jim204
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| Classical Music for Aficionados Len. Have you ever considered a dedicated Headphone amplifier as they can usually take just about any impedence you care to throw at them. I think they would also allow much more quallity of sound as well. I have a Sennheiser HDVD800 head am... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados RV i am glad you enjoyed my recommendations as I have been listening to them a lot especially the Scriabin . You are so right with your observation of Chopin and Rachmaninov because I think his earlier pieces are every bit as good as Chopin's, e... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Another recording to suggest to you is a Scriabin disc by Yevgeny Sudbin on the Bis label. It has some of his early stuff and some when he was experimenting with tonallity but thank goodness not atonallty. It also has my all time fovourite Scriabi... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes Len please do check out the Corries as you being an adopted Scot they should stir your heart strings . Roy Williamson from the duo actually wrote Flower of Scotland which has become our now adopted national anthem overtaking Scot W'a Hae writ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Jeremy, I am just now getting a chance to listen to the recording of the sixteen year old doing the Paganinni Rhapsody. After a shaky start she has settled down and is really playing the piece for all she's worth. I have to say it is one of my f... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Well Len I'm sure The University of Wisconsin was glad to have you as you too seem a very intelligent and worldly chap. Just earlier tonight I was copying some Scottish stuff for my daughter to put on her little personal MP3 player and one of the ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hi Len , No I'm afraid I didn't have any university schooling but as we called it the university of hard knocks. all my training in Photography and computing was at adult uni courses which I did while in a job which by the wayI hated. I was appren... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @phomchick I meant to reply to you on your last post b I'm afraid I got distracted . I too may years ago used to listen to a nearfield configuration wit a pair of Rogers LS3/5a with a hugh Rel sub. I used to get some awesome sound from it with... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Your Granny couldn't have been more right Len. I have been on Idagio and have found it there and have to say it is just as good as I remember and it is the whole shebang and not just a conductors mix. The sound quality is stunning and quite up to ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Len a wee bit ago you were talking of Previn well can I recommend another disc of Previn's it's Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet , an absoloute belter I couldn't recommend it enough. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @skim1124 I'm sorry if I misunderstood you but I shall give you one to get on with , Liszt Complete Piano Music 101 discs by Lesley Howard. Although I have this collection I only dip into it if I read about someone playing something obscure of... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @skim1124 I hope you realise that this being a thread on all things recorded classical music that none of the contributers here can agree on which CD's to buy in the first place. As an example say you wanted to get a Sibelius Symphony Cycle an... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Len, get you on jean Redpath . Many years ago I attended a concert in Ayr Town Hall and the great and the good of all things Burns were there but it was Jean Redpath who stole the shoe. She sang my Love is like a Red Red Rose, not a dry eye in the... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I couldn't agree more @twoleftears that rooms and systems cannot handle full scale symphony orchestras in things like Mahler Symphonies and so forth. I now only do my listening on headphones because I became delusioned years ago with trying to cha... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes Len that sure is one super recording, I'm afraid Buxtehude can be sadly neglected over here in the UK. Everyone tends only to listen to his younger star and all others are ignored. I don't even hear Radio 3 pushing much organ music either. Our... |