Riddle-ean arrangements in Fine Multichannel
John H. Kilbourne | New York, NY United States | 02/17/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This is a huge band (the Cint'i Pops Big Band) in full blown multichannel SACD. The arrangements are perfect, and the playing is nearly so. One can quibble as to whether a band this big can really swing, but this one does its darndest. There may be here a certain down-tempo leadfootedness, but it may be in my imagination only. One misses the voice part, carried here by the instruments, but the tunes are their own wonderful entities, on their own. The sound is pure Telarc, natural and relaxed. The sound is "sitting in the middle of the orchestra", which you either like or don't, depending on your personal preference. If your music system can sing out, with this SACD it will."