the CREAR recordings, pt.2

Another DIRECT-CUT-SUPER-AUDIO-CD from Stockfisch: a SACD Hybrid incl. DSD-5.1-/DSD-Stereo-/CD-Audio-Layer, documentating the second session of piano recordings at CREAR, Argyll, Scotland.
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Stockfisch Records is releasing an SACD with Franz Liszt´s late works written for the piano?

Why certainly: one of the most promising and award winning music talents in Hungary, an extraordinary recording location in Scotland which had been successfully used for many classical recordings and Günter Pauler´s DSD Direct Cut technique for SACD surround sound - that´s it!

Stockfisch-Records and Péter Tóth are proud to have been awarded with the Grand Prix International Liszt du Disque 2006 by the International Liszt-Society. The jury elected the SACD Sinistre as the best Liszt-Recording of the year. Péter Tóth, Hans-Jörg Maucksch from Stockfisch, and Dr. Attila Bardosi went to Budapest on Oct. 22nd for the award ceremony.

From the laudatio of th jury: "The art of Péter Tóth is not only characterized  by virtuosity, but also by an intelligent process of musical  construction, which is the result of a deep spiritual insight  in the great masters music. Besides one can enjoy the poetry  of music and the large palette of colours and characters obtained  through the subtility of his touch."

Péter Tóth, born in 1983 in Békéscsaba (Hungary)

In 1997, three years after he had first touched a piano key, Péter Tóth won the first prize at the international piano competition of the music conservatory in Wittenberg, Germany. Because of this he was accepted in the class for gifted children of the Franz Liszt Music Academy in the same year.

In 1999 he participated in the international piano competition in Bovino, Italy, and won the first prize there. In 2000 followed the second prize (the first prize was not presented) at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar, Germany, and in 2001 again the second prize (the first prize was also not presented here) at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Budapest.

Hans-Jörg Maucksch and Péter Tóth in the Liszt acadamy in Budapest

During his studies he has had several opportunities to gather experience on the international concert stage. Among others he has given concerts in the Konzertgebouw in Amsterdam, in the Tschaikowsky Music Conservatory in Moscow, in France, Austria, Japan, in the Czech Republic, in Belgium and in Germany.

Péter Tóth is considered one of the most promising music talents in Hungary. In 2005 he made his debut in Munich with a solo concert in the series „Piano Concerts in the Royal Residence“ with resounding success. The „Süddeutsche Zeitung“ wrote of his performance: „It is enormous, what this young Hungarian pianist is capable of … a clever, plausible music with all the potential to grow and to mingle with the very best.“

In CREAR we used our SADiE DSD8 system for the recording, processing and mastering of this DIRECT-CUT-SUPER-AUDIO-CD – a brand-new system from the tradition-steeped British manufacturer of mastering equipment that allows simultaneous recording of 8 channels in Direct Stream Digital. The analogue signal from the microphone is converted at the input to DSD and is also maintained in DSD format throughout the processing stages. The end result is then obtained in the SADiE DSD8 – the “cutting master” (AIT tape) – which is later transferred directly to an SACD glass master in the pressing plant.

«Hörproben/Samples» "Fantasie und Fuge über B-A-C-H" (60sec. mp3-version!)