First listen to CD 1 from "Shakespeare's Musick" performed by the Musicians Of The Globe led by Philip Pickett on L'Oiseau-Lyre. Shakespeare's Musick - Songs & Dances From Shakespeare's Plays
Alas, no Beethoven Triple Concerto. Must have been a label block as Mr. Ma supposedly picked these particular albums himself. Too bad.
But I like that piece. Wouldn't matter. One of the salient features of Ma's music is the high bar he sets for collaborators.
the third Living Presence box? How many of those Mercury Living Presence boxes have been released? I only have the box by Janos Starker ...
I've been a lurker for a while, so I know the drill, but please pardon me for not reading through 1574 pages in this thread looking to see if the question was asked before. I've been struggling with an odd sound on a few recordings and I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts about this. I have really noticed it in classical music during loud crescendos, but I detect a bit of it in other random tracks of unrelated genres. I would describe the sound as if it came from a cheap plastic cabinet speaker. The crescendo sounds a bit hollow and what you would expect from a set of $10 passive computer speakers. I recently listened to Beethoven's 7th on this album set and the "plasticky" sound is immediately apparent in the first crescendo. To compare, I plugged my iPhone in to my home theater system (nothing is shared with my music room system, completely different type of equipment, none of the same brands, tube vs ss, etc) and played Beethoven's 7th from a different composer. I hear the plasticky sound during crescendos, as well. I've noticed this in some Eagles tracks and occasionally other random tracks. Am I nuts or has anyone else noticed this?
Not yet. I’ve gotten about 1500 discs ripped so far. I had more time over the holiday break but now I’m back to work again and it’s been crazy busy so I’ve had to take a break. I have no idea why but I started ripping my individual discs first and will start on the boxes later.
Full French opera going on in here tonight: Francis Poulenc's Le Dialogue des Carmélites (premiered in 1957). Nagano! And Van Dam! (1992 CD)
Here is my answer: 200 Ans de Musique - Versailles (Versailles - 200 Years of Music) The box has been OOP for a while now ...
I only found out Veronique Gens sang most of the soprano roles, which I did not find out a few years ago when I zipped through the box for the first time but was too lazy to read the liner notes ... France has produced so many outstanding sopranos in recent years.
NP: Ma mère l'oye, complete ballet Listening through this set, so far so good, though it may not displace my top favorites. Hi-rez download, but it's playing through my laptop speakers (!) so no sound-quality judgments.
I didn't see any rig details in your profile, but if you're having the issue with multiple recordings, I'd personally be investigating the speakers or amplifier for problems. If you're getting an effect similar to playing a loud recording through cheap speakers, and you're not playing through cheap speakers, it suggests a physical failure (on the part of the playback system) of some sort. My first thought would be a speaker fault, but that's just a stab in the dark.
Thanks for the reply. This was my first thought, and why I listened through another completely different system, and different version of the symphony. I think it is some combination of instruments that I hear as a plastic sound. My music room system is: Thorens TD-125, SME 3009 Series II Improved, AT ART-9 Lite GA-31A phono preamp with Amperex 7308 (gold pin) tubes Welborne Ultrapath bp preamp with Phillips 6GM8 tubes Elektra-Print/Welborne SET monoblocks with Shugang Treasure 300B-Z tubes Northcreek custom bookshelf version of Rhythm speakers.
Does this cover mean that, nowadays, Beethoven's 6th Symphony has been downgraded to 'B' movie status !
