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
Out in UK 29th June
Streaming | CD 1 of 2 FLAC rip
Carpenters ~ Carpenters Gold (35th Anniversary)
Just to hear that voice once more...
With Lavazza. And twittering birds outside.
Chris
Is it too early? No.
C.
This is really superb if you can track it down.
G
Dmitri Shostakovich: Marc-Andre Hamelin, Takacs Quartet
String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68
Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 57
Front illustration on the album cover is called Landscape with Five Houses (c 1932) by Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878-1935). What is remarkable to me is how the music of Shostokovich really has a rugged edge to it on the surface as it appears cold and bleak at times yet there is a suppressed sadness and longing for something that looks towards something unreachable. A remarkable conveyance of the human condition. In Shostakovich's time it was the Russian machine against non-conformance. Today, control is much more sophisticated and subtle. I am not sure who is writing meaningful music that reflects the times as with the great composers of the past?
Takacs Quartet and Marc-Andre Hamelin are both in fine form here with there latest recording.
The light touch and flowing style of Angela Hewitt versus Tharaud's in depth exploration. Two valid approaches producing completely different flavors of Couperin's works.
On cd as LP12 still not back!
A bit delayed posting as I was updating and cleaning up my NAS's
Sound quality not 100 percent, but very enjoyable
Interesting jazz trio
Some psychedelic sounds for a Sunday afternoon. I recall that I didn't play this much after I bought it. Now I remember why!
Actually I couldn't even get to the end of side one with Planet Gong's Floating Anarchy. Moved onto something a whole world more wholesome:
A beautiful album and a very good, well balaced recording. The bass goes lowwww And the cymbals shimmer with a brassy errr...shimmer.
FLAC stream from NAS on Connect 2Qute.
Sublime.
G
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A beautiful album and a very good, well balaced recording. The bass goes lowwww And the cymbals shimmer with a brassy errr...shimmer.
FLAC stream from NAS on Connect 2Qute.
Sublime.
G
Image is missing for me, G, so what you're enjoying is a mystery
M
Neighbours out so Temptation Waits.....
Exciting to have these live recordings through the jazz lounge
Because it's Bob's 74th birthday today.
Happy Birthday Bob!
Richard