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
Good Friday morning listening.
All on CD.
G
Great compilation that gets the feet tapping and the booty shaking
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas Vol. 22: Eisenach (Bach Cantata Pilgrimage)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Daniel Taylor (Countertenor), James Gilchrist (Tenor), Stephen Varcoe (Bass), Angharad Gruffydd Jones (Soprano), Gillian Keith (Soprano)
Kantaten für Ostersonntag:
Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4
Der Himmel lacht, die Erde jubiliert, BWV 31
Kantaten für Ostermontag:
Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66
Bleibe bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6
Kantaten für den Dienstag nach Ostern:
Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiss, BWV 134
Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen, BWV 145
..not as good as the albums before, but still some interesting thoughts...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_8mkj_hLA
The same voice as Godard's disc has.
One of the best renaissance CDs ever made.
Have spent the past couple of hours or so listening to this - on original vinyl. Lovely stuff!
On CD:-
Disc 1
Vinyl.
Haven't listened to this for about five years. Some of it is a little somnolent, crying out for a bit of Waters grit, but a lot of the Big G's playing is lovely. SQ is brilliant, as you would expect.
First listen .....
I've has this 50th Anniversary box for about three years and have never actually listened to it! Am putting that right, now!
Not heard this since I was 17!.....Before they mainstreamed they had 3 good albums. G
A three days weekend, a perfect time frame to go through the 9 discs, the ten hours, thirty four minutes and twenty seconds of Haydn's complete piano trios.
Recorded in Switzerland and The Netherlands between 1970 and 1978. The Philips sound is excellent, a bonus on top of the impeccable playing of the Beaux Arts Trio.
Listening to a couple of the lesser-known Op.17 string quartets. The Angeles Quartet recorded their complete cycle for Philips in the mid-to-late 90s. Shortly after publication of the complete set, the quartet disbanded, and this set never achieved the liftoff it deserves. This picture is from the 2012 reissue, under the Decca label (Universal isn't allowed to use the name/brand Philips anymore).
EJ, looking at this cover, I was scratching my head for a brief time until I read your explanation. The Angeles String Quartet part looked kinda familiar but the "Decca" threw me.
Yes, I was one of the crazy ones who 10 or 15 years ago paid 4 times the current price of the Decca set as I was working my completist ambitions through my favourite composers at that time.
At least mine is a Philips 
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartets
Eric Le Sage, Daishin Kashimoto, Lise Berthaud, Francois Salque
Quartet for Piano and Strings no 1 in C minor, Op. 15
Quartet for Piano and Strings no 2 in G minor, Op. 45
There are so many questions for me about the music of Fauré; it is mysterious at times and seemingly out of reach yet suddenly out peaks such poignantly clear, marvels of beauty. The g-minor piano quartet is my favourite of the two. I just love it. Riddled with agitation and angst yet perfectly comforting at the same time. The Allegro molto moderato just strikes me as being so French in character. I hope to one day be able to travel there and live and play in the countries of my favourite composers.
This music takes me to another bygone century and another continent / culture. Although, most of the music I listen to is for this same reason. It gives me that same feeling - that it doesn't belong or cannot exist within our modern comfort and lifestyles - of transporting me to a different time period. A better one, perhaps? We must follow it there; it does not come here.
Playing late into the night or in the early morning hours is my time machine. It is the time when the ugliness and evils of the world seem less apparent and the peace and stillness of the air is yours and yours alone.
Not heard this since I was 17!.....Before they mainstreamed they had 3 good albums. G
Listened to the whole album now (8 track 1st Columbia CD pressing) and I'd forgotten how coherent an album this is. Great tracks which neatly segue to form a whole. Great recording too. G
On 1989 vinyl
Never been a fan of his previous band, Japan, but do enjoy some of his solo works, in particular this one.
Found this gem in my mothers record collection this afternoon, Superb recording & SQ.
EVERLY BROTHERS Reunion Concert (1983 UK 24-track double LP recorded live at London's Royal Albert Hall on the 23rd of September that year with a band including Albert Lee and Pete Wingfield.
G
..one of my all time favourites..
