Well you most likely won't be able to play a bluray on a standard CD player if that's a different device than the universal player you mention - but a universal player should handle it?
Something strange just happened.... Just got https://www.amazon.com/Concerto-Son...KONZERTHAUSORCHESTER/dp/B07PNK9XF4/ref=sr_1_2 BTW - Excellent - however, that is not what I want to comment on. Dropped it in to my Oppo - now, I configured the box to prefer the Stereo SACD layer when playing a hybrid SACD. So - dropped the disc, selected the input for the digital output of the player. NOTHING. Weird. Almost started a debugging process, assuming something in my chain broke down. Then I saw the indicators on the Oppo... yup SACD ! Switched to the input for the analog output of the player - INDEED - no issues, it is a hybrid SACD! - There is no indication in the packaging that it is a SACD - If you can see the listing, there is no indication that it is a SACD. Same for the Presto listing Karl Weigl: Cello Concerto & Cello Sonata - Nor there is any indication in the review WEIGL (1881-1949) Cello Concerto; Cello Sonata CPO 555 189-2 [SG] Classical Music Reviews: May 2019 - MusicWeb-International Just as I was about to tell myself that maybe I got lucky and got a rarity - maybe an early version of the disc, but after that, the company decided to put it out only on CD... or something along those lines... when I found the discogs entry Karl Weigl, Raphael Wallfisch, York* ∙ Edward Rushton, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Nicholas Milton - Cello Concerto ∙ Cello Sonata A comment indicates - " as per the runout, it SEEMS to be a SACD" - weird right? it is or it is not... unless the person making the entry does not own a SACD capable player... Thinking that SACD is not as prevalent as I thought in the classical world - I am thinking more people should have noticed... internet search, unless I am searching wrong, yields no results on the matter... bummer - I am pretty happy that SACD is still a thing in the classical world... v
Enjoyable, but, I was thinking as I was listening to this that they don't really grab me the way the Bartók quartets do.
On the turntable: A little schmalz. An undated, but probably 70s reissue of mono recordings, the Lalo transferred from 78s. I think they are late 1940s recordings, as the first reissue I can find is from 1951.
My universal player is more than a half-dozen year old but I shall find out if it works since blue ray is like the latest hi-res format that hit the market ...
I have around 3 dozens of CPO recordings with quite a few SACD's among them and they are all conspicuously marked ...
Well, I finally had a chance yesterday to listen to this new (to me) recording of the Mahler 2. It was decidedly not unpleasant. I think I was able to even enjoy many parts of it. I very much like the sound in the Mormon Tabernacle, where this and the other Abravanel Mahler symphonies all were recorded. It may be as much something about the other recording I have (Bernstein) that has always turned me off. On a cross-country trip years ago (San Francisco to Ohio), I made a detour to Salt Lake City to make a pilgrimage to the Tabernacle. I went not for religious reasons but because of the fame of the place as a recording venue. It's not much to look at--sort of a rundown hockey rink with seats and wooden, faux-marble columns in it--but it sounds great. There were "guides" in the place from all over the world, all young Mormons, many from all over the world, all doing missionary work, it seems. A young, doe-eyed girl, from Brazil I think it was, approached me, eager to tell me about Mormonism. She was a bit surprised when I told her I had come solely because of the music made in the building.
I am pretty sure this is just a redbook CD as I just checked a few of my CPO SACD's and they all have the most familiar SACD logo on the back panels ...
It seems to be one of the best Brilliant boxes about - even has Emma Kirkby on a disc of songs and cantatas
It was a good choice of name. As some believe the universe is constantly expanding, so too is the available list of playback formats ...
Issued in 1978; I couldn't find the date & venue. Producer: Suvi Raj Grubb. Paul Vavasseur. Grubb (1917-99) was an Indian who immigrated to London in 1953 & became an assistant to Walter Legge before producing many recordings himself.
Listening to "Fratres" performed by Maria Bachmann (violin) and Jon Klibonoff (piano) on Catalyst. Sonata For Violin And Piano – John Corigliano Fratres – Arvo Pärt Sonata For Violin And Piano – Paul Moravec Toccata-Scherzo – Albert Glinsky Praise To The Immortality Of Jesus (From The Quartet For The End Of Time) – Olivier Messiaen Credits Art Direction – J.J. Stelmach Engineer – Anthony Salvatore, Marian Conaty Executive-Producer, Liner Notes – Tim Page Photography By – Carol Weinberg, Peter Schaff Producer – André Gauthier Notes Sonata For Violin And Piano and Toccata-Scherzo are world-premiere recordings of two works written specifically for Maria Bachmann. Total Time: 68:39 Recorded 23rd, 24th & 26th March 1993 in BMG Studio A, New York City
