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

James Taylor

"October Road"

Arve Henriksen - Cartography.

Perfect with a cup of herb tea after Mr Turner at the pictures.

C.

Hi Charles,

I agree with you on the GarciaLive series.  Cd2 here was average.  I did like cd1 better. 

Did you pick up any of the Spring 1990 cds? 

Best regards,

Pat

Hi Tony,

Definitely.  I come back to this album often.  Very good band. 

Br,

Pat

CD - Arte Nova Classics 2008 : )

Arrangement for 4 quartets by Heribert Breuer

Soloists of the Berlin Bach Academy

Leipzig Baroque Soloists:

Robert Ehrlich & Michael Form - recorders

Siegfried Pank & Renate Pank - viola da gamba

Berlin Brass Quartet:

Nigel Shore - oboe

Michael Kern - clarinet

Barnabas Kubina - horn

Frank Forst - bassoon

Leipzig String Quartet:

Andreas Seidel & Tilman Buning - violins

Ivo Bauer - viola

Matthias Moosdorf - cello

Ensemble IV:

Aglaia Batzner & Cristina Marton - piano

Edgar Gusseis - vibraphon

Frithjof Grabner - bass

Organ and Director - Heribert Breuer

Recorded 3 - 5 January 2000, Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem

The coming together of 4 quartets to share the strange labyrinth passages of the Art of Fugue.

Complimenting each other well with stimulating and multilayered textures, and retaining the intriguing plot though-out despite the jazzy feel of a fantastic vibraphon which only seems to add the mysterious and spaced out aura.

The most diverse AoF in my collection : )

Debs

Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa

Rob Cowan on R3. TBH I could have done to hear Victoria Meakin's gorgeous voice for a bit longer. Anyone would think it was about the music

C.

Perfect for Sunday morning

Nice start of Sunday

HAWKWIND  - ANTHOLOGY -  3 c.d. set, and a very good compilation it is too. From 1992.

Only the 2 cd compilation from the first 1990 set. Not sure about anything from the current 1990 editions. It is not my favourite period though although I did see them twice at Wembley Arena in Oct/Nov of that year. They were good then live but what has been released from 1990 doesn't excite me at all.

Streaming | CD FLAC rip

Too less to enjoy

Sounding excellent in 24bit

G

Baroque Lute Duets:  Toyohiko Satoh, Miki Satoh

G.P. Telemann: Harlequinade; Le Ris; Combattans
Corigniani: Concerto B-Dur

S.L. Weiss: Lautensuite d-moll; Duett G-Dur 

Perfect for a snowy morning prior to the sun rise.  Thanks Haim! 

Mozart | Haydn - Jeunehomme - Alexandre Tharaud, Joyce DiDonato, Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

Piano Concerto Nr. 9 E-flat major KV 271 "Jeunehomme";

Rondo for piano and orchestra in A major, KV 386;

Concert aria KV 505 "Ch'io mio scordi di te"

Joseph Haydn:

Piano Concerto in D major Hob, XVIII:11

Nothing minor here....

A new (secondhand) charity shop purchase on CD:

Johann Sebastian Bach: Marc Coppey (Cello) 

Suite for Cello solo no 1 in G major, BWV 1007

Suite for Cello solo no 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 

Suite for Cello solo no 3 in C major, BWV 1009

Suite for Cello solo no 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010

Suite for Cello solo no 5 in C minor, BWV 1011

Suite for Cello solo no 6 in D major, BWV 1012 

 Musically, I am now where I want to be on this Sunday morning.

Snow on the ground and the roof, reasonably cold outside, and the cool air in the house continually in a battle with the furnace and fireplace.

It is in the stillness / quietness of this morning air and light that only a solo cello can be welcomed.

This recording is perfect for this moment.  I've been around acoustic instruments long enough to know what is real and what is not but good recordings, like this one, are close enough for me.  My system is behaving very nicely today and so it is close enough to real as it gets.  

I might as well have Marc Coppey in my living room playing as I can't tell the difference.

The interpretation is working as well.  These are intimate pieces for me.  Not ones to show off on the concert stage where many saw away at these forgetting that the Olympics are somewhere else.  This is music where one person becomes one with their instrument in a quiet room on a wintery morning.  So I prefer the somewhat slower pace here.  It gives me those extra milli-seconds to drink in the timbre of the low strings - to appreciate the vibration through the floor, through me.

Yes, it is a great Sunday morning to be alone with Bach.

Counting Crows

"Somewhere Under Wonderland"

Charlie Haden & Hank Jones - Come Sunday

Understood.  I picked up the 2nd compilation and the Nassau Coliseum show w/ Branford Marsalis.  My first live Dead album was 'Without a Net', so I wanted to hear the whole show w/ Branford.  I'd only seen them twice up to that point and missed the 1990 Spring tour.