Classical Music

Classical Music

Enjoy finest mainstream jazz played by the Georg Rox Quartet, recorded with ribbon microphones from the 1930's and 40's, with the oldest, 1927, condenser microphone, or with modern mikes. Compare with the latest developments! Naturally our favourite M49 mikes are there too. Mikes by Bruel & Kjaer, Clara, Coles, Elektro-Voice, MBHO, Microtech Gefell, Neumann, RCA, Schoeps, Sennheiser and Sony.

This baroque recording [is] an interesting compromise between a historical approach and our modern understanding of music. (Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung)

In previous issues I've praised the Abegg Trio's radiant performances of Beethoven's piano trios. This convenient set of the Mendelssohn's works in this form - two by Felix and one by Fanny, composed the year after her brother's second trio - elicits comparable enthusiasm, thanks to the brilliance of the renditions, individually and collectively... The recorded sound is first-rate therein and throughout the two more familiar scores as well. As previously noted, too, a B�sendorfer Imperial piano, played with some restraint by Gerrit Zitterbart and admirably balanced in this CD, adds a measure of richness not often encountered among other practitioners of the art of piano-trio playing. That said, this Tacet CD sports an attractive lineup as well, and although there are many fine recorded performances of both of Felix's piano trios, these merit inclusion among the very best, due to the Abegg's superior playing, seasoned interpretations, and the splendid recorded sound. High. 4009850008101 TCET81.2 19542409 .00 23.99 .24 TACET RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 05/01/1999 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/5/2/7/1997250.jpg 0 1 N MOZART / VEREBICS KOMM LIEBER MAI: MOZART LIEDER With bright jubilation, with polished lines and wonderfully formed; elegant and yet with warm expression; the intonation is a clear as a bell; or to put it in a nutshell: Ibolya Verebics sings the Mozart lieder in perfectly natural way and is thus the ideal performer.... She is accompanied discreetly and competently by her fellow Hungarian Csaba Vegve�ri. 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https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/1/8/3/2263815.jpg 4 1 N DVORAK / MPO / FLOR SYMPHONY NO. 7 7318599918969 BIS1896SACD 16547643 .00 21.99 .21 BIS SUPER-AUDIO CD CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 04/24/2012 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/4/8/3/2263848.jpg 1 1 N GLIERE / KOMSI / LAHTI SYM ORCH COLORATURA 7318599919621 BIS1962SACD 19357218 .00 21.99 .24 BIS SUPER-AUDIO CD CLASSICAL OPERA / OPERETTA / ORATORIO 10/30/2012 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/6/8/3/2263864.jpg 2 1 N PETTERSSON / NORRKOPING SYM ORCH / LINDBERG SYMPHONY NO 6 7318599919805 BIS1980SACD 19161853 .00 21.99 .25 BIS SUPER-AUDIO CD CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/25/2012 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/7/8/3/2263875.jpg 3 1 N LOCKWOOD,FRANCIS / LOCKWOOD,DIDIER BROTHERS Didier and Francis Lockwood have been fixtures of the French jazz scene for thirty years, but their Brothers album, originally recorded for the Ames label in 2008, featured them together for the first time. Francis Lockwood's piano and the violin of his brother Didier function together in perfect alchemy here, the only instruments present on the recording. The result is an intimate, delicate dive into a universe of their own design where their talents, complicity and connivance are shaped by the closeness of their relation as brothers. 3448960259224 FRAS592.2 25892741 .00 20.99 .25 FREMEAUX & ASSOC. FR COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 03/11/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/8/8/6/2276884.jpg 5 1 N MAHLER / HAASS / GRIEG / REINECKE WELTE-MIGNON MYSTERY 15: MAHLER & REINECKE & GRIEG The Steinway used by TACET makes the three composers seem like contemporaries - that's how present and delicate this sound is. It fully meets the highest standards. How wonderful it is the way the grand piabno learns to sing under Mahler's and Reinecke's touch. It is for this reason, above all, that it is worth hearing this recording, even if one already knows the recording of the three composers from other productions: The sound speaks for itself.

(...) But what insights into the chemistry, the constructional and structural wonders of these Pr�ludes do Koroliov's musical-pathological dissections allow? They lead into the inside of this texture, invalidating all that one has experienced for frightful - and then again delightful - moments of thinking and feeling. In a peaceable way, they force one to unbiased expose oneself to a strange experience, yet, in the next moment, a familiar experience once again. (Klassik. Heute. De)

This is definitely a reference hi-res disc both because of the orchestral performance and the sound. If anybody still out there dares to say that regular CDs are just as good as a hi-res surround sound SACD all they have to do is listen to this disc with the appropriate equipment. Specifically they should go to the Finale of the 5th (T-4) and T-8, the Storm movement of the 6th - there are no words to accurately describe the feeling of being in the midst of orchestra as it were. A highly recommended disc, both for the sublime orchestral performance and more so for the glorious sound - a must have! (Audiophile Audition)

It's been a long time coming for this second part of Johann Sebastian Bach's partitas played by Evgeni Koroliov. The Steinway D grand piano from the first volume is now permanently installed in a beautiful church in Wernigerode. The recordings of Partitas 3 and 5 were made there. Other issues also delayed progress, including the relocation of TACET's premises. And finally, we're all not getting any younger. Who could say otherwise? This takes it's toll in the form of slower work. Only a few things are timeless, and that includes the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The way in which Evgeni Koroliov immerses himself in this 'eternal' music, elevating it to a timeless presence, as if it were created in this very moment, changes my perception of time. I absorb it's flow. I agree with it's passing

Ever since 1995 at the latest, after the Auryn Quartet and Peter Orth released their highly acclaimed recording of Gabriel Faure's piano quintets for CPO, Primarius Matthias Lingenfelder and Peter had dreamed of recording Faure's works for violin and piano. Many years passed. In 2022, the Auryn Quartet retired from concert life. Before that, I wanted one last recording with them for TACET, no matter what, as a farewell. That didn't materialise. But Matthias still had the desire and energy. And so did Peter! So what could be more obvious than finally realising their long-cherished wish? The result is a serene, mature, virtuoso, sensitive and loving performance of this unconventionally beautiful repertoire.

The Auryn Quartet with their good feel for current trends have delivered an overwhelming performance of Britten's last two Quartets (FonoForum)

Adorno's speech reads like a commentary on recording the string quartets op. 130 including the later final movement and the Great Fugue op. 133 with the phenomenal Auryn Quartet on TACET 38: It's as if the subject retreated from his music, and, leaving the apparition to it's own devices, then really made the apparition speak... - One really could not present this late work in a more up-to-date way and yet more entranced, removed from all subjective whispered prompts.

It's common knowledge among Janacek that the First String Quartet began life as a piano trio, most of which was either lost or destroyed. (...) Anyone who loves this composer will certainly want to hear it, and the Abegg Trio plays with the kind of commitment and passion that the music requires. (...) This fascinating experiment makes a fine foil to a similarly excellent performance of Smetana's strangely neglected single work in the trio medium. The Abegg manages to differentiate the tempos and emotional nuances of the first two movements (otherwise so similar) with notable success, and the Presto finale has an athletic vigor that comes from elasticity of rhythm and supple phrasing rather than mere speed. As usual, Tacet's sonics are gorgeous. Definitely worth a listen. (classics today)

The version played here by the Gaede Trio was based on the Urtext edition by J. S. Bach (pub. By Henle, 1978) and the transcription by D. Sitkovetsky. The relatively long playing time was due to the performance of all the repetitions required in the score. "the Trio plays naturally, homogeneously and - in a word - perfectly." (Repertoire)

What musicianship! What an intense poetic aura in their playing!... this andante is a veritable dream, the height of pure poetry, and this disc is an enchanting ceremony... (Repertoire) Just when you get complacent and think you've heard it all before, a new group comes to town and blows you away. The Auryn Quartet did it Sunday... (The Washington Post) the young Stuttgart label TACET set a new standard with it's very first chamber music release. This CD has benchmark value.(HiFiVision)

Classical Music