Music Room

Many people are familiar with Moravec's Chopin nocturnes. He has recorded selectively over the years, from Mozart, Beethoven, Franck, Ravel, and Debussy. Everything I have heard from this great artist is first class, so I am in the process of...

Hi Christmas has come early for all Electric Light Orchestra  fans 13/11/2015, QOBUZ has most ELO albums available in 24/96, i am at this very moment downloading what for me is ELO's best albums   A New World Record   Out Of The Blue...

My CD/DVD-A copy arrived today (thanks Burning Shedsters). Another corking remix/remaster from our Steven showing how it should be done. Dynamic swing and analogue-like smoothness retained, with more detail extracted. That glorious Chris Squire bass...

Definitely one of the greatest rock drummers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11993878/Phil-Philthy-Animal-Taylor-drummer-obituary.html

Over the next few days, the BBC is putting out a 'pop-up' (i.e. temporary) Jazz station. Online and DAB only, it seems, but you can Listen Again for 30 days afterwards.   http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033dmdy   Sadly, bandwidth...

Beware of Mrs. Ball's treacle tart...   https://youtu.be/oq3bLe6I_L4

i'd appreciate your opinions    the see see https://youtu.be/0cPPnudX5ic   the allah las https://youtu.be/fiJYecS0vU0   the electric mess https://youtu.be/AMu7lcOBiS4      

Bob Dylan: 1965-1966 The Cutting Edge (Bootleg Series Vol 12) due to be released.   I for one will be looking forward to the vinyl set   "The next installment of the Bootleg Series takes you inside the studio during the recording of Bringing...

I don't know, but I just could not help  myself from smiling as I watched this - the kids' reactions were great.  

I want to start a musical thread which I hope will last a long time.  The idea is you post a embedded video (you tube) of a song or musical piece of your choice, and the next person on the forum rates the song/piece in a short sentence and gives...

Details .   John.

Are we allowed to post YouTube videos of music on this forum?   If the answer is yes what is the exact procedure?  Do we have to use a HTLM code?   Thank you

Fascinating 30min programme on Radio 4 about the pair and their songs broadcast Monday 9th.   Now available on iPlayer.   steve

Songwriter, producer and revered New Orleans R&B performer Allen Toussaint has died aged 77 after suffering a heart attack. How very sad, the man was a legend, who'll be sadly missed, but his music will live on.

Has anyone had a chance to listen to the new release of "On An Island" from Mr Gilmore on vinyl? Just wondering how it compares to the CD.   Thanks  Graham 

I only picked up on him when Salsbury Hill was a hit on radio in LA and of course beginning years of MTV.  Now I'm reading his biography Without Frontiers by Daryl Easlea.  Great reading.   I only bought the Car album at that time and...

Sound of Vinyl are promoting 6 "classic" LPs that are half speed mastered at Abbey Road. The claim is that this gives a "new level of depth and clarity". Where does marketing speak end and the technology start that means this is a valid claim? Do they really master vinyl at Abbey Road, I thought it was a recording studio, and so they would either use tape or a digital recording medium. Wouldn't the tape then be used to master the LP at a production facility? What exactly is done at half...

there are quite a few albums that would not be in my collect were it not for the forum, my favourites being:              

The premiere recording of Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C Major, played by Milos Sadlo in 1963 for Suprafon. I have this on an EMI re-issue from the early 1970s. A great and by now mostly forgotten performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfdFUHPKwuo Haydn’s C Major Concerto for Cello and Orchestra - earlier than the more famous D Major Concerto - was lost for more than a century, but was known to exist as a composition because of an theme index Haydn compiled of his remembered works. It was...

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Are we allowed to post YouTube videos of music on this forum?   If the answer is yes what is the exact procedure?  Do we have to use a HTLM code?   Thank you

Anyone bought Guy Garvey's new album?   Gary

You know when you get one of those nights that you weren't planning on???  the other half goes out, you start playing something, one track leads to another. I have played from Nas ripped collection , qobuz, tidal, vinyl on the Lp12.. Anything...

I have recently posted here under another heading about my frustration in downloading from Qobuz the Maazel/Berlin Sibelius symphonies. As a counter, I must mention how much of a pleasure it is to be able to read the accompanying booklet on the IPad...