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
I just love this 1970 LP from the great jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby. What grooves!
Sample here if anyone's interested:
Probably my favourite Pink Floyd album, on luverly 1970s Jap vinyl:
Probably my favourite Pink Floyd album, on luverly 1970s Jap vinyl:
Is it okay to say "Jap" ?
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Unam Ceylum
John Holloway violin
Aloysia Assenbaum organ
Lars Ulrik Mortensen harpsichord
"Much of what the classical listener hears in recent recordings of Baroque music is cluttered with ornamentation, overbearing virtuosity, and fresh takes on the tried and true. In short, a little too much fuel where already there is fire. Such innovations aren’t necessarily a detriment to the industry, as they can (and do) inspire new generations of listeners who may not have a taste for what they consider to be “staler” interpretations. Still, there is something to be said for the straightforward and the cerebral. Thankfully, the ECM albums of violinist John Holloway are here to provide a happy compromise between the two camps, playing with humility music that is already a raging conflagration amid a growing pile of neglected aural kindling."
A bit of a change ...
Shania Twain - Come on Over. Some very catchy tunes and very well done.
Followed by ...
then ...
Still not convinced that it's as good as Build A Rocket Boys! but a great album and full of feeling. Especially like Charge.
A little bit of Sunday afternoon jazz before the football - Vinyl
Having heard this morning some of Mike1380's lovely early pressings of this and Led Zep IV I had to dig out my CD version.
I just love this 1970 LP from the great jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby. What grooves!
Sample here if anyone's interested:
Kev,
Dorothy Ashby is cool,
have one of her fine albums in my collection,
and i'm diggin' it play on the LP12 rignt now...
LP - Cadet Records (reissue)
side 1
soul vibrations
games
action line
lonely girl
life has it's trials
side 2
afro-harping
little sunflower
theme from 'valley of the dolls'
come live with me
the look of love
recorded at: Ter Mar Studios, chicago, February 1968
1st play...
Herbie Hancock Man Child, Vinyl, Speakers Corner Records
Jazz-Funk for early Sunday Evening
Trio Wanderer
Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in D minor, Op. 32 by Anton Arensky
Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian plays on a violin of Petrus GUARNERIUS (Venezia 1748),
Raphaël Pidoux plays on a violoncello of Goffredo CAPPA (Saluzzo 1680). I am not sure what piano Vincent Coq plays but I doubt that he is playing a Steinway & Sons judging by the cover photo and my ear?
As usual this ensemble has the skill to motor along seamlessly and the playing is superb. Both trios being in minor keys and of course every Russian Piano trio is mostly a direct reference to death or dying, I prefer a reading mostly that slows things down and adds a little gravity to the situation. Piano trios by Tchaikovsky, Arensky, Smetana, Rachmaninov etc. should come complete with a box of tissues.
Original vinyl release, few pops and clicks but not too distracting.
1st play... Not sure about it yet