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

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by osprey

Originally Posted by joerand:

My 19 year old son is home from college for the summer. We've been enjoying some vinyl replay together. A sampling of some of the LPs he requested. "Makes me realize how shitty MP3s really are" was his comment.

you have taught your son well

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by Stevee_S

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Hopkinson Smith ~ Bach:Sonatas and Partitas Suites (2014)

Playing CD 1 of 4

"Recorded between 1980 and 2012 this 4-CD set from Naive gathers up Hopkinson Smith's Bach recordings for the label. Gramophone declared the Sonatas and Partitas 'the best recording of these works on any instrument.' 'for anyone knowing these suites well, this version will prove totally riveting - I haven't listened more intently for a long time...Smith's playing is profoundly sensitive.' BBC Music Magazine, September 2013 ... 'Smith has great dignity and poise. Dignity is an especially good word for his noble but restrained way with the emotion of the Second Suite' MusicWeb International, 2nd July 2013"

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by Bert Schurink

Nice relaxed guitar, saxophone jazz from bandcamp

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by osprey

More of the same perhaps... but I still cannot stop playing this.

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by Bert Schurink

Played this early

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by Bert Schurink

A jazz trio playing together with another ensemble - leading to an interesting mix of chamber jazz with a tendency of classical music

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by Bert Schurink

Before a good jazz ensemble

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by Bert Schurink

Now listening to this. It's difficult to describe. But I would say it's modern accessible classical music.

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by Bert Schurink

Modern cello music, almost poppy

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by Bert Schurink

Originally Posted by Bert Schurink:

Modern cello music, almost poppy

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by Jeff Anderson

Kenny Kirkland "Kenny Kirkland"

pianist on the first few Wynton Marsalis albums, also pianist on Sting's "Dream Of The Blue Turtles"

died far too young at the age of 43 in 1998

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by Bert Schurink

Interesting album, while unusual

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by Jeff Anderson

Milt Jackson "Sunflower"

released on Creed Taylor's CTI Records label, this style is the precursor to what is known as "smooth jazz". Typical label lineup includes Milt, Freddie Hubbard, Billy Cobham, Ron Carter, etc.

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by jmtennapel

The new Mahler 9 recording by the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer conducting.

A recording that makes your hairs in your neck stand up. The dynamics are crazy, the clearity breathtaking and the orchestra is giving a performance which resembles the dynamics of what Ricardo Chailly has done with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the tangible emotions of what Leonard Bernstein has done.

I recently heard this same symphony live in Rotterdam with Jaap van Zweden conducting and by mistake I was sitting in the front row. Listening to this recording feels like feeling that raw emotion of the players of the orchestra so up and close, but without the imbalance of sitting in front. A rare experience on a home system. So, if you have this super listening conditions at home and a system to match, this recording will probably blow your socks off.

http://www.channelclassics.com/fischer-36115.html

Posted on: 14 May 2015 by Jeff Anderson