Amir - it gives me great delight that you enjoyed this music so much. I took a chance and recommended music that was distinctly not on the popular "beaten path", e.g., Four Seasons, Bolero, etc. I hear things like that on elevators far too often, myself.
I will also say that while it is almost universal to declare many hi rez formats dead, especially SACD, I find that recordings made over the past decade or so in hi rez are the very best sounding recordings ever made. And, there are thousands of those. They keep coming, in spite of the pundits. While I greatly admire and love older classic performances, of which I have tons on LP, CD, SACD and BD-A, I am more interested today in great sounding recordings and different "takes" by contemporary conductors on great classics. It is part of what makes classical music very much a living art form. No one has yet conducted the last word interpretation of any work.
As to this specific recording, I am consistently impressed with the great, hi rez sound provided in live performances by the superb Concertgebouw Orchestra on their own RCO Live label. There are other, esoteric labels with similarly excellent track records in hi rez classical.
And, it gets even better sonically once you get your system set up for music in Mch!
I will also say that while it is almost universal to declare many hi rez formats dead, especially SACD, I find that recordings made over the past decade or so in hi rez are the very best sounding recordings ever made. And, there are thousands of those. They keep coming, in spite of the pundits. While I greatly admire and love older classic performances, of which I have tons on LP, CD, SACD and BD-A, I am more interested today in great sounding recordings and different "takes" by contemporary conductors on great classics. It is part of what makes classical music very much a living art form. No one has yet conducted the last word interpretation of any work.
As to this specific recording, I am consistently impressed with the great, hi rez sound provided in live performances by the superb Concertgebouw Orchestra on their own RCO Live label. There are other, esoteric labels with similarly excellent track records in hi rez classical.
And, it gets even better sonically once you get your system set up for music in Mch!
. I bought these in 2-ch unfortunately. But might be having a couple of SACDs show up. I will take those and listen in my dedicated theater and report back.
