jim204
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| Classical Music for Aficionados @jcazador Yes Jeremy that is a good tip about the USB Hub and yes it does provide a stable platform for the digital stream to get to work. I also play all my music from a computer I have built myself.I use a powered USB card from J Play and ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @twoleftears Yes Sibelius 3 that's my favourite of his and Rattle's performance with the Berlin Phil are my go to recording. Three or four years ago Rattle brought over the Berlin Phil to give a full Sibelius cycle and the BBC proms at the Albe... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Len That was a pity you didn't see Nichola last year as I have seen her play once but have seen her many times in Ayr my hometown as she was schooled here in Ayr where I live and when home she goes shopping in Ayr with her mum. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Arrau in Schubert's Last sonata in B Flat Major D960 always makes me feel so sad as he plays it like someone who themself knows he has very little time left on this earth. Arrau actually said that of all the composers he played he always found Sch... | |
| A streaming setup that competes with my CD and turntable set up? So a Bluesound Node is a cut above a mac mini or Ipad as a source?By a long way. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Jeremy , I'm afraid I am quite spoilt when I'm listening to Volodos as he turns everything he plays to gold and I don't want to listen to others in the same repertoire. Re his two Schubert discs he has put his awesome technique to really illumin... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I am very impressed with the young Russian pianists of the last twenty years Kissin not withstanding . I find them to be awesome technicians with dynamic contrasts that really stagger in their volume. My young Russians now are, Trifonov , Volodin ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @Schubert Len I am just listening to Arkadi Volodos playing Schubert's Piano Sonata in A Major D959 and what a job he makes of it .It is on Idagio at the moment and well worth a listen, also the sound is exemplary . | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I love Mariss Jansen's Rachmaninov especially the Symphonic Dances which he endows with gargantuan dynamic contrasts and to my mind lends itself to the work. He also seems to get the absolute best out of the many orchestras he conducts. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @rvpiano RV you might like to know that Roth has another great recording on Idagio at the moment, it's Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra this time with SWR Sinfonie Orchestra. He also plays a piece of Strauss that is so often overlo... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Just listening to a great interpretation of Elgar's Enigma Variations which may interest you guys . It's the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by, Vasily Petrenko. Must say I am liking it , the slow movements are handled with great ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @schubert Len you are so right , the young mind is fantastic at storing all sorts of things and music is right up there at the top of the pile. Well done ladies.on a a different note i have looked at the you tube clip you sent me and I real... | |
| Several Chord Daves and PS Audio Direct Stream DACs on used market these DACs are so popular that obviously so many are made and it propagates a healthy second hand market as everyone who gets bitten by the upgrade bug tries to better themselves. | |
| Computer for home audio @ozzy62 Ozzy just read your comment about computers and music which is what I now use exclusively. I have built a bespoke computer for nothing else but music and it cost me a bomb but is so good that I eventually sold my Gryphon Mikado Signat... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @jcazador Hi Jeremy I have seen Ashkenazy a few times and one of the best was a Beethoven cycle in Glasgow. He was with the SNO and within a fortnight he treated us to the five Beethoven Piano concertos and the Choral fantasy. How he remember... |