jim204
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| Classical Music for Aficionados Last night I listened to Pavel Kolestnikov play Bach's Goldberg Variations and have to say it wasn't half bad.The performance was from the Proms and on the BBC Radio 3 catch-up player. The sound from the Albert Hall was not ideal because of that b... | |
| Streamer/Server to replace Innuos Zenith I use the PS Audio DAC With Bridge 2 for streaming and it is as clear as a bell. Quobuz streams through it and I couldn't be happier. Oh it's also a very fine DAC. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Len , I haven't listened to that kind of stuff for years but I listened to your clips plus many associated clips and found that my fingers were playing the notes of those tunes and yes there was a tear in my eye also. | |
| Audio PC Anyone thinking of using computers for home playback should be prepared to pay lots of money for extreme fidelity. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I have to say I have not heard a bad recording of Olaffson yet, how I wish I could say that about a few others I could care to mention. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I love her Len and have done for decades, her hands were tiny but that most certainly never deterred her. None other than Horowitz marvelled at her dexterity, in fact I have somewhere in my house a picture that shows her Horowitz and Arrau backsta... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @edcyn928 Yes I wholeheartedly agree about these young pianists needing more time to mature but so do all pianists and not just the young. i do think Perahia a much better pianist than Brendel was but that is only me. I spent a life time g... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Have any of you listened to Vikingur Ollafson's new Mozart recording, it is playing of stupendous quality. It is the type of playing that makes you say it's only Mozart then you start saying listen to those runs they are super fast and crystalline... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I have listened to Lisiecki and I have to say that although he is convincing in some of the Nocturnes it is when he gets into the later ones that both Arrau and Moravec have nothing to fear, belatedly of course.Arrau especially gives a wonderful b... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @rok2id His Mahler 4 is superb , that is my go to reference nowadays. Superb recording too, very detailed. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @schubert Yes Len sad to say I have to agree with you regarding the young of today , I was recently in the company of a couple who have a daughter at Glasgow university and was appalled to find out she was studying 12th century stained gla... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados And that is why there will never be anyone from our age to equal him because todays people do not want to work hard other than the special instrumentalists we have today. Todays' composers spend days if not months "composing" a five minute piece o... | |
| so, i recorded a type 1, normal bias, on a 70s cassette deck, and it sounds FANTASTIC been there , done it , wore the tee shirt. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados You don't hear a lot from Midori nowadays Len but she does have a wonderful tone though doesn't she. | |
| Bach - Goldberg Variations you favourite I remember the Phillips series fondly for giving us many artists whom the musical world had mostly forgot ( who can forget the legendary performance of Josef Lhevinne playing the Shulz-Evler arrangement of Strauss's Blue Danube ) people like him m... |