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
playing disc 5 of 7 x cd box-set...
G major op.64 no.4
D major op.64 no.5 "The Lark"
E flat major op.64 No.6
Norbert Brianin - violin I
Siegmund Nissel - violin II
Peter Schidlof - viola
Martin Lovett - cello
[ADD] (p) 1974
Kevin - is this an album of the sound tracks of these old TV programmes? I can only identify some:
Danger Man
Randel & Hopkirk
The Persuaders
Man from Uncle
The Saint
The Champions (isn't Alexandra Bastedo stunning?)
But the rest defeat me. Please do complete the list
MDS
Hi yes, it's a double CD set of themes and incidental music from classic 60s and 70s ITC series.
The shows on the cover are as follows:
Clockwise, from left:
The Champions (yep, AB was lovely)
The Persuaders (Roger Moore)
The Persuaders (Tony Curtis)
Return of The Saint (Ian Ogilvy)
Jason King (Peter Wyngarde)
The Baron (Steve Forrest)
Danger Man (Patrick MacGoohan)
The Protectors (Robert Vaughn)
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (Kenneth Cope, Mike Pratt)
Strange Report (Anthony Quayle)
Gideon's Way (John Gregson)
The Zoo Gang (Barry Morse, John Mills, Lilli Palmer)
Man in a Suitcase (Richard Bradford)
It's a really good compilation - Edwin Astley, in particular, was an outstanding composer.
Kevin AB was gergous, sadly she does not appear to have aged well, she had a bit part in one of the soaps a year or two back, I think eastenders. When I saw her all my schoolboy fantasies melted away never to return.
Can't see UFO on the list, was this not a ITC programme?
Thanks for explanation, Kevin. I'm ashamed I got the Man From Uncle one wrong. I've still got my yellow UNCLE membership card somewhere - I think I was assigned to Section 4.
Maze - let's agree to remember AB as she was.
MDS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X025OK5mfwo
For hardcore Early Music fans only:
in the second part there is a Tarantella-infection; the ostinato appears perfectly.
More Hagen Quartett, this time in Mozart's last string quartets. This is a decent recording, but the Hagens' smooth approach, spiced up with above average tempo fluctuations, doesn't really work in this music, which really require a more invested, emotional style. The music itself is brilliant, some of the best string quartets ever written and among Mozart's peak achievements.
Cheers,
EJ
The last two Prussian quartets (589 and 590) by the Italians. My all time favorite string quartet. Their unique sound, wonderfully recorded, probably isn't to everyone's taste, but they really play these works for all they're worth. Brilliant stuff.
Cheers,
EJ
Staying with the Big Man.
Classic.
- "The Man in Me" – written and performed by Bob Dylan (1970)
- "Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles" – written and performed by Captain Beefheart (1972)
- "My Mood Swings" – written by Elvis Costello and Cait O'Riordan; performed by Costello (1998)
- "Ataypura" – written by Moises Vivanco; performed by Yma Sumac (1950)
- "Traffic Boom" – written and performed by Piero Piccioni (1998)
- "I Got It Bad & That Ain't Good" – written by Duke Ellington and Paul Francis Webster; performed by Nina Simone (1962)
- "Stamping Ground" – written and performed by Moondog (1970)
- "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" – written by Mickey Newbury; performed by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition (1968)
- "Walking Song" – written and performed by Meredith Monk (1998)
- "Glück das mir verblieb" from Die tote Stadt – written and conducted by Erich Wolfgang Korngold; performed by Ilona Steingruber, Anton Dermota and the Austrian State Radio Orchestra (1949)
- "Lujon" – written and performed by Henry Mancini (1959)
- "Hotel California" – written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Don Felder; performed by The Gipsy Kings (1988)
- "Technopop (Wie Glauben)" – written and performed by Carter Burwell. (1998) The character Uli Kunkel was in the German electronic band Autobahn, a homage to the band Kraftwerk. The album cover of their record Nagelbett (nail bed) is a parody of the Kraftwerk album cover for The Man-Machine and the group name Autobahn shares the name of a Kraftwerk song and album. In the lyrics the phrase "We believe in nothing" is repeated with electronic distortion. This is a reference to Autobahn's nihilism in the film.[45]
- "Dead Flowers" – written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards; performed by Townes van Zandt (1993)
His last Chopin Waltzes.
But with a different cover.
Excellent album!
My easy/lounge/library music phase continues
An 'oldie' (1997) by Alexandre Tharaud.
From last night, LP2...
CD:-
Excellent album!
Absolutely!