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Nope. I gave away my spare copy a few months back.

OTOH, one should grab any of the recordings in this series as they are getting scarce, especially the Mozart and the Penderecki.

Kal

Well I recently saw The Killers and WOWOWOWOW - just a great FUN concert. I immediately bought their live concert @ the Royal Albert Hall. Fantastic! Great sound (as usual at the Hall) and picture, just awesome...if you dig The Killers highly recommended.

I don't know if this recommendation is already made, but Pink Martini is truly a great band! They currently have 4 CD's out, each of them is great (and recorded at a excellent quality-level!) It is a 12-persons band, playing all different kind of music (from salsa to french-influences to mediteranian music. Does it pretty well in the summer (although winter is also good ;-) )

This looks to be a fascinating innovative audio and video experience that I have not yet experienced. The performances are recorded in high-resolution (24-bit/96kHz) PCM sound.

http://www.stereophile.com/news/naxos_blu-ray_breakthrough/

It is available now, eg at:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Virtual+Haydn

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Ddvd&field-keywords=Virtual+Haydn

Quite good and very interesting. Will be writing about it for next column (March).

Verdi, "La Forza del Destino", TDK BD.

At first, ones heart sinks when one realises that two lithe young lovers and a young avenger have been cast by three midde-aged obese people. Of these, tenor Marcello Giordani is a little unsteady in his singing but improves as the opera progresses. Violeta Urmana sings with poise, beauty, and well-judged timing throughout in a performance that is augmented by her expressive facial features. The opera is staged traditionally at Florence under the baton of Zubin Mehta. The gusto of the orchestra is faithfully rendered by the DTS HD Master 7.1 recording. Indeed, the sound throughout is impressive and enjoyable. Given how this opera is so packed with wonderful music it deserves to be better known. Camera work shows a good repertoire of angles and distances that enhances our experience (for me, the rather static camera work, with a lack of close-ups, rather let down the BD of Handel's "Semele" on Decca.)

anybody clock 'the faces, sight and sound in concert' 1972 BBC4 guitar heroes?

prod, stanley dorfman

sound, hugh barker

best rock tele concert i've ever seen or heard

mono (stereo was on the radio at the time)

but with hardly any pa colouration

no monitors or iems

no verb

fantastic performance from rodney and the boys

ace set list

its still on bbci player

roger

Thanks for That Roger, I missed it. Am a Huge Faces Fan (My Era). Great to see Ronnie Lane again, Sadly Missed and so under rated.
Not much decent Video of so many of the old groups about.
May I recomend "Free Forever" A DVD with all off Free's Live Archive beautifully restored. Not that much material but the best stuff is there. "Mr big", "Ride on Pony" etc.
I will record that Faces Track next time its on if its not on a DVD anywhere.

Cheers, Chris

I think I may have seen that show , back in the day

Excellent boxset of The Faces also available too , the fabulously titled :

' Five guys walk into a bar ......... available at all good stores now


~M~

there is a great mercury 2 x CD of rodney and the faces from that period which i am awaiting from amazon
'changing faces'

where did it go so wrong?

roger

Faces Fans, there is also the best of the faces "Good Boys, When they're asleep". a 40th aniversary release with an unreleased track "Open To Ideas" on it, which I am listening to on my F80 as I type. A good Laid back number in the style of "If Loving you is wrong" if that helps.
Keep the faith, Chris

check out faces on utube
most of the top clips come from that one show
also steve marriot 'tin soldier' with pp arnold on ndr beatclub
golden age of mod rock
dylanesque lyrics
motown steals and rodney originals
all with top notch playing to blow your sox off
how come they never happened stateside
and then rodney left for hollywood?
agent advice?
roger