Album of the Evening

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, sphinxsix said:

Very loud! I rarely do it nowadays.. (24-96 'old' remaster)

 

 

PS. 

F... tinnitus 

Love it!

[ripples]

Jane Ira Bloom

 

 

[sphinxsix]

An evening with Chopin in this form, a selection.

 

 

[cjf]

[cjf]

[AudioDoctor]

I highly recommend this album by Anna Fedorova playing Chopin. I listened to it on Qobuz and bought it at NativeDSD

 

https://www.nativedsd.com/product/43621-shaping-chopin-waltzes-nocturnes-mazurkas/

 

 

[semente]

I enjoyed the tuba concerto:

 

 

[semente]

[sphinxsix]

 

[cjf]

Nice 4hr long hits album available on QoBuzz for anyone that's a fan of this dudes work.

 

[cjf]

[cjf]

Pumarosa - The Witch

 

 

 

 

[AnotherSpin]

The Russian performing school is often characterised by an almost total disregard for well-established traditions and performance culture. This, of course, has a good reason due to the country's isolation from the world for many decades of the 20th century. Some choose to find in this a fresh approach, others see a manifestation of elementary arrogance. Trifonov's new album provides an opportunity to reflect on this subject. Bach performed as if it were something midway Scarlatti and Tchaikovsky? Funny, but not my cup of vodka, definitely.

 

[graham]

[sphinxsix]

Streaming the new album of the pianist whom we know mostly from performing romantic music.

 

[AnotherSpin]

A beautiful performance, recorded during Haitink's very last concert in Amsterdam in 2019. 

 

[AnotherSpin]

No serious Wagner lover would agree to live with just one version of Die Walküre, but if the choice is unavoidable, one can safely settle with Furtwängler's 1954 Vienna recording. First published in 1955, and reprinted many times in various editions, now on Warner.

 

[sphinxsix]

Also stream. Unfortunately my streaming service has only part IV..

 

[WAM]

Was Mingus a genius? Or bonkers? Or both?

[WAM]

12 hours ago, AnotherSpin said:

Bach performed as if it were something midway Scarlatti and Tchaikovsky?

 

I gave only Contrapunctus 2 a listen. I compared it with Nikolajeva (Helsinki recording), Hewitt and Nosrati. One track is not the album. But if you like Bach, there are imho better options.

 

This has imho nothing to do with Scarlatti (not that familiar with Tchaikovsky). YMMV of course.

[WAM]

7 hours ago, sphinxsix said:

Also stream. Unfortunately my streaming service has only part IV..

Qobuz? 

[sphinxsix]

41 minutes ago, WAM said:

Qobuz? 

 

[AnotherSpin]

9 hours ago, WAM said:

 

I gave only Contrapunctus 2 a listen. I compared it with Nikolajeva (Helsinki recording), Hewitt and Nosrati. One track is not the album. But if you like Bach, there are imho better options.

 

This has imho nothing to do with Scarlatti (not that familiar with Tchaikovsky). YMMV of course.

 

The analogy with Scarlatti emerged in other parts of the album. Specifically on the Art of Fugue, there is hardly a rendition that can be confidently acknowledged as definitive. Nevertheless, Koroliov, Charlie Rosen, or Zhu Xiao-Mei are interesting, for example. Gould, of course. 

[lamode]

Goblin - Profondo Rosso

 

 

[Michaelb4]