texasdave
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| favorite SOPRANO? Gaudio eek, I agree about Milanov's "Pace pace mio Dio" (the old mono one), a great recording. In her prime she could float a high pianissimo like no one else. Her 1952 mono "Il Trovatore" with Bjoerling, Warren, and Barbieri (still the best one) ... | |
| favorite SOPRANO? If you're looking for beautiful soprano voices that "absolutely melt you away," I'd recommend in particular (limiting this to the about last 50 years) Victoria de los Angeles, Leontyne Price, Zinka Milanov, Renata Tebaldi, Joan Sutherland, and Ren... | |
| Organ CDs with really deep bass Here's another one that belongs in this thread: Peter Hurford playing Mendelssohn, 3 Sonatas and 3 Preludes & Fugues, on the Ratzeburg Cathedral organ, Germany. This is an Argo CD recorded in 1984, and the engineer (Simon Eadon) deserves credi... | |
| SACD/CD Question In reply to your post, Ben campbell, you ask is the redbook layer remastered? The recording I asked about is a new release (recorded 2002) and has been issued only in the compatible CD/SACD format. The piano sounds fine, but the orchestral sound i... | |
| Organ CDs with really deep bass I recently stumbled across a CD that belongs in this thread: Ocean Grove: French Spectaculars on the Great Ocean Grove Organ, Gordon Turk, organist, a Dorian CD recorded in 1998. I haven't found anyone who does a better job of recording organs tha... | |
| where to find Pachelbel"s canon? According to the Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide 2004, usually a reliable guide, their first choice is the version by Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields on Philips, recorded c. 1984-85. I have it and find it excellent.... | |
| What's your latest "Discovery" Chopin Etudes, Murray Perahia, Sony, recorded 2001. An absolutely stunning CD! The best set of Chopin Etudes ever recorded, the best Murray Perahia recording he's ever made, and far and away the best piano sound Sony has ever offered. The sound is... | |
| Naxos CDs with Great Sound I'm returning to this thread to recommend the recent Naxos CD of Ned Rorem, Three Symphonies. This is an outstanding recording on all counts: music, performance, and sound. Recorded in 2003, to commemorate the composer's 80th birthday, it was nomi... | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings I've got 3 or 4 worthy classical candidates for most amazing solo piano recording:1. Chopin, Etudes, Murray Perahia. Sony CD. Recorded in 2001; engineered by Andreas Neubronner. Dazzling. The best playing I've ever heard from Perahia (and I've hea... | |
| Why so many Gold CDs for sale? Why so many gold CDs for sale? Because there are so many silly audiophiles and others who will pay more for them. | |
| New to Opera, have some questions I think I can help with your question here. I'm a retired university professor who's been an audiophile and classical music and opera buff for 40 years. In addition to having a large classical and opera CD collection, I've been attending live perf... | |
| Best Male Singers of the 20th Century It's difficult to give a meaningful answer to this question, because it's so hard to make a meaningful comparison between popular singers, jazz singers, blues singers, folk singers, rock singers, and opera singers, to say nothing of the difficulty... | |
| Question about CD recorders Thanks, guys. I appreciate your inputs. | |
| XRCD If you could order 3, Which ones? Van Cliburn, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto and Jascha Heifetz, Beethoven Violin Concerto. | |
| Source for JVC XRCD Thanks, guys. I haven't heard them, but a knowledgeable audiophile friend in California with reliable ears says that the Cliburn Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto and the Heifetz Beethoven Violin Concerto, two famous classic performances, are unbelievabl... |