Olivier Messiaen Boulez

Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Kent Nagano - Messiaen - Orchestral Works (Live) (2021) [24/48]

Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Kent Nagano - Messiaen - Orchestral Works (Live) (2021) [24/48]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:24:57 minutes | 1,37 GB
Classical | Label: BR-Klassik, Official Digital Download

Kent Nagano was a close associate of the French composer Olivier Messiaen, whose music is notable for its sense of mysticism and sensuous sonorities. Few conductors know Messiaen’s works as well as Nagano, who is now continuing his Messiaen cycle with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with one of his mentor’s most radical pieces, the colourful Chronochromie for orchestra.
Katia & Marielle Labèque - Les enfants terribles (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Katia & Marielle Labèque - Les enfants terribles (2020) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 63:07 minutes | 564 MB
Classical | Label: Universal Music Division Decca Records France, Official Digital Download

The new recording captures the pianists’ special artistic relationship with Philip Glass – a follow-up to the Double Piano Concerto the composer dedicated to the sisters in 2015 Presenting the opera Les Enfants terribles arranged for piano duet, dedicated to Katia & Marielle Labèque, and Etudes No. 17 & 20
V.A. - SACD The Ultimate Audio Experience: The Classical Sampler (2003) [SACD] PS3 ISO

V.A. - SACD The Ultimate Audio Experience: The Classical Sampler (2003) [SACD] PS3 ISO
Classical | SACD ISO: DST64 2.0, 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz
Run Time: 01:10:00 | 4.53 GB + 5% Recovery
Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Release Year: 2003

The subtitle of this SACD is "The Ultimate Audio Experience". But open the notes, and you discover that all the tracks save one are from 44, 48, and 96KHz PCM sample original sources. There are some great performances here –- forever trapped in mid-definition resolution. They date from 1993 to 2003, a surprising number of them being recorded in 2001-2003, after DSD recording was available. In listening to this SACD, I was beginning to have doubts about the SACD format until I noticed the sources in the liner notes.