What are you listening to right now? (VOL II)

~<>~ Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) ~<>~

Piano Trio no.2 in E minor Op.67 (1944)

String Quartet no.1 in C major Op.49 (1938)

Piano Quintet in G minor Op.57 (1940)

ST PETERSBURG STRING QUARTET

Alla Aranovskaya ~ violin
Ilya Teplyakov ~ violin
Alexei Koptev ~ viola
Leond Shukaev ~ cello
Igor Uryash ~ piano

Recorded in the St Petersburg Recording Studio in December 2003

[DDD] Hyperion cd @ 2004

I've been wanting to buy this cd ever since a few months ago when BBC Radio 3 played the 'Allegretto' track - piano trio no.2 ...i heard this while out in the car.... What a fantastic piece of music!!
Piano-sandwiched in the middle the string quartet with bright and fleeting melodies playing delightfully on the mind, it’s nice when the piano returns on the following quintet too, this music has good a art deco architecture to my mind but has a good engaging flow from start to finish.
The 76 minutes and 15 seconds of play on this cd shouldn't disapoint but my copy goes into a clicking fit about a minute from the end... the cdp turns it off early! : (

will have to speak to those nice people at Hyperion about this! : )

nymph

quote:

Originally posted by Whizzkid:
My first foray into the wonderful world of ELP.






Dean..

Feel free to bring this to another get together, Dean

A sublime blending of talent and electricity.

James

Sting shuffle "Sacred Love" and "Ten Summoner's Tales"

quote:

Originally posted by JWM:

quote:

Originally posted by Whizzkid:
My first foray into the wonderful world of ELP.


Dean..

Feel free to bring this to another get together, Dean

A sublime blending of talent and electricity.

James

Hi James,


The problem is I'd be letting the side down if I actually brought music to a get together that other people other than me actually liked, what a strange thought.

Also pass this on to ROTF,


Basia Bulat


Dean..

Now to the kings of PROG \o/







Dean..

quote:

Originally posted by Whizzkid:
[quote]
Also pass this on to ROTF,


Basia Bulat


Dean..

Thanks.

Disc 4

Honour Bright (2:45)
Shirley Collins and Steve Ashley;
demo recorded at TPA Studios, London, December 1977-January 1978; produced by Austin John Marshall; previously unreleased
The Moon Shines Bright (2:05)
Never Again (1:59)
Gilderoy (4:45)
all three from Shirley & Dolly Collins: For As Many As Will (1978)
The Mariner's Farewell (4:12)
from the single The Mariner's Farewell / Black Birds of Brittany (1979)
Come All You Little Streamers (2:07)
All Things Are Quite Silent (3:15)
The Bonny Labouring Boy (4:17)
all three recorded live in Dublin, 1978;
from Shirley & Dolly Collins: Harking Back (1998)
The Captain with the Whiskers (3:45)
Just As the Tide Was Flowing (1:41)
both recorded live in London, 1979;
from Shirley & Dolly Collins: Harking Back (1998)
Come My Love (2:44)
Shirley Collins with Winsome Evans, harpsichord;
recorded at Sydney Opera House, January 1980; previously unreleased
The Green Fields of England (5:12)
Shirley Collins and Peter Bellamy;
recorded at Sydney Opera House, January 1980; previously unreleased
The Golden Glove (3:00)
Lord Allenwater (5:05)
both Shirley Collins with Julie Carter, vocals, and Jim Younger, concertina;
recorded live in Holland, 1981; previously unreleased
Christ Made a Trance (2:46)
Bedfordshire May Carol (2:36)
both Shirley Collins with Julie Carter, vocals, Jim Younger, concertina, and Dan Quinn, melodeon;
recorded live in London, 1981; previously unreleased
The Tillington Poachers (2:16)
The Oakham Poachers (2:18)
both Shirley Collins with Julie Carter, vocals, and Jim Younger, concertina;
recorded live in London, 1982; previously unreleased
Poor Sally Sits A-Weeping (1:48)
Shirley Collins with Dolly Collins, piano;
recorded in London, 1980; previously unreleased
Lost in a Wood (4:03)
Shirley Collins with Iris Bishop, concertina, and Gary Holder, bass;
recorded at Country Branch Studios, Crawley; previously unreleased

Tracy Chapman "Where You Live"

Piano/Trumpet duets... good stuff.

Counting Crows "Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings"

Past your bed-time!

Matthew Ryan "Vs. Silver State"

Robert Plant/Alison Krauss
"Raising Sand"

~<>~ Johann Sebastian Bach ~<>~

Die Kunst der Fuge

Hespèrion XX

Bruce Dickey cornetto, Philippe Mattarel,
d'apres un instrument de ca.1630
Paolo Grazzi oboe da caccia, Paul Heilperin,
d'apres un instrument de ca.1700
Charles Toet trombone tenor Adolf Egger,
d'apres un instrument de ca.1700
Claude Wassmer basson Laurent Veriat,
d'apres J M Rottenburgh 1720
Jordi Savall viole de gambe soprano
Nicolas Chappay 1750
Christophe Coin viole de gambe altus
Johann Andreas Doerffel, Klingenthal 1757
Roberto Gini viole de gambe ténor
Pellegrino Zanetti, Venise 1550
Paolo Pandolfo viole de gambe basse
a sept cordes Prunier d'apres un instrument francais, ca.1700

Direction ~ Jordi Savall

The opening contrapunctus is with the wind section of this small ensemble, the cornet sounds a bit strained but nicely haunting. It took me a while to settle in with the brass play, makes the tempo sound a bit too fast somehow. With the strings coming in on the second contrapunctus it feels imo very sad, as if in requiem, but the wind~string interface is strangly uplifting in places. By the time i was half way through the 2nd cd i'd become very fond of the cornet play and over-all my impression is an art of fugue that is very characterfull in texture of sound but perhaps a bit dull musikally... i'm don't know why yet.
Warning! some people will find this very boring! (...and i mean the musik, not my writing)
...although i think this is a grower, and i look forward to my next play of it. The second cd ends with a very curious and quick fade out on Fuga a 3 soggretti... shame i was enjoying that!
Both cd's are around 46 minutes and end far too early for my liking! : )

nymph

Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of ..."

Looking forward to seeing him tonight at the Sydney Opera House.


Gurrumul by Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

Songs We Know

Fred Hersch, piano
Bill Frisell, guitar

The Style Council: Confessions of a pop group