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

Original 1st press stereo vinyl on Deram. A great live album.

arrived in this mornings post ,,

Original Vinyl: Side Four Track 2 Ten Years After 'I'm Going Home'

Graham

On original vinyl. After listening to 'Wooden Ships' from the Woodstock album.

Graham

Original Vinyl

Graham

Vinyl

Excellent hi-res recording for those 'Dire Straits' fans amongst us

Vinyl

Graham

One of the best live albums ever made imo.

Reissued 'Music On Vinyl'

Graham

Very early lute music - means that previous than Spinacino; 15-16.c.; lute is very popular but almost no any written form.

Can be ordered a download too.

http://www.elucevanlestelle.com/jay-pris-amour/

On Original Black!

iMac/iTunes this is the only TYA album left at home after my sister claimed back her vinyl to give to a friend who "had a turntable" as if I didn't?

Original Vinyl

Southside's third album is probably his best and one of my all-time favourite albums - an almost flawless collection of soul-tinged RnB with a brass section, Steve Van Zandt on lead guitar and Johnny's voice to cap it off.

Graham

Cheers,

EJ

Recent release. Great blues/rock album.

porcupine tree /// we lost the skyline

Cheers,

EJ

Dear EJ,

In my view that set is marvelous!

I have only heard some of the recordings in broadcast on Radio Three, but they command attention in the best possible way.

I have the set with Simon Preston with Pinnock and the English Concert on DG.

One day I'll get the Egarr recordings! Thanks for reminding me!

ATB from George

PS: Last week, apart from nearly forty CDs of Klemperer;s recorded lagacy [newly re-issued, with a handful of brand new remasters - superb- it is the older remasters from the last decade or so], I also got 5 CDs of Vivaldi including the L'Estro Harmonic, from Pinnock. These are of special interest to me because Bach made arrangements for organ [solo] described as "organ concertos" and Bach certainly pulls off the trick of differentiating the concertino [solo] and tutti [orchestra] parts with his brilliance in filling in implied harmonies to bring the dynamic difference, without in anyway adjusting the structure [harmonic or number of bars] of the music. Sometimes he really does bring forwards the melodic aspect, which is hard to believe considering how much less flexible o expressive the organ normally is compared to a string orchestra and solo instruments ...

What Bach was doing is open to doubt  - his motivation - but it seems that he admired Vivaldi as well as Marcello among the Italian composers of the day, and was possibly creating keyboard versions for a pupil of a relative of his to play and learn something!

But Bach would subsequently, at the end of his life, happily state that he learned from Vivaldi as a young man! He was not other than a modest man in respect of his compositional gift, though he was demanding of his fellow performers in concert!