What are you listening to? (Vol VII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 29 December 2010
Vol VI - https://forums.naimaudio.com/ev...8019385/m/9042967727
Vol V - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...385/m/9962941917/p/1
Vol IV - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...8019385/m/1832985817
Vol III - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...385/m/6192934617/p/1
Vol II - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...8019385/m/3112927317
Vol I - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...8019385/m/6532968996
AND - this might be of interest:
http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...962920617#1962920617
An entertaining Don Giovanni, a studio recording based on live performances with the same cast. Abbado gives Simon Keenlyside and Bryn Terfel plenty of room to ham it up as the Don and Leporello, but on the whole this performance lacks the focus or consistency of, say, Jacobs or Haitink.
EJ
This afternoons listening......
Cheers
Flettster
On a thin bit of vinyl...
But sounding great!!! 
Cheers
Flettster
Manon is Massenet's best known opera after Werther and close in musical style although where Werther is mostly a hot-blooded affair, Manon is all elegance and slapping the handkerchief. Conductor and singers do a good job on this recording but this is Gheorghiu's show - her 'Notre petite table' is the most touching on record.
EJ
On CD:-
Next up on the Black! Remastered
A first listen.
Calexico - Carried to Dust
EMI Records Ltd. 2xLP box-set © 1979 (Recordings from Kingsway Hall, London)
As we were chatting about this earlier, on another thread. On CD, 10 tracks with a Decca/Deram label saying it has been digitally re-mastered with extra tracks :-
I now remember why I don't rate these guys so high, great music, childish words. They should have been an instrumental band.
Don't bother with pages of lyrics please.
