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This is an album unlike most that Eiji Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra usually produce. It is a classical album with a singular purpose: to provide respite from our daily storm. There are similar discs out there but not even approaching the quality of Reveries. The recording quality is assured by the label, Reference Recordings. They take sound recording as seriously as anyone, and their goal is to make finer recordings than anyone else. And they generally succeed as this album proves.
The content of this beautiful album ranges from composers familiar to those outside of classical circles, like Tchaikovsky, to less familiar ones such as Faure and Gounod. They have in common the single trait of being superb melodists. Each piece is built upon a beautiful melody surrounded by exquisite orchestration. Each was composed with a slow, relaxed tempo. Violins abound because they can be soothing, but also flutes and even French horns.
Technically, the sound of Reveries is of the highest quality. Instrumental timbres, the air surrounding instruments, and their definition are all superb. So is the amount of reverberant ambience, and clarity, and depth of soundstage, and center fill. All this adds up to sumptuous sound.
Reveries is an album to place in the CD player and then sit down, listen, and let the tension drain into the ether. Highly recommended if you happen to live in today's hectic, chaotic world. (Even if you don't, buy it for someone who does.)
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