Budapest Festival Orchestra - Budapest Live - Phillips SACD rip via PS3 to iso (3.41GB) | 24bit/88kHz flac | 6ch (2.52GB)(+3.6dB gain) | 2ch (1.06GB) DR15 (+3.75dB gain) | Classical I wonder why it says 'Not for sale' on the cover & the disc. I bought it most ordinarily at Amazon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SA-CD.net review by raffells: As nobody else who likes this disc is prepared to review it? This was seemingly an early live 1999 DSD recording which seems NOT to have been Up to the demanding standards required by those in charge? However we are indeed fortunate that someone had the foresight to release this disc as a sampler & sort of demo disc. Sadly no liner notes or information was provided with the discs I obtained, but it certainly has a Festive folkish feel running through it. The good news is that we are rewarded with some wonderfull music & music making of a fairly high degree. Plus generous applause between tracks, coughing & those odd noises from the orchestra,*** some of which are musical. I am only sorry that some editing of these "noises" could not have been edited out hence the star dropped. Apart from Bolero which sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise Easternish European program, you are unlikely to hear some of these pieces again on sacd. Certainly not better versions. A summary: Starts with a Dvorak Slavonic Dance & Bartok Rumanian Folk Dances then 3 Kodaly Choral works (plus children)beautifully & movingly sung ,followed by Lizst's Hungarian Rhapsody #4. The Spaniard Sarasate piece Gypsy airs for violin & orchestra is next, followed by something unique. Oskar Okros Cimbalon improvisations on Bach & Lizst. No name is attributed to the performer here (?) an outstanding virtuoso, presumably the composer. A traditional very short Hungarian Folk melody follows. Somehow Ravel's Bolero was included & this is my major gripe. Why? No complaints as to the performance, as if it matters? The disc ends with two Strauss Polkas,***appropriate Long Live the Hungarians & Peasant Polka. Bright lively toe tapping works. I felt as though I could have gone an encore, but maybe I'm being greedy as there is no doubt they could NOT have gotten off the stage without doing one. A disc for fun & enjoyment, stereo only being reviewed, it does have a multi channel track. Firstly, even though out of print, there are a few copies knocking about if you know who to ask. MWC says: I took the liberty of correcting some spelling / gramatical errors in this review, as this person is probably not used to the English language, going by the way it was written. I left his final goof* as a prime example of this so you might understand why I did it. * His last sentance starts 'Firstly', I could have changed it to 'Lastly' or just deleted the word and it would read better. Other SA-CD.net reviews here: http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/4487 Tracks: 01. Dvorak: Slavonic Dance Op. 72 No. 2 02. Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances Sz 68 03. Kodály: Magnificat 04. Kodály: Zöld Erdöben 05. Kodály: Táncnóta 06. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4 in D minor 07. Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, for violin and orchestra Op. 20 08. Ökrös: Cimbalom Improvisation on various melodies by Bach and Liszt 09. Trad.: Hungarian Folk Melody 10. Ravel: Boléro 11. J. Strauss: Long Live the Hungarians, polka Op. 323 12. J. 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