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
Here's is a playlist I've just used to put my wife to sleep for her nap, and also bring her out of sleep when she needs to wake up for the veterinary appt. with the dog. It's called: "Nap" 
Police - Roxanne
Prince - Purple Rain
Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror
Linda Ronstadt - It Doesn't Matter Anymore
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Beatles, The - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Beach Boys - Kokomo
Patsy Cline - Sweet Dreams
Duke Ellington - Sentimental Lady
Ben E.King - Spanish Harlem
Little Big Town - Pontoon
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly with His Song
Merle Haggard - Okie from Muskogee
Peggy Lee - I'm Looking Out the Window
Otis Redding - Tell the Truth
Tanya Tucker - Here's Some Love
Johnny Cash - Rock Island Line
Billie Holiday - Easy Living
Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Odetta - Hard, Oh Lord
Chet Baker - While My Lady Sleeps
Worked great!
SS
a great piano album to close of the day...
Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks (2013)
Streaming: CD rip
God was that cover supposed to sell it Tony? I hope the music within is rather better... 
On vinyl.
The Meteors - Psychobilly (2003)
Streaming: CD rip
Carmen-Fantasie: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Wiener Philharmoniker, James Levine
180g vinyl
Franz Schubert: Mstislav Rostropovich, Emerson String Quartet
Streichquintett in C major D 956 (op. post. 163)
180g vinyl
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Svjatoslav Richter, Wiener Symphoniker, Herbert von Karajan
180g vinyl
Sviatoslav Richter Box Sets
OK, I've been a little grumpy at Sviatoslav Richter lately. Last summer I paid a small ransom for the first Decca box set above and thought all was well in the world (33 CD's). Then I have the Sony box in my radar which is OK but what got me wound up is this new Decca box set (51cd's) recently released. I mean some days I'd like to catch one of these clever marketers who pulled this off and really give them a piece of my mind how they are ripping off the consumer. To add insult to injury this new 51cd set is now about $65 cheaper than what I paid for the 33cd set.
Now I have to figure out as well what would be duplication. Is it just the 18 cd's extra and the original 33cd in this new set. Anyone else get angry once in while at the ploys of marketers.
Antonin Dvorak: Berliner Philharmoniker, Rafael Kubelik
New World Symphony No. 9
180g Vinyl
On vinyl. The Classic Records reissue from 199?.
Utterly magical music & SQ from the Music Matters 33 series..
Yep, the time has come to peel this one open.
+1!
Poor US reissue but I liked his duet with KiKi Dee and Elton with Charles Nelson Reily glasses.
Blues isn't my favourite genre yet Robert Johnson's primitive but soulful singing and playing are very powerful.
Sadly he is yet another talented *27 club* member but his music and his 30 odds recordings he made just before he died have influenced many British rock'n'rollers from 60s to 70s. This Columbia record released in ' 62 is a collection of Johnson's last recording plus some alt. takes. Taken down from the 78s and no audiophile recording but these rustic tunes bring me back in time.
It's kind of odd that his singing style reminds me of Robert Plant. :/
Robert Johnson and Jr. Kimbrough's are just about only blues that I actually enjoy.
If you are not familiar with them, y'all should at least listen to them once so you know where Keith Richard and Clapton have been stealing their riffs. 
OK, I've been a little grumpy at Sviatoslav Richter lately. Last summer I paid a small ransom for the first Decca box set above and thought all was well in the world (33 CD's). Then I have the Sony box in my radar which is OK but what got me wound up is this new Decca box set (51cd's) recently released. I mean some days I'd like to catch one of these clever marketers who pulled this off and really give them a piece of my mind how they are ripping off the consumer. To add insult to injury this new 51cd set is now about $65 cheaper than what I paid for the 33cd set.
Now I have to figure out as well what would be duplication. Is it just the 18 cd's extra and the original 33cd in this new set. Anyone else get angry once in while at the ploys of marketers.
Record labels are making the last ditch effort to make their last profit off the dying media. I see the surge of ever clever new box set release of the same thing ( change packaging ). I don't know how long they can sustain this business model.
Did they remaster the new release?
Sony usually are secretive about their reissue engineering info.
Altho, there are only handful of Richter recordings that sound any good as microphones were hidden. And ironically my favourite performance usually are the worst sounding!
Blues isn't my favourite genre yet Robert Johnson's primitive but soulful singing and playing are very powerful.
Robert Johnson and Jr. Kimbrough's are just about only blues that I actually enjoy.
If you are not familiar with them, y'all should at least listen to them once so you know where Keith Richard and Clapton have been stealing their riffs.
In Keith's case that would actually be from Chuck
On vinyl.
+1
original vinyl? I heard it is expensive and very difficult to find
Blues isn't my favourite genre yet Robert Johnson's primitive but soulful singing and playing are very powerful.
Sadly he is yet another talented *27 club* member but his music and his 30 odds recordings he made just before he died have influenced many British rock'n'rollers from 60s to 70s. This Columbia record released in ' 62 is a collection of Johnson's last recording plus some alt. takes. Taken down from the 78s and no audiophile recording but these rustic tunes bring me back in time.
It's kind of odd that his singing style reminds me of Robert Plant. :/
Robert Johnson and Jr. Kimbrough's are just about only blues that I actually enjoy.
If you are not familiar with them, y'all should at least listen to them once so you know where Keith Richard and Clapton have been stealing their riffs.
If you like Robert Johnson and want to get just one recording of his then the above cd is THE best for SQ.
The more times I play it the more I love it. 2 versions of Hey Joe both brilliant.
My fav release of the year so far.
He plays Bach so light that it almost starts to sound like Scarlatti
