Maybe. I don’t find the performance as moving, but it’s nice. But it sounds a bit antiquated.
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Tang, do you know the whole world stands on turtles, the turtles are on turtles, and there are turtles all the way down?
Kind of like Mike's isolation, which stands on isolation, and it is isolation all the way down
Btw, legends of the fall was a crappy movie. It had great cast that ended up doing nothing, they Must have spent a lot to star them, like in Heat, so that the audience flocks to watch a movie that is quite poor.
Didn't you learn a great audiophile lesson from Heat?
That line about not allowing yself to get so attached to a component that you're not prepared to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.
That line about not allowing yself to get so attached to a component that you're not prepared to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.
Heat is a great inspirational Movie for some, a Bank robber i knew used it to
get pumped before every heist
This morning I started out with this record..the Lamms were still cold from the start. But sounded captivating still. It is an excellent recording of Ricci/Clark Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Reference Recording. They did this recording in a school auditorium CA. I am not familiar with the music..but good music good sound just move listener along without knowing. I love several sharp dynamic stabs of the orchestra and the sense of air, the ambient of the auditorium. The sound is less closed miked than Valentine's Vivaldi in Venice making it less hifi imo. System with excellent bass like MikeL should transport the listener to the auditorium even better than mine with this recording. I switched cartridge from MS to Opus1 too to see if my positive view of the recording changed. It didnt. I was enjoying side B of the recording with the Opus1 till the end. This record is now expensive. I saw $100-$200 on discog now.
Kind regards,
Tang
Kind regards,
Tang
Nice Tang. This is the first recording that I ever heard of Samual Barber and the performance is quite a good one. The recording is typical of prof. Johnson and also good and expansive (like the music). The Mennoti is quite nice as well but Samuel Barber was a much more substantial composing figure and you’ll find that Kogan also performed the Barber violin concerto back in the day and there is a good pairing with the Barsukov and Bunin violin concertos. The third movement is considered technically challenging but Kogan sails through it.
While the Barber cello concerto and piano concerto are also very much worth exploring the violin concerto is definitely a more accessible piece to start with. I very much love the piano concerto but it took me a bit longer to get into it. His famed adagio for strings is the lost leader that brings many initially to Barber’s music but it’s the concertos and his symphony that have more lasting substance for me.
While the Barber cello concerto and piano concerto are also very much worth exploring the violin concerto is definitely a more accessible piece to start with. I very much love the piano concerto but it took me a bit longer to get into it. His famed adagio for strings is the lost leader that brings many initially to Barber’s music but it’s the concertos and his symphony that have more lasting substance for me.
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Barber has some pretty cool smaller orchestral pieces. Try his School for Scandal, choral pieces A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, A Hand of Bridge.
I have heard Christian's system twice. Chris is an excellent host and his place is well worth a visit. He just plays music and is not interested in sitting around and making comparisons all day long. His new listening room must be even better.
Heat is a great inspirational Movie for some, a Bank robber i knew used it to
get pumped before every heist
It was Miami in the nineties. I’ve had brunch with parts of The Rolling Stones and
been to a strip club with Al Di Meola once to
All I can say is:It was Miami in the nineties. I’ve had brunch with parts of The Rolling Stones and
been to a strip club with Al Di Meola once to
OMG
Rach3 yes but Horowitz at carnegie hall sir.
You hacked into the security cam of my room? This lp just arrived earlier today.
Tang
Well that story ended too soon...It was Miami in the nineties. I’ve had brunch with parts of The Rolling Stones and
been to a strip club with Al Di Meola once to
I was part owner in a commercial recording studio at the time, and my partners
had been playing and producing music many years. All kind of artist would
show up when they where in Miami. Gary was good friends with Bernhard a backup singer for The Stones, and had played keyboard on Bernhard’s
solo project, recorded in a Stones home studio in Ireland, and gotten to know The Stones. They where playing a concert and stayed at a local Hotel, next
day Gary called me and asked me if i wanted to go to brunch, mostly
because he liked riding in my Diablo Roadster
The brunch was in Ron Woods suite in Loews Hotel he was sitting in his underwear with family running around him. Watts showed up and we stayed
about an hour, i did not say much as i was star struck
When we left the elevator doors opened and Mick Jagger stepped out with
a bodyguard and said “Hi Gary”, and i got to meet him to.
Al Di Meola came to the studio once, and i remember he liked recording
tracks in the bathroom of his Miami condo, which we visited before
going out, ending at Solid Gold, a Miami strip club.
I did not know who Al was at the time and was therefore unimpressed,
he was just one of the guys
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I bought another one remastered in Korea just to learn.
The sound is actually very good. I cannot really pick out which one I like more between the narrow band I have and the Korean one. Definitely the Korean does it better than the Japanese Super Analog Disc. This Korean remastered has a more close-in presentation like the Japanese. It plays louder than the narrow band British Decca. The good part is while the sound is zoomed more in the resolution and crispness of sound are not lost unlike the Japanese. The tone still stay similar to the British Decca..a little more refreshing in the high actually. The cello and piano are spotlighted more. I could actually hear the texture of cello and the body of cello a bit more too. With a more close up presentation the sense of recording venue dimension is lost by some degrees. The more I listen to various pressings the more I learn how to differentiate quality.
Kind regards,
Tang
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