Happy New Year!
New Year’s Concert from Vienna
Kathleen Battle
Herbert von Karajan, Vienna Philharmonic
Deutsche Grammophon - January 1987
16/44.1
DR: 16
EDIT: I am listening now to this year’s concert, which is being broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
2nd EDIT: I now realise that the concert is also being broadcast live on BBC Two TV, so I have just switched to that stream.
Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3, Live from the 2022 Cliburn Competition
Yunchan Lim
Marin Alsop, Forth Worth Symphony Orchestra
Decca - 16th May 2025
24/48
DR: 18
Time for another listen after the post by @AndrewS back in June.
A truly outstanding performance, especially for an 18 year old.
A very worthy winner of the 2022 Cliburn.
Dead Man Ray was co-founded by Rudy Trouvé after he left dEUS.
There’s definitely the creativity vibe of the dEUS first records in this disc - playing with dissonances, mixing genres - even including some Electronica here and there (“Copy of 78”).
Not available as is on streaming platforms. The record available is called “Berchem Trap” which is a mix of their two first opuses, with some titles that are now totally absent…
Don Was and The Pan-Detroit Ensemble: Groove In The Face Of Adversity
Jazz-Funk, R&B
Mack Avenue - 10th October 2025
24/96
DR: 7
EDIT: This album is great fun, with excellent RQ/SQ.
My favourite track is ‘I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But Time’.
Youn Sun Nah
Voyage
Jazz
ACT - 2009
16/44.1 - DR: 8dB
This one is growing on me.
I’ll have to dig into Youn Sun Nah’s discography: her velvet voice is exceptional!
Donald Byrd: Cookin’ with Blue Note at Montreux (Live)
Trumpet Jazz, Jazz-Funk
Blue Note (July 1973) - 9th December 2022 (Remaster)
24/96
DR: 9
Great performance and excellent RQ/SQ/Remastering.
Jethro Tull: Heavy Horses (Steven Wilson Remix)
Prog Rock
Parlophone (April 1978) - 20th April 2018 (Remaster)
24/96
DR: 7
Perhaps some heavy horses would be useful to help with transportation in Scotland…?! 
Ravel Paris 2025
Cristian Macelaru, Orchestre National De France
Naive - 12th September 2025
24/96
DR: 19
I am grateful to Charlotte Gardner for highlighting this album in the dCS Edit;
https://dcsaudio.com/edit/classical-choices-highlights-25
Thanks Lima for posting this. However may I ask a small favour of you and others?
Please don’t just post album artwork or screenshots. Several friends here have limited vision or are blind. Some need to use text to speech converters to read but it cannot read images ( which the screenshot is even though the image contains text.). in order that they may share your recommendation lease briefly add some descriptive text ( see today’s entry below your post from @Bauer as an example).
Mozart: Idomeneo
Andrew Staples, Magdalena Kozena, Sabine Devieilhe, Elsa Dreisig
Sir Simon Rattle, Chor Und Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
BR Klassik - 5th September 2025
24/48
DR: 15
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), Leonard Bernstein “Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos.1 & 7 ‘Leningrad’” 1989, Qobuz 16/44.1
This one’s a real barnburner!
The third disc I have come across with Sabine Devieilhe in short succession. That alone is enough to have me adding this one to my playlist.
Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited: Live at The Royal Albert Hall
Prog Rock
Inside Out Music - 8th July 2014
16/44.1
DR: 9
Slagwerk Den Haag, Anthony Fiumara, Philip Glass – Vitreous Body
Released by Orange Mountain Music • 9 December 2022
7 Tracks • 52m 43s
Qobuz 24/48
SQ : vitality and delicacy on a recording of crystalline quality
The opening track Chorale, composed by Anthony Fiumara, will demonstrate what your rig is capable of.
The compositions of Philip Glass have proved capable of endless interpretation and reimagining, the two percussion versions of his music on this CD providing excellent examples. Music in Similar Motion is an early piece for the Glass Ensemble while Mad Rush originated as a composition for organ before becoming better known in its transcription for solo piano (there are also recordings for guitar, and piano combined with electronics).
Mad Rush dates from the late ‘70s and combines the in your face impact of early Glass with Neoclassical melodicism and a greater sense of dynamic contrast. Music in Similar Motion is full throttle and unrelenting rock ‘n’ rolling minimalism. Anthony Fiumara’s percussion arrangements of music composed for keyboards and winds are a revelation and truly thrilling; the relentless drive, visceral power and propulsive energy is retained yet combined with a graceful fluidity.
Most of the CD is comprised of Fiumara’s compositions which are informed by the repetitive structures of Minimalism while inhabiting an ethereal and contemplative soundworld which provides a stark contrast to the freneticism of the Glass works. The track Petals, in particular, is a creation of fragile beauty which reworks Renaissance music to haunting effect.
Slagwerk Den Haag perform with a judicious mix of vitality and delicacy on a recording of crystalline quality.
Slagwerk Den Haag currently is operating under the name of HIIIT.
