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What are you listening to? Part III
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Schumann Symphony 1 - Charles Munch - Living Stereo
Glorious even with just the Shure se215, believe me I own better.
Most of my listening is via Tidal, smartphone manufacturers have really upped their game with audio quality from headphone output.
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Glorious, using iPhone 5s with Apple Music and Shure se215. Tidal does not have this recording.
Between you and scepticalscribe I have found some nice goodies on this thread which I just began going through yesterday. Thanking you both.
Glorious even with just the Shure se215, believe me I own better.
Most of my listening is via Tidal, smartphone manufacturers have really upped their game with audio quality from headphone output.
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Glorious, using iPhone 5s with Apple Music and Shure se215. Tidal does not have this recording.
Between you and scepticalscribe I have found some nice goodies on this thread which I just began going through yesterday. Thanking you both.
Thank you for the endorsement. There is so much wonderful music to discover… we live in a true golden age.
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I'd definitely agree.
Have not listened to him in awhile, will put it on later today.
Sounds wonderful: I have stuff by Göran Söllscher and know him to be excellent. Gil Shaham, I am not familiar with.
That is an excellent choice. And not the usual 24 Caprices that I suspect is most people's limit of Paganini.![61qm-OVnziL.jpg]()
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There is also a Piazzolla for Two album by Göran Söllscher — Tango for guitar and flute. Nice for a relaxed weekend.
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Some really fabulous Baroque noise to start my afternoon.
Rebel, Les Élémens…
Lovely, lovely, inventive music.
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Rebel, Les Élémens…
Lovely, lovely, inventive music.
Oh, I'm going to have to start taking notes. I'm always interested in more classical music.Some really fabulous Baroque noise to start my afternoon.
Rebel, Les Élémens…
Lovely, lovely, inventive music.
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Haha.
I am always happy to lure people over to more classical music.This is definitely where my Spotify subscription earns its keep — the freedom to "try before you buy" without having to guess from those 30 sec snippets you have on Amazon or iTunes.
Some really fabulous Baroque noise to start my afternoon.
Rebel, Les Élémens…
Lovely, lovely, inventive music.
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Ah - I really love Baroque music; and am also rather partial to some Renaissance and medieval music.
Anyway, is this worth ordering (and no, I don't have Spotify) - or, rather, how would you describe it?
Gentle, soothing Baroque, - insanely wonderful Baroque (Soler's Fandango comes to mind), or masterly subtle an complex Baroque?
Yes, @arkitect - agreed, I'm with @mobilehaathi on this. Some note taking might just be in order.
Hmmmm… difficult to answer.
I hesitate to offer you a link, but here is the whole performance on Youtube.
Not soothing, not in a Pachelbel Canon way, at least.
The only Fandango I own is a harpsichord solo by Andreas Staier so hard to say.
It is very French, quirky, starts with a representation of Chaos… but before long there are birds tweeting, thunder rumbling.
On this particular disk there are also two decent works by Telemann and Gluck.
Haha.
This is definitely where my Spotify subscription earns its keep — the freedom to "try before you buy" without having to guess from those 30 sec snippets you have on Amazon or iTunes.
Most libraries in my parts have a pretty decent amount of classical recordings one can borrow. That is where I started before Stopify.
I think I may have the Andreas Staier CD - actually, if memory serves, it may have been a two CD set.
Classical music stations on the radio have also served as superb introductions to pieces, and composers, and artists, I might otherwise never have come across.
That is a very famous CD, an absolute classic.
Enjoy.
Tonight, I am playing some rather obscure - but quite lovely - fusion music from northern Norway (from the early 80s) by a group called "Langsomt Mot Nord" sent to me by a friend.
It happens to be one of the first CDs I ever bought, incidentally.
My father had it, too, - must see if I can dig it out - and loved it.
Have 'Appetite for Destruction' by Guns N Roses playing in the background while I read.
Dave Matthews Band - Lying in the Hands of God - at Austin City Limits, 2009
Every so often, someone from the wider culture of what is considered by some (though not by all - how American is Hawaii?- not least when a certain kid who once answered to the name of Barry Obama spent many - though not all - of his formative years there?) to be a part of the US hits that bittersweet note of heartbreaking authenticity in describing cultural annihilation and destruction.
So, - in reluctant salute to an unwelcome set of occurrences, or an unfortunate series of events, - to borrow a phrase - or title - from a writer (Lemony Snicket) whose work I like a lot - I am listening to the haunting music of the wonderful Hawai'ian artist, composer, singer, songwriter, and musician, - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole; Listen to "Hawai'i '78", and "Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" and I defy you, I dare you, not to want to weep.
So, - in reluctant salute to an unwelcome set of occurrences, or an unfortunate series of events, - to borrow a phrase - or title - from a writer (Lemony Snicket) whose work I like a lot - I am listening to the haunting music of the wonderful Hawai'ian artist, composer, singer, songwriter, and musician, - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole; Listen to "Hawai'i '78", and "Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" and I defy you, I dare you, not to want to weep.
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