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
Nice return to form.. "Addict" is my standout track.
CD:-
After all that Bach sacred music, time for something a bit more profane.
One of the best - but shortest-lived - of 1970s musical genres was Space Funk - and these guys were among the prime exponents of this fabulous form.
On this 1975 album, "God Make Me Funky", "If You've Got It, You'll Get It" and "Daffy's Dance" are so goddamn funky they should carry some sort of health warning...
This little lot this afternoon 
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All on the black stuff 
Jan Garbarek soprano, tenor saxophones
The Hilliard Ensemble
David James countertenor
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor
John Potter tenor
Gordon Jones baritone
Recorded September 1993, Propstei St. Gerold
Not for everyone but definitely worth trying.
Not listened to this in a while.
On nice green vinyl. The best of all the Pink Floyd cover albums...
I'm a day late, but now listening to the Ricercar consort's masterful St. John's Passion. Smaller scale, more urgent than its more famous sibling.
Cheers,
EJ
On vinyl. More for the Stravinsky than the Walton...
One of Paolo Pandolfo's more recent gamba discs is, frankly, a curiosity. The press would have you believe this is supremely well crafted music, expertly performed with intoxicating intensity by Pandolfo. That may be all very well, but whether it's the music or the performance, it leaves me cold.
Cheers,
EJ
You should try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlBdP_I1AVM
Please remember that 50-70 years and Germany/France difference is quite big here.
And what I love:
Excellent.
One of the most vivid rendition of Debussy's Prelude Book 1 No.10 & jaw dropping Prokofiev's Suggestion Diabolique ( as his Sofia concert, he's just letting it rip ) with a tongue and cheek sense of humour.
Brahms Symphony No.4: Toscanini/NBC
Brahms' last symphony. I am trying to understand it.
The Goldberg variations.
Cheers,
EJ
The very good 'old' Teldec recordings...
My current go too album.
Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo Vinyl
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On CD
Bought this for the wife 2 week's ago and it hasn't been out the CDP since.
She must have listened to it 20 times so I thought i'd give it a proper listen.
Sand Denny's re-issued second album on vinyl, excellent,SQ & pressing. This album may have acquired the 'folk rock tag',However such a tag doesn't do it justice, the music is more diverse than the tag suggests imo.
G
Cheers,
EJ
Vinyl
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