I am currently listening in the Man Cave to Joni Mitchell's "Song to a Seagull". For those who know me,know that it is my favorite Joni LP or CD.Preferably vinyl.
Her first recording with David Crosby producing and Stephen Stills on bass(on one track).The rest is just Joni and her guitar.Very simple and very beautiful.
It is before her high production and jazz influence.More like a folk art song form.Though not folk.
Deeply personal with tremendous text painting and imagery.
and oddly enough her least well known.
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Tonight I am listening to a LP I just got from Brazil.Chris Isaak "Heart shaped World". This seems to be a fairly rare piece on vinyl.It is a wonderful recording with great presence,bass,and smooth mid bass.Too bad the version I have is not in the best shape,though it was listed as "EX". this one is not even VG! The music makes up for it. |
Rushton,Nice choice.
Do you have the Janet Baker/Barfirolli/ Elgar Sea Pictures?
Truly one of my favorite Janet Baker discs and I have most of them. Her Mahler "Kindertotenleider is another.
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Jennifer Warnes "Famous Blue Raincoat"
Vaughn Willims Mass in G minor/Herbert Howells Requiem /Corydon Singers/Hyperion
Christy Moore "Voyage"
Chis Isaak "Heart shaped World"
Janet Baker/Baribirolli/
Elgar Sea Pictures
Mahler Ruckert Songs, Kindertotenleider
Jethro Tull "Broadsword and the Beast" |
Just changed the room and am listening to:
Queen "A kind of Magic"
Kings College Cambridge "O come all ye faithful" Christmas compilation (digital master but sometimes incredible)
Joni Mitchell "Song to a Seagull"
Moody Blues " Days of future Passed"
I am liking the room setup too.
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Rushton, I love your last 3 choices!
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Janet Baker:
"A Treasury of English Songs" truly magical inspite of being a EMI "Angel"!
Kings College Cambridge:
Purcell "Funeral Music for Queen Mary" (EMI)
Allegri "Misereri", Palestrina "Stabat Mater" (Argo)
both of these LPs are old staples for me.
Corydon Singers:
Howells "Requiem
Vaughn Willams "Mass in G minor"
Bruckner Motets
This group has several LPs on Hyperion and are all amazing
all of these LPs are original 1960s and 1970s pressings
all played in reverse phase,,,a recent discovery that is making many of my records (mostly British) sound like a different (and correct) recordings.
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Helo Zaikesman: thanks for the kind and informative response.
I agree with everything you are saying. Indeed some recordings sound very much the same with either phase polarity.However, I have found that my English Cathedral Music,(of which I am most intimate and expert being a life long chorister)shows phase in a dramatic way.
Many of these recordings are done in rooms of immense space,with huge powerful organs.That, and the very fast and immediate power of boys(most of the time)voices to reach into the sonic stratosphere,can tax a system to the extreme.
When the phase is correct,these transients work much better and are less problematic,i.e. cleaner.
I have also found that the room/soundstage is much more correct and recognizable.English choirs stand in antiphonal fashion,left and right of center and usually under the organ divisions. Indeed they are named;the right is the "Decani" (where the dean sits),the other is the "Cantorus"(where the cantor or precentor sits).When the phase is incorrect, the antiphonal effect is lost, and the ambient room decay and reverberation is shortened.
When listening to "pop" records,I have found the dead give away to phase is listening to cymbals.When there is a hit,but no crash or sizzle, the phase is incorrect.
I have been a "audiophile" for over 30 years, and I have just discovered this phenomenon. I also just discovered "loading" of the phono stage. Between these two epiphany, I am listening to some of my most beloved records (many that I have owned for over 30 years)as if they were new. I am having so much fun.
Recently I had a friend over for a listen.He was the guy that showed me the phase thing and for that I am indebted. He told me that I was a software guy,not a hardware guy.I suppose he is right,in that I value music first above all else in the hobby.I find the more I learn about the technical side the more interested it becomes a vehicle for making what I love better.
what a fun hobby
Happy Christmas to all |
Thanks Z: I agree with you completely. The loading has is giving me a much more defined sound stage,not to mention deeper and wider and taller. I feel that I am close in that there is still tremendous heft and power in the fundamentals.Bass lines are just as full as before but tighter,easier to follow. I feel that the loading has lowered the sound floor so much that EVERYTHING is better. Indeed I have never had a better system.
I am listening to records as though I have never heard them before. Old chestnuts are no longer old because I have never heard the inner details and nuances like this.
now for what I am listening to tonight:
Jethro Tull "Thick as a Brick"
Christy Moore "Ordinary Man"
Kings College "Durafle Requiem"
Sphere "Flight Path"
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Truly excellent list Rushton.
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Ghosthouse: The Dire Straits "Private Investigations" has become a reference for some of us in our local club.It seems to me that all the Dire Straits recordings are excellent; low noise floor and very nuanced and uncompressed,but the "Love Over Gold" is the best of all.
I just got a nice copy of Mark Knopfler's music of the film
"Local Hero". Again,low sound floor,nuanced and uncompressed sounding.
There is a track where the beginning is a old car(bad muffler) starts up that can startle anyone (and usually does).
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Rushton: I love most of your recordings. We could have a good time together listening. The Holst Savitri is a very interesting piece, and with Janet Baker how can you lose?
I have the Shostakovitch piano concerto on Chandos with the son conducting and the grandson playing the piano.A really fine LP even though it is a digital master. The ever popular FBR is always fun.Love "Joan of Arc. Though I prefer my original issue over the reissue. Of course that is IMHO.
Keep up the great listening and listing.
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Rushton, thanks for the invitation.I will return the same if you ever find yourself in Cincinnati,Ohio please give me a message. I listen all the time and would love to have you and the same goes for slipknot.
Just rebuilt my Hafler 220 and it is blowing my mind. All new caps and 80% more saturation in the power caps.So much more air and nuance plus a much lower sound floor. I am a happy camper.The Acoustats are really singing now.
listening to Corydon Singers performing Ralph Vaughn Williams
"Mass in G",Howells Requiem on Hyperion. I bought this when it came out back in the early 80s.Amazing recording and sublime music.
cheers
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Just picked up several lps at Half-Priced bookstore. Here are my really good fines:
Victory at Sea #1. Ship's cannons firing salvos all over the place.Ship's horns blowing and even moving across the sound stage. Music akin to Elgar symphonic tone poems.Super pressing.
Carousel. 35mm recording of Richard Rogers Broadway classic.Incredible sonics. Great singers including Roberta Peters and Norman Treagle. The singers actually move across the sound stage as they sing.I have never heard anything like it.Paid $1.98 in near mint condition.
MHS/Lyrita of Bax symphony #6.
MHS/Lyrita of Bliss "Meditations on a theme by John Blow".
both of these have very good presence and sonics ala Lyrita.
Mint condition for $2.98 each.
Phoebe Snow debut album. VG++ condition
Wonderful pressing,deep sound stage with her amazing and unique voice. $2.98
Rushton, you would love these.
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Rushton:
The first time I heard the ship's horn I laughed out loud!
I love Lyritas. As you know I am a true Anglophile.I could kick myself for not buying more of them back when they were easy to get.Try to pick up the Bliss if you can,you will surely love it.
Playing with my DIY SUT transformers.They have truly changed my system.wow!
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Rushton, once again I agree with you 100%, and I would add Hyperion and Proprius to my favorites. For the combination of high quality recordings and performances it is hard to beat the London/Decca/Argo label. The K.Wilkinson pressings of course are most revered. You know to look for a "G" at the end of the stamper number? G= Kenneth Wilkinson.
Just got a EMI/Angel 45rpm of Respighi "Pines of Rome".This may be the best Angel I have heard. Incredible dynamics and very fine playing of a exciting piece.Complete with birds chirping!
The new DIY SUT is really working!
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Rush, I stand corrected. I have read your posts that you so thoughtfully have written. Mr. Salvatore's web site is a regular stop for me. I agree with him in most ways and he responds to emails.
It would be nice to get together sometime and listen.I am sure we would both enjoy ourselves.
cheers
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Just picked up Free Flight's "The jazz/classical union. A very interesting fusion of calssical pieces such a a Paganini Pavane,a Bach "groove",Pachebel's canon, and a Chopin etude.
$3.99
Very enjoyable listening with great playing and improvisation.
Also just picked up a Joni Mitchell I had never heard of.
"Shadows and Light"
This LP features Jaco Pastorius on Bass,Pat Metheny on Guitar,and others.
A 2 LP live set from 1980 when Joni was beginning her exploration into jazz on the "Mingus" tour. It starts with a collage of Joni doing her songs with a significant jazz influence backed by first class players intermixed with old movie tracks. Kind of a "Miles of Aisles" on art steroids. The Joni tunes are from "Blue","Hissing of Summer Lawns","Hejira","Mingus". A definite departure from the pop money making routine she was seduced into in "Court and Spark". Excellent recording and pressing.
Very entertaining.
$7.99 at Everybody's records in Cincinnati. |
D__n Rushton you got some good stuff!
Significant other is out of town this weekend.Had a serious listening session tonight with my best audiophile buddy.Trading cables and phono stages.Fun.
Chris Isaak "Heart Shaped World"
Benjamin Britten "St. Nicholas" Kings College,Willcocks
Dave Brubeck "Impressions of New York"
Janis Ian "Between the Lines"
Gilbert and Sullivan "Pirates of Penzance" with Kevin Kline and Linda Rhonstadt
Shostakovitch "Concerto for Piano,Trumpet and Orchestra"/ Shostakovitch/Shostakovitch-Chandos
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Handel "Chandos anthems": Kings College/Willcocks/Acadamy of St. Martens in the Fields.London
Shostakovitch "Symphony #1": LSO/Martinon RCA Victrola 1959
Amazing recording!
Holst "Savitri' and "Hymns from the Rig Veda":English Chamber Orch./Purcell Singers/Janet Baker/Robert Tear/Thomas Hemsley
Argo
Vaughan Williams/Holst "English Folksong Suites" Eastman Wind Ensemble/Federick Fennell
Mercury Living Presence
take that Rushton! just kidding
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Rushton you left the back door open and I just slipped in and out without you knowing!
We obviously share much of the same tastes in music.Wine? Scotch? Cigars?
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Srwooten, I am sorry, but I noticed that you asked me where the Half-Priced book store I buy records from is.It is in Kenwood next to TGI Fridays.This is a suburb of Cincinnati,Ohio.
tonight's titles:
Dire Straits: "Love over Gold"
"Making Movies"
Henry Purcell: "King Arthur" Deller Consort/ Harmonia Mundi
Elgar: "Sea Pictures" Janet Baker/Barbirolli EMI
Faure: "Pelleas et Melisande" RPO/David Zinman/Jill Gomez Phillips
Mahler: "Kindertotenlieder" Janet Baker/Barbirolli/Halle orchestra EMI
Boito: excerpts from "Mefistofole" Norman Treigle/Placido Domingo/M. Caballe'/LSO/Julius Rudel EMI/Angel
cheers
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Jennifer Warnes "Famous Blue Raincoat"
Dave Brubeck "Two generations of Brubeck" Atlantic
Allegri "'Miserere mei, Deus,"/Kings College Cambridge/Willcocks Argo
happy Ash Wednesday?! |
How true Rushton,and I know you have the right stuff.
Just installed the Eichmann bullets on my new DIY tonearm cable.Isn't it incredible how sensitive that tiny phono signal is? The Eichmanns added significantly more coherence,micro and macro dynamics and hence,presence.
DIY is the best way to have fun for me.
Got 10" of snow last night so it is the perfect day for listening.
as follows: (so far)
Hakan Hagegard (baritone) "Aftonsang och Julepsalm"
Proprius $1.00
This is a collection of classic solos such as "panis Angelicus",Ave Maria,as well as some Swedish leider/folksongs.
As every Proprius LP I have ever heard,magnificent!I only wish I could read Swedish, as the whole record printing is in Swedish.
"English Cathedral music of the 20th Century"
Choir of St. Albans Cathedral/Stephan Darlington
Hyperion (analog)
(heard this one Rushton?)
Another sonic wonder from Hyperion.Excellent choir and some well known (to choristers)pieces mixed with some obscure ones,including a Herbert Howells motet I had never heard.
That alone makes it for me.
Dire Straights: "Love over Gold"
Among our sub-group of Cincy audiophiles this record is a reference,and great for listening for nuance and sound stage.The copy I have is the best I have heard.It is a Quiex II process/demo I bought at Everybody's records for $3.95! Super quiet and fun listening.Breaking glass and cat screaming.
Lyle Lovett: "Lyle Lovett" MCA/Curb Records
Lyle's first album.quite fun and a excellent pressing
Ink Spots: "10 of the best Ink Spot Hits" The Longines Syphonette Society
Super quiet pressing,think of Redd Foxx doing his Ink Spots impression of "if I didn't care".
.49¢ at Half Priced books near mint condition
Chet Adkins & Les Paul "Chester and Lester"
RCA/Best Buy Series
A fun collaboration between two great guitarists.Nothing but fun with great sonics from 1976.
Henry Prucell: "Songs from Taverns and Chapels"
The Deller Consort/Deller MHS(Harmonia Mundi/France)
Incredible pressing,as are most Harmonia Mundi records are.
Very baldy tavern songs from rural England in the early baroque period.One song includes "so kiss my ass" as the answer to the preamble.
right up my alley.The Dellers are on top of their game on this songs done in rural dialects.too funny!
that's enough for tonight, but still listening
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Please excuse my spelling error. Spell check is a real pain sometimes. I frequently have to correct the "correction".
Rushton: I rather like the one with "she that has good eyes has also good thighs" one too. Incredibly funny but at the same time with the same very high quality sonics that is Harmonia Mundi as well as the art of the Deller Consort.
What more could you want?
cheers
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I just got several new records in the mail today.I will be auditioning some of them tonight as follows:
Benjamin Britten: "War Requiem" Rattle/City of Birmingham/CBSO Chorus/Boys of Christ Church Oxford/Robert Tear/Thomas Allen/Eliz. Soderstrom. EMI/digital
This is a powerful and emotional piece written for the dedication of the newly rebuilt Coventry Cathedralin 1962,after the medieval original was bombed in WWII. It features poems by Wilfred Owen (killed in WWI)juxtaposed with the Requiem Mass. The poems are dialog between the Tenor (English originally Peter Pears) and the Bass (German,originally Dietrich Fisher Dieskau).
Sonically, though a digital master, is amazing. The ppp is very quiet but when the canons of the tympani roar, it is quite a contrast.The choir is first rate. The boys sing their cherub/Latin parts to perfection. The soprano (archangel) is a big dramatic sound. The Bass and Tenor are the perfect pairing for each other. Both are English in this case so the text is articulated well.
This is nothing short of a stunner!
Rushton you got this one????
Gesualdo "Resposories of the Office of Tenebrae or Maundy Thursday" volume 1, Deller Consort/ Harmonia Mundi(France)
This is strange sometimes unapproachable music from the Italian Renaissance.
Gesualdo was a aristocrat who it is said murdered his wife and her lover when they were caught "in flagrante delicto" by Gesualdo. The music's use of "text painting" is extensive. Indeed I find if you do not have the text you are lost. Not for the renaissance choral music neophyte. Once again the Dellers and HM are stellar.
enough for now
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Rushton: Here we go again.Folks are going to talk.
The Britten WR with Rattle (also not my usual favorite)is definitely worthwhile. I too have the original London/Britten WR.It is a historic recording.
I have to admit that my favorite Bass/Baritone is Thomas Allen, and Robert Tear is one of my favorite Tenors.The duets are what I find most intriguing about the piece.These two have a chemistry that Peter Pears and Dietrich Fisher Dieskau never had.I know this is sacrilege; don't get me wrong,I love them both. Both were at end of their fantastic careers.
Also there is something about the percussion/artillery that sounds more powerful.This adds tremendously to the terrible impact that is war.It could be just me being sucked in by digital knob turning.
but:
"only the monstrous anger of the guns,only the stuttering rifle's rapid rattle,can patter out,their hasty orisons.
The poetic imagery is fantastically portrayed.
This piece is mandatory to anyone that thinks war is about honor and glory.
truly musical genius.
I love the Anthony Rooney recordings.Especially with Emma Kirkby. Rooney single handedly created the early music phenomenon,and L'Oiseau-Lyre was the venue.
I will look for the Italian Violin Music.If you say it's good then I know it is.
cheers my friend
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testing the new wires. Just built a newer tonearm cable using mil-spec silver solid 30gauge wire.Also rewired the SUT with the same wire. The system just took a huge leap upwards in quality.Wire was given to me by Mike Morrow of Morrow Audio.
thanks Mike!
playing tonight:
Dire Straits: "Love over Gold"
Jennifer Warnes: "Famous Blue Raincoat"
Henry Prucell: "King Arthur" /Deller Consort Harmonia Mundi
Ralph Vaughn Williams "Mass in G minor"/ Corydon Singers Hyperion |
I second the classical music statement Rush.
I spent most of today replacing the volume pot in my new Dynaco Pas 2. I am pretty good with a soldering iron, but only know enough to be dangerous when it comes to reading schematics. I did figure it out and am now listening.
so far:
Rimsky Korsakov "Scheherazade" Mehta/LA Phil London/Decca
This is the best recording of this chestnut that I know of.
Durafle "Requiem" Kings College Cambridge/Ledger EMI
For anyone that doesn't know this piece;if you like Faure you will love this piece.Of course Kings College is my first choice for performance.
Sphere: "Flight Path" Elektra Musician
These guys used to play with Thelonius Monk and can really play. This is one of the best sounding discs that I own.Very low sound floor, great bass,explosive saxophone,and silky brush strokes by the drummer.A must have. We call this one "the truth" in our audio club.
cheers
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Srwooten: Back in the better days, we always called LPs "discs". I guess I never stopped. LOL!
For all those that love the Allegri. You should all listen to it on Wednesday since it was written to be sung on Ash Wednesday at the Sistine Chapel.
cheers
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Nice to see you back Rush.
Tonight:
Beethoven Symphony #7 Berlin Phil/Keilberth Telefunken
Lizt "Las Preludes","Mazeppa"/Wagner "Die Meistersinger Prelude"/ Tchaikovsky "Marche Slave" Mehta/ Vienna Phil,LA Phil. London
Britten "War Requiem" Rattle EMI
Purcell "King Arthur" Deller Consort Harmonia Mundi
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Rush, I have been doing the same thing. I only wish it was ABC instead of NothingButCrap NBC.
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Just got two boxes of LPs for free! All classical and some are old RCAs.
tonight:
Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello Heifetz/Piatigorsky/Wallenstein RCA living stereo Red Seal
Pablo Casals: Eight Choral Works Choir of Montserrat Capella /mono with stereo enhancement Everest
Beethoven: Symphony#7 Berlin Philharmonic/ Joesph Keilberth Telefunken |
Going back to work this Monday! Thank God!
for tonight:
Bread "Best of Bread" /Elektra
Joni Mitchell "Clouds" /Reprise
Dave Grusin "rediscovered" /Sheffield
Dave Brubeck "Gold Disc" /Sony Columbia
Rimski Korsakov "Scheherazade" /Previn/LSO/ RCA Gold Seal
Holst "Planets" /Mehta/Los Angeles Phil./ Decca |
Thanks Rush. It took a whole year.
hears to everyone out there looking for a job.
may everyone find one.
As for your selections;they are completely unknown to me but knowing what fantastic taste you have it must be great.Not to mention it is a Speakers Corner London.Did they make any bad ones?
I think I do have the Il Cornetto,I will have to check.
for me tonight:
Holst "Planets" Mehta/La Phil/ London
Purcell "King Arthur" Deller Consort/Harmonia Mundi
Sphere "Flight Path" /Elecktra Musician
Franz Josef Haydn "The Creation" Kings College Cambridge/Robert Tear/John Shirley Quirk/Heather Harper/ Acad. St. Martins in the Fields/ Sir David Willcocks conducting/ Arabesque recordings |
Thanks Srwooten. I can say one good thing about the recession and unemployment:it got me back into listening to music.
The Sphere is indeed a wonderful disc.If you can find it on vinyl do not hesitate to purchase it.It can be found on Ebay from time to time. Also their "live" album is excellent too.It is a Italian pressing and has amazing sonics.
cheers
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Rush you did it again. I am listening to FBR right now! We have to stop meeting like this. |
My favorite Neil Young is on Buffalo Springfield,,,"Expecting to Fly"
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Dave Brubeck "Gold"
Sphere "Flight Path"
Joni Mitchell "Song to a Seagull"
Poulenc "Organ Concerto" Michael Murray/Atlanta Symphony/Robert Shaw/ Telarc |
Rush: no I don't know that one but it has to be a winner because you have it and Durafle playing is a no brainer.I will be looking for it. I don't much like Michael Murray but the big Skinner organ in Atlanta is pretty incredible.Though I don't really like Telarc much either.The Telarc has the Gloria on it as well.
After work playing, while watching South Park in between.
Allegri "Miserere"
Palestrina "Stabat Mater"
Gibbons "This is the record of John"
Byrd "Mass for Four Parts"
all from a set "Festival of Kings"
Kings College Cambridge/Willcocks/ Argo
Mark Knopfler Sound track to "Local Hero" Warner Bros. |
Slipknot, we have not chatted before but Rushton speaks highly of you. I am glad you are back and recovering well.
welcome back
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Cat Stevens "Tea for the Tillerman" MoFI original series of half speed masters circa 1980
Christy Moore "Unfinished Revolution" Wea records
Just won this off ebay straight from Ireland. Like all the Christy Moores a wonderful pressings and recording.
Jennifer Warnes "Famous Blue Raincoat" original pressing |
Love your selection Slitknot.Gubankians are top notch.
I like the Shostakovitch too.I have that one.
tonight:
Al Stewart "Year of the Cat"
Purcell "Tavern Songs" Deller/ Harmonia Mundi
Britten "War Requiem" Rattle/Birmingham/Tear/Allen EMI
Holst "Savitri"" Janet Baker/Imogen Holst Argo
Handel "Coronation Anthems" Kings College/Willcocks Argo |
Thanks Slipknot: The Holst "Savitri" is a special recording.One of the best I know of for testing soundstage,complete with moving singers.
I just got a couple of new (NOS)Harmonia Mundis:
"Danses Du Moyen-age" Clemencic/Ensemble Ricore
"La Rensaissance Anglais" The English Rensaissance/
Alfred Deller Consort
These are steller recordings in typical Harmonia Mundi style.
Open,transparent engaging. The Deller is a real eye opener.
also: English Sacred Music of the 16th Century/ Everest/ a very early Tallis Scholars (1977)
Excellent recording from one of the premier professional English choirs
cheers
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Rush and Slipknot, your tastes are impeccable.
I am at the point where if it is a Harmonia Mundi it is going to be great, but add Alfred Deller and it is a no brainer.
Just got a copy of Vaughn Williams "The Sons of Light" and Hubert Parry's "Ode on the Nativity"/ Teresa Cahill,Bach Choir/Royal College of Music chorus/ London Phil./ Sir David Willcocks.
Mr. Wilkinson at work here, but no multi mikings. Indeed it has a wonderfuly wide and well defined sound stage. Sopranos left, altos right gentlemen in between.
These are pieces I am not at all familier with, probably because the VW is a secular text, and the Parry is fairly obscure, but wonderful all the same. The soprano solo is magical.
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Rush, that is some collection. I wish I could make your meeting.
btw- I forgot to mention in my last post that the VW/Parry was a Lyrita.
cheers
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Bog, I just picked one of those up recently. I paid $1.00 for it! A nice and fun album. I especially like the "theme from Baretta". I'm old.
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For tonight's listening:
Shostakovitch Symphony #1,"The age of Gold" RCA/ Martinon LSO
original 1959 pressing and quite extraordinary.
J.S. Bach "Magnificat" Proprius just arrived from Sweden.Typical Proprius;wonderful, but I like the Kings College reading better.
Sphere "Flight Path" Elektra Musician
If you have never heard this LP you owe it to yourself to find one and try it. Amazing recording by T.Monk's old mates.
Pelleas et Melisande collection Phillips/Zinman/Rotterdam phil.
A box set of incidental music for the famous play/opera. Sebelius,Faure,Schoenberg. The Faure is a particular favorite of mine and this LP has the rarely recorded soprano solo sung by Jil Gomez.Sublime
cheers
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Went to the Cincinnati Public Library annual book sale and picked up about 50 single LPs (mostly classical) and about 10 box sets (all classical).
A very kind audiophile that I met there gave me a
NM Britten "War Requiem" (London, Britten,Pears,Fischer-Dieskau, Vishnevskaya) from off his stack.
I have been wanting to pick this up for years and just never found one that was in good shape or was affordable.
I paid $1.00 for the Britten as well as the other discs.
I do have another version by Rattle (digital)that is pretty wonderful. But this one has such a low sound floor and soundstaging that the digital version doesn't portray. Not to mention the dynamic shading and impact.Amazing!
Rushton I know you have this and love it. Now I do too.
imagine that
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