For those of you who like violin/piano this Itzhak Perlman Encores is an album you should have. I bought this album just because I want a Rachmaninoff Vocalise on violin. (Imo cello sounds better than violin on this piece though.) It turns out the whole album is very very enjoyable. There are many interesting pieces of different composers on this album. Through my short journey into classica, I have not found many good violin and good piano on the same performance. I was going to just post a video on Vocalise but the piano sounds really good in my room so I post another video on Wieniawski Polonaise too. The pressing is EMI HMV England 1974 ASD3001. $23. Excellent natural sound. So natural my guard dogs slept through out video.
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That Perlman Vocalize is also one of my favorites too, love the pile of records on your desk
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I love your dog relaxing with the music.
When I spin good classical music the dogs and cats and birds and eagles and hummingbirds and deers and rabbits and squirrels and whales and kids they all love it.
When I spin good classical music the dogs and cats and birds and eagles and hummingbirds and deers and rabbits and squirrels and whales and kids they all love it.
Piano and violin? You might like this. Gentle Mozart Sonatas.
Oleg Kagaan and Sviatoslav Richter in a refurbished 13th C. barn at Richter's Touraine Music Festival. An intimate performance recorded Live in 1974 before a small audience. You can almost smell the brie.
Lots of ambient noise. Back-wall reflections are scant, and notes tend to trickle upward. Violin and piano are at different heights; the piano miked closer to its low register and reflective off its top. Kagaan is positioned to the left front of Richter and he tends to shift about while playing. The crowd shuffles and murmurs. The heartache of sweetness from Kagaan’s violin coupled with Richter’s delicate phrasing brings the audience to its feet as God speaks through Mozart in divine simplicity.
Richter’s touch on the keyboard is sublime genius, and the tonality and dynamics captured during Kagaan’s arpeggios are a pleasure. Not particularly rare but one of my favorites. [EMI ASD SLS5020]
My copy has the Odeon label. 2LPs.
Oleg Kagaan and Sviatoslav Richter in a refurbished 13th C. barn at Richter's Touraine Music Festival. An intimate performance recorded Live in 1974 before a small audience. You can almost smell the brie.
Lots of ambient noise. Back-wall reflections are scant, and notes tend to trickle upward. Violin and piano are at different heights; the piano miked closer to its low register and reflective off its top. Kagaan is positioned to the left front of Richter and he tends to shift about while playing. The crowd shuffles and murmurs. The heartache of sweetness from Kagaan’s violin coupled with Richter’s delicate phrasing brings the audience to its feet as God speaks through Mozart in divine simplicity.
Richter’s touch on the keyboard is sublime genius, and the tonality and dynamics captured during Kagaan’s arpeggios are a pleasure. Not particularly rare but one of my favorites. [EMI ASD SLS5020]
My copy has the Odeon label. 2LPs.
Wow Tima. Only reading your words is like I am listening to it. Thank you. Just bought one.
Tang
Wow Tima. Only reading your words is like I am listening to it. Thank you. Just bought one.
Tang
I hope you enjoy it and get a good copy.
"I do remember being especially proud of my MOFIs and Sheffield Labs back in the 80’s but I discovered early on that an audiophile recording with just rubbish music or mediocre performance got sidelined after just one play and that great music and great performance ultimately trumps good sonics absolutely every time."
Agreed. However Sheffield did have some good ones, I liked the Moscow Sessions LP. I think that set has the best Appalachian Spring I have heard to date. Mobile fidelity did have some good ones as well but I always found myself preferring the original almost every time.
Agreed. However Sheffield did have some good ones, I liked the Moscow Sessions LP. I think that set has the best Appalachian Spring I have heard to date. Mobile fidelity did have some good ones as well but I always found myself preferring the original almost every time.
Thank you for your compliment Jeffrey. Yes, the vdh is my favorite. I find it is best for un-amplified music without vocal. The only drawback I find from vdh is its sensitivity to sibilance and groove noise. The vdh amplifies these two more than other carts I have. When I listen to vocal I just switch to ZYX Universe Premium. This cart is quieter and has considerably less sibilance than the vdh. Personally I find it plays vocal better than any carts I have. This is my preference and also system dependent. The phono, the arm, the cables, the power cords, the tubes do influence the outcome. I haven't tried the spu. I have two huge absorber panels hanging on the ceiling. Ddk commented that my room is border line to over damped. I want to try taking one off my ceiling but haven't got a chance to do that.
Kind regards,
Tang
Wow - I think the same of that Appalachian Spring Suite, played by Russians no less! And the tune that comes before it - Shosty's Festive Overture is fantastic. Glasnost!
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The Opus1 is to me a straight A student but no A+ in any particular area. I personally lean more toward A+ in some areas of a system or gear while accepting some A- on others than no A+ at all. However, I normally go to Opus1 to cross check things when I feel my system is off or evaluate new gears when entering my system.Where does the Opus fit in? He used to be your sweetheart.
Tang
Could they possibly make a more boring front cover.
Tang
Maybe. There are three records in the set, each with its own cover and then a box cover - that one is one of the individual albums. (Russians looking at watermelons?) Working from memory, this may be the box cover:
Again from memory - that's Dimitri Kitayenko on the left, Leyton Smith on the right.
Fwiw, Kitayenko did a very good set of Shoshtakovich symphonies, one of the best on SACD (dsc only).
If you do digital and want one Shoshty set, I recommend it.
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