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Workout for a new Capella Headphone Amp.
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February to March 1945: As the 3rd Reich goes down in flames, just a few weeks before Hitler dies by his own hand, Peter Anders and Michael Raucheisen are at work in the Haus des Rundfunks recording studio in what's left of Berlin laying down a blistering rendition of Schubert's Winterreise.
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'Living for Art is like living for God. No room for half measures.' (Cosima Wagner)
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It's interesting - John landloper and I both love 'classical music' - but I'd say there is about a 10% overlap in the things we actually choose to listen to!
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Karajan's has always been my fave Tchaik 4.
Superbly paced and played, and just beautiful and bloody exciting by turns!
The orchestral virtuosity in the finale is staggering.
Fabulous sq.
Woof!
https://open.spotify.com/album/6Sm5Su9xeMEZZeagDgFjau
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More than 10% I hope, Jerry.
Fauré: Mélodies
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A favourite from bargain label Brilliant Classics, even if the recordings are a little below par [1970s but a tad desiccated]. Cheap, compendious [105 songs], and has texts in French. Ameling takes the laurels here.
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Albeniz, Granados, De Falla & Villa-Lobos Piano Recital Played by Magda Tagliaferro
Anyone familiar with this chap: http://juandiegoflorez.com/en/#filter=recordings
On sunday night, Del and I were watching the last night of the Proms, on BBC2, and I was stunned by his amazing voice!
However, I know a lot of classical music lovers aren't much into opera (my Italian genes encourage me to enjoy aspects of it), but for me right now Florez is as good as anyone, and unlike some opera singers, can also turn his hand to 'pop music'.
I've just ordered a few of his albums from Amazon
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Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and 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. 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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^^ I had a quick listen to Florez - Great Tenor Arias - hmm, not really my thang, man.
Enjoy!
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This is a bit raucous and a lot of fun ....
https://open.spotify.com/album/6wO306LLnRD5BUtILcIpLh
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Lol - will do. I totally get why it's not your thang, as Tenor Arias are somewhat of an acquired taste. It's probably not most people's thang here.
However, I have it 'in me', as it were, to love this sort of music, as my parents played a lot of Caruso, Mario Lanza, Pavarotti, etc, at home when I was a kid (it's an Italian thing), and some of it stuck, so I occasionally enjoy listening to that stuff, along with the likes of Andrea Bocelli and Katherine Jenkins.
Therefore, because Florez does that type of music so well, and also sings some 'Italian classics', on a separate album, that's what attracted me to it
The Fazil Say, however, does look rather interesting!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and 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. 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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A Goethe Schubertiad
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Volume 24 in Hyperion's Schubert Complete Songs Edition - I think the number of songs recorded runs to some 700 lieder over 40 CDs.
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^ Hmm.Make that a 5% overlap rather than 10.
Really getting into Bax at the moment.
Symphonies 1 & 2 on Naxos and associated 'tone poems'.
https://open.spotify.com/album/1hGd8iUg6kUrXGegVQsdJ2
https://open.spotify.com/album/2frG5UGURED4MxMS5sJye6
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