Spinning Today (Classical version)

[Landloper]

Owain Park: Choral Works Stephen Layton, Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Hyperion Records.
and his Phos Hilarion done by the Gesualdo Six, conducted by composer.

Listening to this young composer's work. I like his writing but am underwhelmed by the execution of it on Choral Works. The use of female singers does not work for me here. The G6 are much better on his Phos Hilarion, but atrocious elsewhere on the CD Fading, also by Hyperion. It is difficult not feel that there has been a change in the way of choral work is approached. The G6 version of When David heard That Absalom Was Dead is the worst I've come across - they can't even enunciate properly and hang on to syllables in a slovenly manner, each singer also appears to be vying with his peers for preminence. It isn't all bad but enough of it is sufficiently distressing to elicit foul language and the use of the eject button.

[AJSki2fly]

Came across this one in a charity shop in Sidmouth this morning. A piece I am not familiar with, perhaps I should be, so far it is rather stunning, full of emotion and passion, I believe the conductor is rather famous as well.

Tchaikovsky* ‎– Symphony No 5 In E Minor Opus 64
Label: Stereo Gold Award ‎– MER 204
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: UK

[Barry]

Janáček -' String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2



Juilliard String Quartet


Weber - 'Clarinet Quintet, Op. 34' and 'Grand Duo Concertant in E flat Major for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 48'

[Marco]

Nice find Marco, but you should have paid £2 and got a stereo version.

Lol - it doesn't actually say if it's in mono or stereo... And I haven't played it yet. However, there's one on ebay for £8, so that would be not a bad profit!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/20266814888...DefaultOrganic

Marco.

[Marco]

Just been enjoying this, which is superb:



Marco.

[Barry]

Lol - it doesn't actually say if it's in mono or stereo... And I haven't played it yet. However, there's one on ebay for £8, so that would be not a bad profit!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/20266814888...DefaultOrganic

Marco.

It's a Decca ffrr (full frequency range recording), so is mono. All Decca stereo recordings are marked ffss (full frequency stereo sound).

Having 10" LPs in your collection makes you look like you are a serious record collector, but are a bit of a bugger to file away as they get lost between their bigger 12" neighbours. ()

[Barry]

Philip Glass - 'Violin Concerto' and 'Prelude and Dance from Akhnaten'

[Marco]

It's a Decca ffrr (full frequency range recording), so is mono. All Decca stereo recordings are marked ffss (full frequency stereo sound).

Having 10" LPs in your collection makes you look like you are a serious record collector, but are a bit of a bugger to file away as they get lost between their bigger 12" neighbours. ()

Ah, I see... Cool.

Doesn't bother me really, as I have around 200 mono albums in my collection, of various musical genres, and the best recorded ones sound superior, musically, than many stereo recordings. Among other examples, the early Beatles albums are a case in point - sonically they're much more dynamic and 'alive' than their later stereo counterparts.

As far as 10" records go, I've got around 50 (mostly classical), as apart from anything else, I think they're dinky and kinda cool

Marco.

[Shovel_Knight]

While Miroirs is quite good (especially the 3rd movement), I mostly listen to the second side of this record - Le Tombeau de Couperin which is one of my favourite pieces of piano music ever.

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[Landloper]

While Miroirs is quite good (especially the 3rd movement), I mostly listen to the second side of this record - Le Tombeau de Couperin which is one of my favourite pieces of piano music ever.

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Having just finished listening to Queffelec's Dutilleux CD I put on Monique Haas' 1968 recording of Le Tomebeau de Couperin, then I read your post....