https://www.hifizine.com/2011/03/recordings-of-special-merit/ The enthusiast's audio webzine Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:37:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 https://www.hifizine.com/2011/03/recordings-of-special-merit/comment-page-1/#comment-95930 Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:52:11 +0000 http://www.hifizine.com/?p=1604#comment-95930 You still at it, John???

]]> https://www.hifizine.com/2011/03/recordings-of-special-merit/comment-page-1/#comment-4416 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:11:06 +0000 http://www.hifizine.com/?p=1604#comment-4416 To this list I should like to add-
Elgar’s Enigma Variations- Pierre Monteux and the London Sym (RCA) and
the most “organic” sounding performance and recording that I believe I’ve ever heard: Carmina Burana by The Clementic Consort on the Musical Heritage Society label. This would be the rarer volume 2 originally released on Harmonia Mundi, I believe. I can’t think of another word that describes what I hear from this it’s so impassioned and utterly real sounding.

]]> https://www.hifizine.com/2011/03/recordings-of-special-merit/comment-page-1/#comment-556 Sat, 07 May 2011 11:45:12 +0000 http://www.hifizine.com/?p=1604#comment-556 Check out any of the Indian classical music recordings from Mapleshade Records. Sound as real as it gets. Check out their jazz, blues, and folk, too. Unbelievable in-the-room presence.

]]> https://www.hifizine.com/2011/03/recordings-of-special-merit/comment-page-1/#comment-553 Mon, 02 May 2011 09:22:39 +0000 http://www.hifizine.com/?p=1604#comment-553 Thanks Jim, I received Afternoon Ragas today from Amazon; they cancelled my order for Querencia saying it’s not available.

]]> https://www.hifizine.com/2011/03/recordings-of-special-merit/comment-page-1/#comment-349 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:32:18 +0000 http://www.hifizine.com/?p=1604#comment-349 Thanks, mon editor, for going the extra mile in contacting Water Lily and reporting back for viewers. A few blokes in England have thanked me via email about the Indian classical recs and two guys in the states about the Manfred Schoof one on ECM. Always a pleasure.

]]> https://www.hifizine.com/2011/03/recordings-of-special-merit/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:58:27 +0000 http://www.hifizine.com/?p=1604#comment-329 Hi Jim – another fascinating article, I must say! I contacted Waterlily Acoustics about “Maihar” and received the response “Sorry, but this title was never released as a CD, only as an LP, which was sold out years ago.” So your copy of this recording is probably quite a collectible! I did however manage to find some CDs of Indian classical / ragas at the library, as it’s a genre I know little about and you’ve inspired me to learn more.

]]> https://www.hifizine.com/2011/03/recordings-of-special-merit/comment-page-1/#comment-259 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:37:42 +0000 http://www.hifizine.com/?p=1604#comment-259 Manfred Schoof Quintet – Scales
Label:Japo Records
Catalog#:JAPO 60013
Format:Vinyl, LP
Country:Germany
Released:1976
Genre:Jazz
Style:Contemporary Jazz
Available from DISCOGS

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