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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0696998798366
Format: SACD
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: April 01, 2003
Sales Rank: 22869
Studio: Sony
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Rating:  - A special thanks to RCA Records
As a child in the 1970's, I remember the day that my father brought home the LP version of this album. It was one of a few quadraphonic albums that I know of ever made.
Regardless of the fact that it was intended for a quadraphonic stereo system, RCA Records had the courtesy to make the album compatible with standard, stereo systems. You wouldn't get the 4-speaker surround effect they intended, but you could still hear every sound on the recording.
Contrast that with today's ... Read More
Rating:  - As If In The Cathedral Of Freiburg!
Johann Sebastian Bach's four great Toccatas and Fugues are some of the most dramatic and vivid of his organ works. This recording was made in the Cathedral of Freiburg, Germany with four new organs; a Marien, a Choir, a Nave and a Gallery Organ "St. Michael". All these were played through a central console in the original Cathedral. The sound was recorded in `quadraphonic', but it is released on this SACD in true 5.1 surround sound, meaning there is a central front speaker and the subwoofer. The experience ... Read More
Rating: - Heavenly Immersion
If you are looking for THE multi-channel SACD to blow your mind (and your friend's collective minds) and prove the potential of this format - this is the one. Of course it helps if you like, or have the potential of liking, Bach's organ music.
It's unfortunate that the one-star reviews here pulled the average down. Unfortunate because the only criticism is that these people have is that don't have mutli-channel SACD playback equipment. This is not a valid criticism of the actual contents - only a ... Read More
Rating: - Best SA-CD I own
If your AV system is capable of taking advantage of SA-CD then you OWE it to yourself to purchase this disc - the sound is just that amazing. Many have said this before me, but this is a recording of four organs being played at once in a large church, and you can hear EVERYTHING. Every note is super clear. You can hear the echo when the organ releases every note. You can even hear the organ changing ranks when the organist changes stops. If you close your eyes it seriously feels like you are in a large church listening ... Read More
Rating: - Good Fun
This is a fun recording and the remastered SACD sound is really outstanding. It's a shame that the excellence of recordings like this weren't successful in making SACD a mainstream medium. Now that major labels have curtailed support of SACD, this advance in home reproduction has been pretty much relegated to the specialty market.
Biggs interpretations of these chestnuts are very similar to his versions performed on the Flentrop organ at Harvard - allowing for the batting around of the music made possible by ... Read More
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EAN: 0696998798366
Format: SACD
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: April 01, 2003
Sales Rank: 22869
Studio: Sony