There used to be a living stereo box of CDs with excellent music.
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There used to be a living stereo box of CDs with excellent music.
Dear Christoph,
I am a beginner so I can only tell you how I started my classical exploration. May be you find it applicable to you. For me I like my music to have a star of the show. So I did not start out with symphony. My plan was to start out with violin, piano and cello. Once I have injected some easy classical into my blood, I would sink deeper into more complex classical. With these three instruments in mind I ask for recommendation from someone who has a lot of experience in attending live symphony. In my case it was Bonzo. I also know that he doesn't like "boring" classical pieces. So he set me up with some ear catching pieces of violin and piano. After that it is all youtube for me. I search for different versions of those pieces by different musicians. The more I search the more I hear interesting interpretations. I choose music from how it drives me. Some pieces I did not even like at first but then I found them with different musicians or conductors they became interesting all the sudden. I listen a lot of youtube. And one thing about youtube is it could lead you to different videos of related music. So one month after, I got so much more music by myself expanding from pieces that Bonzo gave me. I keep listening to what people suggested Beethoven included. But I only follow what drives and makes connection with me. I have not been driven by Beethoven yet. I like Bach, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, khachaturian, Dvorak, Schubert and keep adding on. Each composer is played differently by conductors and musicians so there is alot to dig into. Digital is a gateway to new music. I used to stream Tidal but now only do youtube. Youtube shows comments of viewers. Most comments are junk. But some time they mention or recommend different pieces so I track after those too. Fun actually. You are accustom to streaming and have an excellent digital front. So it is even easier for you to get into. Have fun exploring.
Kind regards,
Tang
I am the younger generation.
Tang
You are a nice guy Tang no one's going to offend you
That's funny, I don't own any Beethoven yet (or haven't kept any). But I like something from everyone else you listed. I bring home various things that don't register as "audiophile" known albums and then make my own decision (as long as it isn't a trash label). But I've been able to narrow some of that down while gaining the most modest conception of what I think will be good. There's a thrift store near me that has gotten piles of classical that wasn't so good and no one I know would want...
Tang how old are you? Are we the youngest people on WBF?
GKMF is 20. And then it's Bill, me, Lloyd, you, a few others around 40. I probably look the youngest
20 (GKMF is Tang, or someone else?) I'm 33. We're both millennials but I'm certainly not the youngest then.
I am the younger generation.
Tang
some of us did a re-boot along the way, so there's that.
I must confess that I like the Magcio S3 Mk II. But I really like the Göbel Divin.
Also like the Lansche 5.2.
I'm SS all the way, except some tone/tonal aspects. Maybee a Thomas Mayer can convert me.
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Actually, my beloved wife bought me exactly that CD box some years ago
Dear Tang,
Thank you for your elaborate answer.
I will try and give youtube a shot.
It might even sound half decent in our home cinema
Dear G,
I will look into that piano concerto.
Thank you!
With warmest regards,
Ron
I am 50. Not the youngest. Maybe the shortest. 5'8" short. But certainly look better and cooler than 6'3" Kedar.
Actually, my beloved wife bought me exactly that CD box some years ago
Your wife is very kind. I wonder how she could withstand your habbit of having audio everywhere in the house. Btw I only use Youtube finding new music and get a sense of a performance. I dont listen for sound quality of lp from youtube. Sq is something we have to take a risk.
Kind regards,
Tang
Dear Tang,
While clearly less of a hipster than Ked I am also in my 50’s and tho I’ve listened to a lot of classical since my teens I must admit to being fairly unconscious about it. Since I now have the best system I have ever had for listening to classical (the SET and horns) I have spent a lot more time listening to classical this year and find this system a lot easier to discern what I love about performances and what not so much.
Yet still there are great composer masters who I just don’t get even after all these years (like Haydn) so if you aren’t yet into Beethoven after a short but clearly intensive discovery into classical that’s all fine given how much you have discovered already.
Beethoven was among my very earliest piano experiences. Each week on our local public radio broadcaster Karl Haas would lead me to classical Adventures in Good Music and his syndicated radio show signature opening theme was the adagio movement from Beethoven’s piano sonata no. 8.
While I have grown to love Beethoven’s late piano sonatas still the earlier ones have also stayed as sentimental favourites.
Vladimir Horowitz was very much an early piano influence but I’d say that at Beethoven Richard Goode is even gooder and that then much more recently Paul Lewis completely challenges my notions of these piano works and is both transcendental and introspective but always while still a bit unfamiliar also absolutely great... but after some 40 years of listening this recording would be on my desert island selection for Beethoven piano... Ivan Moravec in this late 60’s recording is among my very favourite Beethoven interpreters and I find the performances of these piano sonatas genuinely extraordinary. If you aren’t swayed by Beethoven after this no biggie tho. These are just one soul’s reflections and some personal preferences. Hope you enjoy.
Best wishes
Tao
While clearly less of a hipster than Ked I am also in my 50’s and tho I’ve listened to a lot of classical since my teens I must admit to being fairly unconscious about it. Since I now have the best system I have ever had for listening to classical (the SET and horns) I have spent a lot more time listening to classical this year and find this system a lot easier to discern what I love about performances and what not so much.
Yet still there are great composer masters who I just don’t get even after all these years (like Haydn) so if you aren’t yet into Beethoven after a short but clearly intensive discovery into classical that’s all fine given how much you have discovered already.
Beethoven was among my very earliest piano experiences. Each week on our local public radio broadcaster Karl Haas would lead me to classical Adventures in Good Music and his syndicated radio show signature opening theme was the adagio movement from Beethoven’s piano sonata no. 8.
While I have grown to love Beethoven’s late piano sonatas still the earlier ones have also stayed as sentimental favourites.
Vladimir Horowitz was very much an early piano influence but I’d say that at Beethoven Richard Goode is even gooder and that then much more recently Paul Lewis completely challenges my notions of these piano works and is both transcendental and introspective but always while still a bit unfamiliar also absolutely great... but after some 40 years of listening this recording would be on my desert island selection for Beethoven piano... Ivan Moravec in this late 60’s recording is among my very favourite Beethoven interpreters and I find the performances of these piano sonatas genuinely extraordinary. If you aren’t swayed by Beethoven after this no biggie tho. These are just one soul’s reflections and some personal preferences. Hope you enjoy.
Best wishes
Tao
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I will turn 50 end of April as well
Yes, my wife is wonderful. I'm a very lucky guy to have her
Btw., I had my hobby before she came into my life, so she knew what she was getting into and even though she asked me to marry her
About to turn 55. The slide is well and truly on. And quite possibly the world's worst midlife crisis - forget fantasising about busty blondes and fast cars (nothing wrong w those LOL), try angst about the UK drifting into the Atlantic Ocean courtesy of the big B word.
I will turn 50 end of April as well
Yes, my wife is wonderful. I'm a very lucky guy to have her
Btw., I had my hobby before she came into my life, so she knew what she was getting into and even though she asked me to marry her
Yes but when you met her how many speakers did you have, and after a decade into the marriage how many did you have?
Tang, audiophilia is positively INDECENT.We should start to grow up like other decent people when we reach 60 guys.
Tang
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