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What are you listening to? Part III
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The "summer" and "winter" sections are also my favorites.
And summer is my least favorite season lol.
My favorite times of year in order:
1.Fall
2.Winter
3.Spring
4.Summer
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I also quite like Vivaldi but am partial to his lesser known works. Listen to this rendition of "La Folia" - quite "metal" if you forgive the term.
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I also quite like Vivaldi but am partial to his lesser known works. Listen to this rendition of "La Folia" - quite "metal" if you forgive the term.
THis is my favorite work from Vivaldi:
Mandolins and lutes, not appreciated enough IMHO.
I enjoy classical music too! I never took classical lessons or anything, and it's not my primary domain of performance, but if someone asks me to accompany them on a classical piece or something, I'll do that. Baroque music, especially, has inspired much of modern stuff, so I use Bach as ear training a lot, listening to/singing the middle voices of Bach chorales and such.
Music is my favorite form of entertainment, too, but I never have background music. I'm always actively listening to it.
This is a nice performance, I like it!
Agreed.
However, my own personal favourites are the Baroque guitar (as well as the Baroque lute), and, above all, the utterly magnificent theorbo.
I'll be listening to these for the rest of the night...
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At age 65 I'm brand-new to streaming, saw this, and called up the stereo copy on my new Cambridge Audio streamer/DAC, and I really like it, decided it was worth spending on the 5.1 SACD, and purchased. The Amazoid website only listed it as an "Audio CD", but they're not very accurate and most of the comments praised the Surround Sound mix, so fingers crossed.
Thank you for posting this, @S.B.G !
Definitely my favorite genre/era of classical music.
And mine, also.
I love Baroque music, and have thrilled to the discovery (thanks to the online universe) of music from less well known composers/artists from that era.
Thanks!
I also have a Cambridge DAC/streamer, the CXN V2. It's a great piece of gear and I get many hours of enjoyment through it.
It took me a while but I finally got HQPlayer working on my Linux machine to play back some of my DSD files.
Some CSN&Y Deja vu to break in the new speakers.
This is an absolutely magnificent album! Topped off at the end with one of my favorite pieces, Adagio for Strings. The clarity of the recording is astounding to me. I have and love Adagio for Strings from an old album by my favorite conductor, Herbert von Karajan, and while the performance is superb, the recording doesn’t measure up to this one.
Here is the link to sample the music and/or purchase it in hi-res PCM, DSD or WAV.
You might dig this dance piece, if you haven't seen it before:
...and this is the backstory:
A Tribute to Margot Fonteyn, 23 May, 1979 - the programme — Alastair Macaulay
We all have items to which we refer as “our most prized possessions”, but it’s alarmingly easy to lose some of them over the years, especially with changes of address. On August 19’s Victoria and Albert Museum Zoom panel discussion of Margot Fonteyn with Monica Mason, Alfreda Thorogood, and Stephen
www.alastairmacaulay.com