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May 4, 2008
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This third instalment from Donaueschinger is a wonderful disc. Combining world class period performers with a contemporary music ensemble, DJ and electro-acoustic artists is a fascinating idea that is seldom attempted with such radical ideas or played with such verve. The period performers are ... more |
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May 4, 2008
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For the last of the Neos' offerings taken from Donaueschinger Mustiktage 2006, we encounter some world class artists in this field (as in their opening volume but on a larger scale).
The two works on offer here couldn't be more different: Mauricio Kagel's "Divertimento? (Farce for ensemble)" and ... more |
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May 4, 2008
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Willem Tanke has here written and performed, as the title suggests, a meditative work for organ. This composition has a large influence from Indian music tonally, if not rhythmically. At times, the organist is required to strike a wooden stick (either against the instrument or a bell) which brings ... more |
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May 4, 2008
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Written as a 3 part work (which may be performed independently), Magnum Mysterium is a curious blend of the avant garde and completely conventional church music. The participants are a speaker, a mixed chorus, 12 voices (of any persuasion) that also play bells, an organist, a wind ensemble of 8, a ... more |
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May 1, 2008
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As with his other discs, Thomas Günther provides eloquent and passionate advocacy for a composer of whom few will have heard the name, let alone his music. Unlike many of Cybele's 20th Century releases, this is relatively enjoyable on an emotional as well as intellectual level. The biggest reason ... more |
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Yesterday 04:52 pm
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| "One day someone may invent an ECONOMICAL and practical way of storing analogue" - they have, it's called DSD!
"when this happens the current digital systems will be history and looked back upon as a poor wrong road that the industry took for the wrong reasons." - unlikely; it's the best solution currently commercially viable and progress is full ... more |
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Yesterday 04:45 pm
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| "Whats the point of a wide dynamic range if you are only playing a simple solo guitar etc stupid argument." - Agreed but as you well know, the musical canon consists of far more music than just that written for solo guitar (beautiful though it can be). A great deal of this music calls for dynamics from ppppp to ffff and for music like that, one ... more |
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Yesterday 04:23 pm
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| "With loudspeakers still a technology of the dark ages (circa 1930)All playback systems have limitations ,even your mysterious un named system." - Agreed although some have far greater limitations than others.
"Also Picking out any small sets of measurement paramaters which may or may not be relevant to prove your point is Rediculous and smacks ... more |
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Yesterday 04:13 pm
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| Sony link here: http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/consumer/dsd/dsd.pdf (page 3).
Also: http://www.cdfreaks.com/reviews/The-SuperAudio-CD-SACD-explained/The-SACD-solution-DSD.html
Your opinion of my technical credibility may be zero; I would just note that many people (including those of the calibre of Erdo Groot) agree with my thinking in general ... more |
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Yesterday 03:47 pm
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| Look, we disagree whether or not one should seek to replicate the venue experience as closely as possible; I say "yes", you don't. If you were to say "yes", you would hopefully recognise that some instruments (for example organs) are almost always heard from above due to the positioning of their pipes in the churches/cathedrals/halls wrt to a ... more |
