What are you listening 2 now?

[Kalevala]

I always find it funny when people feel like they need to apologize for their choice of format or needlessly elaborate upon it in the listening thread (e.g., "listened on Spotify...")

Trust me, nobody cares!!

I like knowing not so much as on what format necessarily, but it's sometimes helpful to get an idea of what one can listen to and from where re streaming as I've been tempted to try it.

K

[DavidW]

I like knowing not so much as on what format necessarily, but it's sometimes helpful to get an idea of what one can listen to and from where re streaming as I've been tempted to try it.

K

I can answer that for you... it is nearly everything. That is why I thought it was funny when MI would unnecessarily say "from an OOP CD" because 99.9% of the time, I could just stream it. Even though there are titles that you can't purchase as a download or stream, in general, digital distribution is far superior. For classical music, the CD model never really worked well. It resulted in limited runs excepting the significant titles from the major labels. It is frustrating for both the record label and people wanting to make purchases.

[Harry]

SWEELINCK, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621.
Toccatas and Fantasias from Geneva.
Masaaki Suzuki playing the 2002 Marc Garnier organ of Shinko-Kyokai, Kobe.
Recorded in December 2005 at Shinko-Kyokai, Kobe, Japan, recorded by the maker of this beautiful organ.
Mean-tone temperament with two sub-semitones (e b/d#, ab/g#) No mention of the Pitch!


This is really good, and I go even further, it is fantastic! You are transported back to Sweelinck's time, this "authentic", the organ sounds. I hold Marc Garnier as a organ builder in high regard, and as from now, also as a excellent engineer, if it comes to recording organs, it is positively SOTA at it's highest peak. Suzuki's somewhat austere playing very much in the calvinistic style, is doing wonders for Sweelinck's music. This is a WOW moment for me. I even find it better as Leon Berben's take, and that says something!

[VonStupp]

Wilhelm Stenhammar
Sången
Romeo and Juliet
Reverenza
Two Sentimental Romances

Sara Trobäck, violin
Gothenburg SO & Choir - Neeme Järvi

Maybe not a masterpiece, but I very much enjoyed the 30-minute cantata Sången. I was also rather impressed with the sound here too.
VS

[Madiel]

I can answer that for you... it is nearly everything. That is why I thought it was funny when MI would unnecessarily say "from an OOP CD" because 99.9% of the time, I could just stream it. Even though there are titles that you can't purchase as a download or stream, in general, digital distribution is far superior. For classical music, the CD model never really worked well. It resulted in limited runs excepting the significant titles from the major labels. It is frustrating for both the record label and people wanting to make purchases.

There are absolutely record labels that you can get on some streaming services and not others.

I mean, maybe ALL of them are on Spotify but I'd rather chew leather. But the 2 services I use, I can think of quite a few examples where something is available on only 1 of those 2.

As for making purchases of all those CDs... among the things that the internet has brought us is eBay. I'm sometimes surprised that people here don't seem to use it that much.

Edit: I do confess I found the "OOP" status of a CD to generally be neither here nor there.