What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. X)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2013
On the cusp of 2014, we start a new thread...
Anyway, links:
Volume IX: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...16#22826037054683416
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
Pearl Jam
Whenever I listen to Pletnev play, I always am left with a sense of wonder afterward. Technically unstoppable combined with a brilliant mind. If you listen to what he does it really is special. Things you would never have known otherwise and he just brings things to light in such a nonchalant, straightforward fashion like it is so natural or easy to do so yet impossible to duplicate.
Easily one of the best living pianist around.
Doug,
This is the only Pletnev I have:
What other particular performance would you recommend?
Professionally done. Polished as later Reiner/Cliburn but I much prefer this version due to Gilel's masterful interpretative skills and Reiner actually working with a soloist rather than making the score *Reiner hours*.
What other particular performance would you recommend?
Haim,
His Carnegie Debut Live CD is pretty good.
But hard to imagine you like his style tho. But every one of the piece in that CD is just about breath taking.
I also have his Mozart Piano Concerto No.20 ( Pletnev as a conductor ) and love it but if you like Uchida school of Mozart, you'd hate it.
I think he's very talented and one of the best in the trade but having been linked with a 14 year old boy rape case gives me a pause a bit in spite his enormous talent.
Whenever I listen to Pletnev play, I always am left with a sense of wonder afterward. Technically unstoppable combined with a brilliant mind. If you listen to what he does it really is special. Things you would never have known otherwise and he just brings things to light in such a nonchalant, straightforward fashion like it is so natural or easy to do so yet impossible to duplicate.
Easily one of the best living pianist around.
Doug,
This is the only Pletnev I have:
What other particular performance would you recommend?
Gee Haim, it's tough to recommend any one when I have such a good view of most of his recordings. Just coming off the Chopin and with the Etudes, Waltzes, and the rest that leaves me so thrilled. His "In Person" on Onyx is really good with the exception of the Schubert.
I like his Tchailkovsky, Grieg, Schumann, Rachmaninov, CPE Bach, Liszt, Carnegie Hall and the Scarlatti you have too. Let me think about it for a while but if you like repertoire that is a little off the beaten track then maybe I'd start with the Tchailkovsky, CPE Bach or the Grieg?
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. You're Gonna Get It! On vinyl from 1978.
John Cougar (Mellencamp). American Fool. On Riva vinyl from 1982. Outstanding SQ.
Rubinstein lets it rip even with a few slips of the keys. Played with such a gusto and flamboyant.
Steamhammer a German issue of their first album on vinyl.
An album of Christian McBride duets with various musical associates including Chick Corea, Roy Hargrove, Sting, George Duke, and Dee Dee Bridgewater.
US$17.98 HDTracks hi-res download, one of the few currently available to UK customers. Some great tracks and excellent value.
On CD:-
Savoy Brown - Looking In on Decca UK first press vinyl.
On CD:-
Yup...confirmed - I'm a mammal in nature.
On blue marbled vinyl, unfortunately I have had to sent it back, very warped ,although it didn't sound bad, but there are a couple of distortions on side 2. I've asked Amazon to send a replacement, which is already winging it's way.
On CD:-
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King 40th Anniversary Edition (5cd 1dvda box set)
CD 4
1. 21st Century Schizoid Man
2. The Court of the Crimson King
3. Get Thy Bearings
4. Epitaph
5 Mantra
6. Travel Weary Capricorn
7. Mars
Tracks 1-7 restored bootleg, recorded Live at Hyde Park, London, July 5th 1969
On Spotify, following a Radio Paradise prompt:-
Sonny Landreth - Grant Street
Earlier on NPR:-
Beck - Morning Phase.