A slow performance but quite superb control from Segerstam
The slow movement ........ oh my!
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A slow performance but quite superb control from Segerstam
The slow movement ........ oh my!
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I feel like saying to that dude: "Get a bloody haircut and a shave!!"
Anyway, playing right now over breakfast, is this lovely piece of music, to ease myself gently into the day:
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Strangely fascinating solo guitar music.
I wasn't keen at first but it is sneaking up on me now and I go back to it with some regularity.
Very 'present' sq, too.
https://open.spotify.com/album/4IFxY...RaOhWQyN4gviZw
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Listening to some recent charity shop vinyl finds:
Bach – ‘Concerto in D minor’, Chopin – ‘Piano Concerto No2 in F minor’
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, cond. David Zinman.
Decca SXL 6174 (1963)
Dvořák – Cello Concerto
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Sir Adrian Boult
EMI ALP 1595
Sergei Rachmaninoff – ‘Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 C-Moll’ and ‘6 Preludes’
Svjatoslav Richter (piano), Sinfonie-Orchester der Nationalen Philharmonie Warschau, cond. Stanislaw Wislocki
DGG LPM 18596 (1962)
César Franck – ‘Symphony in D minor’
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Wilhelm Furtwängler
Decca LXT 2905
Haydn – ‘Music for Lute and Strings’
Michael Schaffner (lute), Eva Nagora (violin), Franz Beyer (viola) and Thomas Blees (cello).
Decca Turnabout TV 34227S (1968)
Barry
Nice finds there, Barry!
I'm currently listening to some rather lovely piano concertos, courtesy of Hyperion Records (on CD):
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!
Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!
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This is superbly played and recorded.
Wonderful music.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2YKqT...RzKvptLWB4-dCg
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Marvellous playing of one of the masterworks of the piano repertoire, Beethoven's op109 sonata..
And she doesn't look too bad, either.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2btyM...QgW8y_HSe_jbFQ
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