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Record Review: non-BaL discs reviewed, etc.
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Anyway. (contd. from #960...)
"Brahms Analogue" in the actual listening?
On Qobuz at 24/192, the instruments are set close, a very vivid and immediate sound with a warm and full, even rich, character.
Detail was impressive and involving - bringing the performers and instruments into your room with a very realistic, individual presence. Does the cello’s closeness and rich timbre become a little too dominant, even oppressive as the album wears on? I think it might….
Individually, the piano was rather soft-focus and unvaried, not especially distinctive tonally; a supporting act to the more distinctive cello. No Instrumentarium in the notes; another disappointing lack.
But I did miss a sense of space or acoustic “air” ; not many sonic clues to the recording venue; just the two instruments in mutually supportive intimacy. (A burst of the Queyras/Tharaud album brought a swift sense of liberation. Out into the fresh air!)
Stereo or instrumental separation was limited: cello and piano were close together spatially, although still easy to follow clearly, together or apart.
Musically, I enjoyed the performances here; they are quite free and impassioned readings, with urgency, lyrical flight or nonchalance where apt; the delicate micro-dynamics are beautifully done: very involving.
So on this level, rewarding; but still with some reservations, especially about the piano - its role and its sound, and the balance generally, which is rather airless, too contained.
As for hearing “how it sounds in the studio”…. such wonders, like the sound of the analogue, computer-free, open reel mastertape itself, will have to remain, for me, a fantasy….
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostAnyway. (contd. from #960...)
"Brahms Analogue" in the actual listening?
On Qobuz at 24/192, the instruments are set close, a very vivid and immediate sound with a warm and full, even rich, character.
Detail was impressive and involving - bringing the performers and instruments into your room with a very realistic, individual presence. Does the cello’s closeness and rich timbre become a little too dominant, even oppressive as the album wears on? I think it might….
Individually, the piano was rather soft-focus and unvaried, not especially distinctive tonally; a supporting act to the more distinctive cello. No Instrumentarium in the notes; another disappointing lack.
But I did miss a sense of space or acoustic “air” ; not many sonic clues to the recording venue; just the two instruments in mutually supportive intimacy. (A burst of the Queyras/Tharaud album brought a swift sense of liberation. Out into the fresh air!)
Stereo or instrumental separation was limited: cello and piano were close together spatially, although still easy to follow clearly, together or apart.
Musically, I enjoyed the performances here; they are quite free and impassioned readings, with urgency, lyrical flight or nonchalance where apt; the delicate micro-dynamics are beautifully done: very involving.
So on this level, rewarding; but still with some reservations, especially about the piano - its role and its sound, and the balance generally, which is rather airless, too contained.
As for hearing “how it sounds in the studio”…. such wonders, like the sound of the analogue, computer-free, open reel mastertape itself, will have to remain, for me, a fantasy….
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostI listened again to the "Brahms Analogue" album as aforementioned (#955, #956)....certainly a very distinctive record...... but has anyone else any views after a hearing or two...?
Certainly the music is no hardship to listen to.......... as great & gorgeous as ever.
anyhow, Apple Music has the Brahms disc in " Hi -Res Lossless".
So I'll listen to that, but take advice as a non audiophile on whether I am missing out on a lot.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by Alison View PostI feel I want all the recordings introduced by Steven Osborne today. The guests for this slot have been pretty good of late.
Streaming the new Rite/Firebird as I type.
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