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Technical labels aside, the sound is quite remarkable. There is little of the artificial aftertaste that I find with Telarc's 21 bit sound (and to a lesser extent, Sony's 21 bit Super Bit Mapping Technique), although the warmth of the sound is not always consistent, now is it always as viscerally satisfying as some of the products developed using traditional recording methods...
DVORAK: SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Telarc). Could Andre Previn conduct electricity with both feet in a bucket of water? Probably not. Still a fine jazz pianist, Previn remains a resolutely unimaginative conductor whose performances are habitually marked by a dull rhythmic sense and colorless orchestral playing. Here, the Los Angeles Philharmonic sleepwalks through Dvorak's symphonic masterpiece...
BUSONI: PIANO CONCERTO (Telarc). A bit grandiose but truly grand, with Christoph von Dohnanyi and the Cleveland Orchestra and spearheaded by Garrick Ohlsson's heroic playing of the difficult piano part in this rarely performed 1904 concerto...