Russell Lichter: “I have been listening to classical music since I was a little kid. Listening to music, really listening, is an act of supreme intimacy and impeccable communication between listener, performer and composer. I have never been able to put into words the complexity and intensity of my feelings hearing Richter playing Beethoven or Michel Block playing Albéniz or Berglund conducting Sibelius. The best I can hope for as a writer is to influence others to partake of the feast.”
Russell Lichter
Dear La Folia 13.
The season’s changed and it’s no longer mandatory to light an evening fire. This means music listening unaccompanied by the fan in our wood-burning stove.
April 20, 2004
Dear La Folia 13.
The season’s changed and it’s no longer mandatory to light an evening fire. This means music listening unaccompanied by the fan in our wood-burning stove.
April 20, 2004
Dear La Folia 12.
I don’t know that a month has elapsed in the past five years without periods of audiophile anguish over imaging.
September 12, 2003
Dear La Folia 12.
I don’t know that a month has elapsed in the past five years without periods of audiophile anguish over imaging.
September 12, 2003
Dear La Folia 11: This Time ’Round, Amplifiers
Perceived acoustic certainties appear like Venus on the half shell, only to crumble in a penumbra of doubt: Do these two amplifiers, a Bel Canto eVo2 and a Spectron Digital One, really sound different?
August 6, 2003
Dear La Folia 11: This Time ’Round, Amplifiers
Perceived acoustic certainties appear like Venus on the half shell, only to crumble in a penumbra of doubt: Do these two amplifiers, a Bel Canto eVo2 and a Spectron Digital One, really sound different?
August 6, 2003
Dear La Folia 10.
I am Black Point’s foremost collector of Bach’s Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen.
May 21, 2003
Dear La Folia 10.
I am Black Point’s foremost collector of Bach’s Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen.
May 21, 2003
Dear La Folia 9.
Thinking back to my last missive and your parenthetical comment, I withheld the brand name of the DAC I was auditioning…
April 18, 2003
Dear La Folia 9.
Thinking back to my last missive and your parenthetical comment, I withheld the brand name of the DAC I was auditioning…
April 18, 2003
Dear La Folia 8.
Lately I have been having fun playing around with a new DAC.
November 21, 2002
Dear La Folia 7.
Until a few months ago, I hardly knew the music of Sibelius.
October 6, 2002
Dear La Folia 6.
You know how the classical music market is these days, tapes dying slow deaths in dusty vaults, superb performances disappearing like drachmas tossed into the Aegean by an indifferent tourist.
May 10, 2002
Dear La Folia 6.
You know how the classical music market is these days, tapes dying slow deaths in dusty vaults, superb performances disappearing like drachmas tossed into the Aegean by an indifferent tourist.
May 10, 2002
Dear La Folia 5.
It’s late night here. One can hear the whispered prayers from neighboring homes that the NASDAQ goes up again, and the plaintive call of the great horned owl.
December 1, 2001
Dear La Folia 5.
It’s late night here. One can hear the whispered prayers from neighboring homes that the NASDAQ goes up again, and the plaintive call of the great horned owl.
December 1, 2001
Dear La Folia 4.
We had an earthquake in the neighborhood a couple or three weeks ago, five point something.
November 1, 2000
Dear La Folia 4.
We had an earthquake in the neighborhood a couple or three weeks ago, five point something.
November 1, 2000
Dear La Folia 3.
Schumann is something of a mystery to me.
July 1, 2000
Dear La Folia 2.
I apologize for not writing sooner but I have been so busy meditating on suffering, old age and death, trying to fathom the meaning of my unlikely existence in a universe that is even more unlikely (and increasingly appears to be composed not of quarks or strings, but of imagination), that I’ve had precious little time for the really important things, like whether SACD will become the de facto new standard, or whether the Spectron Digital One amplifier is truly digital in nature.
April 1, 2000
Dear La Folia 2.
I apologize for not writing sooner but I have been so busy meditating on suffering, old age and death, trying to fathom the meaning of my unlikely existence in a universe that is even more unlikely (and increasingly appears to be composed not of quarks or strings, but of imagination), that I’ve had precious little time for the really important things, like whether SACD will become the de facto new standard, or whether the Spectron Digital One amplifier is truly digital in nature.
April 1, 2000