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What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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Originally posted by HighlandDougie View PostMahler: Symphony No 4 in G major
Frederica von Stade (Soprano)/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Claudio Abbado - Universal Japan MQA x UHQCD
Having noted Richard Finegold's positive experience with Mytek DACs and bought one (with a built-in MQA decoder - MQA being Bob Stuart of Meridian's attempt at a high quality format, now available on Tidal), I've acquired a small number of MQA-encoded CDs, including this one. I already have it as a standard CD, in a Korean remastering and as a Japanese SACD (I am a total sucker for snake oil) - does it sound any better? Hmm, jury is out on that one - but it's still a lovely performance. The Mytek, so far, is a very impressive DAC, though.Last edited by richardfinegold; 19-01-19, 04:08.
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostThrough my Night, Soulfood for the Cruellest month...
Beethoven String Quartets Op. 18 Nos 1-3.
Vegh Quartet rec. 1952 (Haydn Society Recordings). Music & Arts CDs 2001 (lovely restoration of the intégrale).
Debussy from Images Books 1&2; Preludes Book 1.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. rec. Lugano 1968. Aura CD.
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I seem to be on a Shostakovich odyssey. Possibly inspired by a dreary Chicago blizzard and reading Anthony Beavor The Battle Of Berlin. Currently I am listening to Solti and the CSO in the Eighth and the last few mornings listening to Yablonsky and his Russian Orchestra in the Leningrad from a Naxos DVD Audio.
The Yablonsky is well played and spectacular in Surround Sound but I find it somewhat restrained in the big butt kicking climaxes, and restraint in this piece is a dirty word, like the Pope that painted underwear over genitalia in Renascence Art. I much prefer Bernstein/CSO or Kitaenko in Cologne. The Solti is one of his last recordings, as he was embarked on a DSCH cycle at the end of his life. I don’t think it compares with Solti’s recordings of 1/15 or Babi Yar The middle movements tend to sound like he is beating time and the irony is po faced, but the CSO is magnificent
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Originally posted by richardfinegold View PostThe Michelangeli DG recordings have been very important to me since I first heard them on lp in the seventies. Are these Lugano performances in stereo?
I usually find these live Aura tapings even lovelier than the DG studio ones, wonderful though they all are....interpretations - similar, just that extra degree of caught-on-the-wing spontaneity, the colours even more magical and delicate...
Peering at the (very) small print, I see that these Debussy Images/Preludes actually date from 1987/1977, at Vatican City. The Childrens Corner on the same album are the 1968 Lugano tapings. (Original Post now corrected...).
There is some applause, restrained and unobtrusive, after each group of pieces.
Michelangeli's famous c/w of the Schubert D537 and Brahms Op. 10 Ballades is just as fabulous in the Aura version (Lugano 1981).....Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 19-01-19, 05:07.
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Originally posted by richardfinegold View PostWhich Mytek did you acquire, HD? I recently acquired that Mahler 4 for the first time, in red book CD. It has displaced my long held favorite, Szell, although Szell III is achingly beautiful.
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Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie (Loriod sisters, ONdlRTF, Le Roux) from the new Yvonne Loriod Complete Véga Recordings boxed set. A rather better transfer than has previously appeared on CD, but the weaknesses of the original recording (somewhat conjested smimming pool acoustics, etc.) remain.
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Originally posted by HighlandDougie View PostBrooklyn DAC+ - really pleased. The MQA-encoded CD of the Clara Haskil/Igor Markevitch Mozart PCs is a big improvement on the red book CD; ditto Argenta’s “Espana” with the Decca Kingsway Hall recording of the LSO in the Capriccio Espagnol never before sounding as good. The Mytek also sounds excellent with DSD files.
I had the Mytek for about a year when Bryston released their BDA 3 DAC, which has HDMI. I can output the DSD from my large SACD collection directly from my Oppo into the DAC and I thought that I would sell the Mytek when I bought the Bryston but while the Bryston is wonderful I couldn’t bring myself to part with the Mytek until now, because I am buying the Bryston streamer to go with the DAC to replace Bluesound. I’ll miss the Mytek, but MQA just isn’t that important for me
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostWhoever needs cheering up it will do the trick!
French music (as so often ) sounds a possible source of something.....but I finally found succour again in this...
Beethoven String Quartet Op.74.
Vegh Quartet rec.1952. Music & Arts CDs.
Perhaps the most profoundly serene of all the cycle, and my very long-time favourite...it has the sort of serenity that doesn't usually grate, upon even the darkest of moods...
...matins....
Debussy Preludes Book 2. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, DGCD rec.1988.
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostWell, Barry Tuckwell was Principal Horn (and Chairman) of the LSO from 1962-67, and this concert was from the year before Kertesz took over from Monteux as Principal Conductor, so that's a healthy bet, visnick.
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostI usually find these live Aura tapings even lovelier than the DG studio ones, wonderful though they all are....interpretations - similar, just that extra degree of caught-on-the-wing spontaneity, the colours even more magical and delicate...
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