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

The outtakes from this dble album.

Oooh, when will this be released Ewe

It is down for 6th April I think. I have had it for a long time. Gray market boot of an Austin radio show.

I have a ton of early Lucinda shows that I will need to start digging out again to listen to.

Didn't know this was coming out. Pre-order time.

"Having kept the studio staff busy looking for his missing violin all morning, Frank finally admitted that by way of a late April fool's joke, he had it behind his back all along." 

The true story as to why it will take another three years until this new series promises to be completed.

EJ

Vinyl

The youtube is a version of an older Maisky with Pavel Gililov on the piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeidHJI2Ub4

Frederic Chopin:  Samson Francois

Balladen Nr. 1-4;

Scherzi Nr. 1-4;

Walzer Nr. 1-14;

Impromptus Nr. 1-4; 

Etüden Nr. 1-27;

Preludes Nr. 1-24;

For the long car trip today I started working my way through the Chopin Recordings of Samson Francois but I see now that the order was completely backwards.

Bach Inspirations: Hannes Minnaar (piano)

Johann Sebastian Bach/Franz Liszt

Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543

1] Prelude

2] Fugue

Johann Sebastian Bach/Ferruccio Busoni

3] Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 3:55

4] Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 4:55

5] Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein, BWV 734 2:06

César Franck

Prélude, Choral et Fugue, M. 21

6] Prélude

7] Choral

8] Fugue

Johann Sebastian Bach/Sergei Rachmaninoff

from Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006:

9] Preludio

10] Gavotte

11] Gigue

Johann Sebastian Bach/Harold Bauer

12] Die Seele ruht in Jesu Händen, from BWV 127

Johann Sebastian Bach/Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ

13] Choral, BWV 253 

14] Choral Prelude, BWV 649

Franz Liszt

Fantasia and Fugue on the theme B-A-C-H, S. 529 (2nd version)

15] Fantasia 

16] Fugue 

Percy Grainger

17] Blithe Bells, after BWV 208

Inspired by Bach Inspirations

Furtwangler/VPO's Bruckner 8 Recorded off a radio broadcast in Oct. 17 1944.

There are many versions and revisions on any Bruckner program but this is Furtwangler's own Edition based on Haas and earlier version. 

1st movement is a weird mixture between Mahler and Wagner. 

Oddly, this is a less emotinoal reading than coolish Klemperer. A bit harder to follow as the dynamics are muted on this recording, the music sounds monotone. Unlike Klemperer set there is a less defined structurally between the movements. There seem to be not much of valleys or peaks, even the final movement keeps a similar temperament to the rest. It’s awfully somber for the wartime Germany circumstance and takes forever to get to a semi-triumphant ending as if Furt's heart isn't it it.

Forgotten Melodies:  Polina Leschenko (Piano)

Valse 'Amour', Op. 2 by Mischa Levitzki 

Piano Sonata no 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36 by Sergei Rachmaninov (Horowitz version)

Forgotten Melodies Cycle 1, Op. 38 by Nikolai Medtner 

Polina Leschenko is another real inspiration to me.  Hopefully I didn't get any speeding tickets as a result as I find she sounds incredible at the speed limit but even better at very high speeds!

As compensation..., not being able to take part in the whole discussion around the best Matthew Passion, I have none and have difficulties appreciating such a piece of music. Now my first spin of this one....

Bert - thought you had every record made! You certainly seem to have a huge number. Surely there is room for one Passion.

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Tangerine Dream ~ Phaedra (1974)

Apropos of nothing in particular, its quite noticeable how short many of the albums were back in the day. This one for example only plays for about 37 minutes.

That's like sooo looong! I think Peter Baumann's "Romance '76" album is well under the half hour  (great album tho.. Like "Stratosfear")

Music Matters 33 series...

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Tangerine Dream ~ Electronic Meditation (1970)

Their debut album but perhaps a little too early in the day to be listening.

Stevee - very true. I was listening to Nashville Skyline the other day; it was only 28 minutes long!

But I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. Many albums today are too long - the time constraints imposed by vinyl (20 or so minutes per side) were a useful discipline). All The Beatles' records up to The White Album are under 40 minutes. A Hard Day's Night clocks in at 30 minutes. Do any of these records need to be any longer? Probably not.

UK vinyl from sometime in the late 70s. I fancy some pomp-metal sung in high voices by men in kimonos.

In my ongoing vinyl ripping ...and click and pop recovery... I am revisiting, re-discovering and discovering various albums. This morning i have been esp. listening to:

Oscar Peterson, what a genius.

Watched this last night ...GREAT soundtrack.

Kompendium - Beneath the Waves. An exceptional album which I downloaded from Bandcamp yesterday. It features a who's who of prog musicians and is very very good. Give it a listen,