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: 25 April 2013 by Chords
Originally Posted by naim_nymph:

My first listen while i relax with a head-cold.

It's led very much by the baroque violin which imo lifts the mood.

The charm is there and the recording is very 'Linn' fine, during the Forqueay piece there is some clankiness from the harpsichord [sounds oddly piano-forte like for a short while] but the 3 play very well together as a trio.

 

Need to listen to this again when i don't feel so tired,

i'll probably like it more on 2nd hearing...

 

Debs

That 12th track - my very favourite.

Tune based on the bell's rhytm of Saint Geneiveve church. Was extremly popular but nowadays can be found on CDs quite occasionally.

What I recommend a lot:

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfF57fpkjys

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by naim_nymph
Originally Posted by Chords:
That 12th track - my very favourite.

Tune based on the bell's rhytm of Saint Geneiveve church. Was extremly popular but nowadays can be found on CDs quite occasionally.

 

Yes, they saved the best 'til last.

It’s a very familiar tune,

have it on a disc somewhere - AliaVox / Jordi Savall i think?

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by Chords
Originally Posted by naim_nymph:
Originally Posted by Chords:
That 12th track - my very favourite.

Tune based on the bell's rhytm of Saint Geneiveve church. Was extremly popular but nowadays can be found on CDs quite occasionally.

 

Yes, they saved the best 'til last.

It’s a very familiar tune,

have it on a disc somewhere - AliaVox / Jordi Savall i think?

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by DenisA

 

Looking forward to seeing The Staves tonight @ The Scala

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by Quad 33
Originally Posted by DenisA:

 

Looking forward to seeing The Staves tonight @ The Scala

Enjoy Denis. Will be in touch shortly Graham.

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by Quad 33

This choice inspired by Kevin W post yesterday. Hope you are well K.

 

Original vinyl 

 

G

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by DenisA
Originally Posted by Quad 33:
Originally Posted by DenisA:

Looking forward to seeing The Staves tonight @ The Scala

Enjoy Denis. Will be in touch shortly Graham.

Thanks Graham, speak soon.

 

Denis

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by GraemeH

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by Paul@HiFi Lounge

Steve Earles new album, anyone bought the new Copperhead Road Vinyl Release?

 

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by GML

Linda Perhacs - Parrallelograms. On Grooveshark for the time being.

 

Recommended by one who sadly no longer posts here.

 

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by matt podniesinski
Originally Posted by Paul@HiFi Lounge:

Steve Earles new album, anyone bought the new Copperhead Road Vinyl Release?

 

 

No. My original sounds pretty good though. How do you like the new release? I thought this was it.

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by Kevin-W

CD

 

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by Kevin-W
Originally Posted by Quad 33:

This choice inspired by Kevin W post yesterday. Hope you are well K.

 

Original vinyl 

 

G

Hi G Am OK thanks, had a really nasty lurgy for about 10 days but am fighting fit.

 

Prompted by your post prompted by my post, I might try a bit of Todd's "Initiation' tonight

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by dav301

On CD:-

 

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by EJS
Originally Posted by naim_nymph:

EJ

 

i have on order an version of JSB’s cello suites adapted for viola da gambe and played by Paolo Pandoifo. Should arrive any day now, really looking forward to it.

Just hope my cd5x player is up to the job...

 

Debs

Debs, I look forward to hearing that one myself one day, too. We now have recordings of the suites on double bass (Edgar Meyer), bass viol (Pandolfo) and viola (Tamestit), and the music seems to acquit itself well in all cases. 

 

Cheers,

 

EJ

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by Kevin-W

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by Bert Schurink
Originally Posted by EJS:
Originally Posted by naim_nymph:

EJ

 

i have on order an version of JSB’s cello suites adapted for viola da gambe and played by Paolo Pandoifo. Should arrive any day now, really looking forward to it.

Just hope my cd5x player is up to the job...

 

Debs

Debs, I look forward to hearing that one myself one day, too. We now have recordings of the suites on double bass (Edgar Meyer), bass viol (Pandolfo) and viola (Tamestit), and the music seems to acquit itself well in all cases. 

 

Cheers,

 

EJ

Hi EJ,

 

Was intrigued and just heard some pieces of this - will also order this, different and more lyrical than the famous versions on cello...

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by EJS
Originally Posted by Bert Schurink:
Originally Posted by EJS:
Originally Posted by naim_nymph:

EJ

 

i have on order an version of JSB’s cello suites adapted for viola da gambe and played by Paolo Pandoifo. Should arrive any day now, really looking forward to it.

Just hope my cd5x player is up to the job...

 

Debs

Debs, I look forward to hearing that one myself one day, too. We now have recordings of the suites on double bass (Edgar Meyer), bass viol (Pandolfo) and viola (Tamestit), and the music seems to acquit itself well in all cases. 

 

Cheers,

 

EJ

Hi EJ,

 

Was intrigued and just heard some pieces of this - will also order this, different and more lyrical than the famous versions on cello...

Bert, I'm tempted... but Hewitt's new Mozart album is out soon, and Mullova has re-recorded the Bach violin concertos. And then there are all the re-releases from EMI's and Decca's opera vaults... And almost zero quality listening time. Choices!

 

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by Bert Schurink
Originally Posted by EJS:
Originally Posted by Bert Schurink:
Originally Posted by EJS:
Originally Posted by naim_nymph:

EJ

 

i have on order an version of JSB’s cello suites adapted for viola da gambe and played by Paolo Pandoifo. Should arrive any day now, really looking forward to it.

Just hope my cd5x player is up to the job...

 

Debs

Debs, I look forward to hearing that one myself one day, too. We now have recordings of the suites on double bass (Edgar Meyer), bass viol (Pandolfo) and viola (Tamestit), and the music seems to acquit itself well in all cases. 

 

Cheers,

 

EJ

Hi EJ,

 

Was intrigued and just heard some pieces of this - will also order this, different and more lyrical than the famous versions on cello...

Bert, I'm tempted... but Hewitt's new Mozart album is out soon, and Mullova has re-recorded the Bach violin concertos. And then there are all the re-releases from EMI's and Decca's opera vaults... And almost zero quality listening time. Choices!

 

Hi EJ,

 

That's my key callenge like I think everybody else. I have to much music to ever be able to listen to it again and yet still great new stuff is coming out. I find myself just increasing the problem by still bying a lot more on an ongoing base. I would I guess hope for a clone who could do the listening for me while I am making money to buy more music :-)

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by Aleg

 

Streaming in flac from Qobuz .....

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by naim_nymph
Originally Posted by Bert Schurink:
Originally Posted by EJS:
Originally Posted by naim_nymph:

EJ

 

i have on order an version of JSB’s cello suites adapted for viola da gambe and played by Paolo Pandoifo. Should arrive any day now, really looking forward to it.

Just hope my cd5x player is up to the job...

 

Debs

Debs, I look forward to hearing that one myself one day, too. We now have recordings of the suites on double bass (Edgar Meyer), bass viol (Pandolfo) and viola (Tamestit), and the music seems to acquit itself well in all cases. 

 

Cheers,

 

EJ

Hi EJ,

 

Was intrigued and just heard some pieces of this - will also order this, different and more lyrical than the famous versions on cello...


I've ordered my copy from Presto Classical (uk)

They presently have special price deals for Early Music.

 

JSB cello suites are priced at £15.75 on 2 x CD

 

Link ~ http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Glossa/GCDP304052

 

Debs

 

 

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by naim_nymph

 

While i relax in the bubble bath : )

 

Debs

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by Chords
Originally Posted by naim_nymph:

EJ

 

i have on order an version of JSB’s cello suites adapted for viola da gambe and played by Paolo Pandoifo. Should arrive any day now, really looking forward to it.

Just hope my cd5x player is up to the job...

 

Debs

Excellent performance; delivers the maximum from this over-hyped/over-played/over-Bached. music.

 

Just after listening of it please spin this one immediately:

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpsqw_e6AM4

 

Or re-issued one:

 

 

Difference is enormous.

More freedom; more emotions; more music.

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by VladtheImpala
Originally Posted by Haim Ronen:
Originally Posted by VladtheImpala:
 

I've not got many CD's from the Alpha label, but I've been mightily impressed by those I've heard (one of the others I have is Pergolesi's Stabat Mater). Must take great pains to match performer, work and venue for each recording.

 

Regards,

Vlad

 

Vlad,

 

If I may recommend, one of my favorite Alphas:

 

 

"Like Chopin’s Barcarolle, Fauré’s work shows equal measures of limpidity and gravity, brightness and great depth. Finding the right words to describe music such as this, which is not at all descriptive, is far from easy, and it puts us on unsafe ground. In answer to a lady who asked him in what sunny climes he had written his Sixth Nocturne, the composer replied ‘In the Simplon tunnel’. An apt quip! But we are touched by this music, which is very secretive, yet very human, because of its élan, its aspiration to something vast, and at the same time its inner poetry. Not a single page of the thirteen Barcarolles is lacking in that inspiration, which so movingly brings them together as a set of thirteen poems."

Haim,

 

Sorry not to have replied sooner. I took you up on this recommendation and I'm very glad I did!

 

Regards,

Vlad

Posted on: 25 April 2013 by Lloydy

 

Enjoying a first play of this album. A much overdue purchase