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Beethoven: Piano Concertos No 2 & 4 / Kovacevich, Davis, BBC SO
This selection is a Hybrid Multichannel Super Audio CD. The Stereo Hybrid SACD program can be played on any standard compact disc player. The DSD Surround and Stereo programs require an SACD player for playback.
If I were pressed, I would have to say that this series is the most consistent in an advanced-resolution format at providing excellent sound. Listen to the Beethoven piano concertos, for instance. The listener is placed in row ten, center, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra sounds rich, full, and focused. You sense immediately that you truly do have the best seat in the house. The solo piano enters and what a sound. It is like a magnificent, properly tuned piano! The overall sound is just right. And so it goes, with every release in this series. -- Rad Bennett, Radical Sounds
A welcome pairing of the two âsecond-stringâ Beethoven piano concertos in superb performancesâŠ.Brent Town Hall in London was the recording site in 1974, and the phantom center image of the soloist couldnât be better. -- John Sunier, Audiophile Audition
Mr Kovacevich was a killer interpreter of Beethoven back then, and Davis an ideal accompliceâŠ.Played with dispatch and recorded with a full-bodied sound that doesnât lose its characters in the quietest moments, these are performances that will never grow stale. -- Dr. Phil Muse, Classik Reviews
If you donât already have this recording in another format, itâs worth acquiring even if you donât have an SACD player. Itâs proof audibly that the best analog (and Philips were very good at it) was better than any digital until the present, and it is ironic that the SACD format shows off how good these masters were in the 70s. -- Andrew Marshall, Audio Ideas Guide
If I were pressed, I would have to say that this series is the most consistent in an advanced-resolution format at providing excellent sound. Listen to the Beethoven piano concertos, for instance. The listener is placed in row ten, center, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra sounds rich, full, and focused. You sense immediately that you truly do have the best seat in the house. The solo piano enters and what a sound. It is like a magnificent, properly tuned piano! The overall sound is just right. And so it goes, with every release in this series. -- Rad Bennett, Radical Sounds
A welcome pairing of the two âsecond-stringâ Beethoven piano concertos in superb performancesâŠ.Brent Town Hall in London was the recording site in 1974, and the phantom center image of the soloist couldnât be better. -- John Sunier, Audiophile Audition
Mr Kovacevich was a killer interpreter of Beethoven back then, and Davis an ideal accompliceâŠ.Played with dispatch and recorded with a full-bodied sound that doesnât lose its characters in the quietest moments, these are performances that will never grow stale. -- Dr. Phil Muse, Classik Reviews
If you donât already have this recording in another format, itâs worth acquiring even if you donât have an SACD player. Itâs proof audibly that the best analog (and Philips were very good at it) was better than any digital until the present, and it is ironic that the SACD format shows off how good these masters were in the 70s. -- Andrew Marshall, Audio Ideas Guide
This selection is a Hybrid Multichannel Super Audio CD. The Stereo Hybrid SACD program can be played on any standard compact disc player. The DSD Surround and Stereo programs require an SACD player for playback.
If I were pressed, I would have to say that this series is the most consistent in an advanced-resolution format at providing excellent sound. Listen to the Beethoven piano concertos, for instance. The listener is placed in row ten, center, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra sounds rich, full, and focused. You sense immediately that you truly do have the best seat in the house. The solo piano enters and what a sound. It is like a magnificent, properly tuned piano! The overall sound is just right. And so it goes, with every release in this series. -- Rad Bennett, Radical Sounds
A welcome pairing of the two âsecond-stringâ Beethoven piano concertos in superb performancesâŠ.Brent Town Hall in London was the recording site in 1974, and the phantom center image of the soloist couldnât be better. -- John Sunier, Audiophile Audition
Mr Kovacevich was a killer interpreter of Beethoven back then, and Davis an ideal accompliceâŠ.Played with dispatch and recorded with a full-bodied sound that doesnât lose its characters in the quietest moments, these are performances that will never grow stale. -- Dr. Phil Muse, Classik Reviews
If you donât already have this recording in another format, itâs worth acquiring even if you donât have an SACD player. Itâs proof audibly that the best analog (and Philips were very good at it) was better than any digital until the present, and it is ironic that the SACD format shows off how good these masters were in the 70s. -- Andrew Marshall, Audio Ideas Guide
If I were pressed, I would have to say that this series is the most consistent in an advanced-resolution format at providing excellent sound. Listen to the Beethoven piano concertos, for instance. The listener is placed in row ten, center, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra sounds rich, full, and focused. You sense immediately that you truly do have the best seat in the house. The solo piano enters and what a sound. It is like a magnificent, properly tuned piano! The overall sound is just right. And so it goes, with every release in this series. -- Rad Bennett, Radical Sounds
A welcome pairing of the two âsecond-stringâ Beethoven piano concertos in superb performancesâŠ.Brent Town Hall in London was the recording site in 1974, and the phantom center image of the soloist couldnât be better. -- John Sunier, Audiophile Audition
Mr Kovacevich was a killer interpreter of Beethoven back then, and Davis an ideal accompliceâŠ.Played with dispatch and recorded with a full-bodied sound that doesnât lose its characters in the quietest moments, these are performances that will never grow stale. -- Dr. Phil Muse, Classik Reviews
If you donât already have this recording in another format, itâs worth acquiring even if you donât have an SACD player. Itâs proof audibly that the best analog (and Philips were very good at it) was better than any digital until the present, and it is ironic that the SACD format shows off how good these masters were in the 70s. -- Andrew Marshall, Audio Ideas Guide
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This selection is a Hybrid Multichannel Super Audio CD. The Stereo Hybrid SACD program can be played on any standard compact disc player. The DSD Surround and Stereo programs require an SACD player for playback.
If I were pressed, I would have to say that this series is the most consistent in an advanced-resolution format at providing excellent sound. Listen to the Beethoven piano concertos, for instance. The listener is placed in row ten, center, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra sounds rich, full, and focused. You sense immediately that you truly do have the best seat in the house. The solo piano enters and what a sound. It is like a magnificent, properly tuned piano! The overall sound is just right. And so it goes, with every release in this series. -- Rad Bennett, Radical Sounds
A welcome pairing of the two âsecond-stringâ Beethoven piano concertos in superb performancesâŠ.Brent Town Hall in London was the recording site in 1974, and the phantom center image of the soloist couldnât be better. -- John Sunier, Audiophile Audition
Mr Kovacevich was a killer interpreter of Beethoven back then, and Davis an ideal accompliceâŠ.Played with dispatch and recorded with a full-bodied sound that doesnât lose its characters in the quietest moments, these are performances that will never grow stale. -- Dr. Phil Muse, Classik Reviews
If you donât already have this recording in another format, itâs worth acquiring even if you donât have an SACD player. Itâs proof audibly that the best analog (and Philips were very good at it) was better than any digital until the present, and it is ironic that the SACD format shows off how good these masters were in the 70s. -- Andrew Marshall, Audio Ideas Guide
If I were pressed, I would have to say that this series is the most consistent in an advanced-resolution format at providing excellent sound. Listen to the Beethoven piano concertos, for instance. The listener is placed in row ten, center, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra sounds rich, full, and focused. You sense immediately that you truly do have the best seat in the house. The solo piano enters and what a sound. It is like a magnificent, properly tuned piano! The overall sound is just right. And so it goes, with every release in this series. -- Rad Bennett, Radical Sounds
A welcome pairing of the two âsecond-stringâ Beethoven piano concertos in superb performancesâŠ.Brent Town Hall in London was the recording site in 1974, and the phantom center image of the soloist couldnât be better. -- John Sunier, Audiophile Audition
Mr Kovacevich was a killer interpreter of Beethoven back then, and Davis an ideal accompliceâŠ.Played with dispatch and recorded with a full-bodied sound that doesnât lose its characters in the quietest moments, these are performances that will never grow stale. -- Dr. Phil Muse, Classik Reviews
If you donât already have this recording in another format, itâs worth acquiring even if you donât have an SACD player. Itâs proof audibly that the best analog (and Philips were very good at it) was better than any digital until the present, and it is ironic that the SACD format shows off how good these masters were in the 70s. -- Andrew Marshall, Audio Ideas Guide
