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

And thanks for the call, Stu. It has made my listening night. I hope there is more to come...............depends on 'er indoors, lol! Or I will be sat on my own, ha ha ha.

The first release. Mint virgin vinyl.

More Joan.

All on the Black Stuff
& on Sliver

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Originally posted by GFFJ:
Earlier at Cymbiosis in Leicester, with a Keeled Aro [on LP12] and XV1S, Superline, 252, 300 and Kudos C20s! What a set!!!

Anyway to the music, this is my one remaining good LP, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto played on the original basset clarinet by Alan Hacker and with his orchestra of the early eighties, The Music Party. On the other side of the record is the Kegelstatt Trio, played by Hacker, his wife Catherine Evans [on a Mozart period fortepiano], and Alan George playing the viola. I once turned the pages for Catherine Evans with Hacker and George in this piece at a concert. A horrible experience by any standards!



ATB from George

I bet it sounded wonderful George!... hope you had a really good time in Cymbiosis, but you really should keep out of these places of temptation or you may end up blowing lots of hard earned money on some new kit!


~<>~ Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart ~<>~

Divertimento in E flat major, K.563

Trio A Cordes de Paris ~
Charles Frey violon (Nicolas Gagliano 1726)
Michel Michalakakos alto (Gasparo da Salo 1560)
Jean Grout violoncello (Bernardel 1839)

Le Chant du Monde LP @ 1986 harmonia mundi

I’m presently very smitten with this Trio of very jolly looking gentlemen of the ‘A Cordes de Paris. I can make no claim of knowing any of them, but the performance recorded on this lp (in 1986 i think) is truly exceptional… imho!

nymph

Joe Sample: Roles

Dear Nymph,

It was great to listen to that LP again, and quite a moment really, as the turning the pages incident really did burn itself into my memory as being much harder than actually playing in concerts. They took all the repeats which in the piano parts meamt "turning back" several pages to the "right place" more than once!

This involved me marking the place with those little "stick it" labels.

I remember nothing of the performance!

A couple of days later the very perfomers who had recorded the Concerto on this LP played it in Hereford, and I was given the LP by Hacker for turning the pages in the Trio! He offered to sign it, but I am so shy that I turned him down on that! Looking back that seems a very modest or even stupid thing to have done.

It was meeting and talking to Hacker that inspired me to take up playing again on the bass after being so useless on the piano as a child, and "he" suggested the bass, because our conversation on music kept coming back to structure and harmonic momentum. He was fascinating as in his younger days he had been in Boult's LPO [1949 to 1957] and he was delighted to find someone just too young to have had the presense of mind to attend any of his concerts [Boult effectively retired in 1977 when I was fifteen], who yet so admired the man's artistry.

We both reckoned Boult had about as clear idea of what orchestral music was about as anyone - certainly the equal of Klemperer, if not greater! Hacker said that this was the view in the orchestra, but Boult was so unflashy that the critics never really got his approach, while he was still working. When I said this I was not yet aware that Hacker had been Boult's principal clarinet those years earlier, so we grinned like mad when he told me why he knew so much about Boult the musician. He was amazed that I had picked Boult's quality up from recordings alone, but I had said that all you needed to do was to read the score to realise what a genius Boult actually was ...

Hacker pioneered the use of the period basset clarinet in Mozart in the 1950s and for years his approach was unique, even if now few would consider playing the piece on anything but a modern copy of the basset clarinet.

He used a true period instrument, in box-wood, not ebony, and with its small bore, and minimal key arrangement, it is a most beautiful sonority, which has many voices for the dynamics, from a bright clarion forte, to the most creamy pianissimo!

Meeting Hacker was a great inspiration to me those years ago, so the chance to hear this very rare LP again was a wonderful moment for me.

But fear not, I was there to assess the value of the Keel for Aro on an LP 12, but for a friend. The Keel costs more than twice what my whole set is worth! I am past worrying about superb sets of very expensive kit, so long as my antiques can still draw me into the music!

Very best wishes from George

~<>~ Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) ~<>~

Side 1
Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Symphonic Impressions for Piano and Orchestra

Cyorgy Sandor piano
Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg
Conductor Louis de Froment
Recorded in June 1974

~<>~

Side 2
Concerto in D major for Harpsichord, flute
oboe, clarinet, violin and cello

Martin Galling harpsichord
Robert Dohn flute
Willy Schnell oboe
Hans Lemser clarinet
Susanne Lautenbacher violin
Thomas Blees cello
Recorded in October 1967

turnabout records @ 1977

Dear George,

that is such a wonderful story, and your LP copy is a keep-sake so do take good care of it!
i have recently purchased a small shed-full of old classical vinyl and now having great fun with lot's of great musik mainly unbeknown to me, my budget lp12 is a bit woolly... as a mammoth... complete with tusks... but the musik is very fine so never mind.
Will need to take my lp12 on a trip to Cymbiosis myself soon!

...and had better take my purse too! : )

nymph

This reissue sounds awful but love this tune.

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Originally posted by kuma:

This reissue sounds awful but love this tune.

Just back from the Roberta Flack concert, Al will do nicely right now.



On DCC

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Originally posted by kuma:

Hello kuma,

About 25 years ago... a friend of mine who had a very large vinyl collection (he used to be a amatuer dj), very kindly tried to mature my taste with 3 Larry Carlton lp's...
Friends / Sleepwalk / Strikes twice
I thought they were 'okay' at the time.

It's nice to found how enjoyable this is now i'm a bit more 'matured' so-to-speak. I picked up the Sleepwalk lp on eBay, and it plays perfectly, a bit of a bargain too, i'm very pleased! : )

nymph

nymph,

heh.. I never thought that Larry Carlton is for a * mature audience*.

His stuff falls into that dreaded *easy/new age jazz*-elevator music category, but it's nice when I want to chill.

p.s. I'm gonna pick up Sleepwalk.

p.p.s. If you could find it, try 'Alone but never alone'.