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Well it’s about that time again – so how about your top ten releases for 2008.Mine are, in no particular order:1. Pete Namlook./Klaus Schulze – Dark Side of the moon XI2. DJ Kentaro – Tuff Cuts3. Deadwood – Ramblack4....
Is it worth buying?I only ask because I'm considering breaking my New Year resolution not to buy any music on cd and treat myself to this...but only if the quality is good. If not I'll stick to tracking down the album I don't currently have on the...
I am not a particular enthusiast of arrangements of Bach most of the time. But here is an exception.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApN31QRqgIkNo comment from me, but worth two minutes of any one's time to listen to this. The piece itself is my...
So Wagner is well known to me, but not so well loved by me. This is too good to miss though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dfbZ6S6DU4&NR=1 Note the exemplary balance of the orchestra which remains entirely a support to the voice, partly because of the instruments then used and also the containment provided by the pit. So different from horribly loud and crude representations that pass in modern studio recordings. Recorded at a performance in 1936 in Covent Garden, London, with Flagstad,...
what is the deepest you have probed into a particular recording, and what did you find?
This year EMI released a budget priced three cd set of his works which seem to include the two Great Recordings of the Century cds from 1927 - '39 and some HMV stuff from '49. Much of it is remastered post-'88 when the original two GRotC were first...
Ting Tings - excellent; Martha Reeves; eeek but Respect; Dizee Rascal - oh yes; Annie Lennox - Why, indeed... Duffie - superb performer... Lillie Allen cannot do big band stuff but has lovely arms.
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Delaney Bramlett, leader of Delaney, Bonnie and friends, passed away at 69 on Saturday in California.
I get lots of music gifts for obvious reasons! These are my favourites this year ... ... what are yours?
Who is your favorite currently active violinist?Mine is probably Ann-Sophie Mutter but Itzhak Perlman is a close second with Maxim Vengerov and Julia Fischer the ones to watch in the future.Weldon
Another great is gone.R.I.P.: Freddie Hubbard, 70
Hi,This is something I have just noticed and can't understand. I am sure my CDS3 is working perfectly, but on the Orb album:"The Art of Chill4" Mixed by The OrbTrack 6 CD1, the CD turns from standard CD encoding to HDCD for the first half of the...
Having just got back into my music after a long lay off which music do you use as a demo to show off your systems
do you have any composers that used to ring your bell, whom you have left behind?i admit to richard strauss, wagner, mahler, tchaikovsky and shostakovitch, at least for orchestral music.
Well worth 4.99 for this ep on the naim edge label, one for xmas. I have really enjoyed listening to this at home.Upcoming Shows 9 Dec 2008 20:00 Joiners Arms w/ iLiKETRAiNS Southampton 10 Dec 2008 20:00 93 Feet East w/ iLiKETRAiNS London 11 Dec...
Carl Craig and Moritz von Oswald have released an interesting album on Deutsche Grammophon – a sort of remix of Ravel’s Bolero, Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnola and Mussorgsky’s Bilder einer Ausstellung. The really interesting thing about this though is...
Hello there,This might sound a stupid question, but does anyone know if the chicken in Geddy Lee's henhouse stageset is real?Just wondering...
Force of Nature records – a mixture of dark ambient, glitch and Fortean electronics http://www.forceofnature.cc/in...e=releases&rid=FON15 Christian Dark ambient – if you can imagine that concept http://www.tcobambient.com/ http://www.parasomnicrecords.com/download.htm Sludge drone and rhythmic noise http://www.southernlord.com/mp3.php
On here live:-http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g3d64Happy Christmas,Chris N
As above today and tomorrow free downloadsome quite good stuff in the jazz I noticed Don Pullen George Adams and World Saxophone quartet
Just heard on R4 that the X-Factor winner ( its a TV show, I gather ) will be releasing "Hallelujah" as a single.Whaddyafink, Bob?
I know this was discussed some years ago, but am looking for up to date advice if there a way to fill scratches in CDs.There might be a company who do this, or there may be resins, waxes, or home solutions.I have been getting some original releases of...
The title says it all realy. I own none. I have almost all his string quartets and enjoy the later ones. I like the later Mozart symphonies. Are any Haydn similar?SJ