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
contemplative music, most of it beautiful
Tallis' seven-part Christmas mass, interspersed with other seasonal music - passionately performed by Stile Antico.
Cheers
EJ
Late last night and early this mornings listening.
Very much fitting the season while I find the Nutcracker even fitting better to the season...
Hi-res downloads from Qobuz.
First: Tedeschi Trucks Band - "Everybody's talkin'" (Live)
Followed by: "Revelator"
Thanks to the many people who have recommended them on this forum. I had never heard of them until I saw them mentioned here, and finally got around to checking them out a week or so ago.
These hi-res albums are fantastic, and I know that there is at least one other studio album which I will also be purchasing over the next few days.
Again, thanks to everyone who posted this band.
Been revisiting Tchaikovsky's #1 for a while, and it's not been an entirely pleasant journey - it seems that especially this warhorse has received more than its fair share of mediocre or even plain substandard performances on disc. This, however, is a breath of fresh air. Sudbin has new things to say, without missing essentials. His opening is powerful, but he scales right back after the first bars, which sounds startling at first but works rather well in the balance of things. After the opening chords are repeated, he again is inventive with dynamics and succeeds in the awkward passage that links the opening to the rest of the concerto. The team keeps up the micromanagement for the remainder of the concerto - hardly a passage goes by without a swell, tempo increase or emphasis - but the payoff remains similarly big.
Recording is vintage Bis and therefore excellent, but light on bass.
Cheers
EJ
On vinyl from 1975: McKendree Spring - "Get me to the Country"
A great album from a great band that is really difficult to categorise - Folk/Rock/Country, and probably most accurately a combination of all three. Followed by their even better album "Second Thoughts", again on vinyl from 1970:
Dino Lupatti plays Bach Partitas, a 1950 studio recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKhEvh-3tcs
Saw him play live a couple of months ago. He's aged, his pianism has become edgier and there is less of the quiet charisma that characterizes his best playing, but he still has that fantastic sound that allows him to float a ppp into the deepest corners of the hall. And he still very idiosyncratic, to the point that there are clear differences between what's on paper (he doesn't memorize the music, apparently), and the notes he spins.
Cheers,
EJ
EJ, first off let me say lucky guy to you. I would love to be able to see Pogorelich too.
What do you mean by he doesn't memorize the music? Does he play from the score?
Doug
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas
Hana Blazikova, Robin Blaze, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
BWV 97 "In allen meinen Taten",
BWV 177 "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ"
BWV 9 "Es ist das Heil uns kommen her",
Three Leipzig chorale cantatas from the early to mid 1730's.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Vassily Primakov (piano)
The Season, Op. 37-bis
Sonata in G major, Op. 37 "Grande Sonata"
I would be remiss to go through 2014 and not spend time with Vassily Primakov, a pianist that I admire and like very much.. It almost happened and I hope for a much more relaxed 2015 with more time so this near tragedy doesn't repeat itself.
Saw him play live a couple of months ago. He's aged, his pianism has become edgier and there is less of the quiet charisma that characterizes his best playing, but he still has that fantastic sound that allows him to float a ppp into the deepest corners of the hall. And he still very idiosyncratic, to the point that there are clear differences between what's on paper (he doesn't memorize the music, apparently), and the notes he spins.
Cheers,
EJ
EJ, first off let me say lucky guy to you. I would love to be able to see Pogorelich too.
What do you mean by he doesn't memorize the music? Does he play from the score?
Doug
He does; a page-turner was helping him throughout the recital. When Ivo became annoyed with him and started page-turning himself near the end of the recital, I don't think anyone in the audience felt entirely comfortable.
EJ
Different sleeve, vinyl - lovely
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Robin Trower ~ Twice Removed from Yesterday
Originally released on the Chrysalis label in 1973 this is a well remastered CD from 2010 and forms part of his 5 CD Studio Album Series box set I bought earlier this year. Slightly slower paced and perhaps a little more bluesy in parts than his later work, this, his first solo album, is very good indeed. I seem to be enjoying RT's sound and style of play more as I age!
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Vassily Primakov (piano)
The Season, Op. 37-bis
Sonata in G major, Op. 37 "Grande Sonata"
I would be remiss to go through 2014 and not spend time with Vassily Primakov, a pianist that I admire and like very much.. It almost happened and I hope for a much more relaxed 2015 with more time so this near tragedy doesn't repeat itself.
Doug,
I will join you with my only Primakov. Clearly, his unique hairstyle is well maintained. Hopefully the same can be said about his playing. How would you compare his Seasons Op. 37 to Mr. AK-47's on the Hyperion label?
Robin Trower followed by Ten Years After
Seeing TYA being played variously yesterday prompted me to queue up Watt . Originally from 1970 my lost / stolen vinyl was eventually replaced by this CD remastered in 2008.
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Steaming: CD FLAC rip
One of the standout albums of the year for me.