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
The Temper Trap "Acoustic Sessions" (ep)
wonderful
My favourite of her later albums. G
Steve Winwood "Nine Lives"
Both on the silver
Jethro Tull "Heavy Horses"
not special, just ordinary...
..wrong buy, don't like her - too clinical..
..brilliant..
..perhaps not typical for this forum, but I like it..
Just back from a walk, where I listened to ANTA...
You can always tell someone is listening to PROG when they are out walking. Freak dancing is best left to a distant memory 
This was really enjoyable - http://music.anta.org.uk/album/centurionaut
On vinyl.
With special guest Larry Carlton.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Piers Lane (Piano)
Piano Transcriptions - Vol. 3 by Friedman, Grainger, Murdoch
1) arr Grainger: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
2) arr Friedman: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659
3) arr Murdoch: Concerto for Organ in D minor, BWV 596 (after Vivaldi)
4) arr Friedman: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68: no 2, Mein gläubiges Herze
5) arr Friedman: Brandenburg Concerto no 3 in G major, BWV 1048: 1st movement, Allegro
6) arr Friedman: Morning Song, from Chorale Preludes (6) BWV 645-650 "Schübler": no 1, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645
7) arr Friedman: Partita for Violin solo no 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: 7th movement, Tempo di Bourée
8) arr Friedman: Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!, BWV 208 "Hunt Cantata": Schafe können sicher weiden
9) arr Friedman: Gavotte (Rondeau), from Partita for Violin solo no 3 in E major, BWV 1006: 3rd movement,
10) arr Grainger: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue no 20 in A minor, BWV 865 - Fugue
11) arr Grainger: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2: Prelude and Fugue no 9 in E major, BWV 878 - Fugue
12) arr Friedman: Siciliano, from Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord in E flat major, BWV 1031
13) arr Grainger: Blithe Bells, Sheep May Safely Graze, from Cantata 208
14) arr Friedman: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Volume 3 of this fantastic Hyperion series continues to fill in all the links in this panoply of wondrous Bach transcriptions. People who love a composer pay the highest compliment and respect by creating an arrangement based on the original. Of course I feel this way because I believe music is meant for sharing. How else could I play an Organ work, or a work written for Violin or Flute? In the better times of the past people did more playing than discussing academic hyperbole and laws of the Pharisee's.
Some, well probably most, tend to follow the original giving extreme respect to old Bach. Grainger, of course, being Grainger I suppose, is one of the souls who perhaps created something more akin to a paraphrase than a transcription in certain instances. No matter to me though - the soul of Bach is there in any case and it gives me great joy no matter how it is dressed up.
The interesting thing about this disc is we have a direct comparison between Grainger's views and Friedman's views in the the Toccata and Fugue BWV565 and Sheep May Safely Graze, from Cantata 208. It goes to show that in any shape or form the original DNA in the music does not need a prescribed formula in order to understand its beauty. It is strong enough to survive anyone's vision of what this music means to them. Grainger's Blithe Bells (from Cantata 208) in fact is quite cool - idiosyncratic, yes - but the interesting harmonies make this more into a dream or a vision. Really marvellous.
Piers Lane and his trusty Steinway deliver a fine performance and recording from Henry Wood Hall in London from May of 2002. Next instalment, I'll backtrack to Volume 2 of the series.
Bach's suites by one of today's best cellists. Queyras presents a singing, dancing Bach that favors rhythm over pathos.
Cheers,
EJ
Mogwai...Soundtrack from 'The Returned' Supernatural crime thriller set in a small Alpine village where a group of men, women and children do not yet know that they have been dead for several years.
Mogwai...Soundtrack from 'The Returned' Supernatural crime thriller set in a small Alpine village where a group of men, women and children do not yet know that they have been dead for several years.
Presumably they'll discover this in next weeks final episode?
Cracking soundtrack though!
Damien Jurado... 'Where Shall You Take Me' Double Album..Currently £8.99 inc free postage from Amazon.
On first listen it's a really beautiful slice of simple Americana. With its dark, brooding, beautiful music It's immediately very engaging, drawing you in as softly spoken murmurs of things not right emerge from the sparse arrangements.
Graham.
Brilliant musically and sonically....Watch the cones jump on 'Revolutionary Kind'....not too loud mind! G
On Vinyl
Timeless classic
A wonderful recording of superb arrangements. G
On CD first came across this on the Bob Harris country show NYC inspired c&w americana nice!