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Hans Fagius - J.S. Bach: Complete Organ Music (2005) 5xSACD
There is obviously a great deal musically to talk about here, but the unusual formatting of this album requires explaining the technical details first. I recall in the 1980s a 2 CD album which contained all the piano music by a noted East European composer – though he wrote quite a bit. The secret was that the first quarter of the program was only on the left channel of the first disc, with the second quarter on the right channel. You had to use your balance control turning all the way left or right, or disconnect the output you didn’t want.
BIS has come up with a far better system for cramming a great deal of music on a few discs to cut expenses. These excellent recordings of the entire organ literature of Bach were recorded by BIS in 44.1K/16-bit PCM audio in 1983 thru 1989, with a few more done in 1999. They were released on 18 discs total. The Swedish label transferred all the original PCM recordings to stereo DSD format. (So the set really doesn’t belong in this section, but since a SACD player is required to hear it, I’m placing it here.) The multichannel layer on SACDs takes a great deal of storage space, and when it isn’t used, the stereo SACD layer can be increased to hold far more than the standard limit of 80 minutes. Thus Disc 1 of this boxed set runs 250 minutes and there are 86 tracks! But although the resolution is not SACD quality, you do require an SACD or universal player to play the set – there is no CD layer. There probably could have been, but it would have been limited to the normal 80 minutes on each disc.
SACD ISO (*.iso): DSD 2.0 (image) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz
Classical | 4:10:27 + 4:13:39 + 4:12:41 + 3:34:14 + 3:57:15 | 16.66 GB
Tracklist:
There is obviously a great deal musically to talk about here, but the unusual formatting of this album requires explaining the technical details first. I recall in the 1980s a 2 CD album which contained all the piano music by a noted East European composer – though he wrote quite a bit. The secret was that the first quarter of the program was only on the left channel of the first disc, with the second quarter on the right channel. You had to use your balance control turning all the way left or right, or disconnect the output you didn’t want.
BIS has come up with a far better system for cramming a great deal of music on a few discs to cut expenses. These excellent recordings of the entire organ literature of Bach were recorded by BIS in 44.1K/16-bit PCM audio in 1983 thru 1989, with a few more done in 1999. They were released on 18 discs total. The Swedish label transferred all the original PCM recordings to stereo DSD format. (So the set really doesn’t belong in this section, but since a SACD player is required to hear it, I’m placing it here.) The multichannel layer on SACDs takes a great deal of storage space, and when it isn’t used, the stereo SACD layer can be increased to hold far more than the standard limit of 80 minutes. Thus Disc 1 of this boxed set runs 250 minutes and there are 86 tracks! But although the resolution is not SACD quality, you do require an SACD or universal player to play the set – there is no CD layer. There probably could have been, but it would have been limited to the normal 80 minutes on each disc.
SACD ISO (*.iso): DSD 2.0 (image) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz
Classical | 4:10:27 + 4:13:39 + 4:12:41 + 3:34:14 + 3:57:15 | 16.66 GB
Tracklist:
