Music Room
The new Donald Fagen album sounds absolutely stunning on vinyl. The music is spread over two 180g albums with each side containg less than 15 minutes. Mastering came strait off original analogue masters.If all vinyl sounded like this my CD collection...
Picked up the album over my lunch break. The first four songs are excellent!!! This is not a traditional rock album, and it was not recorded with Bruce's E Street Band. However, if anyone has heard that this is a "folk" album and are expecting it to...
Just thought I'd flag up (since the Beeb seem to have done their best to hide it this year) that the category semi-finals are being shown every night this week on BBC4 at 9pm, repeated at 3am. Piano tonight.regards, Tam
You should because he's released a great album; 'Ships' by Danielson.I got interested in the album because of this review:http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/d/danielson/ships.shtmlAfter hearing the album I had to look up some information...
So far my favorite jazz disc is undoubtedly "Happy Time" by the Francesco Cafiso Quartet on CamJazz. Just superb alto playing and outstanding original compositions by Cafiso. His Italian rhythm section (led by the wonderful pianist Riccardo Arrighini)...
has anybody used an alternative mains cable on a naim cd player with good results.have just added a xps to my cdx2
Milling about on ebay i noticed some vinyl Lp's were pressed in 180gm heavy vinyl.Is this really an improvemnt over standard release vinyl?
Chaps,In a somewhat sad and nostalgic attempt to recapture/revisit my youth - which I still consider just about worth doing given that I was rather less miserable than I am now (but still nonetheless miserable you'd have to say!) - I have been going...
I was at a concert this evening, given by the SCO, which featured this work (of which I'd never previously heard). Apparently Eybler was a pupil of Mozart and this work was written about four years after the latter's death. Oddly in five movements...
I was lucky. Only just happened to learn it was on and shot downstairs to see a recording of Melanie's 1972 concert for the BBC. It was just her and her guitar and she sung Close To It All, Tuning My Guitar, Nickel Song, Beautiful People, Look What...
seeing as the trusty cdx2 of mine has hdcd enabled fwd some titles guys that are encoded thus
Up until now I’ve not heard Ms Uchida in Beethoven. The Second Viennese School aside, I’m not a big fan of what I have heard from Ms Uchida. I find her Mozart a bit too fussy. Her Schubert, too. Besides, her playing doesn’t seem...
has ayone got a good website for buying new albums on the web - looked at HMV and simply vinyl - looking ideally for 180grm and re mastered classics -
Well for me at least. Maybe. (Okay, it was a 2005 release, but I can’t hear everything.) The disc in question is a live recording of a 1992 recital given by the great Rudolf Firkusny and the great Josef Suk on Supraphon. Things get off to a...
Recommended cd or vynil please, after seeing a biopic of her life and being moved by it, i wish too obtain some of her work.Thank youChris N
Was just putting Tracy Chapman's debut album on and noticed the date on the copyright notice!! 1988! Infact eighteen years old this week!! Fast Car is 18 years old!! It seems like yesterday!!Its an album I fell in love with at uni all those years ago...
On Diccus imput i'm wondering as well if anybody knows some good Callas' records prints on CDs.My mother's Decca are very distorted!Thanks a lot!Gianluigi
While painting doors downstairs, I have been listening to Radio 3 a lot. I keep hearing bits of Bach and thinking 'that's good'.I heard one piece the other day and bought it only to discover that it was by CPE Bach, JS's son. I'll probably find that...
Dear All,Following on from a digression on another thread in the HiFi room (CD players...sonically the same?)I would like to ask how members here actually listen to music. How do you set about having a serious listening binge and what do you focus on?...
One of the all time great singer songwriters. Died March 6 in his sleep in his home town of Brisbane. Will always remember fondly his live shows and his recordings will never be far away from my cd player and my memory. Gone too soon. Shaun
I used to have loads of thee albums on vinyl, but now that has all gone I'm only left with Towards Thee Infinite Beat on CD. I looked on Amazon & Ebay but there is hardly anything available. Bummer. I can see an album of Godstar for £17, but that's...
Tempi and Repeats in the Performance of Classical Music.The issue of tempi has arrisen recently, with a view to Beethoven's Metronome markings, and whethere these are accurately followed and of real significance to the quality of any given...
This might make me sound like a heretic but I have a problem.I have inherited a big collection of Vinyl from a relative. Unfortunately I don't have a turntable as my Naim system is CD based. Some of the LPs are very very old and if I had the funds and...
Hi to all Brucknerians,Being a lover of Bruckner's music and owning all his symphonies in their several versions and recordings ( specially No. 8 ) I would like to ask you if there is other composers that their music affects you the same. From my part...
As Fred is of this parish, I thought his CD deserved more than a mention on the "what are you listening to" thread. This is a hugely enjoyable album. I've listened to it about 6 times today and each listening brings more from it (as it should with...