R.Wagner: Gotterdammerung / Georg Solti - Wiener Philharmoniker / 4CD
EAC | ape (img + cue) | 3% recovery | R.S: 1,33 GB + 132 MB Libretto / parts: 15+ 2 Libretto | T.T. 265:07mins | Covers, Booklet, CD.




R.Wagner: Das Walkure / Georg Solti - Wiener Philharmoniker / 4CD
EAC | ape (img + cue) | 3% recovery | R.S: 1,11 GB + 143 MB Libretto / parts: 12+ 2 Libretto | T.T. 228:59mins | Covers, Booklet, CD.



''One of the great achievements of the gramophone''
Peguin Guide to CDs

''Other Rings do this or that a bit better, but for sheer grandeur, this is still it: In the stereo era, much of the cast has still to be bettered (ditto the playing of the Vienna Philharmonic), and sonically, it's still a masterpiece''
Robert Levine / Stereophile

R. Wagner: Das Rheingold / Georg Solti - Wiener Philharmoniker / 2CD
EAC | ape (img + cue) | 3% recovery | R.S: 773 + 56,8 MB Libretto / parts: 8+ 1 Libretto | T.T. 145:45mins | Covers, Booklet, CD.




R.Wagner: Siegfried / Georg Solti - Wiener Philharmoniker / 4CD
EAC | ape (img + cue) | 3% recovery | R.S: 1,18 GB + 105 MB Libretto / parts: 13+ 2 Libretto | T.T. 237:05mins | Covers, Booklet, CD.



''One of the great achievements of the gramophone''
Peguin Guide to CDs

''Other Rings do this or that a bit better, but for sheer grandeur, this is still it: In the stereo era, much of the cast has still to be bettered (ditto the playing of the Vienna Philharmonic), and sonically, it's still a masterpiece''
Robert Levine / Stereophile

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Beethoven: The Early String Quartets OP.18 / Takacs Quartet / 2CD / 2004.
EAC | ape (img + cue) | 3% recovery | R.S. 682 MB / 2CD, 7parts | T.T. 74:16 + 74:17mins | Covers, Booklet, CD.

Editor's Choice - April 2004 / Gramophone Magazine


Beethoven: String Quartets - ''Razumovsky'' OP.59,1-3 - ''Harp'' OP.74 / Takacs Quartet / 2CD / 2002.
EAC | ape (img + cue) | 3% recovery | R.S. 662 MB / 2CD, 7parts | T.T. 71:30 + 72:17mins | Covers, Booklet, CD.

2002 Grammy Award, "Best Chamber Music Recording";
2002 Gramophone Award, "Best Chamber Music Recording"
July 2002 Editor's Choice / Grammophone music magazine

"Exceptional by any standards." - The Guardian



Beethoven: The Late String Quartets OPP.95, 127, 130-133 & 135 / Takacs Quartet / 3CD / 2004.EAC | ape (img + cue) | 3% recovery | R.S. 926 MB / 3CD, 10parts | T.T. 74:20 + 67:40 + 78:19mins | Covers, Booklet, CD.

2005 Gramophone Award, "Best Chamber Music Recording"

''This cycle's crowning glory.'' - Gramophone
"It is impossible to exaggerate the beauty of the tone-colours that these four musicians achieve... If late Beethoven is the Holy Grail of quartet playing, then the Takács Quartet has found it"
The Guardian concert review.

Evgeny Kissin & James Levine: The Carnegie Hall Concert / Schubert - Piano Music for Four Hands / 2CD / 2006.
EAC | ape (img + cue) | 3% recovery | 348 MB / 4parts | Disc1: 34,05mins + Disc2: 51,33mins |Covers, Booklet, CD.

May-2006: Gramophone Editor's Choice
RECORDING OF THE MONTH / musicweb-international
Classics Today Rating:


''Superb! The energy and spirit of these live performances have that quality of uniqueness
which means they can take pride of place alongside any studio recording one can name ... ''
Dominy Clements / musicweb-international.

Accentus - Transcriptions - Laurence Equilbey.
EAC | ape (img + cue) | 3% recovery | 206 MB | 50,15 mins |Covers, Booklet, CD.

Schubert - Death And The Maiden / Rosamunde - Takacs Quartet - hyperion 2006.
Eac | ape (img + cue) | 3% recovery | 319 MB | 68,67mins | Covers, Booklet, CD.

Classics Today Rating:


The ensemble, even with a new viola player, is impeccable - this is still a quartet that sounds as though it breathes and thinks as one – and some of leader Edward Dusinberre’s playing is intensely beautiful.
The recording is superb: up close and personal, so all the detail’s there, yet there’s enough ambient detail to stop it from becoming too invasive. It’s the first recording the Takacs has made for its new label Hyperion, and they must be thrilled with it.
Reviewer: Andrew McGregor / BBC.com

Schubert - Death And The Maiden / Rosamunde - Takacs Quartet - 2006.
Eac | ape (img + cue) | 3% recovery | 319 MB | 68,67mins | Covers, Booklet, CD.

Classics Today Rating:


''The ensemble, even with a new viola player, is impeccable - this is still a quartet that sounds as though it breathes and thinks as one – and some of leader Edward Dusinberre’s playing is intensely beautiful.
The recording is superb: up close and personal, so all the detail’s there, yet there’s enough ambient detail to stop it from becoming too invasive. It’s the first recording the Takacs has made for its new label Hyperion, and they must be thrilled with it.''
Reviewer: Andrew McGregor / BBC.com

Vivaldi: 5 Violin Concertos / Victorta Mullova Il Giardino Armonico / 2005.
Eac + ape (img + cue) | 3%recovery | 314 MB (4parts) | 51,77mins | Covers, Booklet, CD.

J. Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem / Simon Rattle - Berliner Philharmoniker / February 2007.
EAC | ape img + cue) | 3% recovery | 277 MB (3parts) | 67:03 mins | Covers, Booklet, CD.

Sergej Rachmaninoff: His Complete Recordings / BoxSet: 10CD / RCA: 2005.
EAC | ape(img + cue) | 3%recovery | 1,36 GB (21parts) | 10h., 6min. | BoxSet, Covers, Booklet, CD.

Anna Netrebko & Rolando Villazon: Duets - Staatkapelle Dresden / Nicola Luisotti / March2007.
EAC | ape (img + cue) | 3% recovery | 350MB (4parts) | 70,28min | Covers, Booklet, CD.

"When two voices make love as rapturously as theirs, one plus one makes more than two."
- Financial Times-

Sviatoslav Richter - Pichter The Master / Vol.1 Beethoven 2CD / April 2007.
EAC | ape ( img+cue) | 3%recovery | 355MB (4parts) | CD1:57.45min + CD2:64.44min | Covers, Booklet, CD.


Sviatoslav Richter - Pichter The Master / Vol.2 Mozart 2CD / April 2007.
EAC | ape ( img+cue) | 3%recovery | 478MB (6parts) | CD1:67.43min + CD2:70.07min | Covers, Booklet, CD.

Monteverdi - Vespers / Vespro Della Beata Vergine - Paul McCreesh / Gabrielli Consort & Players - 2CD / 2006.
EAC | ape (img+cue) | 3%recovery | 427MB (5parts) | 1h, 37m | Covers - Booklet - CD.

"Disc of the month: November-2006 / BBC music magazine -- December-2006 / Classic fm magazine."

The glory of Rostropovich - 80th birthday tribute. BoxSet: 8CDs / Feb. 2007.
EAC / img & cue / wav | 1411kbps.| Rip: 3% recovery. | 8CDs: 2,29GB / 29 parts. | 9h,45m.

Rolando Vilazon - Gitano ( Zarzuela Arias) - Placido Domingo / Orchestra de la Comunidad de Madrid / 2007.
EAC | APE | WAV: 1411kbps. | Rip: 3% recovery. | 351MB / 4 parts | Full Covers / Booklet / CD | Tracklist enclosed.
Gramophone Editor's Choise: April 2007

Monteverdi - Combattimento - Rolando Vilazon - Le Concert d' Astree / Emmanuelle Haim / 2007.
EAC | APE | WAV: 1411kbps. | Rip: 3% recovery. | 348 / 4 parts | Full Covers / Booklet / CD | Tracklist enclosed.