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

Dear Kuma,

This recording is hard to ignore.

Certainly modern instruments, but played with Baroque style clarity, and small numbers.

Most of all it is completely compelling from the musical point of view, and could just as well have been recorded today as in 1960!

Not a proto-type for modern HIP recordings, but something completely timeless in reality.

I doubt if any recording of the music has dated less, and no doubt today's HIP style will be very dated in another fifty-five years ...

ATB from George

The Way We Live - A Candle For Judith

Ace album Tony. Do you like Moon Duo (Ripley's other group) as well?

I'm still to listen to some of their stuff, Kev. Didn't you go to see them  sometime ago? 

Tracy Chapman "Crossroads"

Yes, Friday before last at the QEH - they were pretty awesome.

CD compilation of ads and jingles by Barry "Thunderbirds/Joe 90/Space 1999/Captain Scarlet/Stingray" Gray:

Continue the Liszt journey

Sorry, I just found your post and track listing. Will have a listen and maybe see them next time they are in town. Thanks Kev. 

Tony this is perhaps their best-known number

Mazes by Moon Duo

Royal Blood - Royal Blood. Ripped to FLAC. A great album, heavier than the usual mainstream stuff but all the better for it. First heard it in an HMV and identified it using the TrackID app on my phone. That app is likely to cost me a lot of money 

Thanks Kev. Very electro-psyc-pop and slight departure from the Shjips sound. They remind me of a band called Silver Apples, NO grandad'.  I see they did a gig at KEXP but I'm always suspicious of these radio performances. Nothing like a good live concert to tell real bands from the "here today gone tomorrow"ones. Will dig deeper. 

Strawbs "Hero and Herione"

Rennaisance - A Song For All Seasons

Perfect for a cool Autumn Afternoon

 Streaming...

Actually, rather good Kev.  Me like it a lot!

Excellent! Circles is a good album as well...

Continuing on a theme.

I think this is a very underrated Stones album:

Hand of Fate, Memory Motel, & Melody are all fave Stones cuts for me.

And I thought it kind of cool that Mick's right eye was staring at you from the album "binding" in the vinyl version...quite on purpose to my thinking...

bass communion

1) Amphead

   Three Pieces For Television

2) a - Sonar

3) b - Lina Romay

4) c - Grammatic Fog

5) Slut 2.1

6) 43553E99.01

7) Sickness

8) Reformat Spiders

A solo performance of Astrakan Cafe by Brahem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWWi4fFPTl8

French Cello Sonatas II:  Julian Steckel (Cello), Paul Rivinius (Klavier) 

The Franck A major Sonata for Cello & Piano is one of my all time favourite chamber pieces (but of course my favourite one is always the one I'm playing).   This is heightened romanticism at its best.  It isn't just a pile of notes but rather a serious and intelligent discourse and a story with a plot - perhaps a story of a church organist who is devout married man and possibly his desire for a relationship with a beautiful, young student of his that happened.  There is a story that unfolds over four movements and it encompasses melancholy, angst, the chase, the tension, the passion, and finally a sublime oneness where the piano and cello throw the ball (or in this case they may be passing a cigarette) back in forth to each other equally in a display of togetherness and satisfaction.  It might even be autobiographical and about the composer himself.   Nah, I just made this up .  Anyway, it is all in the score and clear enough for me having spent many years learning this work.  A wonderful piece to play and the climaxes are truly incredible to play and to experience under your fingers and through your body.  It is a test for the performers who have to keep their composure through an emotional tug of war or roller coaster.  Ignore the emotion and you just play notes while on the contrary you can easily get to emotional with this musical content. 

A solid performance here by these two.  I have all their recordings and they are very good together.  Nicely recorded too.