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

Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2013

With 2013 upon us, it's time to start a fresh thread.  I've gone back to an earlier thread title because often the "why" is the most interesting part of the post.

Anyway, links:
Volume VIII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...nt/12970396056050819
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290

Posted on: 22 March 2013 by naim_nymph

Steve,

 

To be honest, i'd not heard of Ozric Tentacles until a few years ago,

wish i could claim i was cool enuff to have played it back in the 80s

 

btw, i have Curious Corn on tape : )

 

Debs

Posted on: 22 March 2013 by jfritzen

Goldberg-Variationen played by Martin Schmeding on the Silbermann organ at the Hofkirche Dresden. Was a holiday souvenir but turned out to be one of my favourite organ and Bach recordings.

 

Posted on: 22 March 2013 by ken c

 

Great album!

 

enjoy

ken

Posted on: 22 March 2013 by Haim Ronen

 

Les Basses Reunies:
Bruno Cocset (cello)
Blandine Rannou (clavicin & organ)
Pascal Monteilhet (theorbe & baroque guitar)
Richard Myron (bass & violin)
Posted on: 22 March 2013 by Florestan

Sonatas (6) for Cello and Basso Continuo, Op. 5 by Francesco Geminiani 

 

Les Basses Réunies:

Bruno Cocset, (Violoncello)

Luca Pianco, (Lute)

Bertrand Cuiller, (Harpsichord)

Mathurin Matharel, (Violoncello)

Richard Myron, (Contrabass)

 

Posted on: 22 March 2013 by GregU
Originally Posted by Kevin-W:

Original 1979 vinyl. Except my tin is much, much rustier than the one illustrated!

 

I have bid on original copies of metal box so many times on e bay but never win as they always go for astronomical sums

Posted on: 22 March 2013 by joerand

 

Rickie Lee Jones.  On vinyl from 1979.  Nice

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by Bert Schurink

..a quiet start of the Saturday morning..

 

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by Lloydy

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by mtuttleb

 

1.      Symphony No. 6 in D Major "Le Matin": Adagio-allegro05:46
2.      Symphony No. 6 in D Major "Le Matin": Adagio-andante-adagio07:52
3.      Symphony No. 6 in D Major "Le Matin": Menuet & trio04:32
4.      Symphony No. 6 in D Major "Le Matin": Finale, allegro04:26
5.      Symphony No. 7 in C Major "Le Midi": Adagio-allegro07:42
6.      Symphony No. 7 in C Major "Le Midi": Recitativo: adagio09:59
7.      Symphony No. 7 in C Major "Le Midi": Menuetto & trio03:38
8.      Symphony No. 7 in C Major "Le Midi": Finale, allegro04:00
9.      Symphony No. 8 in G Major "Le Soir": Allegro molto03:54
10.      Symphony No. 8 in G Major "Le Soir": Andante07:36
11.      Symphony No. 8 in G Major "Le Soir": Menuetto & trio05:15
12.      Symphony No. 8 in G Major "Le Soir": La Tempesta, presto05:03

 

1.      Symphony No. 91 in E-Flat Major: Largo-allegro assai08:49
2.      Symphony No. 91 in E-Flat Major: Andante07:03
3.      Symphony No. 91 in E-Flat Major: Menuet & trio, un poco allegretto04:20
4.      Symphony No. 91 in E-Flat Major: Finale, vivace05:40
5.      Symphony No. 92 in G Major "Oxford": Adagio-allegro spiritoso07:46
6.      Symphony No. 92 in G Major "Oxford": Adagio07:39
7.      Symphony No. 92 in G Major "Oxford": Menuet & trio, allegretto05:38
8.      Symphony No. 92 in G Major "Oxford": Presto05:50
9.      Sinfonia Concertante in B-Flat Major, violin, cello, oboe & bassoon: Allegro09:34
10.      Sinfonia Concertante in B-Flat Major, violin, cello, oboe & bassoon: Andante05:38
11.      Sinfonia Concertante in B-Flat Major, violin, cello, oboe & bassoon: Allegro con spirito

06:26

 

 

 

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by Graham

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by Graham

Went to bed having listened to Antonio Forcione ......  now listening to Mr Bragg. Well its all a question of mood !

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by EJS

 

Bach's St. Matthew's Passion, by the Netherlands Bach Society under Jos van Veldhoven. On the Channel Classics label.

 

Cheers,

 

EJ

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by Quad 33
Originally Posted by DenisA:

 

This gets better with each play. Seeing Mike's band the other night makes you appreciate a musicians creativity even more.

Hi Denis, hope you are well.

 

I have been following your Mike Keneally threads all week. Sounds like you enjoyed the gig. I am not familiar with his work so in your opinion (which I respect very much) is this the best place to start? Hope to catch up soon next time we are in London. 

 

Take care G

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by GraemeH

 

Great addition to the NY collection. G

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by Haim Ronen

 

    
The recording is a peach, perfectly framing Faust’s superb musicianship.
Andrew McGregor -- June 24, 2010 -- BBC Review
    Any violinist will tell you that Bach’s six suites for solo violin are miraculous creations. And they’ve had a fascinating history on disc, with some of the 20th century’s greatest violinists recording the set. But with the rise of the baroque specialist playing period instruments and alive to the latest scholarship, the kind of sounds and style of playing changed.
 Sigiswald Kuijken’s pioneering recording in 1981 is at the vanguard of a steady stream of fine baroque violinists, like MonicaHuggett, John Holloway, Lucy van Dael, and Rachel Podger –
who’s a particular favourite for the sheer exuberance and joy of her playing, as well as everything she can teach us about the different colours you experience with gut strings at a lower pitch, and the myriad ways in which a baroque bow affects phrasing and articulation. A new generation of modern violinists has been listening, and learning, as you’ll know if you’ve heard the likes of Viktoria Mullova, Julia Fischer or Alina Ibragimova in their recent recordings of solo Bach, each of them adopting different aspects of the baroque violinist’s art, and experimenting with bows, strings, vibrato and phrasing.
    Now we can add Isabelle Faust, whose sound is deliciously straight with little or no vibrato, and bowed with such sensitivity to Bach’s phrasing that you could almost kid yourself at times that she’s using a baroque bow. But a couple of features are especially telling: her instinct for ornamentation in the repeats, and the sense of cumulative musicianship – a momentum that builds not just in individual movements like the great Chaconne that ends Bach’s D minor Partita, but through each suite. The Chaconne is on the brisk side, but beautifully built from the opening chords, and the Adagio and Fugue that open the C major Sonata are also particularly well handled by Faust, the slow opening movement stroked into life, before the different voices of Bach’s monumental fugue are laid before us.
    Faust’s playing has elements of Mullova’s power, Ibragimova’s intimacy, Fischer’s bravura, and Podger’s delight in Bach’s dances, and the recording is a peach, perfectly framing her musicianship. There’s only one thing wrong with it: there are only three of the six suites here, the D minor and E major Partitas and the C major Sonata, and I’m impatient for volume two.
Posted on: 23 March 2013 by DenisA
Originally Posted by Quad 33:
Originally Posted by DenisA:

Wing Beat Fantastic

 

This gets better with each play. Seeing Mike's band the other night makes you appreciate a musicians creativity even more.

Hi Denis, hope you are well.

 

I have been following your Mike Keneally threads all week. Sounds like you enjoyed the gig. I am not familiar with his work so in your opinion (which I respect very much) is this the best place to start? Hope to catch up soon next time we are in London. 

 

Take care G

Hi Graham,

 

All is well thanks. I bought Wing Beat Fantastic last year because of Andy Partridge's involvement. So if you are an XTC fan, especially if you like Apple Venus Vol 1, this would appeal. Andy does not sing on the album, but Mike's voice has an uncanny resemblance to Andy's. Having bought Mike's first album Hat, I can see why Andy was interested in a collaboration.

 

After seeing Mike & his amazing band the other night I'm really pleased I bought his 'live' CD/DVD bakin' @ the potato ! for £15. Seeing musicians of this calibre up close helps me re-live the experience @ The Borderline. It's quite expensive with Amazon, so you wouldn't be paying any more by buying direct from his store - http://store.keneally.com/products/ex-2412 

 

This reviewer likes the CD/DVD as well..

http://www.cloudsandclocks.net...allyband_batp_E.html 


If you are visting London on Record Store Day, perhaps we could meet up @ Rough Trade East.

 

ATB

 

Denis

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by Lloydy

 

Fond memories of the 70's

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by floid

10cc - 10cc

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by BigH47

Listening to my "new" Prefix S, thanks to Julian :-

 

 

Sounds really fine too.

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by floid

Madness - Complete Madnes

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by Florestan

Johann Sebastian Bach:  Christine Busch (Violin)

 

Sonata for Violin solo no 1 in G minor, BWV 1001

Partita for Violin solo no 1 in B minor, BWV 1002

Sonata for Violin solo no 2 in A minor, BWV 1003 

Partita for Violin solo no 2 in D minor, BWV 1004

Sonata for Violin solo no 3 in C major, BWV 1005

Partita for Violin solo no 3 in E major, BWV 1006

 

German violinist, Christine Busch, leader of the orchestra of Collegium Vocale Gent, in her new recording of the Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin by J. S. Bach – a work she admires, and she has been playing since her childhood.  Philippe Herreweghe: “Christine Busch inspires by her technical perfection, her strength, her humility, her sense for poetry, as well as by her qualities needed to serve the greatest of all composers.”

 

 

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by Jeff Anderson

Fionn Regan "100 Acres Of Sycamore"

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by Cbr600
Originally Posted by Lloydy:

 

Fond memories of the 70's

C'mon feel the noise !!

Posted on: 23 March 2013 by Florestan
Originally Posted by Haim Ronen:

 

 

Levitzki, Mischa : Valse Amour for piano
Levitzki, Mischa : Arabesque valsante, Op 06
Rachmaninov, Sergei : Sonata for Piano no 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36
Medtner, Nikolai : Forgotten Melodies (8) for Piano, Op. 38
 
An all Russian album played ravishingly by Leschenko. The close-miked recording is not typical to classical material, never the less sounding rich with a good flow.
Highly recommended.

 

 

Haim, glad you liked this too.  I'm starting to really grow with and like her Medtner.  As I said it took me at least a half dozen listens before I started forgetting Hamelin's style and starting warming up to Leschenko's style and ways.  First listen had me very indifferent.  Very different interpretations but for me it is very valuable to be able to "force" myself to work on understanding different views.  This doesn't come naturally as otherwise I'd stick to just one way forever.  

 

Then there are the two gems by Levitzki.  I can't imagine these under anyone else's fingers.  This music was written and conceived for her it seems.

 

I agree with you about the sound.  Not her fault nor the end of the world but I think there is a small opportunity for improvement to make a great recording even better.