What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XI)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2014
On the cusp of 2015, we start a new thread...
Anyway, links:
Volume X: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...-be-interested-vol-x
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
Eric Gale's 1973 debut album from Kudu Label.
Bob James as an arranger, bordering soft jazz but this gets full Van Gelder treatment.
Thank you Kuma, just arrived...
Valentine present, I thought was sold out!
Mendelssohn's piano concertos, with Murray Perahia and Neville Marriner. I've long found these concertos to be Mendelssohn at his most faceless and professional-yet-emotionally uninvolved, and even Perahia doesn't change that (he does wholly embrace all moments for drama, though, which give some good moments - especially in the opening movement of the second). This set comes from a 5-disc box, with sleeves in original album covers, and doesn't have the solo works that were included in CBS' first release on CD. Recorded sound is OKish, spotlighting the soloist Columbia-style, but with hints of tape wow, and the orchestra swimming behind Perahia as a result (a remastering rush job?)
Cheers,
EJ
Hope to have few minutes of peace to spin this version of Take Five a couple of times.
First spin of Vilde Frang's new album.
EJ
On CD:-
Stenhammar's serenade is a rousing orchestral work in the spirit of Sibelius' Finlandia. One of Bis' best sounding orchestral recordings I've yet heard, so good that you'd almost not care anymore about the performance. Which is great, too.
Cheers,
EJ
Tangerine Dream ~ Cyclone (1978)
Of late I have enjoyed kicking off many weekend morning listening by playing various TD to start with. This one remastered in '95. It was somewhat controversial amongst die-hard TD fans at the time. Replacing electronic drums with real percussion and adding vocals to some tracks amongst other changes of emphasis. I like it a lot and always felt it was underrated.
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Appliance ~ Six Modular Pieces (2000)
Cathy Krier (piano)
Rameau: Suite en Sol
Ligeti: Musica Ricercata
Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin des Concerts La Dauphine
Tangerine Dream ~ Cyclone (1978)
Of late I have enjoyed kicking off many weekend morning listening by playing various TD to start with. This one remastered in '95. It was somewhat controversial amongst die-hard TD fans at the time. Replacing electronic drums with real percussion and adding vocals to some tracks amongst other changes of emphasis. I like it a lot and always felt it was underrated.
Death In Texas - Pause Between Breaths
http://deathintexas.bandcamp.com/
Fine vocals & keyboard arrangements, first heard on Friday's Eppy Podcast - http://www.epilepticgibbon.co.uk/
On CD. 'Cause I fancied some noisy Scandi-Jazz after enjoying a great two-hour stroll around London:
You made me remember that....
Gianluigi's playing of this last week reminded me of what an excellent album it is so I've dug it out for a spin. It's every bit as good as I remember and it reminds why I used to use it to test new kit.
Originally Posted by bicela: Thank you Kuma, just arrived...
oh wow!
You'veo got his Bruckner set, too!
Hope you like his Beethoven!
Superb musically and about as well engineered as it is possible to get.
Qobuz FLAC streaming.
G
Originally Posted by bicela: Thank you Kuma, just arrived...
oh wow!
You'veo got his Bruckner set, too!
Hope you like his Beethoven!
Dear Kuma, I will tell you, but for the first listening is far different from Karajan and I would get time to explore that differences. But is an exemplary execution.
Thank you Kuma, after listen since teenager Karajan, from the father vinil collection, I must explore other options 
and so I picked up your nicely comments 
