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| Classical Music for Aficionados An intensive rehearsal of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with Leonard Bernstein:https://youtu.be/UvBbe8Nkgz8 | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Schubert,I will mightily try to like it. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados BTW, Brahms couldn’t see anything in Bruckner either. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Try and try though I may, I can’t get into the music of Bruckner.I guess we all have our blind spots. | |
| Do you have a "Music" Friend? I was very fortunate to have had two music/audiophile friends and one musical friend that appreciated good sound, for several years. Unfortunately, age has caught up with them, so two of them feel they’re too far away to travel 40 miles to my hous... | |
| Dolby vs. pre-Dolby However, you’re right, I don’t know the technical details as to how Dolby works. .But one thing is sure, the final sonic signature is not the same as it started out. | |
| Dolby vs. pre-Dolby Cleeds,Yes indeed, multi miking and tracking played a role in affecting the sound, many think, negatively, You could also cite the switch from tubes to transistors as having a negative affect.But one thing is clear and indisputable, there were no ... | |
| Dolby vs. pre-Dolby What I’m talking about is a real phenomenon that many classical music listeners and others have heard and commented on. The early pre-Dolby recordings do have a different tonal signature to those made with Dolby.(When I say recordings of course I... | |
| Dolby vs. pre-Dolby I’m speaking of analog LP’s produced by record companies in the late ‘50’s and early ‘60’s whose tapes were recorded NOT USING the Dolby A process. which had not yet been invented. And those master tapes were often used in the making of modern CDS... | |
| Best skiinny floorstanders +1 GoldenEar Triton 1’swonderful dispersion | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I just discovered a wonderful young Turkish pianist whose debut offering is a Rachmaninoff disc: Emre Yamuz. On Idagio.Some really great Rachmaninoff playing. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I’ll mention James Levine. His professional demise was sudden and shocking.I’m sure his actual demise was accelerated by the scandal.I know, among musicians, for years there were stories of his inappropriate behavior with children. I had no ide... | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? Although I do stream with Qobuz, and the sound is very good, on my system, streaming sonically comes in last place to (in order): LP’s, SACDs and red book CDs.The difference in SQ amazes me every time I play a record.Of course streaming is much ea... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Haydn Symphony #98 with Colin Davis and the Concertgebouw orchestra.Sonically blows away an SACD of the same piece and the same conductor leading the LSO that I just obtained.Vinyl never ceases to amaze me. | |
| Classical Top Five Apropos of the above comment, most musicians I know feel that way about Mozart.There’s just magic.An epithet I once made up:”Mozart tickles the soul” |