immersive Immersive Album Of The Evening

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8 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

In honor of @JoshM's new TBVO, and @ted_b mentioning this release in Atmos :~)

 

 

I don't have the opportunity to listen to Atmos versions, however, I want to point out that this is a great album!

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7 hours ago, ted_b said:

 

As for Eric Church, I need to get over a lifelong allergy to two genres of music: opera and country.  🙂

 

If you don't like or like something, don't try to change the situation. You didn't create it, it just happened, without you. Everything is fine the way it is. 

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1 hour ago, Jud said:

 

The wife/mother in our backdoor neighbor family when I was growing up taught piano at Juilliard. When Horowitz returned to Russia the concert was televised, and since our neighbors weren't much for TV they asked if they could come over and watch ours. We gladly assented, so I watched Horowitz play on TV as a kid. Even as a young rock 'n' roll fan I had sense enough to be impressed.

 

I remember Horowitz's visit to the USSR in 1986 in Gorbachev's perestroika times. Not much was said about it in the Soviet media, but everyone knew. On TV, in the official news, they first showed a small fragment of the rehearsal, the hall was full of course. There were two concerts, in Moscow and Leningrad, two Sundays in a row, in the afternoon. As it was known, at the end of his career Horowitz played only on Sundays and only at certain times. His own grand piano was brought in. All the logistics were handled by the American Embassy in Moscow, where he stayed. One concert was shown in its entirety, and it was incredibly moving, to the point of tears. It felt like the rusty wheel of Soviet history had moved a little.

 

Horowitz was born in Ukraine, in Kyiv. He was not Russian, he was Ukrainan Jew, as Gielels, as Milstein, as many other stars of world scene.

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2 minutes ago, Jud said:

 

Lovely to hear your experience of this.

If you haven't already read this book, I think you might enjoy it: https://www.amazon.com/BASS-SAXOPHONE-Josef-Skvorecky-ebook/dp/B00C8S9UVC

 

Thank you, Jud. I think I heard about this book. 

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14 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

 

I heard Daniel Hope with Zurich Chamber Orchestra performing Vivaldi's Seasons in Odessa couple of years before the war. It was great performance. Didn't like Max Richter travesty on Vivaldi original in second act though.

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On 10/4/2023 at 11:42 PM, The Computer Audiophile said:

Getting a chance to sit down and listen to this one now. 

 

I think we must first do something that's very hard. Forget what we know about the original DSOTM and don't think about Roger Waters political positions (like them or hate them, they distract from his music and that's a distraction we should remove when listening to this one). 

 

That said, I have many initial thoughts. It would be a really cool album if it was released by a new singer who I'd never heard of. I'd have zero expectations. But, is throwing out previous works of art and the fact that this is derivative, logical? I don't know. 

 

There's something to this album. I like it better than his solo stuff. 

 

The Atmos mix so far is so-so. It's delicate, soft, and perhaps appropriate for this delivery of DSOTM. 

 

 

 

A very old man about a life lived, about one of the most memorable highlight of it. We all recall events of the past, go back to what was and never be and shouldn't be again. They may be vivid in our memory, still stirring and troubling our minds, but more often they are just slipping shadows that have lost, fortunately, their power. Everything comes to balance and rest. 

I don't think comparisons to the original album get in the way, but they aren't necessary. When we look at a person at the end of his life, it would be very silly to lament that he is no longer as young and full of vigour as he was fifty years ago. 

A beautiful album about life, compassion and peace. I don't care what Waters' political beliefs are. He didn't create them. 

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It's weird. Redman's album intially appeared with a different cover, and that's how it still is in Qobuz favourites in Naim App (just made a screen pic, see below). At the same time, in Qobuz it already has a new cover, the one in the previous post.