Getting a newly released tape from Ed Pong is always a highly anticipated treat. None more so than this one: Haydn’s cello concerto No.1 in C major, composed around 260 years ago and thought lost until 1961. The cellist is 26 year old Hayoung Choi who is playing a 300 year old Guarneri cello (nicknamed […]
Haydn Cello Concerto in C: Haydn Cello Concerto No.1 in C major, Hayoung Choi and Yun Yang Lee (youtube.com) (have a look at the cadenza in 1st mov’t at 7:30)Schubert Arpeggione Sonata: Schubert: Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor D.821, Hayoung Choi & Yun Yang Lee (youtube.com)Chopin: Introduction & Polonaise Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise brilliante in […]
I recently had to do a slight modification to my Studer A80 RC deck, since I use the NextGen playback amplifiers the front chassis panel is left hanging down. With the NextGen boards the audio outputs are taken from the front of the plugin plates rather than at the rear of the console. This is […]
‘Woah!’: On being blown away by Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas from UltraAnalogue Recordings – Dave Denyer: The Reel-to-Reel Rambler (thereeltoreelrambler.com)
I’m very happy to announce the release of a 2 tape set of Beethoven’s last 3 Piano Sonatas, No.30,31,32 by Van Cliburn winner Vadym Kholodenko.These are studio recordings made with our latest upgrades to the bypass caps in the microphone pre-amp. Together with our new WE300b playback amp for the Studer A80, the soundscape has […]
Posted on Decware Tape Forum: 10/31/20 Steve Deckert’s Review of 2 tapes: Beethoven Cello Sonata No.5 – Narek Hakhnazaryan and Noreen Polera Mendelssohn Violin Concerto: Alena Baeva and Vadym Kholodenko As promised a re-visit of these two tapes on my hi-end reference system. I thought I was going to listen to a classical tape… you […]
Hi Ed, I played the new tapes, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto and Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1, as soon as I got them. I was stunned by how good they were. I expected them to be excellent because the tapes I’ve purchased in the past have been outstanding in terms of performance and sonics. However, these […]
Hi Ed,The tape is absolutely stunning. As I mentioned before, I am not a musician nor a knowledgeable student of classical music. For me music is an emotional connection. Music at its best offers a deep immersive experience and the Mendelssohn tape delivers this in spades. You are drawn into the performance. With the lights […]
Firstly, the recording is absolutely stunning. I have never heard anything approaching such reality on my system. The three other new prerecorded tapes I have are excellent but are definitely not in the same league. So that’s very good news. David