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1st SACD Purchase

I just acquired a transport that plays SACDs.  I own a few thousand CDs, but not a single SACD.  So, I want to purchase a SACD to give this transport a run for its money.  Please suggest to me one SACD release that will really expose my transport and the rest of the system to a good test of its capabilities to reproduce quality sounds.  Any genre works for me.

Thanks
pgaulke60

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edcyn
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Junior Brown's Down Home Chrome on Telarc is a must try.  Also try any of the old RCA Living Stereo reissues.  Try Morton Gould's music for Brass & Percussion, or Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner.  If you can tolerate classical vocal music, the Anna Moffo sings Operatic Arias has surprisingly good sound.
edcyn
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rcprince --  Hey, I've got that Morten Lauridsen CD, except mine is on the RCM label.  Not an SACD, though.  I played it a lot, back at the turn of the century.  Another modernist but eminently accessible, utterly beautiful piece is Eric Whitacre's choral work Cloudburst.  Definitely worth a try.  That CD, by the way, is indeed on Hyperion.
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