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December 10, 2019, 06:19 AM #1401
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December 19, 2019, 06:11 PM #1402
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Josef Mysliveček - Violiin Concertos - Sinfonia - Ouverture
Collegium 1704, Václav Luks
Leila Schayegh, violin
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Fanfare Magazine doesn't like the violin sound on this album.
They seem to prefer modern instruments.
I find Schayegh brilliant, and i do like HIP.
Light and optimistic pieces, that make one think of Mozart's early violin concertos.
And it seems they were inspired by Mysliveček's violin concertos.
Young Mozart was a great admirer of his Czech colleague.
Václav Luks tries to make the composer's works popular again, like he does with Zelenka.
He was kind enough to sign this CD yesterday after a long concert with his ensemble and choir.
They brought Händel's Messiah.
The ensemble was great, the choir also, the 4 solo singers decent to good.
Luks is kind of hyperkinetic on the scene, and clearly inspires his musicians.Vivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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December 21, 2019, 11:12 AM #1403
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The genius of Schostakowitsch - enought time now to play all symfonies. Just fantastic. The second last picture is not part of the booklet, but the last picture of the biography i'm reading at the moment.
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December 21, 2019, 01:02 PM #1404
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This is one my favorites : Opus 35: The Violin concert by Tchaikovsky. Written in only a few weeks, In that time: hardly no orchestra wanted to perform this, because it was "unplayable": And from all recordings: this one is as far I know, the best performance available: This violin concert is performed very well by a wonderful Philadelphia orchestra, but not only that: it is a big show of one of the greatest violin players all time: Itzhak Perlman. And in this record he is on his best and made the perfect Tchaikovsky opus 35.
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December 21, 2019, 01:31 PM #1405
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Great performance - to me Perlman is also one of the best Paganini performers.
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December 21, 2019, 01:59 PM #1406
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I’m also a Perlman fan, like his phrasing.
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December 21, 2019, 02:59 PM #1407
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Incredible, mesmerizing...
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January 4, 2020, 04:50 PM #1408
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Got a lot of vinyl records from a shop in the Netherlands that was closed along time ago. It was via a friend, and there are some amazing recordings inside
This is the first one I like to share, the componist: Miklos Rosza three Hungarian sketches opus 14. notturno Ungherese opus 25, theme variations and finale, opus 13
Played by the RCA Italiana Orchestra
I love this record, the style is Shostakovich, if the music is played blind, I would definitely say: this is Shostakovich, however: it is made by the Hungarian Miklos Rosza and the performance by the Orchestra is very nice. I love this record.
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January 5, 2020, 07:37 AM #1409
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Thank you for posting this.
This composer wrote quite some movie scores (like 'Ben Hur').
I'm going to examine him further.Vivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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January 5, 2020, 08:02 AM #1410
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Louise Alder
Joseph Middleton - Lines Written During A Sleepless Night - The Russian Connection
via Qobuz
Recommendation of the week by Presto Classical.
She's great.
In more than one aspect...
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January 5, 2020, 05:31 PM #1411
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Miklós Rózsa - Violin Concerto - Concerto for String Orchestra - Kaleidoscope - Theme, Variations and Finale
Jennifer Pike, violin
BBC Phiilharmonic, Rumon Gamba
Qobuz 24/96
A discovery to me, thanks to this thread.
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January 5, 2020, 06:08 PM #1412
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We saw Jennifer Pike in June playing in a small private concert at the famed violin shop Beare's near Wigmore Hall in London. She was demonstrating four violins that Beare had for sale - 3 Strads and a Guarneri del Gesu. She then played a concert with the golden age Strad (the most valuable of the 3 Strads and the del Gesu). She is a very fine violinist and hearing these rare instruments close up was a great treat. Nothing by Rozsa however.
I do have the famed Heifetz recording of the Rozsa Violin Concerto with the Dallas Symphony conducted by Walter Hendl. Rozsa wrote the concerto for Heifetz who premiered it with Dallas and Hendl in 1956.
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January 7, 2020, 06:45 PM #1413
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Johann Pachelbel - April Storm - Suites, Canon & Songs
Gli Incogniti, Amandine Beyer
Hans Jorg Mämmel, tenor
This is a delicious album on all accounts.
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January 8, 2020, 04:47 PM #1414
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For today I listened to 3 violin concertos opus 7 by Jean Marie Leclair, and I love it and will definitely repeat these soon.
https://www.amazon.com/Jean-Marie-Le.../dp/B08155RQB8
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January 8, 2020, 04:51 PM #1415
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January 8, 2020, 05:28 PM #1416
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January 10, 2020, 04:01 PM #1417
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Bye-Bye Berlin
Marion Rampal
Quatuor Manfred
Featuring Raphaël Imbert
Qobuz 24/44.1
Fantastic evocation of Berlin between the 2 world wars.
The string quartet is great, Rampal's German diction is quite good, and the bass clarinet and saxes of Imbert are highly enjoyable.
Bye bye… or Berlin for ever?
Throughout the 1920s, all eyes were turned towards Berlin. Driven by a collective energy, artists of all persuasions (writers, painters, architects, filmmakers and composers) there established the principles of “New Objectivity”, which saw the city become the very epitome of modernity, at the same time as following in the footsteps of other great cities worldwide, not least New York, the birthplace of jazz. Life in Berlin was not the stuff of romance however: strikes, poverty, repression, the rise of Nazism… The post-war social context contributed to the craze that swept the capital for cabaret, a kind of safety valve that allowed for a moral and social release. It is this ephemeral, underground world of “Great Berlin” as depicted in The Blue Angel that Marion Rampal and the Quatuor Manfred invite us to rediscover here, in collaboration with saxophonist Raphaël Imbert: a liberal burst of freedom and humanity delivered with passion! © harmonia mundiVivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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January 10, 2020, 05:13 PM #1418
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Mozart - Clarinet Concerto K. 622 - Quintettsatz KV Anhang 1 - Clarinet Quintet K. 581
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno
Julien Hervé, clarinet
Qobuz 24/48
Wonderful interpretations of some of the most wonderful clarinet pieces ever written.
After "Waiting for Clara", which focused on the music of Brahms and Schumann, this second album on NoMadMusic from the clarinetist Julien Hervé looks back another few years, to the apex of Classical style, with Mozart’s Quintet and Concerto. After discovering the instrument later in his life, Mozart fell entirely in love with it and dedicated these sublime pieces to it. This hedonistic, luminous programme, recorded live, offers us the opportunity to discover - or rediscover - two of the greatest masterpieces in the clarinet repertoire. © NoMadmusicVivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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January 11, 2020, 11:02 AM #1419
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January 11, 2020, 12:14 PM #1420
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January 11, 2020, 02:10 PM #1421
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Bach - Sei Solo - The Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo
Thomas Zehetmair
Qobuz 24/96
Wonderful interpretation of these masterpieces.
I never tire of hearing them.
They reveal each listening session an extra layer.
Yes, Bach was the greatest of them all...
These are the ECM notes:
Composed three centuries ago, Johann Sebastian Bach’s set of six works for solo violin stands as one of the holy grails of the instrument’s literature – perhaps the holiest. Now the great Austrian musician Thomas Zehetmair makes his own mark in the rich history of this music, revisiting the repertoire on period instruments.
Zehetmair is an extraordinary violinist and a consistently inquisitive and self-questioning artist. He has not only played the big concertos but has given close attention to chamber music and new repertory, and has also found an extra calling as a conductor, channeling this varied experience into his return to the formidable cornerstone of Bach’s solo masterpieces.
As a young man Zehetmair worked with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in his period ensemble, working with him to prepare for his first recording of the sonatas and partitas on a modern instrument. For this new recording, he draws out exquisite colours from two violins from Bach’s lifetime, both of them by masters in the German tradition, but there is nothing antiquarian in his approach – old instruments, for him, are tools with which to express a modern sensibility: alert, edgy, multivalent. His performance engages, too, with the superb acoustic of the priory church of St Gerold, in Austria where so many legendary ECM recordings have been made.
Peter Gülke, in his accompanying essay, refers to the “floating spirituality” of this music, and to how Bach here offers one side of a conversation with the performer, whom he leaves free to determine matters of dynamic shading, phrasing and bowing. Zehetmair brings vividness and intelligence to the conversation on a recording that, deeply steeped in the music and true, is at the same time powerfully original. © ECM New SeriesVivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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January 11, 2020, 02:35 PM #1422
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This is a recording I very much like: Anne Gastinel, Bach Cello Suites.
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January 11, 2020, 03:01 PM #1423
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Emmanuel Pahud - Dreamtime
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ivan Repušić
Qobuz 24/44.1
Wonderful flute playing by Pahud.
Modern meets classical meets romantic period.
Works of Penderecki, Reinecke, Mozart, Busoni, Takemitsu.Vivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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January 11, 2020, 04:02 PM #1424
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Last edited by Alkyogre; January 11, 2020 at 04:05 PM. Reason: Added quote
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January 11, 2020, 06:12 PM #1425
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A small one or tonight, it was time to end the Vienna Valse, they all sound the friggin' same. Lets finish this Valse forever! Ravel made a piece on that theme. A tough birth, followed by something that sounds like the classical Valse and ends with a harsh death. The work became a master on its own
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January 11, 2020, 06:13 PM #1426
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That's why I wrote 'arguably'.
I'm very interested in hearing about your top picks, if at all possible to say.
Of course it depends on one's mood and the day.
I love a lot of chamber music.
From medieval times up to this century.
So much choice, and all so easiily accessible.
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January 11, 2020, 06:16 PM #1427
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January 11, 2020, 09:31 PM #1428
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I love piano music and my favorite composer is Chopin, really do love opus 13 and 14 but this is not chamber music anymore however in my all time lovelies.
A few pieces I am keen on in chamber music are from chopin valses/preludes/nocturnes
Brahms Valses opus 39
Gershwin preludes
difficult to say what is best, and I don’t know alot of pieces, so many things to explore
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January 12, 2020, 07:02 AM #1429
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From my cherished box set: Decca Sound - The Analogue Years
Ravel - L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
Motet Choir of Geneva
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Remarkably clear stereo recording from '54.
It sounds dated of course, and you hear the tape hiss (which is a good thing, as you know they didn't compress the recording), but still very good insight into the stage with the singers and orchestra.
Bonus tracks:
Ma Mère l'Oye - Suite
Recorded in '57.Vivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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January 12, 2020, 05:03 PM #1430
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For tonight a well known cd from Einaudi, elements. Lots of marketing on this: lots of sound, sadly this is not my thing and in my opinion an overrated album.
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January 17, 2020, 06:05 PM #1431
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Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto - Symphony no. 5 - The Hebrides
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Isabelle Faust, violin
Qobuz 24/96
We're just back from Bruges where we saw Collegium Vocale, directed by Philippe Herreweghe. This ensemble celebrates its 50th birthday!
A programme with motets from Mendelssohn.
This in the Bach weekend, the 10th organised in Brugge.
Because Mendelssohn was instrumental (pun intended) in reviving Bach, and also because he composed religious music inspired by the great master, this cooncert fitted perfectly in a Bach weekend.
These motets are wonderful pieces, seldom played and recorded.
Herreweghe admitted they were new for him too.
I'm going to examine these on Qobuz, but a quick first search was fruitless.
So I played this wonderful album, also with a baroque orchestra that plays Mendelssohn.
You can hear this, and it is a nice flavour.Vivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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January 17, 2020, 06:11 PM #1432
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It's not entirely my thing either, but... it attracts young people.
We experienced this during a concert of his, a couple of years ago.
A lot of youngsters cheering as if he were Justin Bieber!
My youngest daughter loves him (we took her with us).
She plays the piano, and his pieces are easier to play than Bach or Satie.
She started to play and listen to Einaudi and now listens to Satie, Chopin and Ravel.Vivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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February 14, 2020, 05:25 PM #1433
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Sibelius Symphonies 1-7, Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.
Clear vinyl, half-speed mastered, seven LP box, limited to 2.000 copies (641/2000). Excellent performance, very nice SQ.
Symphony #1.
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February 16, 2020, 04:28 PM #1434
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Shostakovich
Rachmaninoff - Sonatas for cello and piano
Alexander Warenberg
Guiseppe Guarrera
trptk
Qobuz 24/96
Very beautiful sonatas.
If you're in a rather mellow mood, don't be afraid, this is very 'sweet' music!
Wonderfully recorded, as always with trptk.Vivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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February 22, 2020, 01:58 PM #1435
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Live on BBC 3 radio for streaming: The very last Concert by Bernard Haitink, performing the 4th piano concert by Beethoven and the 7th Symphony by Bruckner at Luzern Festival.
Still 25 days available for stream. It is beautiful! An absolutely opportunity you must not miss.
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February 22, 2020, 03:21 PM #1436
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Smoking Joséphine - Amours, Toujours
Qobuz 24/88.2
Pretty good, entertaining versions of some classic and popular themes.
Five young women, all top-flight string players, united in a single voice, radiating temperamental sympathies and similarities, deceptive depths, and a caustic sense of humour: this is the challenging vision of "Smoking Joséphine", the 100% feminine ensemble dreamt up by violinist Geneviève Laurenceau as a ‘space for creativity and exploration’, to develop the sophisticated opulence of the string quintet.
The present album is the result of the special alchemy between Geneviève and her team – Olivia Hughes (violin), Marie Chilemme (viola), Hermine Horiot (cello) and Laurène Durantel Helstroffer (double bass), all acclaimed soloists in their own right, in orchestras and chamber ensembles. This, their very first album, they have dedicated to Love.
The five artists embody this universal, timeless theme with their characteristic warmth of sound, generous lyricism, and dynamic rhythmic pulse: their programme unfolds like a voyage with surprising discoveries en route, passing through many styles and periods and covering the full range, the many faces of this emotion that rules the heart.
We can thrill to the passionate love of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Bernstein’s West Side Story, the tender romantic reveries of Liszt, Chopin, Kreisler and Elgar, the ghoulish love depicted by Saint-Saëns, the "Bewitched Love" of De Falla ... This quintet, with its unconventional contrabass, has had each of its scores specially made to measure, in arrangements that are the last word in haute couture. © naive classiqueVivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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February 22, 2020, 06:49 PM #1437
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February 28, 2020, 06:24 PM #1439
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Listening to this wonderful recording in the Beethoven year.
We've just heard Liza Ferschtman live in the Chamber Music Hall in Brugge.
Works from Bartók, Enescu and Brahms.
Sitting less than 3 meters from her and her piano quartet, we were fully immersed in the music.
She's a very skilled and enthusiastic musician!Vivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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February 28, 2020, 07:26 PM #1440
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I posted this before.
One of my "deserted island records".
When I listen to this, my whole self is taken back to that fantastic night in Bruges, where this pianist played quite some of these works.
Every time again, I am deeply touched by them.
Long term effects of live concerts, they do exist.
What a great hobby we have...
From SACD-net:
I don't have time for an extensive piece by piece review, but suffice it to say that this recording contains beautiful playing captured in beautiful sound. El Bach's name is new to me, but he has quite an impressive background and has won prestigious competitions.
My test piece by Ravel is "Gaspard de la Nuit." Compared to Ivo Pogorelich, El Bacha does not so consciously/overtly "interpret" the music. He very elegantly (and dramatically when called for) presents the composer's music with stunning accuracy--this piece certainly seems not to hold any technical terrors for him. Pogorelich's "Scarbo" may scamper around a bit more menacingly at times, but El Bacha's still contains plenty of impact and is played with very musical phrasing. He's not from the daredevil "look ma no hands" school where the bravura obscures the music. This is not to say he doesn't add his own interpretive touches; it's just that he seems to want to present the music first rather than showing off his chops, of which he has plenty.
The sound is crystal clear with a medium distance perspective: the mics are not under the lid, nor are they in the rear of the hall. I'd say it's similar to Silverman's Mozart Sonatas on IsoMike--perhaps a bit brighter. The rear channels contain ambient information and virtually no direct sound.
So, if you place musical clarity and structure over throat-grabbing displays of prestidigitation, then this set might just be for you.
It's already too late, but I can't shut the system down.
I'm addicted to these pieces.
Listening in 5.0.Vivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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February 28, 2020, 09:47 PM #1441
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Sir Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker: Jean Sibelius, Symphony no. 5.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk“Life’s too short to listen to bad audio.”
Big rig: Brinkmann Taurus DD TT + 12.1 arm + Lyra Etna Lambda SL MC + HRS M3X2/ Cardas Clear Beyond phono/ Stillpoints LPI/ Brinkmann Edison mk2 phono + RöNT II Tube PS/ Synology NAS with Roon + HD Plex linear PSU + Shunyata HD/ AQ Vodka RJ45 + Aqvox Network Switch SE + AQ Diamond RJ45 into DAC/ Brinkmann Nyquist mk2/ Audionet Humboldt/ Cardas Clear Beyond ICs/ Kharma DB9-S 1.1 LS/ Inakustik Reference LS 4004 AIR/ Audioquest Niagara 5000/ Shunyata Alpha power (HC, Analogue, Digital)/ Finite Elemente Pagode Rack/ Stillpoints Ultra SS/ Vicoustic panels + Stillpoints Aperture II.
Small rig: Naim UnitiServe/ Curious USB/ Tidal/ Linn Klimax DS3/ Shunyata Power cable/ Pass Labs INT-60/ Acoustic Zen Silver Reference II/ HiD Diamond 8/ Harbeth 30.2 40th Anniversary/ Shunyata Venom EU7 & Venom 3 HD.
HP rig: MacBookAir/ Tidal/ Auralic Gemini 2000/ Sbooster LPSU/ Audeze LCD-2 Classic + WyWires Red/ Shunyata HD/ Shunyata Hydra 2/ Shunyata Venom.
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March 1, 2020, 06:32 AM #1442
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“Life’s too short to listen to bad audio.”
Big rig: Brinkmann Taurus DD TT + 12.1 arm + Lyra Etna Lambda SL MC + HRS M3X2/ Cardas Clear Beyond phono/ Stillpoints LPI/ Brinkmann Edison mk2 phono + RöNT II Tube PS/ Synology NAS with Roon + HD Plex linear PSU + Shunyata HD/ AQ Vodka RJ45 + Aqvox Network Switch SE + AQ Diamond RJ45 into DAC/ Brinkmann Nyquist mk2/ Audionet Humboldt/ Cardas Clear Beyond ICs/ Kharma DB9-S 1.1 LS/ Inakustik Reference LS 4004 AIR/ Audioquest Niagara 5000/ Shunyata Alpha power (HC, Analogue, Digital)/ Finite Elemente Pagode Rack/ Stillpoints Ultra SS/ Vicoustic panels + Stillpoints Aperture II.
Small rig: Naim UnitiServe/ Curious USB/ Tidal/ Linn Klimax DS3/ Shunyata Power cable/ Pass Labs INT-60/ Acoustic Zen Silver Reference II/ HiD Diamond 8/ Harbeth 30.2 40th Anniversary/ Shunyata Venom EU7 & Venom 3 HD.
HP rig: MacBookAir/ Tidal/ Auralic Gemini 2000/ Sbooster LPSU/ Audeze LCD-2 Classic + WyWires Red/ Shunyata HD/ Shunyata Hydra 2/ Shunyata Venom.
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March 1, 2020, 04:23 PM #1443
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Oxalys - A conversation between friends
CD 1 of this fantastic box set, that has become one of our favourites.
'Prélude' it's called.
The Debussy is world famous of course, but what the ensemble with mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn, does with the utterly delicious work 'Quatre poèmes hindous' from Maurice Delage is stunning. One of the highlights of our collection for sureVivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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March 1, 2020, 04:30 PM #1444
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Listening to works we heard live Friday night:
Bartók - Chamber Works for Violin: 44 Duos - Contrasts - Sonatina
James Ehnes, violin
Michael Collins, clarinet
Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin
Andrew Armstrong, piano
Qobuz 24/96
We enjoyed the Duos very much.
Each time short stories, from half a minute to 2 minutes max.
Sadness, joy, dance, excitement,... it's amazing what you can express in such a short time.Vivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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March 1, 2020, 04:31 PM #1445
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Double post.
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March 1, 2020, 04:31 PM #1446
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March 1, 2020, 05:31 PM #1447
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Next piece Friday night was the Enescu sonata.
This is a good version:
Beethoven - Sonata in G major, Op. 96 for Piano and Violin
Enescu - Sonata No. 3 Op. 25 in Rumanian Folkstyle
David Abel, violin
Julie Steinberg, piano
Qobuz 24/176.4
Paired with Beethoven here.
The Enescu Sonata is full of emotion.Vivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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March 1, 2020, 06:21 PM #1448
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We finished the Friday concert with Brahms' first Piano Quartet.
Well, we got a great encore, the Andante of the 3rd Piano Quartet.
Brahms - Klavierquartett op. 25
Schumann - Fantasiestücke op. 88
Argerich - Kremer - Bashmet - Maisky
Qobuz 24/96
When you look at the musicians here, you know you're in for a treat.Vivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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March 1, 2020, 06:52 PM #1449
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George Enescu - Violin Sonata No. 3 / Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Yehudi & Hephzibah Menuhin
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Gauk
via Qobuz
Comparing the Wilson recording with this 30s version of the Enescu Sonata.
Sound: Wilson wins.
Performance: Menuhin, a landslide victory.Vivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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March 4, 2020, 04:11 PM #1450
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Alexandre Tharaud - Versailles
Qobuz 24/96
Somehow, I forgot to listen to this album when it came out in November '19.
Maybe I thought that I knew the pieces he plays on this album already too well.
Well, I heard his Rameau on the radio today, and I was exhilarated.
He's doing better than Angela Hewitt!
Hewitt was my reference for Rameau on the piano so far.
Subtle and powerful at the same time, with details, ornaments - it is baroque after all! - in the music coming up more clearly than I had ever heard.
Very heartily recommended for fans of the French music of this era.
I am even more so now.
One never comes across any ordinariness when following Alexandre Tharaud’s career. This new album is as impressive in the originality of its conception as much as its meticulous musical delivery. The French pianist appears to be nostalgic towards two different golden ages: that of 17th-century music, and that of the French piano during the 1950s, specifically Marcelle Meyer’s inspiring playing which Tharaud remains motivated by.
The “Versailles” which has attracted Alexandre Tharaud, and serves as the title for this recital is less Louis XIV’s opulent world of wonder and more of an intimate world of secret music. Without any difficulty, the pianist manages to make these pieces specifically written for the harpsichord his own, even going as far as inviting young harpsichordist Justin Taylor to join him for a rendition of Rameau’s Les Sauvages... for four hands on the piano!
If the pianist Marcelle Meyer had recorded Rameau and Couperin in an era more liberal than today, Alexandre Tharaud has the audacity to go against musicological rules for the listener’s benefit. Of course, we are accustomed to Bach, Scarlatti, Couperin and Rameau on the modern piano, but Pancrace Royer, Robert de Visée, Jean-Henry D’Anglebert and Jacques Duphly are suddenly thrust into the limelight of this musical collection which incidentally highlights their relevance. © François Hudry/QobuzVivid Audio - Burmester - Hegel - Marantz - Oppo - Pioneer 60" - Wireworld
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