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
Radiohead
"In Rainbows" (2007) MP3
1966 Mono 1st press of this brilliant album from my youth 
Nostalgia! Music and a car I had in my youth. (Seems like a night for remeniscing)
Broken Bells
"After The Disco" (2014) MP3
Streaming | Spotify Premium
Days Between Stations ~ Days Between Stations (2007)
Giving this a second try and liking it this time around.
* Edited to add this:
"I listen to a LOT of different music and have very eclectic taste. As a result its hard to find music I have never heard before that really excites me. This album was an exception; a breath of fresh air. Its something new, yet familiar at the same time. The comparisons to Pink Floyd are easy to make, but I believe this music stands on its own. Radio Song, for example, has a unique trumpet component that I don't think you would mistake for Floyd. Some songs, like Laudanum have a really jazzy edge, layering over the trance/prog. background, with the inclusion of an extended saxophone line/solo. Days Between Stations, on this album at least, best fits into that genre some call "progressive rock", so if you enjoy that and bands like Pink Floyd you will defintiely enjoy this album. Its reminiscent of Floyd, but different enough to not be the same ol' same ol'. Highly recommended. I will look forward to new work from them, for sure!" ~ An Amazonian Comment
I like this band as well, the other album I like more.
I very often return to this one, 2nd time today actually...
R
Streaming Ripped CD ...
Coldplay
"Ghost Stories" (2014) MP3
Deram vinyl
John Mayer
"Heavier Things" (2003) MP3
Over 60 minutes of supreme music.
On vinyl.
playing CD1 of 10 x CD box-set...
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Piano Concerto no.2
Geza Anda - piano
RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, 1953
Piano Concerto no.3
Louis Kentner - piano
RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, 1950
I find the no.2 moody dark, but sometimes romantic, very expressive percussion as absorbing as the piano, very enjoyable.
But no.3 is distant and doesn't engage, too soulless and hard on the ears, suffering from a noticeable drop in record quality from an earlier recording year.
Debs
Horowitz' Haydn Piano Sonata No.62 in E Flat.
Rhythmically expressive and playful. Leaner tonal balance than Vlad's usual but still the most fun listen to normally a dull Haydn tune. There are so much more varying subtle phrasing gives tunes wider dimention and interest. He does have a live concert advantage with higher than normal shot of adrenalin and tight rope walking tension. This is a sort of fun tune Horowitz thrives on going wacky on the final movement.
He closes the concert with his transcription of 'The Stars and Stripes Forever' which only Horowitz can pull it off.
Pity about the audience noise where they hacking away through the concert.
RCA engineers cut the applaud but kept the coughs. :/
Again
Buchbinder's Haydn Piano Sonata.
Compared to either Horowitz or Planes, music sounds as if someone pull the plug on a gas pedal.
Buchbinder’s pinao playing is dull lacking entirely playfulness or that certain flair which would have helped. Inoffensive, low energy background music for dinner and Sunday brunch.
Breakfast treat...
Buchbinder's Haydn Piano Sonata.
Compared to either Horowitz or Planes, music sounds as if someone pull the plug on a gas pedal.
Buchbinder’s pinao playing is dull lacking entirely playfulness or that certain flair which would have helped. Inoffensive, low energy background music for dinner and Sunday brunch.
I agree with you but would also recommend you to explore Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Marc-Ander Hamelin, in both cases much more engaging playing on Haydn sonatas....