[CanadianMaestro]

I agree and I prefer Huxley's prose. I never knew somebody could write so eloquently about tripping on drugs XD

His half-brother was Andrew Huxley, one of my scientific idols -- a Nobel-winning neurophysiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, identified the ionic basis of the action potential (Hodgkin-Huxley kinetics is as familiar to physiologists as Einstein's Relativity to physicists). And his grandfather was Thomas Huxley. I haven't read anything outside of Huxley's BNW and BNW Revisited. I have his collection of short stories, and his Doors of Perception, about his experiences with psychoactive drugs and hallucinations.
 
You know, Aldous died on Nov 22, 1963 -- his obituary was buried on the back pages of newspapers, because of a much more auspicious event that day....

 

[uchihaitachi]

 
His half-brother was Andrew Huxley, one of my scientific idols -- a Nobel-winning neurophysiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, identified the ionic basis of the action potential (Hodgkin-Huxley kinetics is as familiar to physiologists as Einstein's Relativity to physicists). And his grandfather was Thomas Huxley. I haven't read anything outside of Huxley's BNW and BNW Revisited. I have his collection of short stories, and his Doors of Perception, about his experiences with psychoactive drugs and hallucinations.
 
You know, he died on Nov 22, 1963 -- his obituary was buried on the back pages of newspapers, because of a much more auspicious event that day....

Thank you for that, I had no idea the squid giant axon people was that Huxley!

 

[CanadianMaestro]

^ Nice to hear that a prime musician/music lover knows about the importance of squids to general biology!

 

[CanadianMaestro]

One more week to go until the anniversary of the passing of this iconic giant of classical music.
 

 

[gerelmx1986]

@CanadianMaestro
 
I did a direct compariosn when i found a piece of the Phillips edition in an álbum of the DG Mozart edition, shocked a drastic change in SQ
 
Phillips edition: have less volume in their mastering, thus i perceived more microdetailings and reverb and air between instruments.
 
DG "reissue": inmediate notice was boosted volume had to turn it down, other significant was bossted bass that ruined chamber music and symphonies & choral and some piano pieces. i felt the volume combined with the bass boost totally ruined the microdetailing sometimes looking for the reverb was not as evident as with the Phillips original untouched master.
 
How incredible a German label did this "remaster" to a great sounding discs when we associated germans with high quality, damn they just could have copied the damn masters as they were and just repackage
 
On the more modern recordings some were well recorded (the ones i kept) and others had bass boost or volume bost or both, and the artistic quality was not that good, F.e Hogwood playing orf the symphony No. 40 in HIP so slow what???? i got inmediately bored and threw it straight away to recycle bin.
 
String uqartets were also "in your face" presence and HIP'ed i ended keeping the Quartetto italiano form the Phillips, my reference.
 
So between HIP, bass n volume boost and older recordings with not so good SQ for me the new Mozart 225 is a disaster. Sure for one who doesn't have a complete Mozart edition may find it good, me no

 

[CanadianMaestro]

  @CanadianMaestro
 
 
How incredible a German label did this "remaster" to a great sounding discs when we associated germans with high quality, damn they just could have copied the damn masters as they were and just repackage
 

 
It's the Populist Movement.

 

[uchihaitachi]

  @CanadianMaestro
 
I did a direct compariosn when i found a piece of the Phillips edition in an álbum of the DG Mozart edition, shocked a drastic change in SQ
 
Phillips edition: have less volume in their mastering, thus i perceived more microdetailings and reverb and air between instruments.
 
DG "reissue": inmediate notice was boosted volume had to turn it down, other significant was bossted bass that ruined chamber music and symphonies & choral and some piano pieces. i felt the volume combined with the bass boost totally ruined the microdetailing sometimes looking for the reverb was not as evident as with the Phillips original untouched master.
 
How incredible a German label did this "remaster" to a great sounding discs when we associated germans with high quality, damn they just could have copied the damn masters as they were and just repackage
 
On the more modern recordings some were well recorded (the ones i kept) and others had bass boost or volume bost or both, and the artistic quality was not that good, F.e Hogwood playing orf the symphony No. 40 in HIP so slow what???? i got inmediately bored and threw it straight away to recycle bin.
 
String uqartets were also "in your face" presence and HIP'ed i ended keeping the Quartetto italiano form the Phillips, my reference.
 
So between HIP, bass n volume boost and older recordings with not so good SQ for me the new Mozart 225 is a disaster. Sure for one who doesn't have a complete Mozart edition may find it good, me no

They cheat like that a lot. I've come across some 'remasters' with treble boost. 

 

[CanadianMaestro]

Some "hi-res" sold online can be simply MP3 or 44/16 that is oversampled. 

 

[gerelmx1986]

 
Quote:

  Some "hi-res" sold online can be simply MP3 or 44/16 that is oversampled. 

Agree with that personally, and a 16/44.1 Can sound pretty fine, you only need good master and recording and a Capable source and headphones
 
Right now Don giovanni
 

 

[CanadianMaestro]

   

 
My favorite opera!  Not into operas, but that one.....

 

[CanadianMaestro]

Something different. Mozart's Pf Cto 20, 21, arranged for string quintet. Actually works.
 
http://www.prostudiomasters.com/album/page/12077#quickview/album/4760

 

[Quinto]

  Something different. Mozart's Pf Cto 20, 21, arranged for string quintet. Actually works.
 
http://www.prostudiomasters.com/album/page/12077#quickview/album/4760

 

I think someone here recommended it, I'm pretty sure it wasn't the cover design that made me buy it..
 
great music.

 

[WoodyLuvr]

Debussy: Three Nocturnes, L. 91: 3. Sirens
Holst: The Planets, Op.32: 7. Neptune, the Mystic
 
...these other-worldly, early classical ambient, pieces have been on heavy repeat as of late.
 
Stokowski & LSO - BBC Chorus 1957

 
Haitink & COA - Collegium Musicum Amstelodamense 1979

 
Dutoit & OSM 1986

 
Mark Elder & Hallé Orchestra - Hallé Choir 2001 

 
Vladimir Jurowski & LPO 2010

 
Zubin Mehta & LAPO - LA Master Chorale 1971

 

[icebear]

I heard Elina Garanca live at Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon.
Kevin Murphy piano.
Program of Brahms, Duparc & Rachmaninoff
Certainly this vocal recital of Lieder is quite a bit artsy, usually not my preferred genre but she is great.
 
I got my copy of her new CD signed afterwards.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

  I heard Elina Garanca live at Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon.
Kevin Murphy piano.
Program of Brahms, Duparc & Rachmaninoff
Certainly this vocal recital of Lieder is quite a bit artsy, usually not my preferred genre but she is great.
 
I got my copy of her new CD signed afterwards.

I'm jealous.
The best mezzo alive. She's my favorite. I have 5 of her CDs. The best sounding one is "Meditation", great for late night.