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| "best" version for "Toccata and Fugue D minor? A powerful performance on CD is the recording by Jean Guillou on The Great Organ of Saint-Eustache, Paris, Dorian Recordings #90134. While the Dorian label has gone into receivership, Amazon.com lists some used copies available and says new copies... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? "Marcel Dupre Organ Recital" Mercury SR 90169 (Speakers Corner reissue), simply a superb recording and reissue. One of the best organ additions to my collection in many years."Everybody Digs Bill Evans" Bill Evans Trio, Riverside 1129 (45 r.p.m. r... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Music by Andrzej Panufnik tonight:Concertino for timpani, perc & stringsConcerto FestivoKatyn EpitaphLandscapeSinfonia Rustica(Panufnik or Horenstein conducting the LSO, Unicorn label, recording engineer: Bob Auger. Exceptional music in superb... | |
| Audiophiles... Why Men? Any woman here? OK, now that I've got that rant off my mind, I'll join Elizabeth in her observation that many women I know very much appreciate good music. And I'll add that many women I know both appreciate excellent sound quality and are very discerning of the ... | |
| Audiophiles... Why Men? Any woman here? To the men posting on this thread I will say that, as another man, I've found many of these comments offensive and not funny. This same behavior repeats itself everytime women's participation in this hobby is raised. Are we, as men, that threatene... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? R_f_sayles, yep! The audio system is for the dry spells. Right now we are in the height of the classical music live performance season: orchestra concerts on Saturdays and Curtis Institute of Music recitals on weeknights whenever the students and ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Played hooky again tonight and went to the the Curtis Institute's faculty concert instead: Arnold Steinhardt (first violin of the Guarneri String Quartet) and Anna Polonsky, piano, playing Beethoven, Janacek and R.Strauss. Outstanding!. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Listening with a friend this afternoon, always the best way... Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, Reiner/CSO, RCA 45rpm reissue from Classic RecordsCrosby, Stills & Nash, CSN, 45rpm reissue from Classic Records (very nice)Creedence Clearwa... | |
| VdH VTA setting preferences Excellent discussion Nsgarch and Dougdeacon. I'm right there with you.. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Dave Brubeck, Time Out, Columbia CS 8192 (45 rpm Classic Records reissue) - Wow!Crosby, Stills & Nash, CS&N, Atlantic (45 rpm Classic Records reissue) - yep, it sure out-distances my early pressing original Atlantic pressing.Doc Watson, Ho... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Albeniz, Suite Espanola, De Burgos/NewPhilO, King SuperAnalogue reissue of Decca.Britten, Simple Symphony, Britten/ECO, King SuperAnalogue reissue of London CS 6618.Elgar, Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Britten/ECO, King SuperAnalogue reiss... | |
| Mozart Trios - Recommendations The Proprius recording of the Mozart Piano Trios, K.502 & K.542, is very nice. The performers are Inger Wikström, piano; Bernt Lysell, violin; Ola Karlsson, cello. I know this recording from it's orginal release on LP but have not heard the CD... | |
| Walker EST Silver treatment? George, there is no need to re-apply unless you disconnect. The effect of the treatment does not "fade" over time as long as not disconnected. While the instructions do say you may connect and re-connect multiple times (as John points out), pay at... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Bach's Suites for Solo Cello, Starker, Mercury (Speakers Corner reissue)Bloch, Concerto Grosso No. 2, Hanson/EastmanRochesterSO, Mercury SRI 75017Nina Simone ...And Piano, RCA LSP-4102 (Speakers Corner reissue)Greg Brown, The Poet Game, Red House ... | |
| Walker EST Silver treatment? Mike, great caution about care in applying a silver contact enhancer. One nice thing about the Walker E-SST/SST versus others on the market, however, is that SST's carrier fluid dries and, as a result, SST does not migrate (this is not to say that... |