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Name:
   S.H. Gerriets
Details:
   Sixty-ish professional. Chamber music aficianado with emphasis on quartets. Circa 650 CDs, 450 SACDs; I amuse myself with a database of 29,000 composers, 56,000 works, 12,000 performances. Married to biologist/cellist. 'Extreme Gardening' with stone, water and native plants is my other passion.
Location:
   a rock in the Atlantic
HiFi:
   MAIN SYSTEM
Marantz SA11-S2 (formerly Shanling SCD-T200)
Rotel 1070 pre-amp,
Rotel 1070 power-amp,
Monstercable Ultra600 interconnects
Paradigm Monitor-11** (biwired)
Paradigm PDR-10

POWERED HAFLER CIRCUIT ***
Nakamichi R3 integrated tuner-amp
Castle Pembroke rears

OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF
House on quiet lakeside
Propane fire heating (silent)
Leather recliner + footstool
Ardbeg, Glenmorangie or Aberlour single malt
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* http://www.shanling.com/English/SCD-T2000.htm
** http://www.sorishop.com/goods/img/img_B8874.jpg
*** http://headwize.com/images/hafler.gif
Email:
   steirreg@gmail.com
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Posts:
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Reviews
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Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur - Wolfgang Sieber      (6 of 6 found this review helpful)
  May 18, 2012

Hmm, a disc this good needs a review of some sort (and deserves a more thorough review than this 'off the cuff' quickie). THE MUSIC IF you are a fan of Messiaen already THEN consider yourself blessed, say no more, wink-wink, nudge-nudge (I refer to the Messiaen of the 'Quartet for the End of Time', ... more
Schubert: Winterreise - Peter Harvey, Gary Cooper      (3 of 5 found this review helpful)
  January 30, 2011

I confess, I judged this book by its cover: I bought it because of the stark photo on the cover (by the baritone, Peter Harvey). The black raven captures the bleak spirit of this Liederzyklus in a powerful icon. I also knew Gary Cooper from etc, and Peter Harvey from and I trust Linn recordings. ... more
Janacek: Complete String Quartets - Mandelring Quartett      (7 of 7 found this review helpful)
  January 4, 2011

"Do they have the courage to be coarse when Janacek asks for it as well? My benchmark is Juilliard on Sony." Yes indeedy! I believe you refer to that quality which the wife and I fondly refer to as 'edge', and horsehair-and-rosin edge is certainly present in satisfactory quantity where passion ... more
Bach: Cello Suites - Gavriel Lipkind      (7 of 11 found this review helpful)
  November 17, 2010

Where to begin with this remarkable box set? Let's start with the weird... LINER NOTES Woo-hoo! (accompanied by rolling of eye-balls). I cannot readily disprove the assertion that J.S. Bach encoded The Kabbalah in these works, as is proposed in the "Text-book" and "Map of the Journey" which come ... more
Kuijken Two Generations      (7 of 7 found this review helpful)
  October 14, 2010

THE QUARTET INTRODUZIONE “I can’t go on; I must go on…” says Sir, the age-exhausted actor in the play and film ‘The Dresser’. He says it again and again until, finally, he steps through the curtain and into the demanding role of King Lear.... That protracted backstage hesitation is the only drama ... more
 
 
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Peculiarity with Bach Suites for Cello / Janos Starker / Mercury
May 17, 2013
Hi Doug, Interesting! Everything is as it should be on my Marantz this morning: 1=1, 2=2.... --But thanks for inspiring another spin of these discs, I've been intending to do so since JS died last month. This number-jumble sounds like a memory overflow in the little computer-on-a-chip which is used to read and display text. If so then turning all ... more
Audiophile bible
May 13, 2013
And having been raised Lutheran, I can speak for the Protestant tradition: You're all damned!!! ...Anyone care to discuss some music? ... more
Audiophile bible
May 12, 2013
bible (informal): a book regarded as authoritative in a particular sphere. -- http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/Bible That being said, "a collection of rag-tag comments, commentary on the comments, hearsay, fiction and poetry written by different folk - many certifiably bonkers - ranging from the sublime to the downright silly ... more
You have to laugh...
May 11, 2013
Woo! Seventies flashback.... ... more
Discussion: String Quartets, Vol. III: Haydn - Nordheim - Bartok
May 10, 2013
Hi Lute, I'm glad to hear that you are enjoying Papa Haydn; I think he could easily lay claim to the "Most Enjoyable Classical Composer" title. Here is a link to the list which I compiled in 2011 of Haydn quartets on SA-CD: http://hmv.sa-cd.net/showthread/68337/68459. ... more