Classical gems

[hlesser]

<font color='#000000'>Check out Channel Classic's web site (http://www.channelclassics.com). *I own several of their SACDs and each is a gem. *Rachel Podger's Vivaldi La Stravaganza (2 SACD set) won Gramophone best baroque of the year and is spectacular. *&quot;Love and Lament&quot; is a gorgeous recording with both vocal and instrumental works from Monteverdi and others. *I've yet to hear something from this label that wasn't musically compelling and sonically stunning. (www.channelclassics.com)</font>

[hlesser]

<font color='#000000'>P.S. &nbsp;The Netherlands Bach society's recording of the Mozart Requiem on Channel Classics is also a revelation.</font>

[Rip Van Woofer]

<font color='#000000'>Always looking for good sources of classical. Thanks!</font>

[petermwilson]

<font color='#000000'>Hi
Podger's LaStavaganza was chosen as cd of the month by Guess Who Stereopphile Mag, with no mention that it was a mltich sacd. &nbsp;Fortuneately Felix Martinez corrected that at DVD ECT the following month.

Hilary Hahn has a couple of good ones out and a choice for the month in sacd (although I've owned it for almost a year) is Edvard Grieg in Automn (piano Concerto) put out by BIS

Peter m.</font>

[A. Vivaldi]

<font color='#000000'>Thanks Peter &amp; Hlesser, Keep us up to date on more sacd classical releases. I only have one classical sacd: Hildegard Von Bingen 11,000 Virgins by Anonymous 4 on Harmonia Mundi. It's all just female vocals so the sacd doesn't reveal much. I saw that Rachel Podger Vivaldi disc at the store but I didn't know it was a sacd. I'll pick it up for sure if it's a hybrid. *<img src="http://www.audioholics.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'></font>

[hlesser]

<font color='#000000'>It's certainly been released as a Hybrid but I've also seen it as a Redbook (CD only) release. &nbsp;It's demonstration quality.</font>

[petermwilson]

<font color='#000000'>Hi,
Before I get myself into trouble here, I should explain that when it comes to classical music I could easily be the posterperson for &quot; I don't know anything about it, I just know what I like&quot;

The other part of that is due to the fidelity of BOTH of the HIREZ formats and some good speakers, it sounds like the performers are in my media room and it gives me a similar charge, (even more so unless you were third row center) to being present for the performance.

I am starting to discover music that I never would have given a second chance to before. &nbsp;

It's great for the performers (or whomever owns the rights presently) and for me because I missed alot in the last 25 to 40 yrs. &nbsp;Now I can hear it the way it was meant to be heard, (hopefully).

Just the tip of the iceberg I guess and I hope that the re issues are not just done by audio cowboys with a &quot;look what I can send to those speakers kind of attidude!!&quot;

Please keep the music coming.

Peter m.</font>

[hlesser]

<font color='#000000'>Yet another masterful disc from Channel Classics (no, I don't work for them!). &nbsp;Ravel Retrospection (Dejan Lazic, piano). &nbsp;This is far and away the best solo piano recording I've heard on SACD and a marvelous performance.

Now, for the Twilight Zone part of the post. &nbsp;I picked up the disc and drove home from the store to take my wife out to lunch. &nbsp;We hopped back in the car, turned on the radio only to find them playing the middle of Tombeau de Couperin on our local FM station. &nbsp;My wife, a classical pianist, remarked on what a great performance it was. &nbsp;I hadn't heard the Lazic disc yet so I had no idea that it was the very same recording being played on air!!</font>