Written by Karl Erik Sylthe, february 2009
Four new releases in Blu-ray Audio are announced from Lindberg Lyd, and "The Nordic Sound" is the first one of these. At the same time this one is the third in a row, and like the first two this is also a two-disc release. It has the hybrid multi-channel SA-CD on one disc, and Blu-ray Audio on the other.
"The Nordic Sound" follows the positive developments that took place with the user interface on SONAR, in that you can operate it without the use of the display. It is the same audio formats that are used, respectively DTS HD Master Audio 5.1, LPCM 5.1 and LPCM 2.0.
2L has used graphics capabilities for Blu-ray in a good way, in that it is displayed graphics albums with "cover flow" in the iTunes-inspired style. Useful on a record, which consists of short-stories from 18 different albums from 2L.
Music
With the exception of the upcoming "Dena piano duo" with Grieg's addition to piano pieces by Mozart, are all taken from previous releases from the last 2-3 years. The great majority are also well-known recordings for me, with the exception of recordings of Islandsmoen, Ives and the Grammy nominated Immortal / Nystedt.
The selection shows the great range which lies in the releases from 2L, and is suitable as a presentation and teaser from this catalogue, which is mostly based around classical and contemporary music, but without any hesitation cross borders. Not mentioning to tear down the borders.
Sure there will always favourites in such a collection of music. To me, TrondheimSolistene with Marianne Thorsen make a peak with their performance of Mozart's violin concerts. Excellent performance of these beautiful works of Mozart, as we have written more about
