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
Not so serious casual Beethoven's Sonata.
One of my favourite albums of the late 70s. If you haven't seen the movie you missed out, Andy Serkis is amazing as Ian Dury.
Still have the drumstick with label attached that Ian Dury gave me to promote Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick somewhere in the house.
Strong reference disc.
In Early Music and HiFi too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLB6RAZCnBU
Ultra-excellent - very, very occasionally appears this quality of CD on Early Music horizont.
Well-known Iberian Renaissance tunes performed in really early way I think.
Free. Airy. Melodic. And stunning audiophile sound.
Mesmerizing.
Won't let you stand up; prepare food and water for some days before listening.
Vinyl
Why? fancied something a little odd to pass the afternoon
On CD:-
I have not listened to this one since 1984 (only 29 short years ago, feels like yesterday though) at least not as a whole album. I was on a bus trip to Roskilde festival and when we drove through Sweden during the night this seemed to be the only tape we had with us so I got a bit of an overdose.
on a library loan CD.
“We were experimenting with different kinds of musical instruments,” Gibbons says, “and we were successful in immediately throwing the manuals away. We didn’t get too enmeshed in trying to learn too much. As long as we could twist some knobs and make them sound like garbage cans, we’d done our job.”
Double Vinyl.
Original vinyl
Miles/Complete Jack Johnson CD box set
Earlier...
Now...
Another RSD purchase, sounds great 
This is legendary stuff. Maria Callas made various recordings of her signature roles in La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor, Tosca and Norma. Most are in atrocious live mono sound, and for that reason hard to generally recommend. Fortunately, she also left us a few good studio recordings, with pride of place for this one - her second studio recording of Norma, in glorious stereo. By 1960, her voice was still in great shape - the decline had set in but her interpretation reached new heights - and she was also surrounded by a superb cast.
If you're only interested in La Divina, her earlier studio recording, also with Serafin, is worth hearing just for her, in even better voice. There is a 1955 live recording with Mario del Monaco that is absolutely breathtaking if you can listen through the sound (it was apparently recorded with one of the first cell phones in existence). But I recommend this one for overall excellence.
Cheers,
EJ
One of my favourite albums of the late 70s. If you haven't seen the movie you missed out, Andy Serkis is amazing as Ian Dury.
Still have the drumstick with label attached that Ian Dury gave me to promote Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick somewhere in the house.
Very cool!
Playing the Rameau: Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecom (1728)
One of most perfect up close and happening harpsicord recordings i've ever heard,
Delightfully performed too by, Blandine Rannou.
This Zig Zag Celebration 5 x CD box-set is presently availible from 'all your music' USA via amazon uk (other sellers) for £9.49 + £1.26 postage, which is one heck of a bargain!
And at the price will fly in below the UK Import Duty radar flak gun : >
Debs
