What are you listening to? (VOL VI)

I have been saving this one for a relaxing Bank Holiday night...

I don't think I've heard a bad CD from Perahia. He always seems to "get out of the way", and let the composer speak for himself (no doubt much more art is involved than that might suggest).

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Originally posted by Voltaire:
I have been saving this one for a relaxing Bank Holiday night...

1st listen over and I recommendend this album 101%

last one.

Annie Lennox "Diva"

Anna Coddington "Duchess"

first listen

Live, and no signed.

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Originally posted by MilesSmiles:

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Originally posted by DrMark:

Are these Hybrid or Single Layer?

Pardon my ignorance Miles, but I have read every word on the CD material and nothing indicates either way...is there another way apart from those terms that it would be indicated somewhere?

If it does not mention 'Hybrid' anywhere than it is a single layer SACD. It might say somewhere 'plays on SACD players only'. On hybrids it would say 'plays on SACD and CD players'.

Thanks for looking.

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Originally posted by Aleg:
According to the Linn-records website it is SACD, HDCD and CD, so hybrid and also the SACD layer is both 5.1 channel and 2-channel.

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aleg

Many thanks.

Out in the US on 22 June. My favourite album of hers so far.

top of the pile:

The 3rd and The Mortal

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Originally posted by christophe pomel:

Tasty. Haven't listening to this for some time. Very memorable because it was recorded by Wynton at a time when he was at the vanguard of the jazz revival at the turn of the century.

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Originally posted by Aleg:

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Originally posted by Florestan:
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I'm going on a Winterreise (Winter Journey) and going to enjoy it.

I'm sure you will, this is one of the most exciting and enjoyable interpretations I have heard.

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aleg

I know it's a favourite with many on this forum, and I think the performance is very good, but I struggle with Padmore's voice--I always return to Fischer-Dieskau and find the darker baritone timbres more suited to my winter journey.

And another gripe...does anyone else find the final "Mein Herz" of Die Post off-putting? Is it an editing splice that causes the momentary chorus effect?

Perhaps I'm oversensitive to such recording artefacts--but it feels it's a bit like watching an immersive historical film, and you suddenly notice a renaissance courtier wearing a wrist watch, or a tarmac medieval street: you're jolted out of the trance.

On CD:-



On Vinyl:-

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Originally posted by Nathaniel:
I know it's a favourite with many on this forum, and I think the performance is very good, but I struggle with Padmore's voice--I always return to Fischer-Dieskau and find the darker baritone timbres more suited to my winter journey.

Fully agree with you, this is a nice recording but my go to version is Fischer-Dieskau.

McKinley "Gracie & The Atom"

Natalia Zukerman

Laura Shay "Bittersweet"

in the car this morning.