Spinning Today (Classical version)

[daytona600]

Right now on SACD (a hybrid, so I'm only hearing it on CD quality, with my Sony, but it still sounds stunning):





The organ playing in this from Michael Ras is somthing else - talk about DEEP bass!! Definitely not a recording to be replayed through 'diddy-sized' speakers

Review here: http://www.audaud.com/audaud/SEP02/H...SEP02.html#sho



Available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00008LNR...cdinfocom08-21

Marco.

£ 62.70 from amazon bloody robbers
£ 17.99 bit lower price from me , have a couple in stock
these STS recordings are a bit special most in stock + some on 180g DMM vinyl

[MartinT]

Hadn't realised you had that one, Scott. I'll check your list next time.

[Marco]

What an absolutely EXCELLENT recording and storming performance, Jerry. This might just have been your recommendation of the year. Thanks!

I tend to find a lot of the American orchestras very good indeed. Some of the best classical music I've heard has been performed by them. Is there anything in that or is it simply coincidence, or maybe I'm just imagining nonsense?

The Vox Schubert has been added to my buying list

Marco.

[Marco]

A nice 99p LP find in a charity shop yesterday



Lovely sq, lovely music. Well chuffed.

When in minty condition, you can't beat those old recordings on vinyl, in terms of musical performance or sound quality!

Marco.

[daytona600]

Hadn't realised you had that one, Scott. I'll check your list next time.

shostakovich on CD shossy sym No7 in C op 60 leningrad
cat number STS611195 as well 24bit MW digital recording
all these STS cd/sacd are superb

will get a list to you asap martin on classical

all these Sacds are a tenner each

SACD Gaite Parisienne J. Offenbach
SACD Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (with t.. A. Bruckner
SACD Bruckner: Sinfonie Nr. 9 Paavo Jarvi
SACD Bruckner: Sinfonie Nr. 7 Paavo Jarvi
SACD Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique H. Berlioz
SACD Berlioz: Harold in Italy; Overtu.. H. Berlioz
SACD Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D;.. Beethoven/Mendelssohn
SACD Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Paavo Jarvi
SACD Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 1 Paavo Jarvi
SACD Arias Leontyne Price
SACD Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid and.. Copland/Grofe
SACD Dvor K's New World Symphony and.. A. Dvorak
SACD Dvor K & Walton Cello Concertos A. Dvorak
SACD Heifetz: Double Concertos Jascha Heifetz
SACD Heifetz Plays Bruch & Vieuxtemps Bruch/Vieuxtemps
SACD Pictures at Exhibition M. Mussorgsky
SACD Piano Concertos by Beethoven & S.. Beethoven/Schumann
SACD Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheher.. Rimsky-Korsakov/Stravinsk..
SACD Mendelssohn: Italian & Reformati.. F. Mendelssohn
SACD Maurice Ravel: Daphnis Et Chlo M. Ravel
SACD Vienna Strauss/Strauss/Strauss/W..
SACD The Chopin Ballades & Scherzos F. Chopin
SACD Tchi/Rach: Piano Cts Tchaikovsky/Rachmaninoff
SACD Tchaikovsky: Path Tique Symphony P.I. Tchaikovsky
Serenada Schizophrana Serenada Schizophran
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9 F. Schubert
Saint-Sa Ns: Symphony No. 3; Deb.. C. Saint-Saens
Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zar.. R. Strauss
Rhapsody in Blue G. Gershwin
Respighi: Pines of Rome; Fountai.. Respighi/Debussy
Ravel: Bol Ro;La Valse; Rapsodie.. M. Ravel
Popular Classics for Spanish Gui.. Julian Bream
Philip Glass: Metamorphosis; the.. P. Glass
Bach: Violin Concertos J.S. Bach

just spinning a New speakers conrner/decca SXL6035 180g
Bruch scottish fantasia 1939 david oistrakh

then 45rpm 200g holst the planets - zubin mehta , just played 45rpm gladiator OST

[jandl100]

I very much enjoyed a BBC mag freebie disc with a Vierne organ symphony on ... so I thought I'd have a go with this well-reviewed set of the whole lot.

It's a lovely sounding organ (one by the legendary Cavaille Colle), and the sq is vibrant, warm and nicely engulfing. Played numero 1 so far, just once, and quite enjoyed it. The melodies and rhythms are quite subtlely embedded in the wash of sound - I reckon it's gonna be quite hard work getting in to these works.



Hmm. An interesting comparison!
The Chung is the more recent and more sophisticated recording - it makes the Giulini sound a little bit 'obvious' and crude.
The tenor soloists couldn't be more different - Gonzales for Giulini is dynamic, focussed and exciting. Gimenez for Chung is softer, warmer more diffuse, more delicate and emotional.
The female soloists in the Chung are superior, imo - gorgeous tone from both Bartoli and Orgonasova, lovely. Ricciarelli is a bit squally at times for Giulini.

Which to have? ... I think I'll keep both!

[MartinT]

Gorecki - Three Pieces in Old Style etc., Werthen, I Fiamminghi, Telarc [cd]

Continuing the Gorecki theme from Jerry, I dug this out for another listen. Some gorgeous music here, part gentle and part dynamic (especially in the Kleines Requiem). I'm starting to detect a circularity to Gorecki's music, rather like Glass, which makes him quite recognisable. Perhaps that's why I like Glass so much?

[jandl100]

Arrived yesterday!

Doh! I really must read the small print prior to purchase!
-- for over £20 I just kind of foolishly assumed that it was the complete 48 Preludes & Fugues on 2 discs ....

No way would I have knowingly paid that for 1 disc!

But, yes, rather good - a very different take on the music compared to the piano version. Some of it worked for me better than other parts on first listen. I look forward to getting better acquainted with this.

Magnificent sound.



Wonderful music, well performed, nicely recorded.



Stunning sound on this, too.
Lots of spangy music, much loved at Jerry Towers, and a clear pure female vocal. Luvvly!

[jandl100]

This morning --



An interesting DVD - a short documentary about the 'resuscitation' of Paganini's favourite violin (nicknamed The Cannon by him due to it's big sound) followed by a live performance with Schlomo Mintz playing it in Paganini's 1st violin concerto.
Just jaw-dropping violin playing!

[jandl100]

This afternoon, after a walk in the rain ... ah-choo! ...



Shosty preludes & fugues played by the lady that Shosty wrote them for - on DVD!
Don't be misled by the photo on the DVD cover .... she recorded this set a year before she died, when she was 68.
Here's an excerpt - mesmerising! ...