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Celebrate the day that Naxos decided to delve into audiobooks. Anton Lesser’s reading of Charles Dickens’ uproarious Pickwick Papers is a triumph. One wonders how so many voices can come out of one man’s pipes short of possession by the spirits of Snodgrass, Tuchman, and Pickwick themselves. (more…)
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This very fine collection of reproductions of articles related to the Allied invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944 and the slog to Paris is topped off by an item I didn’t even find until I’d worked through the whole book: a superb cd containing first-person accounts by D-Day veterans from Britain, America, and Germany. (more…)
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When I misplaced the trusty Sennheisers that go everywhere with me just prior to a two-week family vacation, I was forced to pick up this Sony set in an airport kiosk.
Imagine my surprise at the exceptional sound, which competes with headphones occupying much higher price point.
If it’s sound you want, and you want it at home, these headphones would make a superb choice.
The big caveat: they are clumsy when traveling. The Sony MDR-NC6 has none of the stowability of my Sennheisers. They are big, bulky, and have not learned the exercise tha makes it possible for a giraffe to get to a zoo in a train car. They simply don’t fold up.
You drop them awkwardly into a Sony drawstring-equipped bag and cart’em along with you. They would easily break on one of my flights.
So save some serious bucks and buy this set of Sony’s if you don’t need to wrap them around a mobile head. But if travel you must, upgrade to the Sennheisers for great sound and great portability.
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There’s a reason why Edward Grieg appears on those off-market complilations of ‘favorite all time romantic music’ with the double exclamation points and tissue paper liners. For pure melody there is hardly a composer more attuned to the preferences of the modern ear. (more…)
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Any reader of this product’s reviews on amazon.com will quickly pick up that Intuit makes hay on expensive, incremental upgrades to its product. That’s the bad news. If that really, really bothers you, don’t buy Quicken. (more…)
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James Newton Howard’s preternaturally spooky sound track to the Mel Gibson move Signs is worth its weight in the corn carved out and wasted by those damned aliens. Having grown up in Pennsylvania corn country, I can tell you that corn is heavy. (more…)
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There are oodles of recordings of Dmitri Shotakovich’s Symphony No. 10, an obvious indication that listeners file this one under ‘Accessible Shostakovich’. (more…)
Posted in reseña, tagged fauna on July 26, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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The University of Texas Press has the habit of publishing loving reflections upon different bird species, penned with a rhetorical flourish by their admirers. These are not merely descriptive ornithological treatises. They are virtually love letters to our feathered visitors. (more…)
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Some acts don’t travel well, even though they represent considerable rootage in their own context. New Zealand’s The Parachute Band has produced such an act in the live worship album You Alone. (more…)
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Amy Grant’s 1985 Unguarded album seeks to make a genuine statement about Christian faith on a highly-produced album that is preoccupied with love. Track after track, the singer explores what love is, beginning with ‘Love of Another Kind’ (i.e. Jesus’ love), continuing with track two’s ‘(Love Will) Find a Way’, and on it goes. (more…)
Canter Bridge 