of some of Lizst's piano music for supurb high definition surround piano recording: ( Liszt: Années de Pélerinage, Premiére année - Yoram Ish-Hurwitz ). These are examples of the incredable sound I'm looking for in the Debussy wish SACD with just the right amount of reverberation from the hall.

Post by efercost July 9, 2012 (14 of 21)
Is it from Yello a song in the soundtrack movie "Ferry's Bueller Day Off"? More preciselly the song where the credits are showing in the last part of the movie? ;-)

Post by efercost July 9, 2012 (15 of 21)
I'd like to find ABBA on SACD format. And, I really would like to find a German pop duo called Modern Talking. It would be great listen to their songs in high fidelity, specially my favorite album "Ready for Romance".

Post by alan1074 July 10, 2012 (16 of 21)
Far too many really and most unlikely to appear:

Private Dancer - Tina Turner
Ross (Gary Katz Produced) - Diana Ross

I think these would be my top 2

Post by canonical July 11, 2012 (17 of 21)
For the last few days, I have been hanging out at the Sydney International Piano Competition. Tonight, I heard one of the most exciting piano recitals I have ever attended ... given by a curly-haired 19-year old Russian pianist called:

. . . . . --------> Nikolay Khozyainov

Complete wunderkind ... like a young Yvgeny Kissin on steroids ...

The recitals are available online via the ABC at (meeeow low rez):

http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2012/06/07/3520525.htm

(Stage 4, which I just heard, is not up yet ... and includes the hilariously crazy Liszt variations on theme from Figaro.)

If I was running BIS or Channel Classics or Caro Mitis... I'd snap him up if I could. He already has a CD coming out next year on Naxos with the Warsaw Phil.

P.S. Some video footage playing Chopin at 18:

http://konkurs.chopin.pl/en/edition/xvi/video/31_Nicolay_Khozyainov/stage/3

Post by RWetmore July 11, 2012 (18 of 21)
The whole Sony Szell catalog.

Post by dcramer July 11, 2012 (19 of 21)
The whole Sony Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky catalog.

Post by fausto K July 12, 2012 (20 of 21)
SteelyTom said:

... Late Feldman....

Now, that would be great, Feldman on SACD. And Cage, more Berg, especially the string quartets, Ives' Browning Overture (either by MTT or Litton! -- on BIS, perhaps?), Coltrane's masterpiece Ascension (what about it, Analogue Productions team?), Miles Davis - Aura, Brian Eno (the DSD remasters are there, so no excuses), Ryoji Ikeda (already stunning sound on RBCD), Thomas Köner, Monolake, early Roxy, VDGG Still Life & Godbluff, and so on and on, ... and, although I'm not sure about the quality of the tapes of the early Mothers stuff and whether his later material isn't early-digital recordings, Zappa's entire catalogue! (I know that's wishful thinking).

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