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

Giving Francois Couperin's Pieces de Clavecin.

It is a bit overwhelming to digest all at once but I am struck with beautiful and inviting tone of the cembalo played. Excellent low end weight very unusual for a harpcichord and warm and natural midrange with holographic ringing tone with plenty of note decays after the string being *plucked*.

Upon checking the liner note, this instrument is made in 1624! then enlarged in Couperin's time twice (1680 & 1720 ) without altering the casing.

I am beginning to think that Landowska might have done more harm for cembalo PR with that awful tin pots banging primitive harpsichord of hers. 

Excellent early digital EMI recording. (1989)

Great album, a bit different start on Saturday morning as compared to my normal Saturday morning.

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Hopkinson Smith ~ Bach Suites nos.4.5.6 (2013)

These have been arranged so well  [by Smith] for his intricate and delicate playing on the lute.

Good find on bandcamp, quiet trio jazz

RSD Vinyl or digital only at the moment.

The vinyl is limited to 1500 copies.

Brahms' sextets by the quartet without a name, and friends - don't miss that gorgeous melody of the first sextet's andante! 

EJ

Interesting. Reminds me of National Health with that jazzy complexity. Which is a good thing. Stupid that you can't listen on Bandcamp though - had  to go to Youtube.

Could have been called 'PRAT' as it has it in spades. Was their ever a groovier live album?

G

On vinyl. In memory of their great bassist Rutger Gunnarsson, who died suddenly yesterday at just 69. One of the very best bass players ever.

Also heard on last night's Eppy Gibbon podcast show - http://www.epilepticgibbon.co.uk/ 

Ashley Reaks - Before Koresh

https://ashleyreaks.bandcamp.com/album/before-koresh 

Neil Campbell - eMErgence

https://neilcampbell.bandcamp.com/album/emergence

Gary, I heard Monobody ok on Bandcamp last night, strange!

Superb mid-career Zappa. Sounds a treat too.

FLAC via Deezer Elite.

G

Less familiar and on a smaller scale, Handel violin sonatas are played expertly by Manze on the violin and Egarr on the harpsichord.

G

Great SQ on this German audiophile CD.

2014 Definitive Edition CD - I like this version SQ. I have the SACD released a year ago and I think this version sounds better.

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