what was the last cd you bought?

Yup, it's an expensive set where available.  However, I'd been looking for a while and didn't mind buying secondhand or from the States if condition and price were right.  In the end I got lucky. 

Will keep an open eye , even two, for it. Thanks.

Hi Richard,

Did you have the opportunity to listen to any of the same songbooks in HD formats?

How do you compare the sound quality?

I liked the packaging you described, but also have some of the songbooks downloaded in HD and some vinyls.

Regards.

Erich

Erich,

No, I haven't heard the hi-res versions.  I do though have vinyl, both original and re-issue as well as some late digital remasters.  I have to admit my favourites are the US 7 1/2 ips Reels.  They are, however, hard to find in good condition and are now getting very expensive when you do. It can be a lottery - an expensive one too!!  However, the best reels have an immediacy and vibrancy about them that none of the other offerings can match.  Admittedly, some of that may well be down to the Ampex tape stock used, which had a very distinctive sound signature to it, but that's the joy of tape.  

Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems

This is a great set.  I waited years to get, and happened to find it at a discount a year or so back.  Definitely worth looking around for it, Tony. 

Got 4 this week, have only listened to one so far though. 

I recently purchased Eilen Jewell's "Sundown Over Ghost Town".  It created a very good impression so I was looking at other album's in her catalog and came across The Sacred Shakers.  Thought I would give it a whirl. 

The above led to one of those Amazon searches and to Leyla McCalla, "Vari-Colored Songs, A tribute to Langston Hughes".   Listening to a few samples, this seemed quite interesting. 

Lastly, Beirut - No No No          my original purpose for visiting the online CD superstore

Sorry for not posting an image...

Sept 25 was release date for The Dead Weather's third album. I've played it 5 times at least since picking it up.

It's a ripper.

When I was getting the image for this I noticed it is being released on vinyl on 13th November.

At just £12.99, this 4-CD collection of the King's Vegas years just had to be bought...

Title: Complete Piano Trios

Composer: Johann Nepumuk Hummel

Artist: Trio Parnassus 

MDG Gold

Title: Louis Sphor - The Forgotten Master - The 4 Clarinet Concertos

Composer: Ludwig Spohr

Artist: Paul Meyer - Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne

Alpha 605 (2 CD's)

On Kuma's recommendation. I am taking an insurance policy to cover the tweeters.

Definitive Collection '94 re-master from a charity shop.

Title: Telemann Viola di Gamba

Composer: George Philipp Telemann

Artist: Lorenz Duftschmid/Armonico Tributo Austria

Arcana A312

My fourth disc of the Maybeck Hall Recital series. 

Monteverdi:  Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini

vespri solenni per la festa di san marco

My morning bliss...

Sergei Rachmaninov:  Daniil Trifonov (piano)

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22

Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42

+ 1 for the Alessandrini/Monteverdi. Great joy over the last few months. This last week or so have been enjoying his new Bach Preludes and Fugues very much too.

Sunday morning bliss...

It must have been good, as I just realized I thought I was posting this in the "what are you listening to" section 

Title: Gardiner Purcell Collection

Composer: Henry Purcell

Artist: John Eliot Gardiner / Equale Brass Ensemble / Monteverdi Choir & Orch.

Worth the album price alone just for the wonderful 18 minute or so Fried Hockey Boogie. 

Haim,

I am surprised you don't already own it on vinyl.