mark_hubbard
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| Most achingly-beautiful music Dave Van Ronk died of colon cancer on February 10, 2002, at the age of 65. He released more than 40 albums during his long career. I don't know if it ever came out on CD, but I'd love to get a CD or Minidisc copy of the early 1968 LP "Dave Van Ron... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain.Joni Mitchell, Blue.Jefferson Airplane, "Comin' Back to Me" from Surrealistic Pillow.Charlie Haden, Magico.Nanci Griffith, "From a Distance," on One Fair Summer Evening.Joan Baez, Diamonds & Rust. | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music The Adagio from Mahler's uncompleted 10th Symphony, fabulously performed by the RSO Berlin under the baton on Riccardo Chailly, London 421-182-2, 1987 (two discs; with Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht). Transcendent Mahler. | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G-minor, Op. 19, for cello and piano, performed by Stephen Kates and Carolyn Pope Kobler, on the Bainbridge label, BCD6272, 1981, utilizing the patented "Colossus" recording system -- one of the very best early digital reco... | |
| 7500 for USED cables? Are they joking? Whoa! This-here thread got away from me in a hurry. I don't know whether to apologize or thank you, so I'll do both.Being an "outsider" again with old but somewhat fresh eyes for the jargon, I've got two observations to make that some of you may n... | |
| 7500 for USED cables? Are they joking? To All,This was educational on several levels. I expected more defensiveness and hostility, and instead received supportive and intelligent responses on both sides of the issue (sometimes from the same person). I also enjoyed the humor of "Rip Van... |