I'm not into classical music, but I learned a lot from you. I did have to chuckle when you said, "That's the classical period of classical music." I've tried listening to a couple of audiophile classical records. I'll give some of your recos a try! :)

@SonicFlare

2 ай бұрын

Hahahaha love it, thanks mate, appreciate you tuning in! More to come!

Classical music vinyl records - finally an episode that counts! REVIEW 🎻 | Classical Records Finally, a classical music video from SonicFlare! Let's take a quick primer into classical music, why it's so important and what the records are we are looking at today! 🍿 It's popcorn time! 00:00 Intro 01:16 Debussy Preludes - Marcelle Meyer DF211-212 10:54 Michael Murray - The Great Organ 11:46 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique - Kojian Utah Symphony 13:47 Heifetz - The Lark 15:05 Mozart - Clarinet Concerto / Horn Concertos 1 & 3 16:40 Strauss - Todd und Verklärung 17:51 Steinberg Boston Symphony Orchestra 🎻 Equipment used for evaluation and sonics - Studio B setup EINSTEIN The Pure loudspeakers EINSTEIN The Last Record Player CD player EINSTEIN The Phono phono amp www.einstein-audio.de Auris Audio Bayadere 3, Brinkmann Ti cartridge, vinyl playback www.monarch-systems.com SonoruS modified ReVox PR-99 Mk III tape machine sonorusaudio.com QNAP 8 bay 32TB NAS Tidal, Apple Music streaming services Audirvana Studio media playback app audirvana.com eero Pro 6 WiFi network 🔈 Music used for evaluation - Debussy Preludes - Marcelle Meyer DF 211 & 212 French Recording Company www.frenchrecordcompany.com Michael Murray - The Great Organ Telarc Direct To Disc www.discogs.com/release/43659... Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique - Kojian Utah Symphony RR-11 www.discogs.com/release/25153... Heifetz The Lark - RCA LM-2074 IMPEX reissue 2024 elusivedisc.com/jascha-heifet... Mozart Clarinet Concerto / Horn Concerto - Peter Maag London Symphony Speakers Corner reissue www.discogs.com/master/415818... Richard Strauss Todd und Verklärung - Karjan Berliner Philharmoniker DG reissue The Original Source store.deutschegrammophon.com/... William Steinberg Boston Symphony Orchestra - The DG Recordings reissue store.deutschegrammophon.com/... 📝 About SonicFlare Danny Kaey has been a published audio and HiFi reviewer for almost 25 years in online and printed publications in the US, Canada and Europe. In the hobby for over 40 years, his tastes have varied through the decades, though now have settled for what music is all about: dynamics, slam, resolving power and tonality. DK believes that like many personally experienced tastes, there are many flavors to HiFi, though in all cases HiFi should aim to replicate music as closely as possible. 🤩 If you like this channel and content please help support me by liking and subscribing here on KZread and Instagram. Instagram: instagram.com/sonicflare/ Please DM me with inquiries for future reviews or interviews. #audio #music #hifi #stereo #records #sonicflare

I learned so much! Thank you ❤

Thank you for pointing it: There is no word to describe the beauty of the Meyer Debussy !! the most luxurious LP piano edition of the last 60 years ! it is simply fantastic, highly recommended - it's not a re issue but a full analog FIRST EDITION on vinyle , world premiere - A MUST , a handcrafted edition, equivalent quality to ERC productions.

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Did I say reissue …

@daveyang6951

4 ай бұрын

@@SonicFlare yes you did ! you said " reissue" at 7'36"....as at the contrary their editorial choices are NOT to do "just reissues" ( what most of the others do ) but at the contrary publish world premiere LP's, of the highest historical interest; they made long researches to find out " what should have been published, what wasn't ".. - for some reasons. That's what their website explains in details

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Merde! Clearly, I need to go back to Kindergarten to start all over again!!! 😵‍💫

Thank you very much, Danny, for this tour through the eras of classical music! I love the sound quality of Reference Recording's Symphony Fantastique. How do you rate the musical performance there? With warmest regards, Ron

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Rasant, luftig und flott! 🤣 I quite like it - I mean there’s SO many orchestras and conductors covering this evergreen it’s hard to pick your favorite!

Well done that man! 🙂 Goldfrapp one week and classical music the next, wow! 😃 I had an all classical listening session on Sunday, Mozart's Flute Concerto No1 in G major, Mahler's epic Symphony No 9, Soprano Lise Davidsens recital of Strauss songs and Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending. All on CD, not necessarily audiophile recordings but thoroughly enjoyable all the same. Great video so keep up the good work! 🙂

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Love it, thanks mate! You should find a copy of Mahler 3 with Mehta……. Royce hall. 1981 I think? Absolutely spectacularly insane!!! Cheers for tuning in!

More classical, please!! And, Mozart - what a talent...😂😂

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! This is just the start, I’ll be doing much more classical …

Wonderful to hear you extolling the virtues of classical! I am SO jealous you have that Marcelle Mayer reissue. She is one of the greatest pianists few have heard of, and her recordings are sublime. I have an excellent EMI CD box set of all her recordings, but to have these Debussy recordings on primo vinyl - how sweet! Just wish that price was more within my range! Ask your friend if he is planning to reissue her recordings of Bach and French Baroque - they are exquisite. (That book looks wonderful, btw). Speaking of DG's Original Source, I just published my piece on Tracking Angle about the upcoming Karajan/Bruckner box which will be mastered directly from 8-track (yes, 8-track), owing to the brilliance of the team over at Emil Berliner Studios. And if you don't have it already, hunt down the Ozawa Symphonie Fantastique in the OS series - it's my favorite of them all and smokes that Kojian version. Enjoy the snow!!!

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Mark! So cool and honored you watching the show… love reading your stuff, you’re a walking encyclopedic institution!!! As soon as I saw your post, I preordered lol. Yes, I have the Ozawa … insane!!! Cheers man!

@musiconrecord6724

4 ай бұрын

@@SonicFlare I've been a fan since you started the channel! Thanks so much for your kind words - coming from you that's high praise indeed! Looking forward to seeing the new studio/listening room!

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Feeling is mutual! Cheers! If you're ever in the Maine area... always welcome!

@musiconrecord6724

4 ай бұрын

@@SonicFlare Thanks! Likewise LA! And if you ever want to combine forces on a video, that would be a blast!

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

@musiconrecord6724 YES!!! That would be a blast… shoot me an email or DM me on Instagram

DG original source has reignited my appreciation for classical. And with so much OG DG, EMI and Philips available on the 2nd hand market, it’s a rich genre to dive into, because historically, most of the OG owners really took care of their records. And it can sound amazing. I’ve yet to be burnt by a OG D-Gram.

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Agreed! Did you see the Karajan Bruckner Symphonies box set just announced? Ought to be insane!

i hope that Deutsche Grammophone has made changes to the noise levels on their records, i have dozens that are very noisy.

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Wow! Hmmmmmmmm mine are all genuinely quiet copies… maybe pressed Tuesday instead of Monday 😂

@terrywho22

4 ай бұрын

Do you notice this with the originals or the recent pressings? My originals are OK, but the recent albums have all been terrible.

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

@terrywho22 hmmmmmmm nope, silent on my end… wonder if you got a bad press as others are complaining about it too?

Wonderful, thanks for the inspiring video- like always! And very entertaining and funny, thank you! 😀 Unfortunately I don't have €600 to spare for the Meyer LP right now, I'll keep an eye out for the CD box "Marcelle Meyer - Ses Enregistrements 1925-1957" from EMI for the time being - which contains all Debussy - even if it won't be audiophile! Marcelle Meyer is a real new discovery for me! Thank you so much for that. DGG has unfortunately never made really great sounding records, I own a lot of them. However, I think Bartok Piano Concertos Nos. 1 + 2 with Pollini and Abbado are really great. Pollini died a few days ago. I will listen to this recording again over Easter. I also really like the Pollini recordings of Debussy's works. I've often heard him in concert. Thanks again and toi toi toi!

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Cheers and thanks for the kind words, always! I keep hearing people talk about tue CD box, I should look for that myself. DGG is definitely hit or miss, mostly miss as you called it out. There’s a ton of great performance that sound like squashed meatballs that are a few days past sell date. However, as with all, there’s a few gems you find now and then; my old listening buddy and I would always jokingly refer to it “when the engineers weren’t drunk after Oktoberfest”……………. These new 4 channel reissues are really all superb!

@vinyl_marmalade

4 ай бұрын

@@SonicFlare Thank you! I was lucky to get the EMI box today at a reasonable price. I am excited. What I'm listening to on Tidal to get to know her playing is really impressive! Thanks again. Without your input, this pianist would have remained unknown to me. Yes, I'm also following the Original Source series with interest and so far Stravinsky's Sacre with Abbado & the London Symphony Orchestra and Gilels' Beethoven has impressed me the most. The Stravinsky-LP It sounds absolutely three-dimensional and fantastic. BUT, for example, in the Original Source-mastering of Symphony No. 7 with Kleiber and the Vienna Philharmonic, the strings sound very shrill to me - in comparison with a 1984 pressing from DGG I own... so this is very odd. As a string-player, I have played in orchestras myself and listened to many concerts... it was never that shrill-sounding. I don't know on which systems it should sound great... And another thing: I honestly have the impression with most of the The Original Source`s so far that the sound is very left-heavy. It would be really interesting to hear what you think. Maybe you'll include something about it in your next "Classics" video! All the best! Take care

Hilarious video following you

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

🤣🤘🏼 cheers mate!

Can you give the title and the writer of the book about french classical records and labels please ? Thank you Danny

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

It’s in the video comments and link, also, as I said in the video, it’s Jean-Marc Harari, who also issued the Meyer Debussy record I discuss. Pay attention Charlie! 🫨😜

you could easily pass for Charles Nelson Riley with that pipe lol

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Hahahaha I miss the guy, he was a hoot! Very accomplished performer!

Can you recommend some Classical “starter” titles for someone dipping their toe into the space?

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Sure…….. I’ll do a video on that!!!

Mahler ned vergessen Oida!

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Kindertotenlieder!

2030 in the UK not 2130. Our clocks haven't changed yet. Chopin and Debussy for me😊

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Ha! Cheers!

extremely annoying chanel/youtuber... i tried once again to come here.. very dissapointed.. such bad sense of humor...irritating.. not my cup of tea

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Agreed!!! I stopped was this guy a long time ago! Horrible, horrible channel. Never coming back!

An original The Planets on DG sounds fantastic. I think it's one of the best sounding DG's. So I'm very curious about the box set. But there have been very mixed reviews for this series. From very bad to brilliant for the same records. That's a bit strange. There should be some consensus on these...

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

My OG copy of The Planets always sounded somewhat anemic, compressed and just “ok”. This version truly supersedes it by a wide margin… in my not so humble, humble opinion of course… 😂😎

@TheHanniballs

4 ай бұрын

What do you think of the Also Sprach Zarathustra recording? And did you compare it to an original? @@SonicFlare

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Well, I don’t think that it will ever compete with the RCA Reiner, but this new version adds a considerable amount of depth and hall sound compared to the OG…

@TheHanniballs

4 ай бұрын

Which some youtubers (Flowering Spikes) consider atrocious, the DG version of the original source, the worst sounding album he owns. Drowning in reverb. He thinks it has too much hall which amplifies the reverb.@@SonicFlare

@SonicFlare

4 ай бұрын

Everyone has an opinion! 🤣