What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. X)

Disc 2 is all of his encore at his Carnegie Debut. Every one of the performance is highly charged electrifying. I wish I was there.

His Scarlatti K.9 (L.413) "Pastorale" has a great clarity and articulation yet quiet passages are handled with care. Not too frilly just the right amount of filigrees. He's a lot less friendlier than Horowitz or even Michelangelli. Light touch of keys reminds me of flickering lights. Beautifully nuanced key strokes and tonal colours yet I still have a greater affinity for a playful and more human Horowitz style of playing. Pletnev's Scarlatti is modern cool and it remains more engaging than many.

Hello Denis,

 Thank you for the information. Looks like I'm missing out on something I would really enjoy.  I'm not on Facebook, but I'm starting to believe resistance is futile.

Kind Regards,

Larry 

On vinyl, when Richter is not being played.

Haim,

How is it?

Pollini's Beethoven No.28 Sonata. Not as funky as his later sonata, but actually there is a lot going on and playful than I remember. Thoughtful and sensibly played. Pollini leaves no ambiguity for sure.

Juhani Aaltonen Trio - Illusion of a Ballad

What format do you two have? I love his first two LPs on vinyl and this one has been on my radar while digging second hand . Seems the vinyl is all but impossible to find at a rational price.

Stax Story

... a library loan CD.

The legendary Memphis soul label Stax's legacy is well-represented by this four-CD box set, which manages to do what many similar box retrospectives don't. That is to provide a well-balanced overview of a genre of music that mixes the essential hits with many noteworthy yet lesser-known singles and rarities, coming about as close as possible to pleasing both the collector and the less intense soul fan.

osprey,

I hope that Booker T & the MGs and his Hammond are somewhere on that CD. 

Randy, there are a few tracks from them included in this set. That Hammond sound really is something, isn't it. I have a couple of other CDs which have more of it. 

osprey,

I have just one of Booker T's LPs but should try to find more. I happened to hear him play live on a local Seattle radio station while driving to work last summer. Nice! I was hoping to find a link for you to the radio broadcast, but all I can find are photos of the event. It's KJR 95.7 FM Seattle if you care to search for more. Here's one nice photo from the event. 8 AM and he looks very bright. The local DJs were enthralled by his music as well as his personal charm. So was I.

Thanks, I'll have a look.

The Heptones...arrived today, another great reggae album for under a tenner!

There is some real good reissues from the great 1970s/80s reggae era from Greensleeves in particular.

Richard

Stevie Nicks "The Wild Heart" (Spotify Premium US)

Me oh my, there's a light in the sky!

Inspired by osprey and others  - Original [1967 Yellow Stax label] vinyl.

 Sorry for the quality of the picture - Graham

Beck "Morning Phase" (Spotify Premium US)

There was a very interesting BBC Radio 4 doc on looped music earlier today, which prompted me to get this out:

(On CD - if I win the Lotto I will get it on vinyl )

Thought I would give this a spin after all the activity on here recently. Very nice relaxing Saturday morning music - (2006) Vinyl.

 Graham

All the talk of The Yes Album (the only record of theirs I really like)  on another thread has prompted me to investigate this 2003 Rhino 180g repress, which sounds fine to me...

Jonathan Wilson "Fanfare" (Spotify Premium US)

On Vinyl:-

I agree, Kevin. The Rhino remasters are a good job and in the case of 'The Yes Album' I prefer the Rhino remastered CD (played through the NDS) to my original vinyl copy.

Following Motivation Radio, then came this:

And now this: