

This release is from a series of SACDs that feature Telarc’s early Soundstream (stereo, not multi-channel) digital recordings, now for the first time heard at

Tonal beauty is the overriding principle in these Debussy performances as Paavo Järvi draws gorgeous sounds from the Cincinnati Symphony. Strings shimmer throughout La Mer,

This album of orchestral favorites, compiled from a variety of prior releases, showcases Telarc’s celebrated recording technique as much as Leonard Slatkin’s and the St.

Le Roi Arthus, Chausson’s only completed opera, took the composer 10 years to write and was not premiered until four years after his death. He

This lively, lusty, stunningly recorded new Carmina Burana goes right to the top of the heap, sharing pride of place with the celebrated performances of

I agree fully with Victor Carr Jr’s assessment of these gentle but fresh and sensitively detailed performances (see reviews). The Nocturnes are particularly outstanding, with

Miklós Rósza’s music usually constituted one of the more compelling aspects of the films he scored. This is especially the case in his Biblical epics,

This 4.1 DSD production strikes me as excellent in every way. The sonics offer warmth and the surround effect is so discreet as to be

Listeners looking for some enjoyable Mozart performances on SACD will want this disc. The performances are very stylish. Only at the beginning of the “Jupiter”

Erich Kunzel’s highly enjoyable ballet album offers a wide sampling of music from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Naturally the emphasis is on French
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