Telarc Continues Its Support Of SACD With Over 35 Hybrid SACD Releases In 2003!

26-Jun-03

Telarc International continues its commitment to SACD with over 35 hybrid SACDs released in 2003. Highlights from the first part of the year have included Al Di Meolaís Flesh on Flesh, John Pizzarelliís Live at Birdland, singer Tierney Suttonís Something Cool, Gerard Schwarz & The Royal Liverpool Philharmonicís Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountains, Martin Pearlman & Boston Baroqueís Handel: Water Music & Royal Fireworks, and most recently Robert Spano & Atlanta Symphony Orchestraís Rainbow Body, as well as their Heads Up label partnerís recording of Spyro Gyraís Original Cinema.ìWe have been committed for over five years to this exciting medium, and the Telarc production staff has given their all to put us at the forefront of SACD technology,î says President Robert Woods. ìWe continue to refine our surround techniques ensuring that our SACD multi-channel releases meet the expectations of music fans and audiophiles alike.îStill to come in SACD multi-channel for 2003 include Heads Upís Jaco Pastorius Big Bandís Word of Mouth Revisited, McCoy Tynerís Land of Giants, Donald Runnicles & The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus in Beethovenís monumental Ninth Symphony, Empire Brass Quintetís Baroque Music for Brass and Organ, Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Popsí Epics, Marcus Millerís M2, Paavo Jarvi & the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestraís Stravinsky: Firebird Suite & Petrushka, and the first complete opera in SACD with Leon Botstein & the American Symphony Orchestraís recording of Straussí rare opera Die Égyptische Helena starring Deborah Voight.In 2003, Telarc bolstered its positioning in the surround world taking on domestic distribution of the Netherlands-based PentaTone label. A label comprised of former Philips Classics executives creating exciting new recordings in addition to multi-channel historic releases from the Philips Classics RQR recordings from the 1970s, re-mastered for SACD. Like Telarc, all PentaTone SACDs are hybrid.Stay tuned for more exciting SACD releases in 2004.