What is the first piece of music you would play on your dream system?

Erik,

First, my wife is not that crazy (at least not about me...or NAIM stuff), but without a question I would play my favorite piano disc which I listen to almost every week:

Further Attempst / Todd Garfinkel / MA Recordings

http://www.marecordings.com/main/product_info.php?cPath...5033f663f90bbb99ea3c

It sounds great on any system, even if the wife is still around. Try it.

Regards,

Haim

Styx, The Grand Illusion

No dobut. It's gotta be this.

Jonatha Brooke Live - West Point - sublime

Closer - Joy Division, for the ultimate mix of pleasure and sadness.

The first:
Antonio Vivaldi - Le quattro stagioni - Deutsche Grammophon 1983

Stern, Zukerman, Mintz, Perlman
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Zubin Mehta

Wonderful performance and recording.
Possibly on vinyl.

The second immediatly after would probably be "Protection" by Massive Attack.

Erik

I tweaked your question a little and asked myself which piece of music would I play if I had a once-only opportunity to play something on my dream system, after which the system would vanish in a puff of smoke.

Answer: Glenn Gould's 1981 recording of the Goldberg Variations.

Steve

YES!
Good choice!

A mind-blowing performance.

I do agree!

"Call Me the Breeze" J.J. Cale. Also specified as my funeral song!

Pat Metheny Group - First Circle - live track from the album The Road to You

My complete HMHB collection starting with

I would put in "Kind of Blue" and listen to "Blue in Green" turned way up. On the right system, John Coltrane's solo on that song gives me shivers.

Tweaking my answer:

That would be a perfect song to tell the sad tale...

Haim

Finlay Quaye- Maverick a Strike.

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Originally posted by HR:

Tweaking my answer:

That would be a perfect song to tell the sad tale...

Haim

What a great choice - one of my favourite songs

I'm glad you didn't choose:

She said she'd like to bathe in milk, he said, "All right, sweetheart,"
And when he'd finished work one night he loaded up his cart.
He said, "D'you want it pasturize? 'Cause pasturize is best,"
She says, "Ernie, I'll be happy if it comes up to my chest."
That tickled old Ernie and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

Now Ernie had a rival, an evil-looking man,
Called Two-Ton Ted from Teddington and he drove the baker's van.
He tempted her with his treacle tarts and his tasty wholemeal bread,
And when she seen the size of his hot meat pies it very near turned her head
Poor Ernie and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

Fearing disappointment, even from a dream system, I would probably play something that had recognised musical qualities but which I didn't like. I happen to dislike opera as a genre, so Maria Callas singing something operatic would probably do. Actually, I've just remembered that whenI heard a demo of DBLs [which may or may not have been the first time I heard a CDS - my memory from 15+ years ago is fading] one of the tracks played was of Maria Callas, so it's a good precedent.

Or, if I'm feeling more hopeful, Kansas City Milkman by Level 42.

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Originally posted by ROTF:
My complete HMHB collection starting with

Dude,

I could see why your wify would run off with a milkman.

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Originally posted by ROTF:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by HR:

Tweaking my answer:

That would be a perfect song to tell the sad tale...

Haim

What a great choice - one of my favourite songs

I'm glad you didn't choose:

Roft,

I think mine is only 2% milk and yours is whole...

Regards,

Haim

Ernie the fatest milkman in the west

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Originally posted by JeremyD:
Fearing disappointment, even from a dream system, I would probably play something that had recognised musical qualities but which I didn't like. I happen to dislike opera as a genre, so Maria Callas singing something operatic would probably do. Actually, I've just remembered that whenI heard a demo of DBLs [which may or may not have been the first time I heard a CDS - my memory from 15+ years ago is fading] one of the tracks played was of Maria Callas, so it's a good precedent.

Or, if I'm feeling more hopeful, Kansas City Milkman by Level 42.

Yes, I know what you mean, I certainly would not necessarily play my all time time favourite piece of music although I'm sure I would at least play something I quite liked.

Holst's Planet Suite with the volume turned up would be a quite a treat - Elgar's Cello Concerto - Goreckis's third symphony - Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending and yes even Gould's Goldberg Variations mentioned earlier in this thread would tempt but like you I would probably plump for some opera (altough not for your reason and not Maria Callas either who was a truly great performer but whose voice was, I believe, not quite so hot)but then again.....you have a point...maybe its best not to risk something that is too sacred and be bold and different. Thinking about it anew I may take a different tack altogether.....

If not for the fact that King Curtiss tragically died in a scuffle outside his home in New York aged only 37 he would be far better known. I would play King Curtis's utterly sublime saxaphone version of Procul Harem's 'White Shade of Pale' from his 'Live at Fillmore West' 1971 recording. This track was a great favourite of my late father who would play it to unwind from a particularly stressful day. With the NAIM top system a glass of wine, the lights down low and volume way up I would resurrect King Curtis in the flesh and picure my father in the front row with a big grin on his face.

Easy: Otto Klemperer's stereo recording of the Eroica. Why bother with anything less?

I'd rather have Klemperer's mono recording.