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David Oistrakh – Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Brahms: Double Concerto (2021) [SACD / Warner Music (Japan) – WPGS-50137]

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Title: David Oistrakh – Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Brahms: Double Concerto (2021)
Genre: Classical
Format: SACD ISO

The legendary Beethoven recording with Kletzsch, his only collaboration, and the Brahms with Fournier return in superb condition! Aiming for the highest sound quality, newly digitized at 192kHz/24bit from the original analog master tapes in the country of origin for this latest reissue. Includes new liner notes. Oistrakh’s Beethoven, recorded in his third and final session, is his only collaboration with Kletzsch. Since its initial release, this transcendent performance has reigned as a legendary recording. The rich resonance of the violin and the orchestra’s exquisite, intimate interplay are a delight to hear. The Brahms Double Concerto features the third of four recordings, a performance that holds its own even when compared to the later recording with Szell. It is a celebrated performance characterized by an almost chamber-like, deeply introspective interpretation with Fournier. Mastered from the original French analog master tapes at 192kHz/24bit, with separate mastering for the SACD and CD layers. Includes new liner notes. A permanent preservation edition. Oistrakh’s Beethoven is also known as the sole session recording featuring his collaboration with Kletzinsky. Since its initial release, it has reigned as a legendary recording, an extraordinary performance. With its rich violin tone and exquisite interplay with the Orchestre National de France under Kletzinsky, it stands as one of the definitive interpretations of this work. About a year and a half after this recording, Oistrakh recorded Brahms’ Violin Concerto in the same venue with the same orchestra, conducted by Klemperer (released as TDSA108 in 2019 as part of this series). A comparison with that recording is also essential listening. The coupling features Brahms’s Double Concerto. This is the third of four recordings made, and it stands up well even when compared to the later famous version with Szell (with Rostropovich on cello). Although a stereo source exists, it hasn’t received much attention until now. Characterized by an almost chamber-like, deeply introspective performance with Fournier, this recording is a masterpiece that rivals Beethoven’s own. Indeed, one might say this performance radiates Oistrakh’s characteristic poise and delicacy throughout. For sound quality, we used a flat master created by digitizing the original 2-channel analog master tape from the artist’s homeland at an unprecedented 192kHz/24bit resolution, followed by the latest mastering techniques. Consequently, this release achieves greater precision, a wider dynamic range, and enhanced proximity, allowing you to enjoy this supreme performance with a more realistic sound. While some noise is occasionally present, we aimed for a musical mastering approach that respects the original source, keeping interventions, including balance adjustments, to an absolute minimum. The booklet includes new liner notes by Mr. Hiyama. For this series, the SACD layer aims for extended highs, soft nuances, high resolution, and a rich soundstage, while the CD layer strives for a cohesive, solid sound with a tangible, present-in-the-room quality. The CD itself possesses high potential, so please enjoy it as an SACD hybrid disc that allows you to savor the strengths of both formats. This 36th installment of the Definition Series will release a total of three titles.

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Dave Hagedorn – Solid Liquid (2003) [SACD / Artegra – ART2006]

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Title: Dave Hagedorn – Solid Liquid (2003)
Genre: Jazz
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Dave Hagedorn is an Artist in Residence at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, where he teaches percussion, jazz studies, and world music. In June, 2011, Downbeat magazine deemed St. Olaf Jazz I to be the “Best Undergraduate Large Jazz Ensemble” in the 34 th annual student music awards. This group had a very successful cultural exchange tour in Cuba in March of 2016. He holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, and the University of Minnesota. Hagedorn has an album, “Solid/Liquid” on the artegra label in SACD format released in October of 2003, and a duo album with pianist Dan Cavanagh, “Horizon”, released in December of 2010. Released in April 2014, is a recording with the Chris Bates Good Vibes Trio. The latest release is “20 Years”, also recorded with Dan Cavanagh, released in January,2018. He has recorded with the George Russell Living Time Orchestra on Blue Note Recordings (nominated for a Grammy award), jazz singer Debbie Duncan on Igmod Recordings, Brian Setzer Big Band, Pete Whitman X-tet, Phil Hey Quartet, the Out to Lunch Quintet, and also with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on Teldec Recordings. Hagedorn regularly performs in the Twin Cities with groups such as the Phil Hey Quartet, JazzMn, and Chris Bates Good Vibes Trio. On the classical side of music, he also has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, VocalEssence, Cantus, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra.

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Dave Brubeck – The 40th Anniversary Tour Of The U.K. (1999) [SACD / Telarc – CD-83440-SA]

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Title: Dave Brubeck – The 40th Anniversary Tour Of The U.K. (1999)
Genre: Jazz
Format: SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Forty years after his classic quartet’s first triumphant tour of the U.K. in 1958, Dave Brubeck took his then current group back for an anniversary visit, playing a mixed bag of old and new songs for fans both old and new. This time out, Brubeck’s working quartet included two British natives, drummer Randy Jones and bassist Alec Dankworth (the son of British jazz superstars Cleo Laine and John Dankworth). Brubeck himself was the obvious draw for the crowds, but it’s saxman Bobby Militello who is truly the musical star of the show. The highly regarded Militello shows he can roam across the entire spectrum of alto saxophone tonality, employing a light, delicate tone à la Paul Desmond one minute, then bearing down for some gritty, deep-throated improvisations the next. Brubeck’s unmistakable pianism remains as identifiable as ever, comping and soloing with the same energy he undoubtedly had 40 years earlier. “Goodbye Old Friend,” his solo farewell to friend Gerry Mulligan, is beautiful. The new material is more interesting than the older stuff, with Brubeck’s tango “The Time of Our Madness” and blues-inflected “Oh You Can Run (But You Can’t Hide)” particular standouts. However, Militello enlivens even the old warhorse “I Got Rhythm,” and Brubeck himself digs fresh ideas out of “Deep Purple”.

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Dave Brubeck – Supreme Jazz (2006) [SACD / Supreme Jazz – 223271-207]

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Title: Dave Brubeck – Supreme Jazz (2006)
Genre: Jazz
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Over a long career that is still going strong, Dave Brubeck has always been one of jazz’s most popular performers. Furthermore, that success has not been achieved at the cost of compromising; Brubeck has consistently experimented with rhythms, time signatures and tonalities not often found even in jazz. At the beginning of his career, his influences were the great piano players of early jazz – Duke Ellington, Art Tatum and Fats Waller, and, like Ellington, as his career developed he introduced extended pieces into his repertoire of self-composed material. Music for ballet and theatre features amongst his work, and he has written an oratorio, a Mass and tone poems. Brubeck has performed regularly for American presidents, and he has toured the world many times over. Dave Brubeck is one of the giant talents of jazz.

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The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out (1959) [Analogue Productions Remaster 2012] [SACD / Analogue Productions – CAPJ 8192 SA]

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Title: The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out (1959) [Analogue Productions Remaster 2012]
Genre: Jazz
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Dave Brubeck’s defining masterpiece, Time Out is one of the most rhythmically innovative albums in jazz history, the first to consciously explore time signatures outside of the standard 4/4 beat or 3/4 waltz time. It was a risky move — Brubeck’s record company wasn’t keen on releasing such an arty project, and many critics initially roasted him for tampering with jazz’s rhythmic foundation. But for once, public taste was more advanced than that of the critics. Buoyed by a hit single in altoist Paul Desmond’s ubiquitous “Take Five,” Time Out became an unexpectedly huge success, and still ranks as one of the most popular jazz albums ever. That’s a testament to Brubeck and Desmond’s abilities as composers, because Time Out is full of challenges both subtle and overt — it’s just that they’re not jarring. Brubeck’s classic “Blue Rondo à la Turk” blends jazz with classical form and Turkish folk rhythms, while “Take Five,” despite its overexposure, really is a masterpiece; listen to how well Desmond’s solo phrasing fits the 5/4 meter, and how much Joe Morello’s drum solo bends time without getting lost. The other selections are richly melodic as well, and even when the meters are even, the group sets up shifting polyrhythmic counterpoints that nod to African and Eastern musics. Some have come to disdain Time Out as its become increasingly synonymous with upscale coffeehouse ambience, but as someone once said of Shakespeare, it’s really very good in spite of the people who like it. It doesn’t just sound sophisticated — it really is sophisticated music, which lends itself to cerebral appreciation, yet never stops swinging. Countless other musicians built on its pioneering experiments, yet it’s amazingly accessible for all its advanced thinking, a rare feat in any art form. This belongs in even the most rudimentary jazz collection.

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The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Jazz At Oberlin (1953) [Reissue 2003] [SACD / Fantasy – FSA-3245-6]

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Title: The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Jazz At Oberlin (1953) [Reissue 2003]
Genre: Jazz
Format: SACD ISO

Jazz at Oberlin is a live album by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. It was recorded in the Finney Chapel at Oberlin College in March 1953, and released on Fantasy Records as F 3245. Critic Nat Hentoff wrote in Down Beat magazine that the album ranks with the College of the Pacific and Storyville sets “as the best of Brubeck on record”, and jazz critic Gary Giddins has written that it would “make many short lists of the decade’s outstanding albums”.

The concert is credited with making jazz a legitimate field of musical study at Oberlin, but it and the album did much more than that. The album is further credited with initiating making jazz a subject of serious intellectual attention in a listening-centric environment; Wendell Logan, the chair of Oberlin’s Jazz Studies Department, described it as “the watershed event that signaled the change of performance space for jazz from the nightclub to the concert hall”. In addition, it was one of the early works in the cool jazz stream of jazz; The Guardian’s John Fordham wrote that it “indicated new directions for jazz that didn’t slavishly mirror bebop, and even hinted at free-jazz piano techniques still years away from realisation”; he further observed that it “marked Brubeck’s eager adoption by America’s (predominantly white) youth – a welcome that soon extended around the world … for a rhythmically intricate instrumental jazz”. Although a touch underrated, Jazz at Oberlin is one of the early Dave Brubeck classic recordings. The interplay between the pianist-leader and altoist Paul Desmond on “Perdido” borders on the miraculous, and their renditions of “The Way You Look Tonight,” “How High the Moon” and “Stardust” are quite memorable. Brubeck’s piano playing on “These Foolish Things” is so percussive and atonal in one spot as to sound like Cecil Taylor, who would not emerge for another two years. With bassist Ron Crotty and drummer Lloyd Davis giving the Quartet quiet and steady support, Brubeck and Desmond were free to play at their most adventurous. Highly recommended. –Scott Yanow

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Dave Brubeck – Classical Brubeck (2003) [SACD / Telarc – 2SACD-60621]

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Title: Dave Brubeck – Classical Brubeck (2003)
Genre: Classical
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

This double-disc set is a determined effort to clear the shelf and record as much of Dave Brubeck’s classical output as possible while the composer was still around to participate and guide the performers’ hands. The project was done in only four sessions at London’s Abbey Road Studios without the benefit of tuneup concerts; conductor Russell Gloyd says that the London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices were practically sight-reading throughout…
As such, it’s a miracle that these performances turned out as well as they did — or perhaps not, since Gloyd is Brubeck’s chosen interpreter (and manager) and these busy London professionals are used to mastering new material quickly. Almost all of the set is taken up by three big sacred choral compositions, which for all of their rampant eclecticism bear the same unmistakable stamp of Brubeck’s harmonic signatures and all-embracing personality. Beloved Son (1978), an Easter oratorio, has choral passages that might have been inspired by those in J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion — which is roughly about the same subject — but also some militancy, a free-form episode from the Dave Brubeck Quartet (which they never do when playing jazz in concert), and a rocking gospel workout on the concluding He Is Risen. The Pange Lingua Variations (1983) is a somewhat more diffuse work based on Gregorian chants, but here you can hear the variations principle at work throughout the score, especially when the quartet comments on the material. Archaic-sounding passages abound — the dreaded parallel fourths and fifths that composition teachers warn against, another example of Brubeck breaking the rules of choral writing for his own expressive purposes. Voice of the Holy Spirit (1985) is the longest of the pieces here, about 52 minutes, and again Brubeck doesn’t let anything inhibit his choice of idiom — a Latin-ish break for the quartet, a gaudy conclusion to Be Strong in the Lord, even a universal children’s taunt as the basis of When I Was a Child. Finally, as a brief afterleaf, listeners whisk ahead to 2001, where the then-80-year-old composer looks back with unexpected poignancy in Regret, a lush bittersweet elegy for strings with skillfully wrought counterlines for cellos, capped near the close by a solo from Brubeck in the same vein. Despite his explanation in the booklet (“Perhaps it is an emotion unique to someone who has lived as many decades as I”), one still wonders what moved Brubeck to write this anguished piece, as he seems to have lived an exceptionally fulfilling life. This outpouring of creativity is treated to excellent, spacious Abbey Road SACD sound, deeper than the stereo CD version (which is more brightly lit), with only studio ambience in the rear speakers. And would you believe there is much more unrecorded classical Brubeck on the shelf?

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Dave Alvin – Blackjack David (2002 MFSL Remaster) (2002) [SACD / Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab – UDSACD 2007]

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Title: Dave Alvin – Blackjack David (2002 MFSL Remaster) (2002)
Genre: Alternative Rock, Country Rock
Format: SACD ISO

Dave Alvin earned his crown as “the King of California” the hard way. A fourth-generation Californian, Alvin worked his way through various incarnations in order to arrive at this point. A longstanding monumental force in Los Angeles and California music, Alvin is essentially a blues player who writes and performs what he terms “American folk music.” From Celtic and British folk tunes to early rock & roll, from classic blues and country & western to the Bakersfield sound, Alvin knows his stuff. Gleaning from all the genres, Alvin sits firmly upon his throne, creating a brand of music that is intelligent, insightful, and broad in scope. With Alvin at peace with his creative direction, Blackjack David picks up where King of California left off in 1994. More electric, Blackjack David almost rocks in places, as on “Abilene” and “New Highway.” It ambles along nicely in other spots, too. The title cut, a traditional tune hundreds of years old, is given new life under the deft Alvin touch and a new arrangement. This effectively connects the past and the present in terms of Alvin and his place in musical history. “1968,” written with fellow “405 Freeway Boy” Chris Gaffney, reveals a country twist. As interesting as anything either of them have written individually, the Tom Russell co-write “California Snow” is startling in its intensity. The final cut, “Tall Trees,” is haunting and mysterious, displaying all of Alvin’s power as a writer and communicator in a subtle fashion that demands attention. A Renaissance man, Dave Alvin continues to make and record music of integrity.

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Daria Toffali – Caminhos Cruzados (2017) [Venus Japan] [SACD / Venus Records – VHGD-235]

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Title: Daria Toffali – Caminhos Cruzados (2017) [Venus Japan]
Genre: Jazz
Format: SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Mesmerizing vocals by Italian singer Daria Toffali. Tofffali started her singing career with various Italian bands playing different kinds of music: jazz, funk and Brazilian music. Here she pays homage to Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, backed by the Massimo Farao’ Trio.

Antonio Carlos Jobim was a Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within Brazil and internationally. Jobim is widely regarded as one of the most important songwriters of the 20th century. Many of Jobim’s songs are jazz standards. Jobim was an innovator in the use of sophisticated harmonic structures in popular song. Some of his melodic twists, like the melody insisting on the major seventh of the chord, became common use in jazz after him.

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Dario Carnovale, Alfred Kramer, Lorenzo Conte – I Remember You (2019) [SACD / Fonè Jazz – SACD173]

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Title: Dario Carnovale, Alfred Kramer, Lorenzo Conte – I Remember You (2019)
Genre: Jazz
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

I Remember You features the Jazz trio of Dario Carnovale (Piano), Alfred Kramer (Drums) & Lorenzo Conte (Contrabasso). It includes traditional Jazz favourites including “I Remember You” & “What Is This Thing Called Love” plus some original compositions.

This album is part of the record project that Giulio Cesare Ricci has been producing for several years at the ancient cellar of the Palazzo di Scoto di Semifonte in Certaldo Alto (FI). To enhance the fascinating acoustics of this place he used the Signoricci analog and tube recording system, DSD stereo on the Pyramix Recorder using dCS A/D and D/A converters. No editing. All tracks on this record are heard as they were performed.

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