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| PSB Stratus Goldi vs Paradigm Studio 100 v2 Let me disclose this bias right up front: I went from silvers to Magnepan 1.6 qr's(yeah,I'm one of those Maggie nuts.). That said,I liked the silvers better than golds. Explaining why would be like trying to explain how milk chocolate and dark cho... | |
| Has anyone else noticed this about Mozart .... While most of Mozart's Compositions are in major keys,allow me to point out these three in minor keys for your listening pleasure:Symphony #40Piano Concerto #20Piano Concerto #24Dlshifi: If I implied that the younger Mozart was less creative than ... | |
| Has anyone else noticed this about Mozart .... Maynard Solomans's Mozart biography is excellent. I won't insult your intelligence by reading it to you,but I will summarize something from it that goes to your point. Mozart had to run away from a father who wanted to use him. When Mozart lived a... | |
| Who has the oldest speakers? My grandfather bought a Fisher cabinet system in the early 1960's. It's in his basement hooked up to a plain vanilla receiver and disk player.(The front end has been dead for years.) The speakers function perfectly;even by today's standards,they a... | |
| dynamic classical which isn't boring? The Romantics and Impressionists had orchestration possibilities at their disposal that the Baroquers and Classicists did not have. Let me suggest just these few: Shostakovich Symphony #5-final movement.Borodin,Symphony #2. Richard Strauss,Don Jua... | |
| Recommended classical guitar CDs? Two more in addition to the fine choices listed above:1. Andres Segovia's recording of the JS Back lute suites(transcribed for guitar).2. Sharon Isben's(on the faculty at Julliard) recording of the JSB lute suites.Bach's lute suites have stood the... | |
| Live Jazz Trio Recordings Bill Evans- Sunday Afternoon at the Village Vanguard. Yes,I know you said trio,but you might consider some of the Modern Jazz Quartet's concert recordings. | |
| JS Bach Motets Thanks! | |
| Under Appreciated Jazz Piano Players 1.Bill Evans2.Oscar Peterson3.Bud Powell4.Art Tatum5.Art Tatum6.Art Tatum | |
| Comments-Pure Silver Sound Cables / Interconnects? Before you buy the cables,look up the price of silver per ounce. Please mthat "pure silver" may be used as an idiom.p | |
| 20th Century Composers 1.Stravinsky2.Hindemith3.Coplandhonorable mentionEllingtonHorace SilverWayne Shorter | |
| Audio and Wine? Try reversing the phlug. German and A-L whites. | |
| Miles Davis,extreme Jazz and the death of Jazz I'm not a jazz scholar but here goes. Miles Davis worked with the best musicians available-including those who inovated. He and Gil Evans invented cool. He worked with Bill Evans in the modern idiom and Coltrane in the Hard Bop idiom. But special ... | |
| Guidance regarding 2 female Jazz legends please.. Dolphin, I realize this is not an answer to your question but please indulge me. If you ever run accross a record or cd that's cover is simply a picture of Sarah Vaughn with her name on it, get it. Every song on it is standard. . stuff like A Trai... | |
| The most erotic passages in classical music during the time Bach was married to his second wife,Anna Magnelena, before he moved to Liepzig,were the happiest years of his life. In an age where marriages were arranged,he had married for love. These following pieces of music demonstrate an ero... |