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Daniel Gaede, Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra – Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (2008) [SACD / Tacet – TACET S 163]

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Title: Daniel Gaede, Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra – Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (2008)
Genre: Classical
Format: DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Recorded in the exclusive ‘tube only’ technique by Tacet, this recording of Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is something very special. The playing by Daniel Gaede and the Polish Chamber Orchestra is full of life, making this extremely well known piece seem fresh and new.

The German record label Tacet has become known for its no-compromise “Tube Only” nostalgic recording technique, using nothing but tube microphones and amplifiers. This approach adds a naturalness, warmth and vividness to an already remarkable performance of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Nowadays, musicians strive not only to convey the beauty of Vivaldi’s writing but also his dramatic way of accurately indicating each image of the season being depicted. The Tacet recording certainly succeeds in that respect. Violinist Daniel Gaede, conductor Wojciech Rajski, and the musicians of the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra fully realize the composer’s stated intentions. When they play the opening of La Primavera (Spring), I feel lighthearted and optimistic; when they play the opening of L’Inverno (Winter), I shiver with cold.

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Daniel Chorzempa – Bach-Liszt: Organ Works (1970/2005) [SACD / PentaTone classics – PTC 5186 127]

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Title: Daniel Chorzempa – Bach-Liszt: Organ Works (1970/2005)
Genre: Classical
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

This SACD from PentaTone was recorded originally in 1970, not long after he’d made his official debut as an organist. (His organ recitals are notable for being played from memory.) The performances were taken down in the then-new quadraphonic system & released on Philips LPs. But of course quadraphonic LPs were a less than ideal carrier for the 4ch sound on the tapes. Fortunately PentaTone, a company founded by ex-Philips personnel, has been reissuing quad recordings on SACDs remastered from those tapes & they sound spectacularly lifelike. They are, of course, in 4ch sound, not the 6ch that the modern SACD system is capable of.

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Dana Winner – Unforgettable Too (2002) [SACD / EMI – 7243 5 80213 2 5]

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Title: Dana Winner – Unforgettable Too (2002)
Genre: Pop
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Dana Winner is the stage name of Chantal Vanlee. She is a Belgian singer who is famous especially in Flanders and the Netherlands. After her first success, Dana Winner also became well known in Germany and South Africa. At the end of the 1990s, she began singing in other languages and did not release an album in Dutch between 2000 and 2006.

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Dana Winner – Unforgettable (2001) [SACD / EMI Belgium – 7243 536644 2 8]

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Title: Dana Winner – Unforgettable (2001)
Genre: Pop
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Dana Winner is the stage name of Chantal Vanlee. She is a Belgian singer who is famous especially in Flanders and the Netherlands. After her first success, Dana Winner also became well known in Germany and South Africa. At the end of the 1990s, she began singing in other languages and did not release an album in Dutch between 2000 and 2006.

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Dana Winner – Licht En Liefde (2000) [SACD / EMI Belgium – 7243 5 31121 2 7]

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Title: Dana Winner – Licht En Liefde (2000)
Genre: Pop
Format: DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Born Chantal Vanlee in Hasselt in 1965, Dana Winner found fame in the early ’90s with Flemish cover versions of the Carpenters’ “On Top of the World” (“Op Het Dak van de Wereld”) and the Cats’ “One Way Wind” (“Westenwind”). Guided by Belgian composer Jean Kluger, she released her debut album, Mijn Paradijs, in 1994 and went on to achieve success in South Africa and Germany at the end of the decade after recording material in various different languages. The ensuing years saw Winner continuing to rake in the accolades, both at home and abroad, via chart-topping singles like 2007’s “Wenn Du Lachst” and critically acclaimed albums such as 2014’s Bloom and 2016’s Puur.

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Dana Winner – Beautiful Life (2005) [SACD / EMI – 00946 342298 2 1]

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Title: Dana Winner – Beautiful Life (2005)
Genre: Pop
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Dana Winner is the stage name of Chantal Vanlee. She is a Belgian singer who is famous especially in Flanders and the Netherlands. After her first success, Dana Winner also became well known in Germany and South Africa. At the end of the 1990s, she began singing in other languages and did not release an album in Dutch between 2000 and 2006.

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Dana Winner – 10 Jaar: Het allerbeste van Dana Winner (2003) [SACD / Capitol Records – 7243 593678 2 8]

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Title: Dana Winner – 10 Jaar: Het allerbeste van Dana Winner (2003)
Genre: Pop
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Dana Winner is the stage name of Chantal Vanlee. She is a Belgian singer who is famous especially in Flanders and the Netherlands. After her first success, Dana Winner also became well known in Germany and South Africa. At the end of the 1990s, she began singing in other languages. “10 Jaar: Het allerbeste van Dana Winner” (“10 Years: The Best of” compilation) features the songs, performed mostly on her native language.

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Dan Gibson – Songbirds: A Surround Sound Experience (2007) [SACD / Solitudes – 37285]

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Title: Dan Gibson – Songbirds: A Surround Sound Experience (2007)
Genre: Field Recording
Format: MCH SACD ISO

Songbirds: A Surround Sound Experience is a program that will completely transform any living space — immersing the listener in the melodious world of songbirds. With 64 times the clarity, depth and audio resolution of a traditional CD, and featuring true 5.1 high-resolution surround sound, this Solitudes SACD is an audio experience like no other. It really is the next best thing to being there.

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Dan Gibson – Ocean Surf: A Surround Sound Experience (1995) [Reissue 2005] [SACD / Solitudes – 32467]

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Title: Dan Gibson – Ocean Surf: A Surround Sound Experience (1995) [Reissue 2005]
Genre: Ambient, New Age
Format: MCH SACD ISO

The Ocean Surf: A Surround Sound Experience SACD by Solitudes will completely transform any living space into a spectacular seashore. Specially designed and produced for SACD, but playable on any standard CD player, you will experience 64 times the clarity, depth, and audio resolution of a traditional CD. And featuring true 5.1 high-resolution surround sound, this Solitudes Ocean Surf SACD offers an audio experience like no other. It really is the next best thing to being there.
Too many releases in the relaxation/environmental market feel compelled to accompany their nature recordings with beds of flutes, oozing synths, or chattering forest animals. Luckily Dan Gibson takes the opposite approach. His Ocean Surf is exactly that, a 70-minute-plus track featuring nothing but pristinely recorded surf, tide, and whitecaps. There’s natural ebb and flow here as Gibson captures not only the cascading majesty of the sea, but its quiet, lapping moments as well. Unencumbered by ethnic-music tinkering or new age formula, the solitary Ocean Surf is great for relaxation, meditation, and introspection.

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Dadawa – Voice From The Sky (1997) [Reissue 2017] [SACD / Warner Music Hong Kong – 5054197657924]

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Title: Dadawa – Voice From The Sky (1997) [Reissue 2017]
Genre: New Age
Format: SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Voices from the Sky (央金玛) is the third studio album by Chinese singer Dadawa (music by He Xuntian). The album is a follow up to her second album Sister Drum, which met with controversy, critical and commercial success.

Sister Drum was enough of a success to warrant the creation of Voices From the Sky – but just like the earlier album, Voices makes a listener confront the distinction between rough reality and art. Setting that aside for the moment, Dadawa and He Xuntian do a fair enough job at continuing the spirit of the earlier album without simply rehashing the experience in its entirety. Lyrical inspiration and general ambience remains the same, with Tibet, its landscape and history being the canvas from which singer and musician work to create Voices’ seven songs. Full credits appear for all participating performers this time around, indicating that two choirs as well as players on everything from bamboo flute to ban hu helped in the creation of the lovely arrangements, overseen as before by He. Dadawa herself takes a more upfront role in the singing than before from the start, while the pace of the songs is just that subtly a bit more quicker, in contrast to the generally slow, awe-inspiring swoop of Sister Drum at its start. Lyrically He takes the lion’s share of the writing this time around, though other sources creep in – “The Sixth Dalai Lama’s Love Song” indeed draws its words from that very person, Tsangyang Gyatso, a noted love poet in Tibetan history. The sense of Dadawa being something of a Chinese Enya crops up again on certain songs, such as her multitracked vocals on “The Believer,” but the overall concept and project is still something unique. All this said, though, Voices still can’t disguise the hidden questions of what can or can’t be talked about when it comes to officially approved art. “The Believer” itself, for itself, is described not a love song but ‘a soul of a believer crying out against the strictures of religious dogma’ -which when one considers the Peking government’s continuing campaign to eradicate the power of the lamas in Tibet has an unfortunately chilling corollary.

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