Denon Digital Sound

Denon 45 RPM Demonstration LP (1978) 24-Bit/96-kHz vinyl rip
Vinyl rip in 24-Bit/96-kHz | FLAC tracks | Full Cover | MU, FS | 563 MB 3% recovery
1978 | Genre: various | Label: Denon | ST-6005 | Japanese pressing

This japanese pressed LP is the showcase of Denon's digital mastering achievement during the early days of digital sound recording technology. In 1978, digital audio was just starting and the technology was still in its infancy, but yet Denon was able to show the digital prowess with this demonstration LP.
All of the tracks were recorded by Denon in Japan, except one track which was recorded at Copenhagen Messianic Church.

In 1983 the eighty-four year old Lovro Von Matatic appeared for the first and only time at a BBC Promenade Concert with the Philharmonia Orchestra with whom he had been associated since the 1950s. He conducted Schumann’s Piano Concerto with Cecille Ousset and this performance of Bruckner’s Third Symphony.

The digital sound on the Budday CDs is excellent, catching the details of the soloists, choir, and orchestra as if it were a studio recording, but with the added atmosphere of a live hall - it sounds absolutely great in my listening room (using Yamaha 200W amp, ADS 9 speakers, and Denon CD player equipment). The Mackerras recording has great studio sound which I would characterize as detailed and full, but less atmospheric since it's ADD and not live. It also sounds a little "closer", which is an artifact of being a studio recording.

This extraordinary pianist studied the piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Emil Gilels and Yakov Zak…

This fine 1956 date features Jackson leading a session that moves with ease and authority through a relaxing eight-minute ride on Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time," an Ellington ballad medley, and a pair of the vibist's own blues-based, hard bop compositions. The real treat here is Lucky Thompson's tenor sax.

Originally released in 1960 on Savoy Records; "Images of Curtis Fuller" is a hard-bop album from jazz trombonist Curtis Fuller. All compositions belongs to Fuller; he plays with Yusef Lateef, Wilbur Harden, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Milt Hinton, Clifford Jarvis and Bobby Donaldson.

If you don't already know Portuguese pianist Maria-João Pires, there's every reason to get this two-disc set. There's the exquisite beauty of her Mozart F major Sonata from 1990, the restless intimacy of her Schubert Drei Klavierstücke from 1997, the unbearable intensity of her Chopin Nocturnes from 1995, the reckless fervor of her Schumann Concerto with Claudio Abbado leading the Chamber Orchestra of Europe from 1997, and the transcendent rapture of her Mozart A major Concerto with Frans Brüggen leading the Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg from 1995.