What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol.IX)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2013
With 2013 upon us, it's time to start a fresh thread. I've gone back to an earlier thread title because often the "why" is the most interesting part of the post.
Anyway, links:
Volume VIII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...nt/12970396056050819
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290
On vinyl:-
King Crimson - Discipline
New Remaster of this classic. Never sounded better, great remaster
Fabulous dynamics & recording, despite the odd snap and crackle. Did this ever get a decent vinyl re-release?
(UK World Record Club) mono vinyl.The Golden Years is a brilliant 1960s blue's orientated album from Ray.
G
Fabulous dynamics & recording, despite the odd snap and crackle. Did this ever get a decent vinyl re-release?
Not that I am aware of. Maybe they will in the future. The new CD Remaster of this is very good.
From the recent 5 album box set on CD:
Said box set now bringing my total Quo album holdings to 40...
steve
And your inspiration..?
Thank you Jamie.
Earlier:-
Now:-
2008 Remaster
Thanks floid, I'll check out the Discovery edition. I already have the 'Oh By The Way' boxset, so I'll compare with that as well.
No doubt Steven Wilson could have some 5.1 fun with FC & Amused To Death
This 80s recording by Wand/NDR is still one of my reference for Beethoven Symphonies. They are wonderfully recorded and exquisitely executed. Very rare that I like all the tunes in Beethoven Cycle by one conductor.
I still need to get to his Bruckner cycle one of these days.
Heather Nova - Oyster - 1994 Album. Island is a very powerful track.
Often sounding slower paced and more relaxed than my London Baroque version (harmonia mundi).
The dreamy quality of the larghetto in G minor is particularly satisfying, only impeded by the usual recording room acoustics that produce some reverb with a some brightness that may justify the budget price on the Brilliant Classics label.
I could be persuaded that Pandolfo’s play here is more articulate than Charles Medlam, but recording effects have distanced his performance, and also that of the harpsichordist Rinaldo Alessandrini.
So i find the London Baroque version, albeit with continuo viol player William Hunt and Richard Eggar on the harpsic’, to be far more agreeable, interesting, and enjoyable on the ear, although it has be said; they had the far better recording studio.
A really superb composition from Carl,
i bet his Dad would have been proud with his Wq.88 : )
Debs
Still a great album after all these years reminds me of the time I saw them in a marquee in a field with about 100 other souls before they were famous. Excellent gig.