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Equipment : Sony STR-DA5400ES - reciever for HD multichannel sound |
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| Author: | 30 August 2008 | Views: 302 |
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STR-DA5400ES: A flagship AV receiver designed for today’s HD entertainment – and the future
The
STR-DA5400ES AV receiver sits at the top of the new ES receiver range,
and is designed to form the heart of a total entertainment system.
Compatible with all the latest high-definition audio and video formats,
it can handle the most complex systems, thanks to no fewer than six
HDMI inputs and two outputs, enabling owners to connect to both a
BRAVIA LCD TV for everyday use and a home cinema projector for those
big movie events, and switch between them at the push of a button.
As
well as having built-in decoders for Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus
and DTS-HD Master Audio, the STR-DA5400ES can accept eight-channel
Linear PCM over HDMI, and even the DSD format native to Super Audio CD,
enabling it to give excellent results with video and music discs alike.
The H.A.T.S. for HDMI transfer system, used when DSD data is passed to
this receiver from the new SCD-XA5400ES player, ensures the very best
sound quality from Super Audio CD music. |
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Surround Sound : New SACD from 2L: Chamber Music by ELLIOTT CARTER - Figments and Fragments |
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| Author: | 21 August 2008 | Views: 126 |
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For this album of music by Elliott Carter, on
GRAMMY award-nominated Norwegian label 2L, cellist Johannes Martens has
assembled some of Norway's foremost young musicians. Tracing Carter's
development through some of his most creative periods, these works -
from the beautiful 1946 Elegy and the celebrated Cello Sonata from 1948
through to newer pieces for solo instruments, duo, trio and string
quartet - constitute nearly a cross-section of musical evolution in the
20th century's second half.
Heard individually, the chamber
works of Elliott Carter give the listener tantalising snapshots of the
composer's style and technique; as a group, they represent a microcosm
of his musical personality. Any selection of several pieces by the same
composer will inevitably reveal similarities, traits, and
preoccupations. But here is also great variety and resourcefulness: in
one piece, an affectionate and playful tribute to a fellow musician; in
another, a sustained grappling with the very substance of musical time;
and in yet another, a dialogue or conversation between multifaceted
protagonists that bring an unmistakably social aspect into musical
discourse. And all the while, the music flows through a plethora of
moods and characters, at one moment playful, the next impassioned, now
agitated, now wistful. It is this dynamism that most distinguishes
Carter's music from that of his peers; its restlessness and its ability
to turn on a hair from the most skittish characterisations to the most
poignantly human outpourings, but always flowing and always carrying
the listener along on the tide of its composer's invention and
ingenuity.
Hybrid Super Audio-CD 5.1 SURROUND + STEREO produced in DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition)
This compact disc looks like a normal CD and plays on all standard players and computers. |
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| SACD Latest Aditions |
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Jeanne Demessieux: Complete Organ Works - Stephen Tharp
Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter! - Swiss Chamber Soloists
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 31 & 39 - Iimori
Chopin: Works for Violincello and Piano - Ryoichi Fujimori, Kyoko Takemoto
Per Nrgrd: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7 - Dausgaard
Rued Langgaard: The Collection - Dausgaard
Rued Langgaard: Symphonies Nos. 15 & 16 - Dausgaard
Franz Tunder: Complete Organ Works - Friedhelm Flamme
Bellezza Crudel - Tone Wik & Barokkanerne
SONaR - Ellen Sejersted Bdtker
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HUMMEL: Introduction, Theme & Variations for Oboe and Orchestra; Septet in D minor; Grand Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in F major - Vladislav Borovka (oboe) /Ivan Klansky (piano)/Czech Nonet, Praga Camerata/Pavel Hula - Praga Digitals HUMMEL: Introduction, Theme & Variations for Oboe and Orchestra Op. 102; Septet in D minor Op. 74; Grand Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in F major -Vladislav Borovka (oboe), Ivan Klansky ...
* MAHLER: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor (1901-1902) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Mariss Jansons RCO Live MAHLER: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor (1901-1902) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Mariss Jansons RCO Live multichannel SACD RCO-08007, 71:49; Performance ***** Sound: ***** [Distr. by Harmonia ...
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