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This is a pretty good overview of Ligeti. http://www.amazon.com/Clear-Cloudy-...ie=UTF8&qid=1455035573&sr=8-1&keywords=ligeti



There are plenty of other good recordings. I like the Sony Ligeti Edition discs.

 

Cool. Thank you!

 

From Prokofiev to Ligeti is quite a jump, especially Romeo and Juliet one of his later romantic works. The way would be to go gently through some Lutoslawski or Szymanowski.
But if you insist try the Concerto for Flute and Oboe, the Chamber Concerto and Ramifications, the wonderful String Quartets are worth a listen. Then the Capriccios 1 and 2.

 

I forget how much I enjoy this CD until I put it on again. Does anybody have anything else by Calefax Reed Quintet?

 

Me too! The string quartet disc is awesome!

 

Got me thinking.

 

Now listening to "Grieg - Holberg Suite, Two Elegiac Melodies/Tchaikovsky - Serenade for String Orchestra" performed by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on DG.

 

Lovely recording from 1958.

 

So Testament is related to EMI?

 

I have the following Sibelius box by Maazel and it is quite good for the money ...

 

I can be forgiven since NYPO is no longer such an important orchestra IMO ...

 

Excellent for the money. Later than the Decca and a bit less romantic in the early symphonies, but still love the recording quality of the Deccas.

 

I don't have Maazel's Sibelius on Decca. Did he record all the symphonies?

 

They have released a lot of stuff that was owned by EMI (now Warner Classical) but not exclusively.

From the Presto Classical website (my bold):

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/l/Testament

 

Yes, they were a high light of Decca's catalogue in the early sixties.

 

I noticed a blurb from Acoustic Sounds. Testament is issuing LPs of classic EMI titles using the gear at Abbey Road Studios:

Testament has revived these classic titles from the EMI catalog using only the original EMI master tapes, cut onto lacquer at EMI's Abbey Road Studios and mastered using full analog techniques throughout production.

http://store.acousticsounds.com/s/106/EMI_Testament_LPs

 

For the Prokofiev, this thread should help:

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...rks-are-considered-his-most-important.172041/

 

All the symphonies plus Tapiola and the Karelia suite. Universal recently re-released it as a 4CD plus 24/96 blu-ray set.

 

I am a bit behind on the BluRay technology. So as in the case of SACD, I need a BluRay player/drive in order to play the BluRay layer of these discs?

I am a bit miffed at how easily Sony gave up on the SACD technology it created. Now we have this BluRay technology so we will be forced to buy the same recordings for another time, granted BluRay's main beneficiary is really video ...

 

Yes - you will need a dedicated player - and it's a good excuse to get Amadeus and Immortal Beloved on bluray - they look and sound stunning!

With the relative decline in CD sales and the number of people moving out of the business of making decent CD transports I suspect that many of us at the lower end of the hardware market will be using bluray players as our primary CD players sometime down the track.

Out with SACD and in with Pure Audio:

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/...s-purists-singing-praises-20140211-32gfu.html

 

Fortunately for me, managed to scrounge up a 5.1 AVR and a Blu-Ray machine for $100, total. The Blu-Ray machine manages to get good results off of DVD-A as well. I've never owned the Maazel/VPO recordings of Sibelius, understanding they are outstanding in all respects, particularly the icy 4th symphony. I'm ordering this as soon as I can. It's $37 right now at Amazon.