What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. X)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2013
On the cusp of 2014, we start a new thread...
Anyway, links:
Volume IX: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...16#22826037054683416
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
I've not played this in a while....
Hi-res download from B&W.
Hi-res download from B&W.
Hello Steve I have just joined the B&W members club and must say that I am impressed. Is the 24 bit Tubular Bells really better than the CD as I was thinking of buying it too? Thank You
Bach transcriptions of the day, in the footsteps of Debs.
CD1 of this 4 CD collection:-
Crosby, Stils and Nash - CSN
These three to heat up a cold snowy afternoon 
All on vinyl
The snow that did not fall in your garden is falling here.
This after reading the Cream in a box – Thread.
Original Mono Vinyl - Debs defiantly not "as dull as dishwater"
After Cream this - Original 1st press Vinyl
Next just had to be this... Vinyl
With this brand new release, Bis has now recorded all three of Medtner's concertos with Yevgeny Sudbin as soloist. Glowing performances and interesting couplings (Tchaikovsky's famous first, Rach's less famous fourth (original version) and now Scriabin's piano concerto) make this a very nice mini series.
EJ
I can vouch for the first third, the piano concertos of Tchaikovsky and Medtner.
EJ, another very good performance of Sudbin with the Minnesota Orchestra is Beethoven's fourth and fifth piano concertos:
My favorite solo disc of his is the Scriabin, also on BIS.
Haim
Hello Haim,
Thanks - his Scriabin disc is fantastic, it was my first encounter with this remarkable pianist. I've not yet got around to his more mainstream work but hope to do so soon.
EJ
Hi-res download from B&W.
Hello Steve I have just joined the B&W members club and must say that I am impressed. Is the 24 bit Tubular Bells really better than the CD as I was thinking of buying it too? Thank You
A lot of that question depends on what copy of the CD you have?
One of the highlights of 2014: the Sitkovetsky trio with a Czech programme. The group's first recording, and also their last with Leonard Elschenbroich, who left the team a few weeks ago.
EJ
On vinyl.
Hi-res download from B&W.
Hello Steve I have just joined the B&W members club and must say that I am impressed. Is the 24 bit Tubular Bells really better than the CD as I was thinking of buying it too? Thank You
A lot of that question depends on what copy of the CD you have?
Hi-res download from B&W.
Hello Steve I have just joined the B&W members club and must say that I am impressed. Is the 24 bit Tubular Bells really better than the CD as I was thinking of buying it too? Thank You
A lot of that question depends on what copy of the CD you have?
Several versions including the HDCD
Michel Block, Belgian born, a member of the Indiana University music faculty and a gifted pianist who remain most of his life in obscurity with the exception of the 1960 Fredric Chopin International Competition where he highly impressed Arthur Rubinstein. Beautifully played a Chopin and Scriabin disc.
Hi-res download from B&W.
Hello Steve I have just joined the B&W members club and must say that I am impressed. Is the 24 bit Tubular Bells really better than the CD as I was thinking of buying it too? Thank You
Mine was a free download. I would have just bought a good CD version otherwise.
On vinyl.
I rarely download hi-res files but these two were a bargain totalling £6.58 for both on Qobuz.
24/96 AIFF. Lovely SQ.
Hi-res download from B&W.
Hello Steve I have just joined the B&W members club and must say that I am impressed. Is the 24 bit Tubular Bells really better than the CD as I was thinking of buying it too? Thank You
Mine was a free download. I would have just bought a good CD version otherwise.
Steve,
I thought you had a quality original and a HD CD 
Another Xmas pressie and my first listen of Tori's latest album. As with her other albums, the reproduction is first class. Glad I've expanded my collection of her music. She's a talented lady.