OPUS TEST CD 4 - VARIOUS ARTISTS (HYBRID SACD)

Opus Test CD 4 Various Artists on Hybrid SACD

Test CD 4 is an extended version of the Test Record 4 LP. Contents include six completely new tracks and a few replacements, and the total time is more than 76 minutes. In this the fourth test record, the three basic concepts of Depth of Image, Timbre, and Dynamics have been linked together as a basis for evaluation of Hi Fi equipment.

Test CD 4, like its predecessors, contains a generously varied selection of acoustic music from the Opus 3 catalog, with advisers concerning special points to listen for on each track. Again like its predecessors, the new test record makes an enjoyable music sampler, all the more so as it includes no fewer than 17 tracks from 17 different Opus 3 titles, most of them recent releases.

Opus Test CD 4 Various Artists Track Listing

1.   From the Drottningholms Music (Roman) from Omnibus Wind Ensemble
2.   Try a little Tenderness (Wood - Campbell - Conally) from "Round Midnight
3.   Allegretto con variazoni (Mozart) from Kjell Fagéus and the Zetterqvist Quartet
4.   Sonate, Finale: Vivo (Hägg) from Stefan Lindgren
5.   Circo della vita (Eje Thelin) from Omnibus Wind Ensemble
6.   Played Twice (Monk) from Joakim Milder Consensus
7.   Winin' boy blues (Morton) from Tomas Örnberg's Blue Five and Friends
8.   Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie - Pickard - Casey) from Lars Erstrand Quartet
9.   Allegro di Molto (Mendelssohn) from Stockholm Guitar Quartet
10.  Concertino (L-E Larsson) from Clarinet concertos. Mozart, Larsson etc
11.  Stompin' at the Savoy (Sampson - Goodman) from Erstrand-Lind Quartet
12.  Concertino (L-E Larsson) from Concertos for Double Bass and orchestra
13.  Reunion Blues (M. Jackson) from Two sides of Lars Erstrand
14.  The King (M. Lingedal) from Knoa
15.  Black Beauty (Ellington) from Blue Five featuring Kenny Davern
16.  House Of The Rising Sun (arr. Peters & Bibb) from Cyndee Peters
17.  Look Over Yonder (Trad. arr. E Bibb) from Eric Bibb