What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol.IX)

£5 from Amazon, its Brilliant  Big Thank You to Stu.

180g Stereo & Mono vinyl double album.

Graham

Low Symphony - Glorious, Wonderful, The Dogs. I like it

Sunday morning is usually devoted to washing and ironing work clothes (i.e. doing things you don't want to do so you can somehere you don't want to go), so I usually choose something a bit lively to listen to.

Instead, I had a change of heart, desirous of a break from Wagner, and listened to some new CD's I had ripped to NAS but hadn't listened to yet. All streamed to the iPad via the Synology DS Audio app.

First up:

Marvellous performances and wonderful sound. Recommended.

Second, and by way of marked contrast:

Beautiful baroque volin tone and acoustics but more like a meditation on Bach's score. Listening to this feels a little voyeuristic - you can clearly hear Ms Schmitt's breathing. Probably one to play less frequently. Recommended if you are more interested in the sound for it's own sake and are not going to choke on your port!

Lastly, and to cheer the spirits:

Again, a wonderful recording and knock-out performance of a composer I know nothing about. Look out for the "stop-time" playing on track 4 and the lovely melody on track 14. 

Regards,

Vlad

Vlad, those are all great albums. By coincidence you picked my two favorite performances of the Bach violin works.

EJ

All from recommendations on this very forum, perhaps by yourself? As I've said elsewhere: Critics 0 Forum ∞!

I've not got many CD's from the Alpha label, but I've been mightily impressed by those I've heard (one of the others I have is Pergolesi's Stabat Mater). Must take great pains to match performer, work and venue for each recording.

Regards,

Vlad

Kremer for a change. Usually it is John Holloway who ends up spinning.

Vlad,

If I may recommend, one of my favorite Alphas:

"Like Chopin’s Barcarolle, Fauré’s work shows equal measures of limpidity and gravity, brightness and great depth. Finding the right words to describe music such as this, which is not at all descriptive, is far from easy, and it puts us on unsafe ground. In answer to a lady who asked him in what sunny climes he had written his Sixth Nocturne, the composer replied ‘In the Simplon tunnel’. An apt quip! But we are touched by this music, which is very secretive, yet very human, because of its élan, its aspiration to something vast, and at the same time its inner poetry. Not a single page of the thirteen Barcarolles is lacking in that inspiration, which so movingly brings them together as a set of thirteen poems."

EJ,

Did you get tickets to see Sokolov yet this year?

The hammerklavier sonata is part of the program along with D899 Impromtus and 3 Klavierstucke from Franz Schubert

I have seen him twice so far this year. Once in Geneva at the Victoria Hall and also in Opera place Stanislas in Nancy.

At the moment streaming lots of music from the following

http://www.youtube.com/user/elwisw?feature=watch

i.e.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOX2CsWZfcw&list=UUtwkxhn-rBsm2W3cyjlSssg&index=7

Thank you for your suggestion. Definitely one to investigate.

Vlad

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sebastian Klinger (Cello) 

Suite for Cello solo no 1 in G major, BWV 1007

Suite for Cello solo no 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 

Suite for Cello solo no 6 in D major, BWV 1012 

Suite for Cello solo no 3 in C major, BWV 1009

Suite for Cello solo no 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010

Suite for Cello solo no 5 in C minor, BWV 1011

A perfect way to spend the first two earliest hours of my Sunday morning - capitalizing on the peace and quiet and the fresh blanket of snow covering the land over the last 12 hours.  Recorded in the Himmelfahrtskirche in Munich-Sendling as these sacred works should be and also a lower pitch of A420 Hz than is standard today.  Very nice recording all around I think.

Playing this LP for the first time since it was purchased in 1982. Found it hiding still in its original wrapping with Rose Records price tag of $4.49. I miss the place on Wabash St. in Chicago which was considered with its six floors to be the largest music store in the world.

Recorded in 1973 and came with "mit reich illustreirtem Auswahl-Katalog".

Original vinyl 1970 B&C Steamhammer 'Mountains'.

Needless to say, everyone is out.  Some find this a bit 'extreme'.  CD first pressing...Great! G

Hi john101,

The Roy Obison & Friends album is not that difficult to find. Amazon have copy's currently available. I agree with you it's a fantastic album.

Graham.

saw live 5 times and he was better than any record

Re. the above.....now on to 'White Hammer'........Loud.....go on, I dare you to take your 'speakers to the edge of falling apart! G

Original vinyl 1967 Direction.

This album is simply superb and really well recorded. Classic blues with simple drum and bass accompaniment to Taj Mahal's guitar. This album rocks.

Do you have this one Graham?

.....I do....but maybe another Graham? G (raeme).

Something a bit slicker following the Generator bruising.  G

Very well received by the press and very enjoyable....

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Aleg

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