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

Two original 10" LPs, plus 12 bonus tracks on one CD, from the superb Masterworks box. Considering these were recorded 61 or 62 years ago, the sound quality is amazing.

Full sound - interesting version

1st press [USA Motown] Vinyl.

Inspired by KW  Sinatra posts all week..

 Original vinyl from my parents record collection.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Vilde Frang, Maxim Rysanov, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen

Violin Concertos 1 & 5

Sinfonia Concertante 

Frederic Chopin:  Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano) 

Lovely.

Does she play the violin ?

Of course, Warner are not being sexist in any way here............ are they ?

Broadway-Lafayette - Ravel, Lasser, Gershwin:  Simone Dinnerstein, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Kristjan Järvi 

Florestan,

Does you music collection comprise solely of beautiful women ? I'm not complaining by the way

She could play whatever she wants to - it just wouldn't matter.

Warner being sexist?  Nah - they are just presenting the facts in a visually pleasing, attractive artistic manner.

EMI though - that is a completely different message with overt subliminal messaging.  Apparently, she does play violin or that was the only prop available by coincidence for every cover photo shoot 

Does it say anywhere on the box who mastered these?

It's funny how these things happen.  I am completely unaware of these things and often others see a unique and interesting relationship between several posts.  I honestly just randomly proceeded from one to the other due to easy access (all being in a pile from relatively new discs I bought) and because I was in the mood for the music.

Just to show you that I am a balanced guy and that my music collection is about the music and not the cover art per se you'll see that the next randomly selected album will likely be a nice mountain scene with trees (that you have to look very hard to see the nymph laying by the babbling brook).  Oops.

LOL  Sorry mate, you've been 'sussed out'

Playing the neighborhood composers.

Franz Schubert:   (violin), Cedric Tiberghien (piano)

Complete works for  and piano

Now how creepy is that.  Even Hyperion can't find a nice mountain scene with trees without a nymph laying by the babbling brook.

This Beethoven #5 is of a chamber music-like intensity. Chailly's carefully shaped opening phrases forego on big drama and pave the way for Freire's entry as just one of the orchestra. Freire exudes charisma and an air of tranquillity, which adds some unusual depth to this music, possibly at the expense of the last ounce of excitement. Recorded quality is not great but good enough not to adversely impact my view that this is one of the few great recordings of Beethoven's fifth (and, therefore, also a view that most professional music critics don't have a clue). 

Cheers,

EJ

Streaming CD rip in AIFF:-

Pearl Jam - Ten

Vinyl

Picked up on her signing on the latest album from Mark Knopfler.

This is a beautiful, calm album, wonderful. She reminds me a bit of Alison Krauss

How's Dinnerstein's G Major Concerto compared to these ladies?

5 Tracks off their up and coming album, well hopefully they will be unless their record company decide to remix them. 

Through the B&W Society of Sound Inhave this very nicely recorded blues album:

http://www.bowers-wilkins.nl/S...sic/Ethan-Johns.html

Ethan Johns Live at Kings Place. like a band playing in your living room.

Bandcamp 16/44 download. Recommended for great concert and goos SQ.