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The wekened bottle: Pecorino Civitas Terre di Chieti IGP Lunaria 2020

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This afternoon, a Poll Winners CD reissue of Zoot Sims quartet session c/w the session on which he plays alto, tenor and baritone - very nice, and great rhythm section (John Williams, Nabil Totah, Gus Johnson).

The result is always that your perception of specific frequency ranges is impaired. Hearind aids simply amplify these, just as an equalizer does. Well, they are adjusted like an equalizer! BTW I read a report by some HiFi enthusiast who was extremely dissatisfied with listening to music even with the highest quality hearing aids, but solved the problem with an braodband equalizer that he adjusted to his needs. Only that this kind of thing is despised by hard core audiophiles ...

That sounds tempting!

Definitively looks like Warren Smith.

Looks very good!

Van Asperen's recordings of Louis Couperin and Johann Jakob Froberger on Aeolus are indeed the best one can buy right now of the music of these masters. Fantastic historic harpsichords, excellent playing and comments and perfect sound.

When I went to sleep last night, this was my choice: This morning, it was: Right now: Pierre Sprey recorded jazz the ultimate way.

https://lucaguglielmi.com

Listening to the samples reminds me of the reasons why I skipped this when it was released - I don't like her agogics. In Bach's music it is all there, you don't have to manipulate tone durations too much, which she does. Just let it flow. That's what his son Carl Philip Emanuel told us. For the Goldbergs I would recommend someone using a German type harpsichord, like Luca Guglielmi, Andreas Staier, Ottavio Dantone.

Do you know what harpsichord she plays on this CD? And what is the playing time?

Perfect imitation of Spanish guitar arpeggios on harpsichord!

Brandywine Baroque organizes concerts and recordings with historic instruments from the Flint Collection, videos give a good impression in perfect sound. https://www.brandywinebaroque.org https://www.plectra.org

There a plenty of great sounding historic harpsichords or copies in the USA - when you have a chance go hear them played. There is a nice group of players in New York. https://www.rpechefsky.com

Knowledge about instruments and their construction has increased enormously over the last decades. The harpsichords Landowska used were made by piano builders trying to use methods of piano construction, which in the end did not yield satisfying results. (These instruments mockingly were described as "egg slicers" in Germany) It has a lot to do with string tension and tuning pitch, as well as soundboard construction, housings and pinboards. Only in the 1960's did builders start to study and meticulously copy historic harpsichords, and they learned a lot in that process. They now are on the same level as the great instrument makers in the 17th and 18th centuries. And they now know the differences between different historic workshops and regional styles etc. The sound of Landowska's or Ruzickova's harpschords has a lot to do with this. (I just got a 10 CD box with remastered Landowska recordings but still have to listen to it.) Plus, most engineers and record producers stll have to learn how to record these instruments properly. They love the sound ambience of churches, but harpsichords are not suppoosed to sound good in there. Saloons, private apartments, much smaller rooms with little reverb, and intimate acoustics are appropriate. Many of Gustav Leonhardt's best recordings were made at his house in Amsterdam. Overtones are very important, for the timbre. Church reverb absorbs these. As I said, a very complex subject.

I think these categories - in case they already were in use - were not taken that seriously by musicians. I think they never were - I know comprarable examples in Baroque etc times. Much of the problem comes from the (unnecessary?) desire to make judgements, evaluations and the like. Are critics always musicians that kind of didn't find their way into music mnaking?

Same here!

All the CDs by Tobias Koch! https://www.genuin.de/_new/artist_1.php?lan=de&k=49 For Opus 1-4, this rare disc: https://www.discogs.com/release/29520091-Robert-Schumann-John-Van-Buskirk-Schumann-Piano-Works And this one: There are cheap copies of the last one on amazon.de