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Jul 09

Danielle de Niese: Diva (Official Trailer)

Danielle de Niese’s new album Diva is released on Decca on 12 July. (read full article)

danielle de niese, decca, diva, Music, opera, recordings, singers, sopranos, Women

Jun 10

Applause

I’ve just bought the Runnicles/BBCSO Tristan und Isolde. I played the Liebestod and was surprised and annoyed at the burst of applause and cheers at the end. I know it’s a recording of a live-in-front-of-an-audience concert, but I feel that keep (read full article)

applause, bayreuth, bbc symphony orchestra, conductors, donald runnicles, karajan, liebestod, Music, nilsson, opera

May 29

78s

Has anyone got any old scratchy vintage recordings which they love to death? I have Alma Rosé. She was the niece of Gustav Mahler, at the time director of the Vienna Opera, and the daughter of Arnold Rosé, concertmaster of the Opera Orchestra and (read full article)

1950s, 1960s, 78s, alma rosé, andy williams, arnold rosé, auschwitz, decca, des o’connor, emi

Apr 16

Independent Record Store Day

Independent Record Store Day celebrates these fast-disappearing bastions of alternative culture. Click the link and read leading musicians on what their favourite record shops mean to them. I have fond memories of Vincent’s, a record shop speciali (read full article)

albinoni, albums, birmingham, classical, copland, emerson lake & palmer, independent record store day, Music, naxos, needless alley

Mar 17

Vibrato: Idle Thoughts

I must say, having listened recently to Benjamin Britten’s recording of The Dream of Gerontius that like cholesterol there is good and bad vibrato. Yvonne Minton (what a beautiful voice) represents the good creative use of vibrato whereas Peter Pe (read full article)

britten, cbso, CHOLESTEROL, conductors, dream of gerontius, elgar, justin lavender, marmite, Music, opera

Dec 15

LPs/CDs

I’ve recently transferred some of my old LPs onto CD (not all of them yet, because it is so very time consuming). I have realised that the sound is quite different. Better in fact, in many ways. Although I believe that 24-bit digital recording is (read full article)

1970s, cd, digital, lp, Music, producers, recordings, sound engineers

Jul 24

Are CDs Dead?

I’m amazed whenever I read of the CD format as “dead”. MP3 format recordings are an appalling way to listen to any music, I hardly need say here. And even if an iPod or equivalent took full frequency files, the thought of consigning a lifetime (read full article)

analogue, compact discs, digital, ipod, mp3, Music, music cassettes, Radio, recordings

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