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Bitzie + Lautus USB

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote morris_minor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Sep 2013 at 12:21am
I agree, Brian, Haitink's Walton 1 is very measured in the first movement - though weighty and monumental I think; his 3rd mvt is very slow and intense and he holds it together very well. Good recording though. Previn's Telarc version is much lower voltage than his 1966 RCA. A good modern issue is Martyn Brabbins on Hyperion IMO. I've also got recordings by Handley (2), Fremaux, Boult, Walton, Thomson , Ashkenazy, Slatkin, Daniel, Mackerras, Sargent, Leaper, Boughton, Davis, Gibson, Harty - and Rattle. Did I say I was obsessed with this piece?

And you mentioned the Labeque Sisters. I was playing a Gershwin disc of theirs only yesterday: two piano versions of Rhapsody in Blue and the Piano Concerto. Splendid stuff!

It's good to talk about music - after all it's what hifi should be about.
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Hello Brian, thanks for your review - I'm pleased it's making you happy. I especially liked your comment: "It's just so easy to set up (in fact it sets itself up, all I had to do is watch) apart from the equally easy bit about making sure the Foobar2000 was set to USB Audio CODEC."

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It's great Graham.  Spent several hours last night ripping and playing CDs.   Even a remastered CD from old analogue tapes, like Earl Wild classics from 30 years ago and earlier sounds just amazing, indeed with eyes closed it was very nearly as if I was in the room with the piano.  I'll try a modern piano recording later, and I expect it may be even better.

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Er, yes, but there aren't that many better things to be 'obsessed' about!  I was happy about this for another reason.  Far too many people, and not least some professional musicians who should know better, are terribly 'sniffy' about Walton.   I'm not entirely sure why.  There's a human warmth to his music, along with the lyricism and contrasting violent excitement that was missing in so much contemporary music last century.  And crikey, the man knew how to write a great tune -- opening of the violin concerto if anyone wants evidence.  (It's sometimes compared to Gershwin's Summertime, but Walton was a bit indignant when a music critic once pointed that out to him.)

Did you ever manage to get to the Walton Gardens on Ischia?  I don't know what they're like now that Susana has died, I hope they're being well looked after.  I was there a year after the centenary.  The Tony Palmer bio-doc, At The Haunted End of the Day is really good.   Oh, and then there's the whole saga around Troilus and Cressida -- a concert performance in Birmingham with Richard Hickox, magnificent, revealing it's many beauties (even if in total it's a slightly flawed work).   I think he was planning a full staged revival.  Such a tragic loss to music.

I'd better stop, I could go on all day about Willie W!
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