What download have you bought?

[cloughie]

Thanks Bryn, I've just bought the 16 bits FLAC from 7Digital UK. I have another Jeroen Van Veen Satie release on Brilliant - the 'Complete Piano Music'.

If I'm not wrong, Vexations should take around 10 hours, but JVV takes 23 hours! I don't look forward to downloading this zip file (started as I type!)

For those not familiar, here's a short article from The Guardian.

Straight choice between listening to that and getting a life!

[Beef Oven!]

Straight choice between listening to that and getting a life!

Some of us can do it all and leave the binary route to lesser people.

[cloughie]

Some of us can do it all and leave the binary route to lesser people.

That looks a rather cliche driven meaningless statement - What is that supposed to mean?

Don’t get me wrong I love Satie’s music but that looks like minimalism taken to the maximum!

[Bryn]

That looks a rather cliche driven meaningless statement - What is that supposed to mean?

Don’t get me wrong I love Satie’s music but that looks like minimalism taken to the maximum!

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

A young man in Japan arranged his circumstances so that he was able to travel to a distant island to study Zen with a certain Master for a three-year period. At the end of the three years, feeling no sense of accomplishment, he presented himself to the Master and announced his departure. The Master said, "You've been bere three years. Why don't you stay three months more?" The student agreed, but at the end of the three months bh still felt that he had made no advance. When he told the Master
again that he was leaving, the Master said, "Look now, you've been here three years and three months. Stay three weeks longer." The student did, but with no success. When he told the Master that absolutely nothing had happened, the Master said, '"You've been here three years, three months, and three weeks. Stay three more days, and if, at the end of that time, you have not attained enlightenment, commit suicide." Towards the end of the second day, the student was enlightened.

John Cage.

[cloughie]

John Cage.

Ay, well, mm!

[Beef Oven!]

Bought last night as a 16 bits CD quality download from Qobuz

[Beef Oven!]

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[HighlandDougie]

Schubert: 7 songs, variously orchestrated by Brahms or Webern; Symphony No 7 in B-Flat Major, D759 (completion by Nicola Samale and Benjamin Gunnar-Cohrs): Overture, Die Zauberharfe, D644

Florian Boesch (Baritone)/Concentus Musicus, Wien/Stefan Gottfried [24/96 download]

Aside from whether the completion is convincing - or not (and, in my unhumble opinion, it is), this is a memorable release, both for the quality of Florian Boesch's singing and playing of the VCM and the spacious and clear recording (Musikverein). Pace DJ (on the dedicated thread), I don't know the Venzago so can't compare his tempi with those adopted by Gottfried but the latter don't strike me as in any way too measured. In the context of a big, four movement symphony, the tempi strike me as pretty much ideal (and, by hearing the first two movements in that context, they avoid the pall of lugubriousness which can sometimes hang over the Andante con moto). I enjoyed the first listen so much that I immediately listened to it all again. And for JLW's interest, Gottfried and the VCM have recently infiltrated some early Bruckner into their concert programmes, alongside Beethoven.

[jayne lee wilson]

Schubert: 7 songs, variously orchestrated by Brahms or Webern; Symphony No 7 in B-Flat Major, D759 (completion by Nicola Samale and Benjamin Gunnar-Cohrs): Overture, Die Zauberharfe, D644

Florian Boesch (Baritone)/Concentus Musicus, Wien/Stefan Gottfried [24/96 download]

Aside from whether the completion is convincing - or not (and, in my unhumble opinion, it is), this is a memorable release, both for the quality of Florian Boesch's singing and playing of the VCM and the spacious and clear recording (Musikverein). Pace DJ (on the dedicated thread), I don't know the Venzago so can't compare his tempi with those adopted by Gottfried but the latter don't strike me as in any way too measured. In the context of a big, four movement symphony, the tempi strike me as pretty much ideal (and, by hearing the first two movements in that context, they avoid the pall of lugubriousness which can sometimes hang over the Andante con moto). I enjoyed the first listen so much that I immediately listened to it all again. And for JLW's interest, Gottfried and the VCM have recently infiltrated some early Bruckner into their concert programmes, alongside Beethoven.

Ooh, great! Which Bruckner was that HD? Were you there? Any mikes visible...?

[HighlandDougie]

Ooh, great! Which Bruckner was that HD? Were you there? Any mikes visible...?

I rather wish I had been there, given this new Schubert, but, alas, no. It's a tentative dipping of the orchestral toes in the water but here is the programme:

https://www.brucknerhaus.at/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen/detail/concentus-musicus-wien-spielt-beethoven-und-bruckner-1035.html

[Beef Oven!]

16 bit download from Qobuz.

I'd been eyeing this set up for a little while.

A young German quartet, containing three siblings!

[Nick Armstrong]

Just to flag that at last, after the revamp of their website, Presto Classical have re-introduced their gift voucher facility: https://www.prestomusic.com/vouchers

This follows regular email correspondence from me and others, urging them to do so - for the selfish reason that for a few years, their vouchers had been my response to queries from family/friends about 'what I want for Christmas/birthday'.... I usually ended up with enough vouchers to keep me going for the year ... but not in 2018 Normal service about to be resumed, I hope!

[Nick Armstrong]

This album featured on CD Review has been playing a lot on Qobuz lately here



The first track will be the first download I purchase with the hoped-for impending Christmas vouchers - a movement from Graupner's Overture in F, a haunting baroque gem which is up there with Pachelbel's Canon &c. with the added benefit of being almost completely unknown.....

[HighlandDougie]

Qobuz is having a 'Black Friday' event. Among the bargains, this wonderful music is available for €2,20. 16 bits only but it sounds great. I bought the CDs last year and listen to them often:

https://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/album/kagel-the-8-pieces-of-the-wind-rose-ensemble-aleph/3149028092127