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
Thanks :-), that's I wanted to copy in....
EJS, Are you there?
Yesterday I received the " Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas" by Claudio Arrau (Decca version).
Thanks a lot for your post.
Regards.
Erich
Erich, you must mean his complete cycle from the '60s? Those are great performances, which he himself did not improve upon when he re-recorded many of them in the '80s. I personally love his later, more considered, even ponderous recordings, too - for Arrau's carefully considered readings, and the superlative sound that Philips gave him. Copies are hard to come by, but that's part of the fun.
EJ
I would try to find one of the Philips 1998(?) edition that was issued 24b a/d, that also incudes some concertos and a Rondo.
I understand that Arrau was recording for Philips the complete set again but the project was not finished because of his death in the early 90s. I don't know if that set was published or not.
Regards. Erich
P.S. Now enjoying CD1, Sonatas 1, 2 & 5 
Hi Erich,
Great to see a fellow Arrau fan. All boxsets that have appeared under the Philips and Decca banners are in fact the 60s recordings that you have. The later set wasn't completed, and the incomplete set has never been issued in a box. If you're interested, you need to look for the eight discs of sonatas that appeared separately (long out of print, sadly), plus one sonata that appeared on the disc with concerto #3 (with Colin Davis at the helm), plus the two discs of Beethoven sonatas that appeared as part of the 'final sessions' series. I do hope Universal will come to their senses one day and collect Arrau's complete Beethoven legacy.
Cheers,
EJ
Well. actually the later set was issued in a box, this one:
http://www.amazon.fr/Beethoven...ords=arrau+beethoven
The sonatas no.s 14 and 29 are from the 1960es set, as Arrau did not live to rerecord them.
Thanks, that is good to know (although not exactly cheap).
EJ
Discovered tonight on the Eppy Gibbon Podcast Show - http://www.epilepticgibbon.co.uk/
Chloë March - Nights Bright Days
Nils Økland on fiddles
Per Steinar Lie on guitars
Ørjan Haaland on drums
Recorded November 2011
ABC Studio, Etne, Norway
John Mellencamp. Rough Harvest. On HDCD from 1999. Alternate studio and a few live versions of Mellencamp's favorite songs. Largely acoustic guitar and fiddle driven. Simple and fantastically musical, this album highlights Mellencamp's talents.
Neil Young. Old Ways. 2000 remastered CD of the 1985 album. Neil, Waylon and Willie are 100% country on this one. That'll do me for a while 
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Elton John. Honky Chateau. The MFSL CD of the 1972 release. My only MoFi CD and other than having to turn up the volume, I'm not sure I hear anything particularly special about it.
On The Beach form this box set
On The Beach form this box set
Sonically, I found it the best of the set 
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First run....
First run....
Sorry didn't add what it was - Jorge Bolet in Carnegie Hall, pleasant.
Just checked my record collection and it is safe - only Mr Dry Stone seems to have all my favourite LPs 
Great music DS - I really like Amon Duul II, Neu! etc., and good to find I'm not the only one who likes a bit of Guru Guru, Anyone's Daughter or Floh De Cologne.
Just played an excellent new wave album from an original Buzzcock
Real Life by Magazine with Howard Devoto providing all of the lyrics. Forgotten how good this album was.
Wow... how long ago was that!? Must dig it out from the back of the album box.
He has done a brilliant Bach album too, which is well worth getting hold of, if you don't have it. I, on the other hand, will get this Vivaldi, which I was unaware of until now.
Now moved to a interesting recital...
On The Beach form this box set
Sonically, I found it the best of the set .
Yes, certainly the most significant improvement compared to what I have already on vinyl, but Tonight's the Night is special as well, I thought.
Great band! I still think Mike Portnoy is one of the best drummers ever.
Sergey Prokofiev:
Visions fugitives op. 22
Nikolai Medtner:
Fairy Tale in f minor op. 26/3
Frédéric Chopin:
Sonata No. 3 in b minor op. 58
He has done a brilliant Bach album too, which is well worth getting hold of, if you don't have it. I, on the other hand, will get this Vivaldi, which I was unaware of until now.
Thanks for letting me know, I do not have his Bach recording.
If you like accordion performing classical music two outstanding disc which I highly recommend are Stefan Hussong playing the English Suites (very hard to get) and Janne Rattya doing Scarlatti sonatas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BryrSwTpJx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT5F8huY8kU
Haim