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Equipment : Sony STR-DA5400ES - reciever for HD multichannel sound |
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| Author: | 30 August 2008 | Views: 732 |
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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: 661 |
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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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Promenade Concert - Iimori
Stravinsky: The Firebird - Iimori
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Petrushka - Iimori
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy - Sergei Edelmann
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Prometheus Overture - Nanut
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 - Inbal
Ride the Times - The Iain Ad Venture
Jungle Boldie
Hank Mobley: Workout
Telemann - La Barca Leyden, Raymond Honing
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| SACD & DVDA Reviews |
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Postwar Sounds, Switzerland ROLF LIEBERMANN: Furioso; RICHARD STRAUSS: Metamorphosen; ARTHUR HONEGGER: Symphony No. 3 (Symphonie liturgique) Philharmonisches Orchester Lbeck/ Roman Brogli-Sacher Musicaphon Postwar Sounds, Switzerland ROLF LIEBERMANN: Furioso; RICHARD STRAUSS: Metamorphosen; ARTHUR HONEGGER: Symphony No. 3 (Symphonie liturgique) Philharmonisches Orchester Lbeck/ Roman Brogli-Sacher ...
HAYDN: String Quartet in D Minor Op. 76 No. 2 (Fifths); String Quartet in C Major Op. 76 No. 3 (Emperor); String Quartet in B Major Op. 76 No. 4 (Sunrise) Gewandhaus-Quartett NCA HAYDN: String Quartet in D Minor Op. 76 No. 2 (Fifths); String Quartet in C Major Op. 76 No. 3 (Emperor); String Quartet in B Major Op. 76 No. 4 (Sunrise) Gewandhaus-Quartett NCA multichannel SACD ...
CARL MARIA VON WEBER: Clarinet Quintet in B Major Op. 34; SIGISMUND NEUKOMM: Clarinet Quintet in B Major Op. 8 Eric Hoeprich, clarinet/ Ensemble Les Adieux NCA CARL MARIA VON WEBER: Clarinet Quintet in B Major Op. 34; SIGISMUND NEUKOMM: Clarinet Quintet in B Major Op. 8 Eric Hoeprich, clarinet/ Ensemble Les Adieux NCA multichannel SACD 61070, 54:24 ...
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 Choral - Christiane Oelze, soprano/Petra Lang, alto/Klaus Florian Vogt, tenor/Matthias Goerne, baritone/Deutsche Kammerchor/The Deutschephilharmonie Bremen/Paavo Jarvi - RCA BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 Choral - Christiane Oelze, soprano/Petra Lang, alto/Klaus Florian Vogt, tenor/Matthias Goerne, baritone/Deutsche Kammerchor/The Deutschephilharmonie ...
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor (First Version, 1887) Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra/ Simone Young Oehms Classics BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor (First Version, 1887) Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra/ Simone Young Oehms Classics multichannel SACD OC-638 (2 CDs), 30:45, 51:56 [Distr. by Naxos] ***1/2:
The ...
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