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
That couldn't pass as an ECM. The music is just too well defined, clear and flowing with no question marks left behind. Very good interplay between Diehl's piano and the horns (sax & trumpet). Just released.
Happy Funky Fourth!
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KOMARA! This is great stuff!
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
(1970)
Arguably their best album but I enjoy all their earlier LPs. They were really quite prolific especially considering all the touring that they were doing in the States, knocking out six good to very albums between '67 and '70. This one is sounding very good today
Yes, Steve. I would agree about this being TYA's best album. The full length version of Live Like A Man is excellent as is As the Sun Still Burns Away.
Mike
Indeed, a fantastic LP and one I discovered only recently during my personal vinyl revival after seeing so many posts of it on this thread and recognizing the cover during my s/h vinyl diggings. Cheers to all prior posters of it, you have great musical taste 
Backhaus's Beethoven No.30 Sonata and Chopin No.2 Sonata. 1950 recording
Lively and sprightly No.30. Great granite like solidity with a clear outline and sharp focus. This is your familiar macho Beethoven.
The variations come through stronger on this set than others due to Backhaus’ creative expressions expressions on each segment. Each note is so clear yet they hang together to create humanistic musical vista.
His Chopin, however, is too heavy handed.
Exciting and whirlwind, this isn’t.
Meanwhile in the same year Horowtiz recorded this in Camden NJ RCA studio. Noone comes close to Horowitz' audacity of pulling off one of the most *exciting* Funeral March ever.
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(1979)
One of my favourite TD albums and certainly all the better for being in that period before 1982 when they were producing their best music. Sounding good on headphones while the rest of the household sleeps.
the only Queen vinyl I own. I picked it up just for 'We Will Rock You'.
John Mellencamp. The Lonesome Jubilee. On original vinyl from 1987. Mellencamp's music and lyrics typically exude all things Americana from the Heartland. This LP, with incorporation of numerous folk instruments seems quite apropos as the 4th of July draws to a close for me, notably the tracks "Cherry Bomb" and "Hotdogs And Hamburgers".
On CD - maybe put the vinyl on later - wifey wants to try to learn lyrics before Friday
John Mellencamp. The Lonesome Jubilee. On original vinyl from 1987. Mellencamp's music and lyrics typically exude all things Americana from the Heartland. This LP, with incorporation of numerous folk instruments seems quite apropos as the 4th of July draws to a close for me, notably the tracks "Cherry Bomb" and "Hotdogs And Hamburgers".
The middle album in his trio of fine albums and for me I think musically and lyrically he never bettered it.
The first French recording of Don Carlos, the 1886 version (all the new music, plus the original first act) with parts from the 1867 version. A reverberant recording and singers schooled in Italian don't change that this is an epic, sweeping account of this brilliant, but difficult to bring of opera.
EJ
I've been listening to this too - downloaded it from eClassical after your earlier post. It's pretty good without being amazing and reminds me of the darker side of Vaughan Williams, for example the opening of No. 6. but without VW's glorious tunes
On CD:-
Strange combination of instruments, but exiting results from Bandcamp...
I've been listening to this too - downloaded it from eClassical after your earlier post. It's pretty good without being amazing and reminds me of the darker side of Vaughan Williams, for example the opening of No. 6. but without VW's glorious tunes
I share your view, good but not amazing, but it's always good to have some less known music....
Continued with this one, could have been one album with the other, now two EP's
Good version, less raw than Isabelle Faust, less lyrical than Nathan Milstein....., not meaning it's middle of the road.....
I've been critical - actually, more like ambivalent - of Hewitt in the past, but greatest respect for her Davidsbündler, which never fails to stop me in my tracks and forces me to listen.
Cheers,
EJ
Looks like 90% of the bumpkins moved to the beaches to show off adiposities.
No power cuts today.
While waiting for the sunshine so I can get out on the bike I thought I'd enjoy a bit of Ray Lamontagne. Superb reproduction on CD.