From Elusive Disc:
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.
http://www.elusivedisc.com/prodinfo.asp?number=NAXBR03
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.
http://www.elusivedisc.com/prodinfo.asp?number=NAXBR03
