What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (VOL V)

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Originally posted by Chief Chirpa:
Maurice, I really liked Polnareff's [...]

Oh, language barrier I'm afraid. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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Meanwhile, The Jean-Claude Vannier record I mentioned yesterday is probably the strangest thing I've ever heard.

Yes, I must try that.

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Originally posted by Lontano:
Liane Foly - Reve Orange

Yes, I liked her at the time.

Several tracks from each of these albums this afternoon/evening..............



















There were about another half dozen but my internet is soooooo sloooooooow this has already taken me about three quarters of an hour and I just can't be bothered. Roll on tomorrow and broadband.

On Silver!

Tonights play list was...






Forgot how good these sound...

For the daring soul:



Maurice Ravel/George Enescu. Leonidas Kavakos, violin, Péter Nagy, piano. (ECM New Series, ECM B0001485-02)

"This is a felicitous pairing of composers, styles, and performers. Ravel's lusciously impressionist single-movement Sonata, written in 1897 but not published until l975, was reportedly first performed by Enescu and Ravel at the Paris Conservatoire, where both studied with Fauré. Influenced by folk and gypsy elements, Ravel's Tzigane and Enescu's Sonata No. 3 are bravura showpieces that exploit every violinistic effect; they are interesting but hardly great music. The playing's the thing and it is spectacular. Kavakos' virtuosity is stunning but not showy. He tosses off the most hair-raising pyrotechnics and sound effects, even an imitation of birds, with ease and relish. His tone is gorgeous: dark, pure, intense, focused, variable with bow and vibrato. Playing with passion and floating delicacy, he identifies naturally with the music's idiomatic rhythms, harmonies, and character. This must be one of the best performances of the Tzigane on record, and Nagy, a splendid partner throughout, sounds almost like an orchestra."

L`Infidèle
Eduardo Egüez

Lute works by Sylvius Leopold Weiss
Eduardo Egüez: baroque lute


Suite L’Infidèle (London manuscript, Add. 30387)

Suite in F major (Dresden manuscript, Mus.2841-V-I)

Tombeau sur la Mort de Mr Comte de Logy arrivée 1721 (London manuscript, Add. 30387)

Suite in D minor (Dresden manuscript, Mus.2841-V-I)

# Concerto for harpsichord, strings & continuo No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Australian Chamber Orchestra
with Angela Hewitt

# Concerto for harpsichord, strings & continuo No. 7 in G minor, BWV 1058
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Australian Chamber Orchestra
with Angela Hewitt

# Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Australian Chamber Orchestra
with Alison Mitchell, Richard Tognetti, Angela Hewitt

# Concerto for flute, violin, harpsichord, strings & continuo in A minor ("Triple"), BWV 1044
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Australian Chamber Orchestra
with Alison Mitchell, Richard Tognetti, Angela Hewitt

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by Mward2205:
Scandinavian happy-hour:

Not heard the new Lisa Ekdahl yet - any good?

Love the Stina album though - one of my faves.

Lisa is fantastic. Every song is absolutely beautiful.

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Originally posted by luxen2:
Old stuff - needledropped...

and what about

Luxen...?


I know I listened to both of them last night...ah, back in the 1980s, party time...

Blondie - No Exit

now, and a couple of days ago:
R.E.M. Hamburg 1998, fan club gig broadcast by WDR (on DVD), one of the best live recordings I have heard by them.

Animal Collective

Symphony No 1 and then Das Lied von Erde

Tonight some tracks of "old" favorites

First listen...

Everything I Play Gonna Be Funky (From Now On)...