Wow! 1000 posts! :banana:
Congrats to everyone here in this thread.
It is so nice to know from you guys what you like, what you spin, what you buy and discover. :tresbon:
It gave an injection in my own enthusiasm to further investigate the hidden treasures.

So thank you everybody for sharing!

And up to the next 1000 posts!

It ís an expensive thread though... :scratch2:

Get 'em while you can. . .
 

And, now, back to business. . . I'm listening to. . . Scheherazade - an RCA Living Stereo SACD

Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Fritz Reiner Cond.

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This wonderful disc, and many of the other RCA Living Stereo SACD's are still available at dirt cheap prices.

Remasters of the Living Stereo catalogue from the late 1950's and early 1960's they are some of the best recordings ever made - technically, sonically and from a great performance perspective.

People "fight" over the original LP's of these recordings - they are that good, and the SACD's do an excellent job of reproducing the superb high fidelity semblance of realism of the original master tapes and the LP's that they produced.

I have the original LP, the Classic Records remaster LP, and I happily play the SACD because it is "at least as good" and has no surface noise or pops and tics.

These SACD's are extraordinary and at around $10.00 each, they are real bargains.

But Bocelli?

This has been ordered. Fischer v Hahn for these concertos?

Julian, you should get some sort of Amazon commission. :)

I agree - "Bocelli?"

I like the Verdi Requiem and I only bought this to try out DVD-A when they first came out, haven't played it since - and now I do remember why I haven't played it.

The Kirov Orchestra and Chorus are wonderful, Renee Fleming is up to her usual standards, Olga Borodina is a superb mezzo soprano, Ildebrando D'Archangelo is a very accomplished bass, the recording is fantastic, and Andrea Bocelli, a tenor, sings too.

This recording does show off the potential of DVD-A to a very high degree - It is a "great" recording from a fidelity/sonics perspective. Almost Astronomical!

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Mahler, Symphony No. 2 - Zubin Mehta, Weiner Philharmoniker

I like both. Obviously Hahn is the "one to beat" according to reviews, accolades, audio magazines, etc, but I really like this Fischer recording. I especially like her music selections and The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

If you didn't look when you ordered the disc, look at the little video on the Amazon page you went to. . Amazon.com: Bach: Violin Concertos: JS Bach, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Julia Fischer: Music - Scroll down to "Check Out Related Media"

She is quite a lady, and the video is interesting.

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:banana::banana::banana::banana:
Great thread, great music, and great contributors!
Congrats,
Jim

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Romances - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra with Liza Ferschtman and Jan Willem de Vriend
Challenge Classics

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