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

the opinions regarding this recording a from top to weak. between not so much.

Nice smooth

prompted by Haim and Richard D.

Georg Friedrich Händel:    Dina Ugorskaja, (Klavier)

From the 8 Suite de pièces pour le Clavecin 1720, Vol. 1

Suite No. 2 in F major HWV 427

Suite No. 6 in f sharp minor HWV 431

Suite No. 3 in d minor HWV 428

Suite No. 2 in e minor HWV 429

Suite No. 5 in E major HWV 430

Keyboard works that I absolutely adore but remain guilty for not listening or playing enough or at least regularly.  It is redeeming to know that so much great music across a broad range has been gifted to us but disheartening to realize that time is too short.  Another reminder to simply remain focused on the music again and not waste a minute more on matters pertaining only to the idiotic wiles of the insane.  Pure music is how my joy started and how it will end.

I am on the hunt to increase the number of keyboard works of Händel so this is a welcome addition to the highly regarded Ragna Schirmer and Lisa Smirnova sets.  Everyone sees things differently and there is room in my heart for all views.

On CD:-

Franz Joseph Haydn:  Trio Jean Paul (Eckart Heiligers, piano | Ulf Schneider, violin | Martin Löhr, cello)

 The Haydn Piano Trios might really be classified as the starting point and bench mark for the piano trio genre.  Witty and brilliant in typical Haydn fashion they are very fun to listen to.  Musical ingenuity aside though what they lack is musical equality among the players.  This would not really develop fully for another century but everything changed from Beethoven forward.

If you are keen to notice in Haydn is that the cello is relatively non-existent.  It basically double the bass (low) notes of the piano.  The violin figures in more prominently because that what violinist do best.  They mostly follow the melody.

I've played a few of these with my piano trio of a few years ago and yes, they are fun to play but in reality these are just piano sonatas that you can play with a few of your string friends.  It is all piano.

Wonderful works and music that I enjoy very much. 

Just discovered Etana and I Rise

Pure joy!

On vinyl for me.

Richard

Streaming | FLAC 16/44.1 download

EFFS ~ Ouddorp Tapes ~ (2011)

Downloaded just now from Bandcamp in both FLAC and MP3 320 formats. Berlin school electronic music sounding very good. Thanks for the recommendation Gary.

(EFFS are Erren Fleiss Schöttler Steffen) 

Waiting for the CD to drop from the states, meanwhile...

An ear workout - http://bentknee.bandcamp.com/album/shiny-eyed-babies 

Doug, don't have miss freckles but I will join you with another Handel Suites:

Do you know the Brand of the piano he

has used for this Records?

Junior Murvin - Muggers In The Street

Greensleeves vinyl.

Etude:  Clare Hammond (piano) 

My true heart and love in music that ranges from the Renaissance period through to the early 20th century.  So it would be now surprise that I would say tracks 1-3 (Lyapunov) are my first and foremost favourites on this disc.  Then at a distant 2nd, 3rd, and 4th would come Szymanowsk, Kapustin, and the Chin.

This is the line that divides the geography for me.  I find later 21st century interesting but the later it goes I get less and less interested.  Very interesting from a technical perspective as I marvel just how some of this is played (seemingly impossible) but in a broad sense the Lyapunov draws me into a story whereas later 20th century tends to leave me cold while I struggle to explain how it makes me feel.  The truth is it is all about tonal vs atonal or structure vs chaos.  I am just a tonal kind of a guy I guess.  This is just my opinion here.  Any shortcoming in understanding is obviously from my own lack.  I have a small and growing collection of 20th century music and I keep listening, trying, and won't give up on it.

Lyapunov still draws on a familiar language of the 19th century and it excites me.  Reminds me a little a Liszt but not nearly a good.  An interesting disc if you are especially drawn to any of these composers or more atonal 20th century music.  

This is one of my most anticipated discs this month.  I ordered this March 1st and will have to wait another 1-2 weeks for this and I'm going crazy in the mean time.  Franz Schubert is among the top composers of all time and the music here leaves me speechless.  There are no words for the music that resonates in your blood.

Everything I have seen and heard David Fray has all been on a Hamburg Steinway.  When I get the recording I should be able to confirm.  The Hamburg Steinway Model D in this video is the exact piano of my dreams and hope one day it could drop from heaven in a miracle before time is up so I could live with this instrument until the end.  A romance on three legs you could say is my only dream now.  

Before you say I am crazy I can honestly say that a relationship with an instrument is the most pure relationship I could imagine.  The more you put in the more you receive in return.  The kind with two legs though more often than not will take the unsuspecting soul for a ride and stick their gold digging shovel right through your heart in the end.  I speak from experience.  Had I not made one fatal decision in my life I would have had this Hamburg Steinway today and a hope of a future.  But even if I end up living under a bridge and everything else is lost, no one can ever take the music away from ones heart. This is why music is sacred to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...ge&v=pnDwLFYyNQ8

No, I have looked at the inlays of multiple records from him, Internet.... No mentioning of the piano he used. I have seen a picture of him with Steinway, but that could just be a concert piano. Apologies.

Deezer FLAC Lossless.  Sounds better than my JP 90's 'remaster'.

G

Great modern jazz

Vinyl.

Superb double album of 1970s French electronic/avant garde goodies, on clear vinyl...

It is, as you say Kevin, superb. However, it's about as avant-garde as my rear end. Euro-electro yes, and nowt wrong with that.

Part II from approx 15mins in until approx 25mins as I need to soothe my soul. IMHO one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard.

Great album

Anita Baker's 1983  debut album  [The Songstress] - Original vinyl