"iyo kailan pa man" the CDs

[southpeak]

Are you in any way a customer of the Philam Group of Companies? Did you receive this two disc CD gift from them?
It’s a compilation of old standard and contemporary Filipino love songs and others done by The Philippine Madrigal Singers.
I was experimenting with my system during the holidays. Which type of music would it excel I ask? And in one testing, I had a Billy Joel cd playing “For the Longest Time”, an acappella song. It sounded better than any of the previous songs I played. May be the combination of Sansui BA 2000 amp LF characteristic and the Celestion SL12Si mid-hi did their magic. What ever it was, it sounded very good. So I remembered these CDs my wife showed me the week before. Di ko masyado pinansin (my mistake) kasi classical songs daw sabi nya.
To cut the story short, it was an ear opener for me when I played the discs. Beautiful. I remember one comment from the forum that you would need extra power to play this type of music. Surely enough, when the tenor and soprano passages are playing, the watt meters on the BA 2000 races from zero to 110 watts plus in the blink of an eye and sometimes stay there for a while on extended passages. Volume pot of pre amp just above 9 o’clock setting. ;D
If you have friends who have these CDs, try borrowing them. You may or may not like them but it was worth the experience for me. My ears.



Disc 1
1. iyo kailan pa man
2. pakiusap
3. aking bituin
4. usahay
5. matud nila
6. manilac lay labi
7. lambingan
8. dahil sa iyo
9. habang buhay
10. ang paglalaba
11. dungawin mo hirang
12. ikaw ang mahal ko
13. lagi kitang naalala
14. kundiman ng 1800
15. payapang daigdig

Disk 2
1. bituing walang ningning
2. kailangan kita
3. minsang lang kitang iibigin
4. ikaw lamang
5. kahit isang saglit
6. ikaw
7. sana ay ikaw na nga
8. hanggang
9. sanay wala ng wakas
10. pasko na sinta ko

[Superman]

ben, pahiram

[southpeak]

superman said:

ben, pahiram

sure jen. sent u pm

[sandawa]

ben,

i had the same experience, nauna lang ako ng konti. talagang maganda ang classical music if the system could handle its dynamics. the Telarc classical catalog is quite good, also RCA's analog Red Seal, and Sony Classical label. the first pieces that got me into chamber music were tunes i heard when i was a small kid - Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, Beethoven's 5th and 9th, Chopin's piano pieces, Mahler's 5th, Wagner's Valkyries, Strauss' waltzes, Rossini's Overtures, Gershwin's music, etc. my son and daughter, both graduating from college this summer, who also like contemporary pop music, grew up with light classics and could readily hum above tunes anytime.

i owe a lot to UP Madrigals (now Philippine Madrigal Singers). two Madrigals were lent to me and sang when i was married in Diliman back in 1982. BTW, here's a trivia - i could have made it to Rey Paguio's UP Concert Chorus back in mid '70s if i didn't back out. a familiar name who was a member of the concert chorus back then was Nanette Inventor.

[southpeak]

Sandawa_san,

It’s all coming back to me now. And I’m sure this is the reason why I’m into this hobby today.
I remember when I was a kid, we had this portable suitcase type turntable which when opened up becomes a complete sound system. The two sides unclipped would become the speakers, I’m not sure if there was any separate phono stage or amplifier, it just played. It had a tall spindle to accommodate multi LPs. it looked something like this but with tangalable speakers.



Not sure from which side of the family it came from but I’m sure it was a gift to my parents. Can't afford kami nun. We did not even have our own house.

My late father was a member of the old Philippine Constabulary (aka PNP today). He retired master sergeant under the C2 (intelligence group) and would sometimes have guest in our apartment. I remember him playing endless Pilita Corales, Victor Wood and his personal favorite, the very young Miss Nora Aunor.

My mother, a public school teacher, was more into classical. When it was her time to receive guest, she would play Harry Belafonte, Mario Lanza and yes waltzes by Straus and pieces by Chopin, Gershwin, some Can Can music. Di ko na matandaan yung iba. LPs were provided by her younger brother who was working in Clark at the time. She likes to watch musicals. Gene Kelly, Fred Astair. You name it, she would probably know it. San na kaya napunta yung mga LPs na yun?

I miss those days and maybe this is the reason why I’m into music. Thanks to them, I now have the means to enjoy their music and a family I can enjoy it with. Tama na muna, naiiyak na ko.

[sandawa]

wow! no wonder you have the ears for those types of music. nuon, common lang yan sa mga matatanda, ngayon "high-brow" music na - not everyone could appreciate. my dad was into tubes back in the 60s but shifted to solid state (my uncle was working with the Elizaldes, then the exclusive distributor of Sony in the Phils.) my dad changed his amp every 3 months (last week i visited him, kinagalitan ako nung malaman na may mga tube amps pa ako and that i own about 20 amps). i remember Pilita's and Belafonte's voice coming out of his big jukebox-size ElectroVoice and Wharfedale speakers till the late '60s. ang ganda ng tunog!