28-Feb-2016, 15:28
(This post was last modified: 28-Feb-2016, 16:40 by thumb5.
Edit Reason: added forgotten track
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Armed with a list of speakers to listen to, how about music?
These are some of my long-term and current favourites -- things I know pretty well from regular listening:
Then some tracks added to the list for more specific reasons:
And finally from an album I hadn't heard until Trevor and Gavin at Guildford Audio recommended it, but which proved to be excellent:
These are some of my long-term and current favourites -- things I know pretty well from regular listening:
- Chopin: Preludes (Ingrid Fliter)
- Janáček: Glagolitic Mass (Warsaw PO/Wit) - Veruju, organ solo
- Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (CBSO/Rattle) - final movement
- Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (CBSO/Rattle) - first, fourth, and fifth movements
- Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (Walter Boeykens) - Louange…, Danse…
- Debussy/Ravel/Dutilleux: string quartets (Belcea Quartet) [Qobuz]
- Villa-Lobos: string quartets 4/6/14 (Danubius Quartet) [Qobuz]
- Jens Felger: 2 Days And A Year - City Lights, Wolkenlos, Rare Moments [Qobuz]
- Kate Bush: Aerial - How To Be Invisible
- Faithless: Outrospective - Crazy English Summer
- Portico: Living Fields [Qobuz]
- WHO Trio: Less is More
- Bruford: All Heaven Broke Loose - Nerve
- Gary Willis: No Sweat - The Everlasting Night
- Riverside: Out of Myself - Reality Dream I, II
- Porcupine Tree: Deadwing - Shallow, Halo
- Pixies: Doolittle - Mr Grieves
- Gang Of Four: Content - A Fruitfly In The Beehive
- Gillian Welch: Time (The Revelator)
- Malia: Convergence - Celestial Echo [Qobuz]
- Tosca: Suzuki - Orozco, Boss On The Boat
- D’Angelo: Voodoo - Playa Playa, Devil’s Pie [Qobuz]
Then some tracks added to the list for more specific reasons:
- Rudimental: Home - Spoons [Qobuz] -- how low can you go?
- London Grammar: If You Wait - Hey Now [Qobuz] -- everyone's hi-fi test track du jour
- Albrecht Riermeier: Four Drummers Drumming - Seven Drums in Seven Four -- great test for realistic drum sounds
- Audioslave: Audioslave - Gasoline, Light My Way -- gotta be able to do loud and nasty
- Soundgarden: Superunknown - Mailman -- see above!
And finally from an album I hadn't heard until Trevor and Gavin at Guildford Audio recommended it, but which proved to be excellent:
- Robert Miles/Trilok Gurtu: Miles Gurtu - Golden Rust [Qobuz]
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