
J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations
Milosz Sroczynski
Essential Listening
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Bernard Haitink’s complete Phillips set is currently sitting quietly inside the Decca sale at Presto Music for roughly €55.
That's 25 hours of beautifully sounding Haitink at pretty much absurd price.
(Part of this week’s ongoing sale coverage.)
Between 1962–1975, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under Kirill Kondrashin recorded the entire cycle of Shostakovich's symphonies. In 2006, Melodiya, the original label, gathered the cycle in a beautifully sounding set which, as it turns out, is also available in lossless audio.
The search never really stops.

The piano sits naturally in the room with you. The bass has weight without crowding the other instruments. You can follow each line separately, hear the air between them. Notes arrive clean and immediate, not blurred at the edges. Within a few bars, you know this is the music you want to live with.
I have been chasing that feeling for years. Across new releases and old catalogue, across stores and formats and editions that sometimes differ in ways that are hard to explain but impossible to ignore once you have heard them. It is one of the great quiet pleasures of this hobby. The hunt, and then the find.
But the hunt should not be this hard. Right now, it often means piecing together signals from everywhere. Forums. Stores. Scattered reviews. Endless reissues. Recommendations from people whose priorities may have nothing to do with your own.
You get there eventually. But you do it alone, and you miss things.
That's why I built TrueResAudio, a curated stream of reviews, catalogue finds, release coverage, sale picks, and listening notes for classical and jazz listeners who care deeply about how music is recorded, mastered, and ultimately heard.
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The hunt is still yours. TrueResAudio just makes sure you find more of what you are looking for.
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Opening Notes
What are you listening for?
Cover Feature - Classical
Exploring the Golden Age of Stereo
How recordings began to create the illusion of a real musical event
Interview - Classical
The Invisible Fingerprint. Interview with Miłosz Sroczyński
'I wanted to leave a fingerprint that would be invisible. Paradoxically, achieving that required quite deliberate intellectual work.'
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Loudness Wars Has Found Jazz. Why?
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Miles Davis

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Charles Munch, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Andre Previn, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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