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

Gould/Golschmann's '69 recording of Bach Keyboard Concerto No.4. 

Upbeat and linear but a bit astringent. Larghetto is modern with a wry attitude. Gould keeps the note separation clear and plays hard cut like a harpsichord. He’s just having fun. As Edwin Fischer set, joyous happy mood is infectious. Fiddle joins in the dance and monologue in Larghetto. The piano does not quite have the sweetness or loneliness I hear from Fischer's playing. This has a quite different feel from a slower tempoed Fischer’s execution.

This original Columbia pressing is low noise but it is brighter balanced and there isn’t much of natural midrange nor the bass weight. The piano sounds a bit like harpsichord tonally and massed string sounds thin.

Speaker's Corner reissue, on this particular program is better balanced than the original except for a manufacturing defects of a off center hole.

Paul McCartney and Denny Laine. Rock & Roll Jam Sessions. A Kintyre Records "promo CD" from 1989. Recorded in the late 70s. Visiting some not often played music. The CD is labelled 'Paul Ramon' but I believe I know who it really is. Fun stuff.

Symphony 6 Beethoven - this morning

Adam Cohen

"Like A Man"

Streaming | CD FLAC rip

Jem

"Finally Woken"

Streaming CD | FLAC rip

Caribou

"New Love"

Lisa Hannigan

"Passages"

Note - For everyone who is enjoying Damien Rice's "O", this is the female voice

that makes parts of that album so hauntingly good.  And the cellist on "O" is

Vyvienne Long who also has several releases out.  Not implying their work equals "O"

but they are talented and their individual releases are very decent  IMO.

Streaming | CD FLAC rip

Originally created in 1977 the re-mastered 2009 recording is sounding fresh and alive today.

Original vinyl... first time I have listened to this album on any media in over 30 years.

Edited to add... I don't know why it has taken me this long, it is a very decent album

Streaming | CD FLAC rip

The 2010 remix by the man himself.

"Ommadawn remains one of Oldfield’s favourite works. Recorded at his then home at Hergest Ridge, it again took the form of two lengthy suites of music, but with the addition of Irish and African influences. The album features folk legends Clodagh Simons and Paddy Moloney, as well as African drummers, Jabula. The album, with its new 2010 mix by Oldfield himself, also contains the original demo, thought lost and the perennial Christmas favourite, "In Dulce Jubilo"."

Great album.  Have you heard any of Dan Snaith's earlier work?

Thanks for that Jeff.

On CD:-

Bob Dylan

"The Basement Tapes: The Bootleg Series, Vol.11"

I am listening to a 15 track "Sampler" released on Spotify US