Leif Vollebekk

Followed by...

Not strictly blues, but a good album nonetheless. 

Hi Tony.  

This is the first album I bought with my first wage packet. It was a toss up between this and Disraeli Gears, but after seeing Family live at the Buxton Opera House Roger & the boys turned my head away from Cream. It's a great album. 

Graham

Was Bob Dylan at the Budokan, Thanks to whoever posted that and made me dig out the vinyl. 

now Farover by Burning Spear, because I can't seem to find Man in the Hills. 

On Vinyl , the copy I purchased new in 1970. Sounds Great!

Starting with Maazel's second Sibelius cycle. The first symphony is... a rather strange performance. It sounds almost mechanical without much of a sense of tension or Sibelian bleakness, a series of rather impressive moments and exaggerated contrasts. The first and fourth movements work best, while the lyrical inner movements can't handle this approach. Next to Vänskä, this is a letdown.

Cheers,

EJ

Thanks, Graham.

It is indeed a great album and  the one which immediacy  makes it stand against all their future releases. You knew you could always catch up with DG. You smooth operator.

Tony

Tom Petty. Damn the Torpedoes. Had to break out this one on vinyl after watching the Sound City rockumentary.

Based on many of the posts above I will keep an eye out for Cream on Polydor vinyl next time I'm at the record shop. Thanks for the recommendations!

A fantastic recording of Brahms' violin concerto. Batiashvili and Thielemann play big, but on the impulsive side, which together with the unusual cadenza injects life in this work that so often gets stuck into its own beauty. The (studio) recording quality is OK, slightly on the reverberant side.

EJ

Bill Frisell: Good Dog Happy Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq1ovHXAqHo

The Drifters' Golden Hits on vinyl. In stereo (mostly)

There is only one Roy Orbison. On mono vinyl from 1965.

I went to their live concert together and whilst Lisa isn't exactly Heifetz it was one of the best live show I have heard.

I haven't bother picking up this CD cuz, I know the recording and my system won't do justice to what I have heard.

So better to remember that wonderful concert in my memory than be disappointed litsening to a *canned* music.

John Cougar. Nothin' Matters And What If It Did. On vinyl from 1980.

Sunken Condos

Donald Fagen | Format: vinyl

Pink Floyd. Meddle. 1992 remaster on CD.

Think Telemann is not a good cunductor, or not my cup of tea

I had absolutely no expectations on either two.

Loved Thielemann's Brahms No.4, too. A great showmanship and Staatskapelle Dresden made the CSO look like bunch of dilettantes. The whole tonal balance shifts to much richer and warmer and their orchestra had a pleasant honeyed velvety textures. So thinking it's gonna be thick and slow but not in the slightest! The whole orchestra was rocking and right on time. Much more expressive and I could feel their great energy and vive! if you could imagine herd of elephants dancing in unison, that's them.

It was also apparent that Lisa and Christian work really well together from their body language and the way communicate to each other.

I haven't heard anything else he's done so maybe I got lucky that day.

He's inconsistent for sure, but when he's in the zone he's very good. For this performance, Batiashvili couldn't have wished for a better partner.

EJ