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Blu-Ray Disc plays on Blu-Ray Players ONLY! This Blu-Ray is Region Free (worldwide)!
Featured in Kalman Rubinson's Music In the Round in the March 2010 issue of Stereophile!
Tom Beghin plays complete works for solo keyboard by Haydn on 7 historical
keyboards in 9 virtual rooms.
This 4-disc Box Set features 4 dual-layer discs containing 15 hours of
high-resolution audio in 5.0 surround and 2.0 stereo, 3 hours of high-definition
video, including Playing the Room, a documentary film with subtitles in Dutch,
French, German and Japanese.
The First Naxos Blu-Ray is a recording of the complete works of Joseph Haydn for
solo keyboard in nine virtual reconstructions of the rooms in which these pieces
would have been originally performed, using seven specially-crafted historical
keyboards.
A trail-blazing project of four Blu-Ray discs featuring 14.5 hours of music with
an added "picture in picture" option, plus a three-hour documentary on the
"making of" the recordings, directed by award-winning director and screen-writer
Robert J. Litz.
A fully interactive experience, this epic set offers users the opportunity to
"direct" their own performance of a short Andante for Musical Clock; by
selecting from a choice of rooms and instruments users can freely navigate 63
possible combinations to experiment with sound and acoustics as if wandering the
18th century halls themselves.
"Rather than travel with a recording crew to each building and try to
accommodate the sessions to the schedules of engineers and venues, Beghin teamed
up with colleagues at McGill University, in Montreal, to bring the acoustics of
the various venues back to McGill, where he could perform with fewer
constraints...The result of all this is ear-opening and mind-blowing. We hear
the evolution of Haydn's brilliance and ingenuity on a series of delightfully
colorful instruments, played stylishly and with historical sensibility, all
sounding as if recorded in a series of wonderful an different acoustic spaces."
- Kalman Rubinson, Music In the Round, Stereophile Magazine, March 2010 issue,
pg 44
Blu-Ray: The HD images on the Blu-ray relates neither to NTSC nor PAL; all
HD-ready or Full-HD TV-screens will by HDMI accept the on-screen menu. There are
no regional restrictions on this Blu-ray disc.
Features:
• 3 Blu-Ray Audio Discs & 1 Blu-Ray Video Disc (4 dual-layer discs)
• DTS-HD Master Audio
• 5.0 Surround Sound
• PCM 2.0
• Video in 1080i60 High Definition
• Region Free (worldwide)
• Subtitles: Dutch, French, German, Japanese
• Made in Austria
Musicians:
Tom Beghin, solo keyboard
Selections:
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Complete Works for Solo Keyboard
Total running time, 18 hours.
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