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Jan Garbarek. Just bought 2 of his CDs off eBay for not much money. The first, ‘Sart’ is to my ears very odd indeed. A bit too way out for my taste. So after 6 repeat plays (I try to give everything a fair chance) it’s going back on eBay when I can get around […]
Blind tests show that louder is better (hence the importance of precise level matching). In practice (and I assume in blind tests, too), this is true up to the point at which too much volume produces effects that are detrimental to sound quality–distortion, for example, or excessive room resonances. This leaves me with a couple […]
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Perahia discusses and performs Bach’s French Suites to introduce his new album Continues HERE
We are told: Disc 1 shows the Wildman Of Rock n Roll, Ted Nugent, in full swing A stand-out performance from his 1984 tour with Humble Pie Featuring hits including Stranglehold, Cat Scratch Fever and Dog Eat Dog Disc 2 shows Nugent surfing the wave of success brought about by “Free For All” Recorded live […]
The Western world’s love affair with “world music” has always had its blind spots. Japanese traditional music is one. You won’t find recordings of Shomyo Buddhist chanting or bunraku ensembles among the world music bestsellers. And you certainly won’t find gagaku, even though it’s the most extraordinary and riveting of all Japanese traditional musics. The […]
Originally published in January 2012 Until last year Sameer Rahim had little interest in classical music – but now he is hooked on opera. In a new column he offers a novice-eye’s view of this seemingly forbidding but truly magical art form. Continues HERE
After 3 years and over 1 million sales worldwide, the ‘Original Album Series’ continues to offer music lovers the easiest way to get their hands on the catalogue of the world’s biggest artists. Each one houses 5 albums all with their original artwork and music in slipcase form. With near 100 artists available […]
1000 only! On the weekend of April 4-6, 1969, the Grateful Dead headlined at the Avalon Ballroom, the last rock show at the Avalon for almost 40 years. The final night was broadcast on KPFA-FM Berkeley, generating a tape that was one of the few good quality ’69 tapes in early circulation. The two opening […]
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By SAMUEL STROUP January 24, 2018 Half a century into his musical career, English reed player John Surman continues to find outlets to explore a wide variety of introspective compositions. Invisible Threads, out on ECM, finds Surman exploring folk and world music, accompanied by pianist Nelson Ayres and mallet percussionist Rob Waring. The album features […]
TONEAudio write: Wrapped in the same champagne front panel that every CJ component has come since their inception, the MF 2275 is a compact, solid state amplifier. As company founder Lew Johnson assured me at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, “Yes, we make excellent solid-state amplifiers too.” More HERE
Eric Huang replies …. I’m not an audio equipment expert. But I can share some things I learned about the Bose 901 speaker from the man himself, because I took Professor Bose’s acoustics class when I was undergraduate, and we got to ask him lots of questions. When people buy speakers, what sounds “best” is […]
From the archives – several years ago Paul Rishell & Annie Raines were interviewed by Y6 pupils* at Russell Hall Primary School, West Yorkshire following their workshop at the school and prior to their appearance in Keighley. * Thanks to Laura, Daniel, Natasha, Emily, Holly, Scott, Lauren & Lucy. Who or what encouraged you to start playing music? Annie – […]
A complete live performance by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Andrés Orozco-Estrada The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra’s YouTube channel continues to present some wonderful live performances. A couple of weeks ago we featured their account of Prokofiev’s First Symphony conducted by François Leleux, today it is a complete performance of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra conducted by […]
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Benoit Rolland acknowledges that the violin reigns supreme as the star of the strings, capable of fetching millions of dollars at auction. But what about the bow? “A violin with no bow is not a violin, that’s clear,” says Rolland. “A lot of people, even some instrumentalists, in our younger years we believe that the […]
From The Guardian: The next letter of our fortnightly alphabetical tour of the world and work of Richard Wagner is B, for Bayreuth and Brünnhilde. B is for Bayreuth, the capital of Upper Franconia in southern Germany, but more to the point the capital of Wagneria – it styles itself “Wagnerstadt” on local signs. It […]
