Peter Hyatt
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What more does a grandfather need?
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What more does a grandfather need?
Pokemonn
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What more does a grandfather need?
please try Sony WH-1000XM3 if you have a chance... its FREEDOM headphone.
Freedom from the wire. Freedom from the fixed listening position. Freedom from a noisy environment. Freedom from fixed FR curve. Freedom from noisy mains power conditioning. Freedom from OCD on gear sound quality. etc
God bless Freedom...
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Light - Man
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Congrats Peter and a nice picture!
Poekemonn, I have to agree with you regarding the freedom from wires. Bluetooth AptX and now the HD version is so good that I find myself using it exclusively for videos and even most PC based music files (combined with DAP's). I however will continue to use good dedicated headphones and combine them with good bluetooth DAC/Amps devices, which can easily be changed over when the battery dies and which also gives a bit of variation to the sound signature. These are great days with so many options that don't have to cost a ransom!
We have had over 90,000 views on this thread, so we must be doing something really................... badly...............???
Just to mention FB1's guitar based thread: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/its-all-about-the-guitar.878797/
A little off-piste, even by my standards!
Poekemonn, I have to agree with you regarding the freedom from wires. Bluetooth AptX and now the HD version is so good that I find myself using it exclusively for videos and even most PC based music files (combined with DAP's). I however will continue to use good dedicated headphones and combine them with good bluetooth DAC/Amps devices, which can easily be changed over when the battery dies and which also gives a bit of variation to the sound signature. These are great days with so many options that don't have to cost a ransom!
We have had over 90,000 views on this thread, so we must be doing something really................... badly...............???
Just to mention FB1's guitar based thread: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/its-all-about-the-guitar.878797/
A little off-piste, even by my standards!
Shostakovich - Tahiti Trot
Carion Wind Quintet
Carion Wind Quintet
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Zoltan Kodaly - Adagio for violin and piano
Ariana Kim, violin; Richard Ratliff, piano
Ariana Kim, violin; Richard Ratliff, piano
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Mozart - Porgi Amor (Marriage of Figaro)
Veronique Gens, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Ivor Bolton
Veronique Gens, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Ivor Bolton
Light - Man
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It says "orchestra" on the tin, so who am I to argue.
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^ They blocked it here, but I know it well. Classic classical sketch.
Happy Birthday in the style of Chopin by Edoardo Brotto
Happy Birthday in the style of Chopin by Edoardo Brotto
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Dvorak - The noon witch
Andres Orozco-Estrada / Frankfurt RSO
A mother warns her son that if he does not behave she will summon the Noon Witch to take him away. He does not behave, and the witch arrives at the stroke of noon. The witch, described as a horrible creature, demands the child. The mother, terrified that the witch has actually come, grabs her son, and the witch begins chasing them. Finally the mother faints, grasping her child. Later that day, the father arrives home, and finds his wife passed out with the dead body of their son in her arms. The mother had accidentally smothered their son while protecting him from the witch. The story ends with the father's lament over the terrible event.
Andres Orozco-Estrada / Frankfurt RSO
A mother warns her son that if he does not behave she will summon the Noon Witch to take him away. He does not behave, and the witch arrives at the stroke of noon. The witch, described as a horrible creature, demands the child. The mother, terrified that the witch has actually come, grabs her son, and the witch begins chasing them. Finally the mother faints, grasping her child. Later that day, the father arrives home, and finds his wife passed out with the dead body of their son in her arms. The mother had accidentally smothered their son while protecting him from the witch. The story ends with the father's lament over the terrible event.
Light - Man
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This weeks Friday Concert from the NCH Dublin is more on the contemporary classical side (as usual video is likely to be deleted in 6 days).
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Robert Houlihan conductor
Hae Sun Kang of Ensemble Intercontemporain
Kaiija Saariaho Graal théâtre (Irish premiere)
Louis Andriessen Vermeer Pictures (Irish premiere)
The second orchestral concert of New Music Dublin is another double-header, a fantastic opportunity to witness the Irish premieres of major masterworks by our featured International composers – Kaija Saariaho (Finland / France) and Louis Andriessen (Netherlands).
"All composers are dreamers. But very few have dared to dream sonic images of such magnetic power as those that Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho has conjured in her music for ensembles, orchestra, opera houses, electronics and soloists."
The Guardian
"Andriessen has called the opera his ‘delicate, feminine daughter’. Like his musical godfather Stravinsky, Andriessen renounces as much as he embraces, and it is this tendency that gives power and focus to his time-travelling journeys between late Renaissance and jazz."
Daily Telegraph
(Presented by New Music Dublin with the support of NCH, RTÉ and The Irish Arts Council)
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/rteradiowebpage.html#!rii=b16_11006165_8861_01-03-2019_
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Robert Houlihan conductor
Hae Sun Kang of Ensemble Intercontemporain
Kaiija Saariaho Graal théâtre (Irish premiere)
Louis Andriessen Vermeer Pictures (Irish premiere)
The second orchestral concert of New Music Dublin is another double-header, a fantastic opportunity to witness the Irish premieres of major masterworks by our featured International composers – Kaija Saariaho (Finland / France) and Louis Andriessen (Netherlands).
"All composers are dreamers. But very few have dared to dream sonic images of such magnetic power as those that Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho has conjured in her music for ensembles, orchestra, opera houses, electronics and soloists."
The Guardian
"Andriessen has called the opera his ‘delicate, feminine daughter’. Like his musical godfather Stravinsky, Andriessen renounces as much as he embraces, and it is this tendency that gives power and focus to his time-travelling journeys between late Renaissance and jazz."
Daily Telegraph
(Presented by New Music Dublin with the support of NCH, RTÉ and The Irish Arts Council)
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/rteradiowebpage.html#!rii=b16_11006165_8861_01-03-2019_
Leoncavallo - Pagliacci "Vesti la giubba"
Franco Corelli
Franco Corelli
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A recent concert from the NCH Dublin (quite unusual and wont be to everyone's liking)
Conquest of the Useless by David Fennessy at New Music Dublin 2019 (World Premiere performance)
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jean Deroyer perform David Fennessy’s Conquest of the Useless, a breathtaking, sweeping new work about a musician’s obsession with the compelling vision of Werner Herzog.
The Conquest of the Useless – Werner Herzog’s account of the making of his film Fitzcarraldo – has fuelled the creation of David Fennessy’s monolithic work of the same name, which will be played in its entirety for the first time at New Music Dublin. The composer himself will play electric guitar with the orchestra, and is joined on stage by Peter Dowling (electronics), singer Jennifer Johnston and actor Aaron Monaghan.
Conquest of the Useless by David Fennessy at New Music Dublin 2019 (World Premiere performance)
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jean Deroyer perform David Fennessy’s Conquest of the Useless, a breathtaking, sweeping new work about a musician’s obsession with the compelling vision of Werner Herzog.
The Conquest of the Useless – Werner Herzog’s account of the making of his film Fitzcarraldo – has fuelled the creation of David Fennessy’s monolithic work of the same name, which will be played in its entirety for the first time at New Music Dublin. The composer himself will play electric guitar with the orchestra, and is joined on stage by Peter Dowling (electronics), singer Jennifer Johnston and actor Aaron Monaghan.
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Khachaturian - Spartacus Ballet "Dance of the Gaditanae and Victory of Spartacus"
Loris Tjeknavorian / Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra
Loris Tjeknavorian / Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra
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