edcyn
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| Favorite religious song Yeah, Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah." And Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols." | |
| Favorite religious song @johnto Yeah, how could I forget the Byrds' Turn Turn Turn? Their vocals never sounded more beautiful. McGuinn's 12 string guitar solo rings like church bells. It's one of those guitar solos that prompted me into taking up the guitar, oh so many... | |
| Very Best Bootlegs I've got an utterly blank-labeled two disc LP live set of Bowie recorded during his Ziggy Stardust days. All it's got in terms of identification is a hastily glued-on album cover with a photo montage of Bowie in full Ziggy Era regalia. Sound is me... | |
| Ralph Vaughn Williams My recording of Songs of Travel is by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle, btw. Thomas Allen is the baritone. | |
| Ralph Vaughn Williams I regularly listen to his song cycle Songs of Travel on an Angel Digital LP. Utterly lovely, I play the tunes on my fiddle. | |
| Who is your Favorite Historical Conductor? @bdp24 Hey -- I love Sir Adrian. And Lenny is quickly rising up the charts for me, not the least because, via Qobuz & Idagio at least, his New York Phil recordings are sounding spacious, balanced and pretty wonderful.. | |
| Who has more Rock, Tidal or Qobuz? When I purchased my streaming components I subscribed to both Tidal and Qobuz and let them shoot it out on my behalf during their free trial periods.. And indeed, I found Tidal to be better with Rock than Qobuz. Even Tidal's incisive bassy-trebly ... | |
| Who is your Favorite Historical Conductor? I have lots of multiple recordings of standard repertoire on the shelves, but the conductor I usually turn to is Bruno Walter. Solti, Bernard Haitink and Neville Marriner get more than their share of attention, as well.. A concert I saw with Herbi... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Lately I’ve been cruising Idagio and have just randomly pressed the play button for composer Paul Wranitzky, a contemporary of both Beethoven and Mozart. His Symphony Opus 31, "La Paix", is currently streaming my way. It’s bright, happy, tuneful, ... | |
| When You Buy The Whole Album And Only Like One Song. @bdp24 Every location you name rings a bell. I saw Quentin Tarantino at the Bob's, one lunchtime. George Clooney, Julia Roberts, etc. etc. In any case, I was fully ready for retirement when WB and my union mandated it. | |
| Can a great system make a mediocre recording sound good? I have to agree with mahgister. I want my system to illuminate the music it plays.. I want it to go for the gestalt. | |
| Favorite religious song For some reason the first song I thought of was "By the Rivers of Babylon" from the soundtrack of "The Harder they Come." | |
| 3-Dimensional Soundstage The ability to hear depth within a stereo image is one of the truly groovy, addictive aspects of high-end audio. To experience it, though, (1) your system needs to be a pretty good one, (2) your speakers need to be symmetrically placed within your... | |
| How do you arrange the order of your records? mike -- if he's there, go about it the right way and start with contemporary Dutch composer Michel van der Aa. | |
| When You Buy The Whole Album And Only Like One Song. @bdp24 I worked on the WB lot for years. Before that, I worked at Universal but those cheapskates parked me and my fellow story analysts in a crummy motel across the street behind the post office. We probably crossed paths a couple times. In a... |