Awful Mr J!

On vinyl

First spin of this in years

If you have not heard this guy. Give him a go, You might be presently surprised.

Poet Wind David Munyon Format: CD 'Stockfisch'

Listen to the track 'In India' Poet Wind is up there with the best of Dylan, Cohen. A hidden CD treasure.

Well it is Sunday

Yes Graham.

Howard,

This debut album is very blues orientated. You should try it.

Steve

"Originating in Italy, the trio sonata imposed itself as one of the major musical forms of the 18th century. Having been formalised in sharply contrasting movements by Corelli, it seduced composers who found within it a means to develop their thematic ideas and to free themselves from the framework of the suite of dances in a new aesthetic spirit, that of chamber music. It would normally have been executed by 3 musicians at least, each one playing as best he could the melodic line assigned to him. Bach however, never doing things as everybody else, composed a series of six sonatas for the organ, adapting the chamber music style to this quintessential church instrument.

Born in 1985 (year of the tercentenary of Bach's birth ...) Benjamin Alard is already one of the leading figures of the young baroque generation. In 2004 he won First Prize and the Audience Award at the Bruges International Harpsichord Competition and in 2007 garnered First Prize at the Gottfried-Silbermann International Organ Competition in Freiberg. For his first Alpha recording, he plays the grand organ of the church of Saint-Louis en l'Île, where he was appointed in 2005, a German style instrument conceived by Bernard Aubertin, which is the most recent organ to have been built in Paris."

Michael Chapman - Fully Qualified Survivor. Original Harvest stereo LP (mint) which someone has lent me with a view to selling. I am enjoying it very much so I think I will buy off him or swap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJvPbt1azmo

There is a very few Bach 1052 records what can be listened with a really great pleasure; what is not plastic; not boring; not suffering; not artificial; not angled; not Bach-style..

When a usual unlistenable work is going to live.

Here you are.

Chords, inspired by Bach, one of my favorite melodies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLZD0XplYrI

Original LP. I rather fancied playing something on clear vinyl

Well Kuma, do tell?  Two very contrasting albums.  I have both these on Vinyl and CD too and as you are probably hinting at, the difference in interpretation is night & day or better yet warm(er) vs. cold(er) temperament (ie. Lang Lang to Pollini).  What do you think of the Sony vinyl?

For something like the Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise how would you compare Lang Lang's take to say Ingolf Wunder?

Thanks,

Doug

How about this one then Howard?

Island vinyl 1969

Steve

I vote for the Lang Lang version..

Hi EJ,

This set brings a lot of sentiment and memories to me as well when looking back.  Firstly, it marked the transition for me of when vinyl was being killed off by marketing execs and CD players were introduced as the next best thing since sliced bread.

In the first year after buying a CD player I started with a goal of wanting to hear all my favourite composers complete (and I'm still working on this 30 years later but this endeavour has since mushroomed to different levels).  While this is only the solo works my first target was Chopin and it took me one whole year to complete.  These 13 cd's came in 9 albums and then the concertos and chamber music etc. for one album per month.  The only details I remember were that the Etudes came the first followed by the Preludes, Waltzes, and Mazurkas.  Those were exciting times in my life while hearing a vast new world of music for the first time and experiencing the goosebumps and the music's effect in a way I could never have imagined.  These experiences have shaped my entire life.  

I think I experience music differently today.  Nothing is new anymore and and the goalposts keep getting wider through hearing every extreme as well as everything in between to right down the center.   The problem with experiencing highs is that you can never beat the first ones.  You spend your whole life trying but you never can get higher without running after more and more in a never ending race....

Cheers,

Doug

More transparent vinyl

Well it is Sunday

6-LP box set, all on transparent vinyl, so should be kept busy for the rest of the day...

Vinyl

Graham

1st play. Bought from Poundland!!! 

Back to Stravinsky at the end of the weekend

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Aleg