 Dit zal een wat verschillende video zijn. Sinds de hoogte van mijn huis nodig is een overhaal. De studio in de Atec was niet available en de hele gear was gestorven weg. Daarom een wat verschillende studio. De volgende week zal het weer zoals de oude dagen zijn. Als een volopje naar mijn video, mijn favoriete rockmuziek. Dit keer een list van klassieke albums dat ik leuk wil spelen. En weer niet necessarily demo tracks, maar rather muziek ik genoemd. Ik zal natuurlijk geen albums van low-fi-kwaliteit niet uitleggen. Maar weer, de muziek komt eerst en dan de geluidkwaliteit. Laten we beginnen. Arthur en Lukas Jussen zijn twee Duitse vrienden van 25 en 28. Al op de eeuw van 10 en 13 performeerden ze Mozart Concerto voor 2 Pianos KV365 op de Amsterdam Concertgebouw met de radiochamber Philharmonic. Directed door Jaap van Zweden. Van Zweden is nu de New York Philharmonic, by the way. De twee vrienden lopen en studeren met Maria Jouw-Pires. Ze performen ook met Ricardo Castro en Lang Lang. Ze hebben recentelijk de russische album uitgelegd. Het ontstaat voor twee pianos, bij Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky en Arensky. En het werd een van mijn favorieten geleden. Ik hou van de Grand Piano, in dit geval ook, voor de brede range van percussive en expressieve geluidkwaliteit. En deze album bevindt deze kwaliteiten als niks meer. Het is op bovenkobus op 96 kHz en op titel op MQA 96 kHz. Ik hou van de werken van both Fazil Tsai en Frédéric Chopin, zoals ik in de vorige video's heb gegeven. Ik leer Tsai door zijn Beethoven Sonatas, die ik in een manier heb geplaatst dat mij opgemaakt en in een manier die ik lief. Nocturnes zijn nachtmuziek. De naam stijgt van de Christian nachtpraat. Ik vraag of mijn vrouwen het appréciëerd zouden, als ik opes 15 nummer 4 op Opus 15 in F zou spelen, en concertlouten. Maar nogmaals, de Nocturnes zijn geweldig om weg te duren op. Speciaal op zaterdagmorgen is het geweldig, als een compagnie, bij een croissant en een espresso. De piano is gerecorded, zoals het is geplaatst in een groot ruimte, dan in een concert hall, waarvan natuurlijk een maatje van preferenties is. Sinds ik muziek heb gemaakt, wanneer mijn handen nog dat nog wel kunnen laten. Ik heb meer grand piano gezien in dit zetting, dan in de versterking van de concert hall-setting. Het bevrijdt het soundtrack van mijn leven. In Nederland, de Mateus Passion, de Sint-Matthieu passion in de Engelse, is veel meer populair dan anders. Alleen over het land zijn er performances op goede vrije, de Vrijdag voor de Oeste, sinds het vertelde de patiën, ook called passion, en de crucifixion van Jesus Christ. De laatste versie van de werk gebruikt twee kwijtjes, een stringsector en een continuus, consisting of atleast vijlengroep 1 en 2, viola, gamba en organ. De woordwinsten zijn twee traverso's, obo's en obo's zijn meer voor elk kwijtje, en in addition voor kwijtje 1, twee obo's de kártje. Een countertennis zingt de deel van de evangelist. De meest populair deel is nummer 39, Erbar-Medich, dat betekent Mersi. Ton Koopman is gezien als een van de specialisten over de Mateus Passion. De Amsterdam Brok Orchestra is niet een voldaan ensemble, maar bedankt dat, heel goed gekozen en populair. Well-recorded works like this can sound very nice, but if something's wrong in your setup, voices can become harsh. The recording engineer was Adjan Versteine, that also was responsible for recording much of Herman van Veens' earlier work. From Johann Sebastian Bach to Dietrich Buxtehude is only a small step. Bach admired him so much that he walked a few hundred kilometers to hear Buxtehude play organ. The secret cantatas were especially written for the Abendmusik Concert in Lübeck. So they were not liturgical. Konrad Junghammer is a lutenist. He founded Cantus Kern in 1987 to pay more attention to the baroque choral works like the sacred cantatas on this album. The album is available from both Tidal & Kobus at CD quality and like with the Matjou Passion voices need good playback equipment. I had never heard of the Bohemian composer Johann Baptiste van Hall when I accidentally came across these concertos. By the way, this name is also written as Van Hall and Van Hall. He apparently was well respected by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. The same goes for Budapest-born Erden Ratsch. He started to play the double bass at the age of nine and studied at his St. Stephen Music Conservatory in Budapest, Hungary. At the age of 20, he moved to Vienna where he joined the double bass group of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and also became double bass soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. If you like me, think of double bass as a dark brown instrument that only provides low frequency bass for an orchestra. Listen to this album. Ratsch lets the bass sing like I only know from the best cello players. This Deutsche Gramophone album is also available on Tidal & Cobrus at CD-Quality and now for something completely different. This album falls in the category ear candy. It's a nice collection of dancers from operas as the name of the album already suggests. The pieces are somewhat filming almost bombastic from time to time. The album is slightly bass heavy which accentuates that even more. It's my guilty pleasure but if you don't like it, I understand. The Japanese conductor Eiji Uwe needs no further introduction, I presume. He directed the Minnesota Orchestra for 7 years in which time he recorded 20 albums with reference recordings, like this one. I had my SACD copy ripped so I listened to the DSD64 version but versions in CD-Quality are available on both Cobrus and Tidal. At the age of 19, the Dutch violinist Janine Janssen debuted met de Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra. Nu, op de eeuw 43, is ze wereldfamous en speelt voor Stradivari. Subsequently, de 1727 Barrère, de 1727 Baron De Brug, de 1707 Antonio Stradivari Rivas Baron Goodman en de 1715 Stradivari woonde Duke of Cambridge. All on loan, of course, but it is clear proof of her status as a violinist. On this album, amongst others, act three from the Swan Lake, the main theme from Schindler's Least en Ravel's Zigan. This Dekker recording sounds great and is available from Tidal and Cobrus at CD-Quality. And now, I mentioned Janine Janssen. I must also mention the music she played for the Dutch movie Susskind. It's about how the Nazis manipulated the Jewish Council of Amsterdam to have them organized a deportation of Jews in an orderly fashion to so-called labor camps. Walter Susskind managed to get young kids to disappear. My daughter played the role of Hannah Susskind, his wife, and that's perhaps why this music makes me so emotional. Seeing your daughter in a concertation camp is confronting, even if you know it's just a movie. Anyway, listen to the fantastic interpretation by Janine Janssen. You find it on both Tidal and Cobrus at CD-Quality. The movie can be found on YouTube as well. One problem with composers that have their name originally written in non-Roman characters is that there are several Roman versions used all over the world. For instance Shostakovich and Shostakovich. While I use Shostakovich. Which makes searching for this composer not always easy. But his worth finding for his grotesque Russian style works are pure gems. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perhaps aided by the fantastic acoustics of the Concertgebouw is considered to be amongst the top orchestras in the world. The Amsterdam-born conductor Bernard Heiting started conducting directly after the Second World War and already two years later he substituted Giorlini en became the first conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1959. He held this function until 1999, after which he became honorary conductor. This Deca recording is from 1981 and is available on CD only. Ruhm found this album for me. I played other string quartets and the radio function of Ruhm picked this album up from Cobus. I know nothing about the artist en Ruhm didn't help me here either. It did tell me however that the six quartets were published in 1787 and are dedicated to the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm II. I love string quartets and quintets since they bring you close to the instruments. When played well they sound amazing whether it's in these works or in Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles and they sound very well in this album that it is available in 96 kHz on Cobus and in CD quality on title. De Ruisdahl Quartet was formed in 1996 when all members were studying at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. This album was recorded ten years later. According to their website they were inspired by the famous Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdahl. The Quartet has allegedly been renowned for its intensive playing and nuanced sound palette. I agree on both musicality and sound quality. The music is not background, same a music but rather true concerto-like performances. I love it. On the album works by Bruckner, Britten, Buccini, Griek, Rachmaninoff, Weben en Schoenberg. The album is available on title and Cobus and can be ordered via their website. Alexander Nefsky en de Lieutenant Kijsje Suite are considered to be Prokofie's most brilliant work by many. Lieutenant Kijsje was originally written as a film score for a movie with the same name. It was his first commission. He adapted it into the five movement Lieutenant Kijsje Suite which was first performed in 1934. Four years later he collaborated with the film director Eisenstein to create his score for the film Alexander Nefsky. This was later adapted into a grand cantata for mezzo-soprano, orchestra and chorus. Both works can be found on this album performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra directed by André Previn. I think both need no further introduction. Widely available online, on CD only at a low price. I also own a DSD128 version by the Utah Symphony directed by Jerry Fisher that is musically quite different even more dramatic and slightly slow but also good sounding. Cobis has the 192 kHz version online titled only the 44.1 kHz version. I use the Air Acoustics AX5-20 amplifier that powers the audio-physics Scorpio loudspeakers over AudioQuest Robinhood 0 loudspeaker cables. De DA-converter was a Denaflips Terminator Plus connected to the amp over Grim Audio SQM balanced interlinks. It got its input signal over I2S from the Denaflips Gaia over an HDMI cable while two professional 75 ohm video B&C cables were used to clock the Gaia from the Terminator Plus. De streamer is de Auralic RSG2 connected to the Gaia over AudioQuest Diamond USB A2B cable. De RSG2 is connected to the network over the network acoustics ENO streaming system and the SOTM SNH 10G switch. After the switch the network is built up as I described in my video about my reference setup November 2020. Reading back my list I noticed Dutch musicians appear quite often. This was not intentionally. I simply asked Roon to show me my favorite classical albums and this was harvested. I don't know if it had to do with Dutch classical musicians being overly popular as they are with dance music or that it's just a bubble I live in. And let me stress again that the music comes first followed by the sound quality. I mentioned where you can be more critical. On the set of one variant I described earlier there was not a single album that didn't sound satisfactory. Which brings us to the end of this show. As usual there will be a new video next Friday at 5 p.m. Central European Time. 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