... a merry chase: Hen Hunts Queen! - If you are captivated by this gimmick, you need not regret your weakness: because what the Polish Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Wojciech Rajski, on a TACET recording, has to offer, is sparkling, finely-tuned Haydn. (NWZ)

... The Sonata is a real catch; it is as if cast in one go. Only few pianists can build up the span of excitement - and maintain it: endure, one might say. It is stretched almost to snapping point and breathless. That is what music sung and played in camera is like: turned inwards, averse to external influences, absolutely calm. And already it darkens and shadows build up; Koroliov dims the light. Moonlight, just right for sleep walkers. Constantly wide awake; suddenly there is cold light on the scene. He avoids any intrusion into barn-dance reminiscence. He understands form and feeling, and has a rare purity of tone. He leaves simple music as it is, whereas others are coquettish with it. Koroliov's Schubert demands time from the listener. (Stuttgarter Nachrichten) "(...) Koroliov's technical command of the piano is total. (...) He plays Schubert's Schubert, not his. (...) This is major piano playing, and TACET's sonics are of high audiophile quality. Oh yes, and the booklet contains exceptionally good program notes in German, English and French. Highest recommendation!" (InTune)

This is not an historical recording. Yet mysteriously the music is performed in an interpretation which is historically authentic down to the last detail. The key to this mystery is: The original performer was present at the recent recording session, but not physically: The music is heard on a modern Steinway. Never has music stored in the Welte-Mignon system sounded so "right" or so good - so unadulterated that it need not fear comparison with a living pianist! (See detailed text in the enclosed booklet. Can you tell the difference: dead or alive?)

The first recording of the 4 part series "Mare Balticum" including medieval music from countries around the Baltic sea just received the ICMA (International Classical Music Award). With volume 1 presenting music from Denmark volume 2 is dedicated to 14th - 16th Finland and Sweden. Such excellent editorial and artistic achievements need special, inventive characters. Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett creates astonishing and persuasive ideas like the one of this series. She digs out works where others do not even know what to dig for. She makes them playable. And as a musician thoroughly she presents these pieces with her colleagues as a feast for the ears. And the whole in TACET Real SS!

... The Duo Favori masterfully opens the listener's ears for the gentle nuances and colors of Mertz's character pieces. This CD can be recommended to music nerds, guitar specialists and romantics alike, and without reservation. (HiFiVision) "Duo Favori give US the most complete look yet at romantic virtuoso Johann Kaspar Mertz's guitar duets (two opera pastiches were omitted). New to disc are two wonderful pieces: 'Der Ball', a program of sorts that leads the listener via waltz and polka through an abridged dance ball, and the gorgeously arpeggiated 'Wasserfahrt am Traunsee' (...) What Duo Favori have is beautiful sound. Recorded with valve microphones (unlike the modern transistor kind), the guitars spill over in warmth and telling detail. All guitar recordings should sound so rich. Combined with solid playing and several premieres, Duo Favori have a disc that can't go wrong." (American Record Guide)

The three savour their respective technical challenges but never lose sight of the totality and, with verve, are able to give the right emphasis to the beautiful sound and to the biting musical language. (Ensemble) 4009850017400 TCET174.2 19547954 .00 23.99 .25 TACET RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 07/15/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/9/2/7/1997298.jpg 9 1 N SPOHR / FREDEN STRING SEXTET IN C MAJOR OP 140 A virtuoso performance rich in the string and woodwind colors and textures that demonstrate the merits of a high-quality sound system which is a great testament to Tacet's art." (Audiophile Audition)

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 MUSICKE / MIRTH / LAWES / BALTZAR / BEYER DIVISION-MUSICK: ART OF DIMINUTION IN ENGLAND 4250128512046 RMEE1204.2 16968646 .00 20.99 .19 RAMEE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 08/14/2012 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/1/0/1/1991014.jpg 4 1 N BACH,J.S. / ELGAR / ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC / MEHTA VIOLIN CONCERTO Pinchas Zuckerman is the featured soloist on this disc of live recordings from the archives of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Zubin Mehta leads the orchestra in performances of violin concertos by Bach and Elgar, recorded in 1986 and 2006. 7293627965521 HLCO9655.2 16792777 .00 18.99 .22 HELICON COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 06/12/2012 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/9/9/1/2001995.jpg 56 1 N STRAUSS I / SLOVAK SINFONIETTA / ZILINA / POLLACK STRAUSS EDITION 22 The year 1847 witnessed a rich variety of scores from Johann Strauss (the Elder). in May he wrote the Swallows, sparkling avian waltzes, soon after which he unveiled his dramatic Austrian March-Past to great acclaim. His quadrille on themes from Auber's opera the Devil's Due is an ingenious composition, whilst the Meadow Flowers drew from him fragrant lyricism in the L�ndler style. As the New Year dawned he revealed the luscious Dance-Signals, a waltz fit for the Carnival season. Since September 2002 Christian Pollack has been principal guest conductor of the Slovak Sinfonietta �ilina. For the Naxos and Marco Polo labels he has made a number of recordings of classical Viennese music, notably the work of the Strauss family, Ziehrer, Supp� and Komz�k. 636943534229 MAP8225342.2 16794122 .00 19.99 .20 MARCO POLO COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 06/26/2012 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/5/8/2/2002859.jpg 11 1 N BURLADOR / LA GRANDE CHAPELLE / RECASENS GREAT SEDUCER: MUSIC FOR THE MYTH 5412690051135 LADA6.2 20505790 .00 20.99 .33 LAUDA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CLASSICAL VOCALS 10/30/2012 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/4/4/0/2050443.jpg 25 1 N LISZT / SHIRINYAN II VIAGGIO Since Marianna Shirinyan won 5 prizes at the 2006 ARD International Music Competition in Munich her career as a soloist and chamber musician has really taken off. In 2010 she received Danish Radio's P2 Artist Prize for her contributions to the musical and artistic life of Denmark, and 2012 sees Shirinyan as the Carl Nielsen Artist at the competition and festival of that name in Odense, Denmark. 4260123641733 SLMS173.2 19088181 .00 20.99 .17 SOLO MUSICA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/25/2012 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/4/8/2/2042848.jpg 7 1 N STRAVINSKY / BERNSTEIN / LSO LEGACY: LEONARD BERNSTEIN The ICA Classics Legacy series presents a collection of historical performances by some of the world's greatest artists. These performances are released on DVD for the first time, incorporating rare archive footage that has been expertly and lovingly restored. 'Luckily for all of us, it wasn't enough for Leonard Bernstein to compose music and conduct orchestras. He felt equally compelled to talk about music - to try and explain what made it tick, what made it good, and what made it affect US in all the ways that music does. The other piece of good luck was that Leonard Bernstein and television came along at the same time. They were born for each other.' (Jamie Bernstein), the films on this DVD are taken from the 'Symphonic Twilight' series of TV programs made in the mid-Sixties that were the brainchild of Humphrey Burton, then the newly appointed Head of Music and Arts Programs for the BBC. In his booklet notes for this DVD, Burton reveals himself to have been instrumental in bringing Bernstein the conductor to the wider British public, who knew him foremost as the composer of West Side Story. In 1965 Burton persuaded Bernstein to conduct the LSO at the Royal Albert Hall and the resulting Mahler 8 was a spectacular occasion, broadcast to the nation. The following year, they put together these programs, filmed specifically for the new television audience. The works Bernstein chose to record are twentieth-century orchestral masterpieces, for which he is known to be a champion. His recordings of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony for CBS Records and Deutsche Grammophon were acclaimed by critics worldwide, and his interpretation of the Rite of Spring in 1959 elicited an enthusiastic 'Wow!' from Stravinsky himself! They are accompanied on this DVD by an in-depth interview, given here as a bonus and subtitled in French and German. 5060244550827 ICAS5082DVD 19087634 .00 26.99 .22 ICA CLASSICS DIGITAL VIDEO DISC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 09/25/2012 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/6/8/2/2042869.jpg 1 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. (Neue Westfe�lische) 4009850001607 TCET16.2 07217395 .00 23.99 .25 TACET RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CLASSICAL VOCALS 05/23/2000 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/6/2/7/1997262.jpg 8 1 N CHOPIN WELTE-MIGNON MYSTERY 4 This is not an historical recording. Yet mysteriously the music is performed in an interpretation which is historically authentic down to the last detail. The key to this mystery is: The original performer was present at the recent recording session, but not physically: The music is heard on a modern Steinway. Never has music stored in the Welte-Mignon system sounded so right" or so good - so unadulterated that it need not fear comparison with a living pianist! (See detailed text in the enclosed booklet. Can you tell the difference: dead or alive?)

Camille Saint-Sa�ns was a man of exceptionally wide-ranging talents, a truly universal genius. Yet as a poet, dramatist, philosopher, astronomer, biologist, archaelogist, ethnologist, artist and caricaturist, and even as a pianist, he is completely forgotten; indeed even as a composer he went through a period of neglect. Yet the piano was his constant companion in a matchless career lasting more than three-quarters of a century, from his beginnings as a child prodigy to the last day of his life.

This is not an historical recording. Yet mysteriously the music is performed in an interpretation which is historically authentic down to the last detail. The key to this mystery is: The original performer was present at the recent recording session, but not physically: The music is heard on a modern Steinway. Never has music stored in the Welte-Mignon system sounded so "right" or so good. Thanks to TACET's much-praised recording technique, and because the Welte-Mignon memory system and sound production mechanism have now been newly adjusted for the first time by the leading expert in the field - and are thus able to meet TACET's requirements. (Welte-Mignon was invented in 1904.) the Welte-Mignon mystery can now speak to US without distortion.

This is not an historical recording. Yet mysteriously the music is performed in an interpretation which is historically authentic down to the last detail. The key to this mystery is: The original performer was present at the recent recording session, but not physically: The music is heard on a modern Steinway. Never has music stored in the Welte-Mignon system sounded so "right" or so good. Thanks to TACET's much-praised recording technique, and because the Welte-Mignon memory system and sound production mechanism have now been newly adjusted for the first time by the leading expert in the field - and are thus able to meet TACET's requirements. (Welte-Mignon was invented in 1904.) the Welte-Mignon mystery can now speak to US without distortion.

This DVD contains the complete music twice: first in Real Surround Sound (tracks 1 - 16) and then in Moving Real Surround Sound (tracks 17 - 32). The composition and interpretation are identical and unaltered as always.

A veritable audiophile delicacy - lovingly preserved historic microphones, a mixing desk consisting of nostalgic V72 amplifiers and W85 regulators, the analogue M5 Telefunken tape recorder - each item a legend in itself! May we proudly present this illustrious combination of equipment, here to preserve beautiful music "TUBE ONLY", in other words without transistors. The CD leaflet is illustrated with impressive color photos. Available on CD, SACD and even on (180 gram, recorded without the use of transistors). And what about the music? (This is the question music lovers ask nervously whenever the word "audiophile" crops up.) Answer: nothing but the best! As is always the case with this violinist, whether he is acting as leader of the Gaede Trio or solo (e. g. on TACET 52 "Hommage Kreisler"). with skill and discernment, Daniel Gaede serves US a unique encore menu of virtuoso prize exhibits and enjoyable dream-pieces. He is accompanied by Xuesu Liu on piano and the Polish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Wojciech Rajski.

Free but lonely is the romantic life's motto of the violinist Joseph Joachim, who was sponsored by Mendelssohn and Schumann and through his friendship with Clara Schumann and Brahms matured into one of the most influential musicians of the 19th century. - "F - a - E", a series of notes derived from this motto, was also the title of a violin sonata, composed jointly for him in 1853 by Schumann, Brahms and Albert Dietrich. - "Free but lonely" is the title of a series of CDs presenting music by the composers close to Joseph Joachim, and by Joachim himself. This opens up a fascinating panorama of romantic music, born from the fruitful exchange of ideas between famous and little known composers whose works deserve to be discovered.

In the CD stereo version these interpretations of the two light-hearted works by Ludwig van Beethoven had given US great pleasure. Camerata Freden play the two works in a relaxed, warm-hearted way. The ensemble sounds homogeneous, pleasant and with a great deal of tangible delight in playing. Now here comes the musical sensitivity of these lovingly, and occasionally humorously, made recordings in the surround version, because the TACET sound engineers have gone for Real Surround: that means that as the listener you sit right in the middle of the music, something which in fact is not possible in reality. And that is what makes the production such an experience. You have surely never heard Beethoven like you can on this DVD! (pizzicato) "The best recording I have ever heard is from a small German audiophile label called TACET. It is a DVD-audio featuring the Camerata Freden chamber Orchestra. What is so special about this recording is the multi-channel technique. Each speaker seems dedicated to one or a group of instrument. Far from being a gimmick this makes the recording sounds like you are IN the ensemble and each instrument sounds exactly as it should. This is a far-cry from many multi-channel recordings which are mainly stereo, with a little bit of echo in the surround speakers." (Jean Marc Serre)

At a concert in 1862 a small 10-year-old boy listened to a modest-looking guitar. It was "La Leona", an experiment by guitar-builder Antonio Torres. He never forgot that sound. Six years later he acquired his first own "Torres". Much later, in 1894, by which time Francisco Tarrega had long since become the world's most famous guitarist, he finally held his dream in his hands. This legendary instrument is recorded here for the first time on disc. And there is more: Wulfin Lieske plays the best instruments by the world's most famous guitar manufacturers for comparison...