CD (I'm in a Euro-pop kinda mood all of a sudden)

2011 master on CD. Sounding good. I never really liked it that much but "Pillow of Winds" is actually a pretty good song. "Echoes" is of course an out-an-out masterpiece.

Vinyl LP

On CD. Superb French jazz pianist I discovered this week.

Original Vinyl.

Thanks for the reminder Kevin. Not played this for ages, you are right it is a very good album.

Hope you are well, take care.

Regards Graham.

Not listened to this for ages , on vinyl:-

Brahms sextets - is this gorgeous music or what? Echoes of late Schubert in Brahms' first sextet, especially the harrowing second movement. Love how Brahms works with the different 'voices' of the string instruments here.

The Nash Ensemble sound committed and, as ever, quite smooth and objective. Would like to hear what other groups can do with this music for comparison, but very happy if I would never find a better version.

Cheers,

EJ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY2qtW_fYbM

Clavecin; small portative organ together; favourite Baroque composer - highly recommended.

On CD:-

Chris Robinson Brotherhood - The Magic Door

Tonight's listening. All on original vinyl.

Graham.

Moody pieces for solo cello. Of the composers featured, Ligeti is the most well known and has the best music, by far. It still sounds relentlessly modern, bordering on and frequently crossing into atonality without ever becoming hostile territory like Schoenberg or indeed Ligeti himself in other works can be. The other works are of variable quality, some offering a Satie-like soundscape, others sounding like a perverted adaptation of a Beethoven movement, or simply like someone would expect modern classical music to sound: lots of ugly sounds and rises and dips through the octaves with a bang at the end. All of it sounds technically demanding, and Wispelwey does a great job on the good music and what he can for the other works. Recommended, for adventurous souls!

Cheers,

EJ

On Original 1974 Black......SWMBO likes it too

I am well thanks Graham. You? I note that you've been playing "LA Woman" - haven't heard that in years. Think I will give it a spin tomorrow - thanks for reminding me.

Late Junction on R3. Verity is even more gorgeous than normal tonight. Possibly slightly quieter than usual, giving our minds more space to move into (?)

Chris

Neil Young: Live at Massey Hall 1971, 180g Vinyl, Reprise / Pallas, Germany 

1. On The Way Home 
2. Tell Me Why 
3. Old Man 
4. Journey Through The Past 
5. Helpless 
6. Love In Mind 
7. A Man Needs A Maid/Heart Of Gold Suite 
8. Cowgirl In The Sand 
9. Don't Let It Bring You Down 
10. There's A World 
11. Bad Fog Of Loneliness 
12. The Needle And The Damage Done 
13. Ohio [Live At Massey Hall 
14. See The Sky About To Rain 
15. Down By The River 
16. Dance Dance Dance 
17. I Am A Child

Disc 3

(Stickers intact)

PCS-3062; best I can tell it's a 1973 pressing

I'm paying homage to the holy trinity tonight, all on vinyl.

Neil Young: Prairie Wind, 200g Vinyl, Reprise / Classic Records, LP mastering and cutting by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood

1. The Painter
2. No Wonder
3. Falling Off The Face Of The Earth
4. Far From Home
5. It's A Dream
6. Prairie Wind
7. Here For You
8. This Old Guitar
9. He Was The King
10. When God Made Me
11. An Interview With Neil Young

It's a Dream; It's Only a Dream...