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
The best album of 2014.
Recorded just month after Stravinsky recorded his Firebird for his 80th birthday, this Szell/Cleveland set is a double take of the '61 Stravinsky version.
Expressively played out surprisingly sophisticated yet playful and less heavy handed for Szell. Stravinsky still wins out in emotional impact, however but the style of presentation is very similar here and I wonder about if Szell has listened to Stravinsky's recording a month earlier.
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Infidels
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Slatkin usually is too bland for my taste but his Ravel pieces are beautifully performed. Perfect for Ravel's mysterious pieces. Comparatively, it does not have the sentimentality of Cluyten's Ravel but it's vivid and polished with melodic lyrical flow.
Reasonably dynamic and up front presentation unusual for a digital. Above average inner and low level details with natural timbre.
Larks Tongues in Aspic
There Is Nothing
Clark & Scott
His tone I very much like
Nice balance between solo guitar and orchestra
Good but too free for Sunday morning will switch to something else
Vinyl.
Music great, recording awful
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Serenade No. 11 for winds K. 375, Sextet for 2 clarinets, 2 horns & bassoon K.183 by Mozart and Sextet for the same instruments B.219 by Ignace Joseph Pleyel (1757-18310).
Disc released in 1995.
Kaukasus - 'I'
Excellent debut album released back in May. Remarkably, it was recorded without the band ever meeting until after it was completed.
Review - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=45264
Tracks...
Lift The Memory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8mBwdphyRc
In The Stillness of Time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8mBwdphyRc
Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (classical accordion), Janne Rättyä
Good prog album
Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (classical accordion), Janne Rättyä
Doug,
How would you compare it to Stefan Hussong playing of the English Suites on his accordion?: