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

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: Loin Des Hommes

Sat in the garden with an espresso listening to this on a British sunny morning wrapped up as there is a cool breeze.

This LP is so deep, moving with tension but in a weird way calm and relaxing.

Richard

p.s. It is not Nick and Warren in their Bad Seeds or Grinderman mode.... very different  indeed but I like it!

Hi Chris,

well, as I said it's also personal taste. But he had something that was best caught personally, at the courses he held, at the open rehearsals, in the decades he also dedicated to explaining music to an infinity of seduced and devoted pupils.

But he was also an enormously gifted musician with a sublime instinct, and an unsurpassed - to my experience, having talked to a number of other famous conductors - capacity for formulating ideas and bringing them to words.

In the words of an old violin player from the Berliner Philharmoniker, whom he conducted for 7 years and 450 concerts between Furtwängler and Karajan, He knew everything, he heard everything, he could do everything.

Having known him for some years, in different occasions, I'd be inclined to agree.

Personal opinion only. Sorry for hijacking the thread.

Max

Thanks Max, for this complete response. It met my need for 'WHY?'

Chris

Not special, but ok - while a nice collected program

Interesting album, a lot of drive...

Stereophonics

C'est La Vie

Right up my street!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5nxMTtt-vw

A little music to get going after several pints of IPA on Saturday night.

Was reminded this is 18 years old...Where does the time go?

Superb in every way.

G

Ideal for a nice quiet evening...

CD.

Max, Yes he's on my list to listen to for sure! The list of Brahm's symphony recording is rather extensive so I am just scratching the surface. His interpretation is unique and has interesting POV. I would have loved to attend his live concert. Have you attended one of his master classes?

I would have loved if he would reissue this in vinyl.

Is this recording available in native high res file? 

Red Book CD sounds so great I can't imagine sounding better.

Roxy's debut album.  I recall the band making quite a splash when they appeared. A new style.  Ferry's unusual singing was certainly a contribution but I suspect Eno's influence was greater. Side 2: The Bob, through Chance Meeting, Would You Believe? Sea Breezes and Bitters End seemed to me to show the band's confidence to offer something new.  It turned out that their confidence was justified.        

Johann Sebastian Bach:  Dunedin Consort, John Butt

Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 1 in F major BWV 1046

Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 2 in F major BWV 1047

Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 3 in G major BWV 1048

Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 4 in G major BWV 1049

Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 5 in D major BWV 1050

Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 6 in B major BWV 1051

Regal music that I often forget to listen to since I spend most of my time listening to keyboard and then choral music.

Johannes Brahms:  Steven Isserlis (cello), Peter Evans (1984) (piano) and Stephen Hough (2006) (piano)

Sonate for Violoncello and Piano No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38

Sonate for Violoncello and Piano No. 2 in F major, Op. 99

Making a comparison between Steven Isserlis' debut on Hyperion in 1984 and his second recording of these works later with Stephen Hough.

Having enjoyed Roxy's debut album, I thought their next should get a play. The Bogus Man and Grey Lagoons on this are especially wonderful.  

A bit good in DSD, too! ;-)

Last album of the long weekend, weekends which have an end...

Randy Newman: Good Old Boys 1974 release.

I normally do not pay much attention to lyrics, but Randy Newman's poignant verses get me every time.

This album contains my all time fave 'Lousiana 1927' which covered by Aaron Neville later.

But it opens with *acidy* title tune 'Rednecks'.

Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart-ass New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too
Well, he may be a fool but he's our fool
If they think they're better than him they're wrong
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
And that's where I made this song

We talk real funny down here
We drink too much and we laugh too loud
We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town
And we're keepin' the ******s down
We got no-necked oilmen from Texas
And good ol' boys from Tennessee
And college men from LSU
Went in dumb - come out dumb too
Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes
Gettin' drunk every weekend at the barbecues
And they're keepin' the ******s down

We're rednecks, rednecks
And we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground
We're rednecks, we're rednecks
And we're keeping the ******s down...

The whole album is a *Retronaut*.

As a side note, Don Henley and Glenn Frey ( of Eagles fame ) are in the background chorus. 

P.S. Wow Looks like the word  *******s* are censored out from this Forum software.