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

Happy ending after a long and crueling day, the mailman dropped off 4 DCCs in mint condition for my collection.

This must be one of the best sounding CDs I have ever listened to.

No slouch either. [RAM on DCC]

... life is beautiful.

Hindemith conducts Hindemith : Mathis der Maler Symphony

Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun (disc 1)

On vinyl, just realised I had my sisters copy of this therefore is my first listen, BotR is better IMHO:-

Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun. Disc 2 now.

Neil Young - Sugar Mountain-Live At Canterbury House 1968




As someone mentioned before, would have preferred a no DVD option, since I will probably not watch it.

Hindemith conducts Hindemith : Mathis der Maler

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Originally posted by MilesSmiles:
This must be one of the best sounding CDs I have ever listened to.

Yep it isn't bad Oliver.

The 1st Japanese pressing before it got withdrawn from sale.

The DCC disc in comparison.

I just put on the March To The Scaffold from Berlioz Fantastic Symphony in Klemperer's rather startlingly violent perfomance! Well recorded too, which only emphasises that high velocity is not the only route to maximum terror and impact. Rhythmic grip brings even greater power.

You can almost smell the stench of the charnel house ...

This recording has mightily impressed me again after a gap of more than fifteen years since I had it on Lps. The [sadly deleted] 1993 EMI CD is splendid, but I see that I must have struck lucky with the one I bought. I saw it advertised second hand for over 200 GBP! There must be some seriously enthusiastic people out there, so I was very lucky indeed at 28 GBP. At that rate it is still the most expensive CD I have ever bought.

EMI should release it again!

George

PS: I hasten to add that the performance of the whole symphhony is superbly played and characterised, and brings out the level of tension and release appropriate to each movement, but the March is designedly grisly, and so it comes out. One definitel senses the blood stains of the floor, the saw dust, the ugly crowd of ghoulish on lookers ...

Staggering, and Witches Sabbaoth simply carries on. Revolutionary music presented unappologetically as fully wild!

One of my 2 MOFIs:-

~<>~

1. Take the 'A' Train
2. Bemoanable Lady
3. Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me
4. Mingus Fingus No. 2
5. Eclipse
6. Prayer for Passive Resistance
7. Weird Nightmare
8. Half-Mast Inhibition
9. Orange Was the Color of Her Dress

~<>~

Recorded ~ New York, May 1960, (except for track 9 ~ Milan, Italy, Oct 1970)

Some sleazy 60’s style (or earlier) Mingus with nice Laorraine Cousins singing on track 5 & 7, and not a duff track on the disc!
Half Mast Inhibition; seamlessly crosses over a classical boarders with shades of Prokofiev and Copland (to my ears anyway) wonderfully weird, but presented as 8 minutes of fasinating music.

This cd disc deserves better a engineering quality! : )

nymph

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Originally posted by ewemon:


The DCC disc in comparison.

... and very soon we can add to it the Audio Fidelity gold disc, mastered by Steve Hoffman (1966 mono mix). The whole new series should be very exciting.

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Originally posted by BigH47:
One of my 2 MOFIs:-

One of the few MoFi's I'm still missing. Just bought the Japanese Black Face - hope it arrives soon from the seller in the US.

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FEATURING:Corky Laing plus: Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson & Felix Pappalardi
Plus special guest appearances by Eric Clapton, Leslie West, John Sebastian & Todd Rundgren.