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
Grumiaux/Van Beinum Brahms Violin Concerto.
I still prefer the Oistrakh/Klemperer's rocking set. ( my admiration and respect to those two gents after listening bunch of other Op.77s.)
The two sides of this 1956 recording are like two entirely different records. The first, avant garde and angular, the second sweetly lyrical.
First spin. Giove in Argo, or Jupiter in Argos, is one of Handel's own pastiches: musically cobbled together from earlier works, in this case (mostly) his own. The result was meant to be, back in May 1739, a crowd pleaser: known, popular, music. It failed, was abandoned after two performances, got lost, and was only found / pieced together and performed in 2006. This is a brand new recording in Curtis' groundbreaking series of the Handel operas.
The performance is generally excellent. Quality wise, this is middle tier Handel, and we must be fortunate to have a full cast of Handel specialists, including Johannes Weisser, Jacobs' Don Giovanni. Curtis has become a lot better than he used to be over the past few years, without changing his nature as a subtle Handelian (you won't mistake him for Minkowski).
Recommended? Yes, but not as your first exposure to Handel. The work does not reach the lofty heights of Julius Caesar and Ariodante, for example.
Cheers,
EJ
I like the Patricia Barber - Mythologies jazz albums a lot. One of them is below where she tells a poetry story, using each song for a scene and character. Very nice and "intelligent" album, worth a listening. It was published by Linn Records with a superb sound quality:
This hard to find / expensive CD which has never been released on vinyl. Has now been reissued by Music on Vinyl and can be pre-ordered from Amazon for release on 15.04.13.
Dan Penn is truly one of the greats of American music. He is mostly known for writing classics such as "Do Right Woman' by Aretha Franklin, "I'm Your Puppet" by James and Bobby Purify, Wilson Pickett's /Otis Redding's "You Left Your Water Running" and many more. If the Vinyl is as good SQ as the 1994 CD it will be well worth having.
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Two inspired by "The Best Sounding Prog" thread. Both on original vinyl.
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Come over a bit 'prog' this morning.
Original Vinyl
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Vinyl 'Mono' (Red Lightning Records)
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Lonnie Mack "glad i'm in the band".Original 1969 Vinyl (Red Elektra Label)
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Vinyl:-
On CD:-
Double album of the Beatles in Hamburg 1962. Not the best recorded live album I have ever heard, but now it is like listening to history in the making.
Vinyl (1977) German (bellaphon) Label.
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45rpm vinyl.
Vinyl (1968)
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One of the most beautifull cello CDs ....
1st play. Disc 1
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans.
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans.
The worst album that Yes ever made whilst in their pomp! (And, of course, they've made quite a few stinkers since: they should have followed The Beatles, and quit while they were ahead,) I try to listen to this album every five years or so, but still find it unlistenable to! Dreadful beyond words.
What were they thinking, I wonder?
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans.
The worst album that Yes ever made whilst in their pomp! (And, of course, they've made quite a few stinkers since: they should have followed The Beatles, and quit while they were ahead,) I try to listen to this album every five years or so, but still find it unlistenable to! Dreadful beyond words.
What were they thinking, I wonder?
I Like It
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans.
The worst album that Yes ever made whilst in their pomp! (And, of course, they've made quite a few stinkers since: they should have followed The Beatles, and quit while they were ahead,) I try to listen to this album every five years or so, but still find it unlistenable to! Dreadful beyond words.
What were they thinking, I wonder?
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