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June 9, 2010
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This excellent reissue from Analogue Productions gives us everything good (and not-so-good) about the 'Blue Note Sound.' The SACD is very convincing, in that it's recreating the original master tape. Gordon's sax is hard-panned left, so while his tone is recreated beautifully it doesn't quite come ... more |
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April 23, 2010
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One word review: Brilliant.
Detailed review: Brilliant! Tarik O'Regan was comletely unknown to me before I purchased this disc, but with this one recording has quickly become my second-favorite living composer. He composed the titular composition in 2006 (at age 28!) so I'm sure his name is still ... more |
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November 10, 2009
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The main attraction here is the Adams, but the other works certainly warrant a few words.
Barber's Adagio is easily his best-known work, and receives a very good performance here. I would have preferred that the violins in the climax actually play with less energy - it comes across as forceful ... more |
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July 19, 2010
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| I stand corrected. I thought I remembered seeing BIS recordings listed on the Naxos website, but checking just now I see that is not the case.
However, I also just confirmed that Naxos does distribute Dacapo, along with Ondine and BR-Klassik, so Heymann would have access to SACD sales figures from those labels. ... more |
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July 19, 2010
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| One statistic Heymann would definitely know (or certainly have access to) is how many SACDs the distribution company he owns has sold. Since that includes recordings on DaCapo, he isn't completely in the dark. Plus, of course, he knows exactly how many SACDs the Naxos label sold.
He also distributes the EuroArts and MediciArts labels (among ... more |
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July 19, 2010
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| Naxos may be willing to gamble that there are consumers who would be interested in the surround part but not care so much about the high resolution part. There are bound to be plenty of people who still don't even know what SACD is, but purchased Blu-ray players and one of the latest surround receivers with DTS-HD decoding to go with their ... more |
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July 15, 2010
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| Just ask bissie.
Perhaps, years from now, when the relevant patents have run out and any interested party can press SACDs at will, then production costs will drop to equal those of CD, LP, DVD, etc. But as long as Sony has a stranglehold on production, they will keep the costs artificially high. There really isn't even much incentive for them to ... more |
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July 15, 2010
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| SACDs are more expensive to produce than LPs, because there are only two SACD pressing plants in the entire world which means that there's no avoiding whatever royalty fees Sony chooses to charge. Anyone, anywhere can press an LP - wouldn't be surprised to learn that some audiophile pressings are done in somebody's garage or basement - without ... more |
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