SACD dishonor roll – No 2-channel Stereo high resolution program

The following SACDs are Multi-channel only. – They have NO high resolution 2 Channel Stereo program. Thus if you have a 2 channel SACD player you cannot play the high resolution layer, only the CD layer. It is best to avoid these  SACDs!  

However some new multichannel players will play a mixdown of a multichannel mix if the stereo mix is absent from an SACD if 2 channel stereo playback is selected from the set up menu.

This list made from Internet searches if you see any inaccuracies or you know of others please let me know.  I have not purchased most of these SACDs to actually confirm the absence of a 2 channel high resolution layer.  I have only purchased the The Big Picture (Telarc SACD-60437) which due to the long program Telarc claims there was not enough space for both the multichannel and stereo mixes on the SACD layer, so Telarc choose to give up the high resolution stereo mix in order to keep the CD layer.  I have a multichannel SACD player working in the Stereo mode and it does downmix, but if you have a 2 channel stereo  only SACD avoid this title as well.  

 

Marcel Dupré: Le Chemin de la Croix Op. 29, Gregorian Chants
Friedhelm Flamme (organ) Hans Hermann Jansen, Gregorianik-Schola Marienmünster
CPO 777128



Wagner: Famous Overtures and Orchestral Works

Böhm, Karajan, Kubelik, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker 
Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence 476 734-9



Verdi: Requiem
Sharon Sweet, Florence Quivar, Vinson Cole, Simon Estes, Ernst-Senff-Chor, Carlo Maria Giulini, Berliner Philharmoniker,
Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence 476 735-1 (2 discs)



Carl Orff: Carmina Burana

Barbara Bonney, Frank Lopardo, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Sängerknaben, André Previn, Wiener Philharmoniker
Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence 476 736-7



Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, "Ode an die Freude"

Gwyneth Jones, Hanna Schwarz, René Kollo, Kurt Moll, Bernstein, Wiener Philharmoniker,
Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence 476 736-8



Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Piano Concerto No. 21

Alfred Prinz, Friedrich Gulda, Claudio Abbado, Karl Böhm, Wiener Philharmoniker
Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence 476 736-9



Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Smetana: The Moldau

Christoph von Dohnányi, The Cleveland Orchestra
Decca Eloquence 476 7826



Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite Nos. 1 & 2, Sigurd Jorsalfar Suite Op. 56
Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Finlandia, The Swan of Tuonela 
Neeme Järvi, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence 476 7853



Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, Water Music Suites 1-3

Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Philips Eloquence 476 7859



Ravel: Bolero, La Valse, Rhapsodie espagnole
Bizet: Carmen Suites

Semyon Bychkov, Orchestre de Paris
Decca Eloquence 476 7913



Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concertos "La tempesta di mare", "Il piacere"

Federico Agostini, I Musici
Philips Eloquence 476 7917



B&W Bowers & Wilkins presents: Very Audiophile New Recordings.

Stockfisch Records / Silkroad Music SFR.B&W01SACD



Sea Change: The Choral Music of Richard Rodney Bennett
John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers


Collegium CSACD 901



Ray Charles: Live at the Olympia 2000


XIII Bis Records 640747 SACD



Tomorrow's Jazz Classics 2005


Nagel Heyer CD 1022

The Big Picture 
Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Telarc SACD-60437