My best sounding CD so far
And perhaps my best sounding recording, clearly beating most SACDs is ...
John Rutter: Requiem & Five Anthems
Timothy Seelig, conductor with the
Turtle Creek Chorale and Women's Chorus of Dallas
Reference Recordings RR-57CD
RR really lives up to its reputation hear. Fabulous choral recording and ultra deep, ultra clean pipe organ sound.
As for the compositions, though, I really only like 'Requiem' which has some real sensibility and depth. The other pieces are sappy religious stuff, (in a Church of England sort of way), IMO.
agree, Ref Recordings are quite superb sounding
Quote:
Originally Posted by Feanor
And perhaps my best sounding recording, clearly beating most SACDs is ...
John Rutter: Requiem & Five Anthems
Timothy Seelig, conductor with the
Turtle Creek Chorale and Women's Chorus of Dallas
Reference Recordings RR-57CD
RR really lives up to its reputation hear. Fabulous choral recording and ultra deep, ultra clean pipe organ sound.
As for the compositions, though, I really only like 'Requiem' which has some real sensibility and depth. The other pieces are sappy religious stuff, (in a Church of England sort of way), IMO.
I own that Requiem title, plus a few other Reference Recordings titles and they do rank as some of the best (if not the best) standard cd's I own (from a sound quality standpoint). RR-70CD Stravinsky by Eiji Oue/Minnesots Orch is another that has some awesome moments but overall ain't my cup of tea. The only hi-res albums I've purchased to date are remasters of older (70's) albums, so it's hard to compare to Ref Recs, but you're right, RR's are closer to hi-res format than to std cd's.
I haven't checked their catalog lately, but I always wished thay would have tried recording some piece of music outside the classical & jazz genres, like rock or pop.