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
Great album with premier interplay...
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Ten Years After ~ Ssssh (1969)
This one remastered in 2004 but sounding ok.
Vinyl. Being played at very high volume whilst my wife is out this evening. 
Great music, well recorded...
One of last year's most fun albums - light but infectuous music by one of the most prominent members of classical music's big pools of also-rans.
EJ
Very loud.
Very loud.
Is there any other way? love a bit of Zappa
On CD:-
Originally Posted by kuma: Haitink/LSO Beethoven. He recorded the entire cycle in 1978 and then 30 years later again with LSO.
Thank you Kuma, is now on wish list (LSO at least).
Originally Posted by EJS: He recorded them with the KCO in the mid 80s as well - it's the one I prefer if only for the excellent sound quality, although a cycle that lacks a great fifth can't be a universal recommendation.
I agree that Haitink's Beethoven Symphony hasn't quite hit the home run for me.
I've his 9th with the Concertgebow and whilst it is livelier than other sets still too well mannered for a Beethoven program for me.
bicela should still listens for himself and decide as everyone's musical journey is different. Taking a scenic route is much more fun!
Originally Posted by EJS:
Couldn't agree more with this. I have this purely subjective bias towards all things concertgebouw, stephen kovacevich, maurizio pollini and isabelle faust. I've stopped posting on them because this bias makes my opinion totally useless for others, but the occasional comment slips through...
EJ,
In my book, having a strong opinion on something is better than 'everything is good' POV.
Music is art so it bounds to be varying opinions.
I've a lot to gain from someone who has been exposed to wider selection of music than me. I found it's good to know a listener's bias after a while I familiarise myself with what they are actually listening for/to.
So I think you should keep posting your very subjective opinions! At least I appreciate it even if I did not agree with you sometime. 
P.S. I think you were the one who told me not to give up on Perahia. Glad I didn't. I got to appreciate his art by listening more.
On CD:-
Bought this in Denver on it's first day of release.
Dave Kerzner - New World (Deluxe Edition) from Bandcamp. Very Floyd like but none the worse for it ...
followed by ...
Trojan Horse - World Turned Upside Down. Download from Bandcamp
"This artefact was devised, written and recorded over a period of approximately three years between late 2010 and very early 2014. It was conceived on a nourishing diet of Robert Wyatt ‘Rock Bottom’, Soft Machine ‘Volume 2’, a new found appreciation of dub reggae, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Elliott Smith, Earth Wind & Fire ‘I Am’, Parenthood, Tears For Fears ‘Songs From The Big Chair’, Cardiacs, and social injustice. It was finally ‘finessed’ with a sprinkling of XTC’s ‘Black Sea’, sporadic touring with exceptional friends, enlivened by the seminal wood carving image for the cover of the 1646 revolutionary pamphlet ‘World Turned Upside Down’ by T.J., and lives lived under the foul austerity policies of an unwanted government."
Great music ...
cheers
EJ
So I think you should keep posting your very subjective opinions! At least I appreciate it even if I did not agree with you sometime.
This is what my lovely wife tells me every morning! Sometimes in different words, of course.
EJ
Emerson String Quartet and David Shifrin on the clarinet. A nice touch is violinists Setzer and Drucker alternating between first and second violin.
Here's another conductor who I respect but not too nuts on his Beethoven's Symphony.
He plays it like a Mozart piece. I thought that Bohm's usually bubbly direction would be good for Symphony 2 because it has a touch of Mozartian elegance but without that Beethoven attitude, it's just flat.
Bob James: Foxie 1983 Release.
If I just get through this cheesy 'dirty old man look' cover and the intro tune called Ludwig ( ghastly electronic cover of Beethoven 9th Molto Vivace ), the rest of this album is actually very enjoyable like funk tunes, Marco Polo or Zebra Man with Marcus Miller.