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It's interesting; you would think that a Classical music thread would be the most "traversee" one (most active), but so far, here, it isn't. - I am convinced that eventually she'll be the most affluent one. 
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* I am listening to this right now ::
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- Click on that table just above ^ for some samples.
P.S. BTW, there is a typo in the title of that album; can you identify it? ...A French typo.
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* I am listening to this right now ::
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- Click on that table just above ^ for some samples.
P.S. BTW, there is a typo in the title of that album; can you identify it? ...A French typo.
NorthStar,
I find the version of Tabula Rasa - Ludus performed by Kremer and Kremerata Baltica on this rare CD to be the most engaging, dynamic and powerful version out there. IMO it is unmatched.
I'll rip a better sample from my CD and publish it on my YT so you can listen.
I'm also a big fan of Part and Glass. :heart::audiophile:
Listening to Wim Mertens right now. Close Cover (1993).
That reminds me. Have you seen the movie The Piano (1993)? With Michael Nymans compositions?
I find the version of Tabula Rasa - Ludus performed by Kremer and Kremerata Baltica on this rare CD to be the most engaging, dynamic and powerful version out there. IMO it is unmatched.
I'll rip a better sample from my CD and publish it on my YT so you can listen.
I'm also a big fan of Part and Glass. :heart::audiophile:
Listening to Wim Mertens right now. Close Cover (1993).
That reminds me. Have you seen the movie The Piano (1993)? With Michael Nymans compositions?
eace:Hildur Guðnadóttir : Leyfðu Ljósinu (Allow the Light)
Jóhann Jóhannsson: ibm 1401, a user's manual
Enjoying the 1401s singing once again. Here is a short review I made about this album:
A heart warming music coming from cold and detached Iceland. I found the story behind this superb musical piece truly interesting.
This orchestral piece performed by Prague Philharmonic Orchestra is serving as a memorial of a 60's IBM computer brought as the first computer ever on Iceland and given for care and maintenance to the composer's father. Although the computer was never designed to play music, the father (also a trained musician) placed a radio near the memory electronic circuit because through the RF interference the computer caused audible noise on the radio. By controlling the strength and frequency of the RF noise through some basic programming, IBM 1401 could play music on the radio.
The composer used recorded tapes of the IBM 1401 playing music, also including the voice of an anonymous technical instructor's on how to take care of IBM 1401, and he built upon these raw artifacts with his emotions and memories. Very melodic and evocative piece, completely covered in the Icelandic signature melancholy.
I thoroughly enjoyed listening and recommend Johannsson's IBM 1401, A User's Manual to those that haven't.
Johann Johannsson: Computer on the Radio : NPR
Jóhann Jóhannsson: ibm 1401, a user's manual
Enjoying the 1401s singing once again. Here is a short review I made about this album:
A heart warming music coming from cold and detached Iceland. I found the story behind this superb musical piece truly interesting.
This orchestral piece performed by Prague Philharmonic Orchestra is serving as a memorial of a 60's IBM computer brought as the first computer ever on Iceland and given for care and maintenance to the composer's father. Although the computer was never designed to play music, the father (also a trained musician) placed a radio near the memory electronic circuit because through the RF interference the computer caused audible noise on the radio. By controlling the strength and frequency of the RF noise through some basic programming, IBM 1401 could play music on the radio.
The composer used recorded tapes of the IBM 1401 playing music, also including the voice of an anonymous technical instructor's on how to take care of IBM 1401, and he built upon these raw artifacts with his emotions and memories. Very melodic and evocative piece, completely covered in the Icelandic signature melancholy.
I thoroughly enjoyed listening and recommend Johannsson's IBM 1401, A User's Manual to those that haven't.
Johann Johannsson: Computer on the Radio : NPR
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Bob, I agree.
Richard Goode doing the Beethoven piano sonatas are recordings everyone should own.
Richard Goode doing the Beethoven piano sonatas are recordings everyone should own.
NorthStar
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Vlad, I love new Classical stuff; I'll check those two last selections from your last above post (#58). 
...And so far I highly appreciate your classical/musical taste.
Gary, glad you like it. ...I certainly do too.
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By the way, today, for the time that I was home, I exclusively listened (and still listen) to Classical Chamber music,
on the analog r.a.d.i.o. (KING FM).
...And so far I highly appreciate your classical/musical taste.
Gary, glad you like it. ...I certainly do too.
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By the way, today, for the time that I was home, I exclusively listened (and still listen) to Classical Chamber music,
on the analog r.a.d.i.o. (KING FM).