Reviews

REVIEWS

Equipment Reviews

As many of you know, the journey to Audio Note, Blue Circle, and Reynaud is chronicled in reviews on Enjoy the Music and Positive-Feedback, among others. I have attached links to the relevant reviews below.

Blue Circle AG3000 and AG8000: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/archives/
Blue Circle Music Rings: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/archives/
Blue Circle CS: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue10/system.htm
Reynaud Offrandes, 1st Review: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/archives/
Reynaud Offrandes, 2nd Review: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue6/offrandes.htm
Reynaud Twins: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue4/reynaudtwin.htm
Reynaud Trentes: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue5/trente.htm
Reynaud Concordes: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue7/concordes.htm
Reynaud Arpeggiones: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue10/system.htm
Audio Note CDT TWO and DAC 4.1 balanced: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue8/audionote.htm
Audio Note CDT ONE and DAC 1.1x Signature: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue10/system.htm
Elrod Power Systems Signature power cord: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue5/elrodeps.htm
Elrod Power Systems Statement power cord: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue9/elrod.htm
Audience Au 24 speaker cable: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue3/audienceau24.htm
Audience modified Sony NV999 CD/SACD player: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue6/audiencecd.htm
TG Labs HSR speaker cable: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue4/hsr.htm
TG Lab 688 power cord: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue10/system.htm
TG Lab SLVR power cord: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/archives/
Audience modified Sony NV999 CD/SACD player, upgraded model: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue12/sacd.htm
Audio Note CDT TWO transport with DAC One.1x Signature: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue12/sacd.htm
Mapleshade Samson Equipment Rack http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue14/mapleshadesamson.htm

Music Reviews

Over the past few years, I have of necessity given up equipment reviewing (confluence of interest!) and taken up music reviewing instead. I bring to this writing more enthusiasm than musical knowledge and so offer it up mainly as news about current offerings in the mainly classical music recording world.

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue7/podger.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue7/britten.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue7/couperin.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue8/aliavox.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue9/piston.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue9/bach.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue9/hayden.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue10/bach.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue11/artistled.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue12/winter2.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue12/bach.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue13/northwest.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue14/summer.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue14/festival.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue15/autumnflowers.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue16/music.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue17/beethoven.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue19/spring.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue20/marecordings.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue20/summerneill.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue20/menlo.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue21/bach.htm

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http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue22/menlo.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue22/artistled.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue22/christmas_neill.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue22/christmas_neill2.htm

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue23/thoughts.htm

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http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue27/amateur.htm

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http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue27/notes.htm

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http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-of-an-amateur-brentanos-play-schubert- live-peter-boyer-wolpe-sessions-joan-tower/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-amateur-violinist-gidon-kremer-cellist- emmanuelle-bertrand-ibragimovas-bach-concertos/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-amateur-podgers-biber-gli-incognitis- vivaldi-brahms-schumann-faust-melnikov-eric-nathan/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-amateur/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-amateur-bartok-erickson/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-of-an-amateur-jennifer-kohs-bach- ibragimovas-ysaye-and-scelsi/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-of-an-amateur-sort-of-shostakovich- seither-and-penderecki/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-of-an-amateur-schumann-vivaldi- silvestrov-and-bruckner/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-of-an-amateur-buxtehude-cpe-bach- pianist-wu-han/

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http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-of-an-amateur-schubert-gubaidulina- shostakovich/

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http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-of-an-amateur-harbison-couperin- jonathan-harvey-and-cindy-mctee/

http://positive-feedback.com/toc/?issue=january-february-2015

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-of-an-amateur-petrenko-plays-elgar-1-ibragimovas-chiaroscuro-quartet-play-mozart-and-mendelssohn-music-menlo-live-for-2014/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-of-an-amateur-schumann-vivaldi-silvestrov-and-bruckner/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-of-an-amateur-jennifer-kohs-bach-ibragimovas-ysaye-and-scelsi/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-of-an-amateur-sort-of-shostakovich-seither-and-penderecki/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-amateur-bartok-erickson/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-amateur/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/nelsons-shostakovich/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-amateur-bach-vasks-bach-2/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-of-an-amateur-brentanos-play-schubert-live-peter-boyer-wolpe-sessions-joan-tower/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-amateur-violinist-gidon-kremer-cellist-emmanuelle-bertrand-ibragimovas-bach-concertos/

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/notes-amateur-podgers-biber-gli-incognitis-vivaldi-brahms-schumann-faust-melnikov-eric-nathan/

Notes of an Amateur: Ibragimova’s Mozart, Haimovitz Plays Philip Glass, David Matthews’ Piano Trios, McGill/McHale Trio.

Notes of an Amateur: Auerbach, Wolpe, Wuorinen.

Notes of an Amateur: Wilhelmina Smith, Cellist; Bridge Records’ American Modernists, Part I.

Notes of an Amateur: Schnittke, Tchaikovsky, Jessica Lee.

Notes of an Amateur: Handel’s Water Music; Music@Menlo ‘Live’ 2015.

Notes of an Amateur: More Wolpe, David Finckel as Soloist, Boulez’s Complete Music for Solo Piano

Notes of an Amateur: Tchaikovsky, David Matthews, Ben Johnston, JS Bach.

Notes of an Amateur: Ibragimova’s Mozart x 2; Return of Eighth Blackbird; Violist Paul Neubauer; Max Reger; and New Music for Flute and Piano.

Notes of an Amateur: Podger’s Bach Art of Fugue; Ibragimova’s Mozart Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2; Wallfisch’s Telemann Violin Concertos, Vol 6; Jennifer Koh’s plays the Tchaikovsky.

Notes of an Amateur: Shostakovich, Penderecki, Adès.

Notes of an Amateur: Dover Quartet Plays Mozart; Colin Matthews’ Concertos; Quirine Viersen Plays Britten’s Cello Suites; Kurtag’s Music for String Quartet; and Bon Iver.

Notes of an Amateur: Prokofiev, Wu Han, and Kat Edmonson

Notes of an Amateur: A Cornucopia of Modern Music

Notes of an Amateur: Elgar, Mozart, and Bach.

Notes of an Amateur: Music@Menlo 2016; Bartok’s Music for Solo Piano; Scottish Piano Trios.

Notes of an Amateur: Mischa Zupko, Giaches De Wert, Schnittke, and Petrenko’s Tchaikovsky

Notes of an Amateur: Goerne Sings Schumann, Pacifica Quartet Play Brahms & Schumann, Samuel Adler’s Quartets.

Notes of an Amateur: Osorio Plays Brahms and Schubert; Bostridge’s Schubert; Bartok Quartets by the Heath Quartet; Gardiner’s St. Matthew Passion; Leonard Bernstein’s Solo Piano Music

Notes of an Amateur: Goerne Sings Bach; Two New Penderecki Releases

Notes of an Amateur: Ibragimova’s Mozart, Haimovitz Plays Philip Glass, David Matthews’ Piano Trios, McGill/McHale Trio.