Album of the Evening

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17 hours ago, Musicophile said:

Inspired by this thread: 

 

 

24/96 from Qobuz.

 

 

 

Over the recent years, I am listening more often to WTC on historic instruments, such as the beautiful versions from Suzuki, Leonhardt, Gilbert, or Beausejour.

 

Of course, there are excellent recordings of WTС on modern piano, such as those from E.Fischer, Gould, Schiff, Hewitt, Tureck, Gulda, Koroliov, etc. At the same time, there are some performances which totally missing the point, such as egomaniacal exercises of S.Richter, who plays mostly himself, but not Bach.

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Mélodie Zhao, a Swiss-born pianist of Chinese descent, recorded the entire cycle of Beethoven sonatas at the age of 19. She plays with remarkable clarity and ease, without the slightest trace of heavy-handed spirituality or false depth. Love her sound, though it may seem recorded too close to some taste. A pianist to watch.

 

 

 

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Excellent!

 

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This performance will probably not be approved by purists, who tend to count repeats and focus on micro-detail. The second recording by a remarkable Chinese pianist, a transcendent reading of a great work.

 

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55 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

I think the talent comes with the strangeness. People like him have something you and I don't, but it appears they also lose something as well.

 

People are the same essentially, egos are different, both own and those, individually projected on others.

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26 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

You don't think there are potential physical differences in the brain, for example, that can explain the awesome talents he displayed in music? And not just him, but many prodigies.

 

People are not their brains. You mean changeable, I mean substantive. 

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5 hours ago, Temporal_Dissident said:

Buonasera!

Grateful Dead, Spring 1990 on CD

the “last great tour”

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Fine set) Even though I'd prefer any set from seventies... 😉

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1 hour ago, Solstice380 said:

Agree, 100%!  I started going to shows in the mid-70s and stopped in the late 80s.  I have this and the Other Ones, as well as the other available shows from 90-95.  They’re just not the same as, say, Venetia OR from ‘72, or the awesome stuff from ‘74.  

 

A couple years ago my wife and I went to see Dead & Co.  The band is very tight with Oteil and the boys, but, John Mayer doesn’t do it for me in any way, shape or form.  Not to mention the crowd these days isn’t the same... me, either, I guess.  If I didn’t have 35 years of Jerry I may feel differently, but still wouldn’t like Mayer’s voice/singing.  

 

Never saw Dead alive as I lived on the other side of iron curtain. Still, I have an absolutely abnormal-sized collection of recordings, including almost everything official + thousands of hours of tapers materials. Every period has its merits, but taking everything else into account, the favorite years are 77, 76, 74, 73, 78, 79...

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9 minutes ago, botrytis said:

So, if people want Grateful Dead live recordings....

 

https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

 

 

Yes, there's a lot of stuff on archive.org. However, there are better sources, imo. For example, bt dot etree dot org. Or, Charlie Miller's fb page... :-)

 

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Wonderful new album from great French clarinetist and composer Michel Portal who is... yes, 85.

 

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4 hours ago, austinpop said:

 

Like her recordings quite a lot.

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Recordings of works of a truly remarkable contemporary composer.

 

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Archive recording in very convincing sound. Fabulous performance!

 

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A worthwhile performance of the great composer's massive work.

 

 

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Qobuz lists this Zappa album under "new releases" at the moment. Well, why not listen to it as if for the first time? (The actual first time listen was 40 or so years ago) 

 

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Charlie Miller’s fresh soundboard transfer in 24-96 quality. Dark Star encore - one of the very few performances of the Grateful Dead’s shows staple in the '80s!

 

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1 hour ago, skipspence said:

Great! Where to get it to play?

 

You may want to look for Charlie Miller facebook page 🙃

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29 minutes ago, graham said:

Currently free at qobuz as one of the spring music gifts.

 

Thank you. Would be interesting to compare it with another Padmore's recording few years ago. 

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3 hours ago, Michaelb4 said:

Noted. In my defense I listen on headphones at night and randomize the playlist because I fall asleep before I get to the second recording. I agree with the preference for “Le .... Rameau”. I listened to the other Harmonia Mundi release above (Ensemble Correspondances) yesterday afternoon and enjoyed it. I seem to be often listening to that label.

 

I put on music before I go to bed quite often. Usually at a low volume, and most often old choral a cappella music. The possible topic to share is the music we choose to fall asleep to.

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