Don,
The Pastoral sounds fine on my system with vacuum tube phono stage and SET amps. Speakers are tube friendly.
Hope you are feeling better.
Randall
The new audiophile vinyl series The Original Source from Deutsche Grammophon (AAA)
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The Pastoral sounds fine on my system with vacuum tube phono stage and SET amps. Speakers are tube friendly.
Hope you are feeling better.
Randall
I got notice that the Karajan Bruckner box set has set sail and is on its way. Should take a week or two to get to Issaquah.
The odd thing is that it can be ordered from DG for 300 euro plus shipping. The sellers in the US show this box set for $500 plus shipping.
The odd thing is that it can be ordered from DG for 300 euro plus shipping. The sellers in the US show this box set for $500 plus shipping.
My DG TOS Bruckner / Karajan Complete 9 Symphonies box set arrived this morningMine en route too
Hi Randall,
Thank you for your well wishes! This illness has certainly been a scary journey for me. I am doing much better now. Dr's are still tweaking my med's but overall feeling much like back to normal.
I had intended to update my impressions about the Pastoral, but just hadn't gotten around to it. I think, as I had suspected earlier, that my severe illness was affecting how I was hearing the music and my ability to appreciate the recorded music. Music is now sounding much better to me and is much more enjoyable to me now, including the Pastoral piece. When I was at my worst, I didn't even have much of a desire to listen. I am so glad I am feeling better!
Best wishes,
Don
The wife tells me a heavy box of no use to her has arrived.
Thank you... I truly appreciate that! It's amazing how much in life we can take for granted... until something goes wrong.
Best wishes to you all
Don
Best wishes to you all
Don
Fantastically presented box. First LP, Symphony No.1...flat and noise free.
DG hit another one out of the park.
Really natural swell from quiet to loud, great delicacy and dynamics.
I had been pretty disappointed earlier today with a pricey remaster of another LP, so very glad this Bruckner is the opposite.
DG hit another one out of the park.
Really natural swell from quiet to loud, great delicacy and dynamics.
I had been pretty disappointed earlier today with a pricey remaster of another LP, so very glad this Bruckner is the opposite.
Glad you are feeling better and back in the land of the listening to music.
I did notice some passages in the Pastoral where the scoring is mostly violin doubled by flute and little for the cello/bass. Those passages were dense with high-frequency, but not strident sounding (in my system). The bass energy just sounded like a great concert hall, it was more diffuse at times, like what you would hear coming from the concert stage. Bass stings in those recordings sometimes have more sound of the stage floor sending out bass energy rather than the sound of a stringed bass instrument. Hope that makes sense.
Thank you so much! It is great to be back
And yes, what you had said about the "balance" in some of the passages does make perfect sense to me. I think that in my case, it was the fact that I was so extremely ill that it affected my hearing and my ability to even enjoy listening to music.... it was almost an effort to try and listen when I was ill. It feels great to be able to listen and enjoy music as it was intended to be again.
Thanks again and best wishes to all,
Don
Have been listening to the Bruckner symphonies. Started with 9, then 4, then 1, 2, 3. These reissues have enhanced my appreciation and enjoyment of both Bruckner and Karajan. These recordings convey more of the majestic sound and presence of the symphonic experience. Lots of depth, timbre, drama. Super quiet vinyl too.
On order from the 4. October batch: Chopin Preludes/Pollini and Grieg Peer Gynt/Berliner Karajan.
There's a rather long winded youtube video out where Tracking Angle, EBS and DG have a panel discussion about the Bruckner box. They've put in the rather nice EBS presentation so I recommend that:
The key takeaway from the long winded panel discussion was that this one is in the TOS pipeline. Another 8 track master I presume:
There's a rather long winded youtube video out where Tracking Angle, EBS and DG have a panel discussion about the Bruckner box. They've put in the rather nice EBS presentation so I recommend that:
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New DG original source October albums on Amazon US site for pre order
that was very intresting, also the whole conversation, though it always feel a bit uncomfortable some how.
the Mahler 6 will be the bomb!
That is great especially if you get Prime free shipping in Europe! Even with Prime in the US, the Amazon Germany to US shipping cost of €44.19 brings the two to rough parity.
If you ordered directly from DG, then they have announced shipment of the next batch. Looking forward to their arrival.