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I just found this ....http://www.gyoergy-ligeti.de/May he rest in peace ....James H.
Jon's post over on the DBLs thread, made me think. Several of the finest concerts I have attended in the last couple of years have been given by youth orchestras.I have heard the NYO several times at the Snape Maltings (sadly a venue that is not...
A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. And what are friends for if not for one to plug another’s hot-off-the-press Naim Label CD (and no it’s not just ‘cause I might make a few pennies for playing bass on half of it).So,...
Hi folks, I am just starting my vinyl collection, classical and modern jazz, some acoustic folk. With my Naim system I am finding that different pressings have different sounds, some magical and others quite flat.All the ECM seem to be good, but...
If you take Supertramp and 10cc as your musical reference point then you will get an idea of the sound this band make. The album is a little over long with a couple of fillers but there are a number of tracks which are very well put together and had...
A very interesting album from a new artist. Sung in French with a child like quality to the vocals, underpinned by almost Bjork like percussive instrumentation and arrangements. Very unique sounding with moments of great beauty. Check out her site for...
A pretty well organised and laid out festival all things considered - the weather helping significantly!Highligh for me was the Flaming Lips who played a tremendous set full of humour, surrealism, audience participation and not forgetting great music....
Any other devotees here?I've just received the newly released album, and I reckon it's a corker. If the name is unfamiliar, think Seth Lakeman meets Marc Cohn.Derrin has a great voice and some interesting songs. Double bass is used throughout, and a...
Heard a track from a Thom Yorke solo album on BBC6 yesterday-blew me away. I'd not heard he was making a solo effort. Very much in the style of the more electronic elements of Kid A and Amnesiac. His voice was magnificent-far less overwrought than...
...no more shall we part! The title of the album I have just totally rediscovered, after buying my first Naim product, a cd5x. A big fan of Cave, I actually rate "a boatmans call" on my all-time Top Ten, I never really connected to "no more shall we...
My CDX2 has never had a problem with any disc except the Capitol Sessions. Figuring I must just have a defective disc, I recently purchased another one - Same thing! I either get an ERR message or the disc starts and then just grinds down or makes...
Can you good folk help me out?I want to add the Sibelius symphonies to my collection. There seems to be good agreement that Colin Davis is a superb Sibelius conductor, but I see that he has recorded these symphonies with both the Boston SO on Philips,...
I've been listening to some Milton Babbitt recently and I find the intellectualism andf the auterity of it quite appealing - insomnia helps I think. Anyway I've done some research on serialism and it came up with the names Boulez, Nono and...
IMO these are jolly good - Paul Simon seems at last to have joined in this questionnable digital age with strange Eno noises on background to fine 'Surprise', and Costello with Allen Toussaint (particularly if you can obtain 'the extra tracks') is IMO...
Deeply unfashionable I know, but Breakfast in America is a really fantastic album. The first side of my vinyl copy contains one of the best sequences of songs I have heard from anyone. Picked up 2nd hand for £3! I don't think any of their other albums...
Sitting here, listening to the wonderful sweeping and driving sonorities of Sibelius's 3rd symphony (those words, frankly, being a totally inadequate description of this magnificent work) it occurs to me that, personally, I think it represents the...
I like Pink Floyd. I don't love them, they are not my favorite group in the world, but I do enjoy their music and have several of their albums. I've never had the pleasure of seeing them live, although I wish I had. Way back when, I caught David...
Prompted by ROTF on another thread, I thought I'd start one for the great satirist (whose talents are sorely missed these days, and, indeed, since he went into retirement as a writer of satirical songs, following Kissinger's Nobel prize, after which...
I read an article in the New Yorker the other day that stated that most people stop picking up on new music after their thirties, which is why people in their thirties and forties spend a lot of money on cd's replacing vinyl. This has got me paranoid...
I'm listening to Jan Garbarek:rarum cd 2 for the 4th or 5th time now and there is some astonishingly wonderful and beautiful music on here. I want to dip my toe in some of the albums and artists featured and would appreciate any advice, opinions or...
Anyone watched / heard the new DVD and CD sets yet? Thoughts?JamesPS The Edge is going to be doing the official opening of Rory Gallagher Corner, Temple Bar, Dublin this Friday evening (16th June), for which free tickets are available (note for those...
If you like Lambchop "Is a Woman", buy Cowboy Junkies "Early 21st Century Blues". Very much in the same etherial vein, but with Margo Timmins, a truly superb vocalist. Excellent sonics are a bonus for those of you who will admit to appreciating...
What are the reference tracks that you listen to to evaluate systems and why?I posted this list in the hi-fi forum but wanted to re-post it here to get some feedback. I have a disc that I feel are the tracks that will paint me a pretty good picture of...
HiDoes anyone know what the track is that plays in the background during the competition to win tickets during the ITV World Cup coverage? It's a kind of electro track but I can't find out what so I'm hoping that some knowledgable person here might be...
A few people seem to have mentioned buying this, but no-one has commented on the record (that I can find).I think it's an excellent album and superior to Final Straw in lots of ways - the vocals and lyrics are more accomplished and the music much more...