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Telarc SACD Sampler: The Absolute Sound |  | Creators: Earle Patriarco, Brett Polegato, Richard Hawley, Henry Purcell, Carl Orff, George Frederick Handel, Bohuslav Martinu, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Joaquin Rodrigo, Sergey Prokofiev, German Traditional, Hector Berlioz, Jennifer Higdon, Carl Nielsen, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Rolf Smedvig, Donald Runnicles, Martin Pearlman, Paavo Järvi
Label: Telarc
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 162609
Format: Super Audio CD - DSD
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 60011
UPC: 089408001161
EAN: 0089408001161
ASIN: B000CRR3Q0
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Abdelazer, or, the Moor's Revenge, incidental music, Z. 570~Rondeau | | • | Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra~In ta | | • | Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra~Temus | | • | Water Music Suite No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348~Hornpipe | | • | Symphony No. 2, H. 295~III. Poco allegro | | • | Images (3), for orchestra, L. 122~Ibéria: Le matin d'un jour de fète (H | | • | Daphnis et Chloé, suite No. 2 for orchestra~Danse générale (General Dan | | • | En Aranjuez con tu amor, for voice & piano (or guitar) (after the secon | | • | Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2 for orchestra, Op. 64 ter~Montagues & Cap | | • | Praise to the Lord, the Almighty | | • | Symphonie fantastique for orchestra ("Episode de la vie d'un Artiste... | | • | Concerto for Orchestra, in 5 movements~Movement IV | | • | Symphony No. 5, FS 97 (Op. 50)~II. Allegro: -Presto | | • | Symphony No. 1 for soprano, baritone, chorus & orchestra ("A Sea Sympho |
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| Customer Reviews:
Good for what it is, however narrow. November 8, 2006
Aceto (Meilhan Sur Garonne)
14 out of 25 found this review helpful
The Absolute Sound has been a premiere audiophile rag for decades. If you are one, you already know them. If not, then there is only a small chance their magazine will be useful to you. They have another publication for home theatre, "Perfect Vision" which has far broader appeal these days. SACD is the format for this disk. Many of them are pressed in "hybrid" for use on conventional CD players. SACD is a significant improvement on the CD, which initially promised "perfect sound forever".
Telarc is a particularly high quality label that supports SACD. They have a fine list of recordings that extends far beyond these chestnuts.
To appreciate this improvement you need to have a SACD player. So the best use of this disk is to bring it with you to different audio stores to audition their equipment. Over time it functions as a reference disk, or benchmark, as you compare different sound systems.
Because it has only bleeding hunks of well known classical music, it has little other value unless you are interested in classical music but have little experience of it. In that case it may serve as a sampler to lead you to buy complete recordings of these selections. But again you need the SACD player, which you may already have if you are a jazz or rock audiophile. Otherwise, pass it by.
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