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

On this miserable rainy morning I'm ripping a number of these excellent Blues compilations that I've bought. It may not be hi-fidelity but boy it's good. 

A good example of a well recorded CD from 1984, sounding great.

Beautiful sunny morning this morning in East Yorkshire. Sat in the garden with a coffee listening to Andy Roberts.

But not for long as looking at the weather radar the rain will be with us from the SW in a couple of hours. Just time to nip out to the Annual Wolds Vintage Tractor Rally which once again is this year in a field down the road from us.

Richard

Given this CD, just ripped, not bad.

Great Jazz from Bandcamp ...

Sergey Prokofiev: Visions fugitives op. 2

Nikolai Medtner: Fairy Tale in f minor op. 26/3

Frédéric Chopin: Sonata No. 3 in b minor op. 58 

http://player.ecmrecords.com/gourari

Doug,

Thanks again. Gourari has yet to leave our coffee table. 

And I don't know why...

Reggae inspired by the recent thread.

On CD:-

Blues Rock. A local Hertfordshire lad.

Lovely album and a lovely voice. A real shame she died so young.

I've been after some albums by The Cars for a few weeks following a few others on here playing them.  Found a real bargain today in HMV: the album above plus Candy-O, Panorama, Heartbeat City and Shake It Up in a box-set for just under a tenner.  I'm well pleased. 

Mike

Haven't played any Jade Warrior for a while. Very underrated band IMO. Good mix of prog and ballad, with some interesting world music influences (Latin, African, Asian).Their first six albums from the early-to-mid 70's are excellent. I also dig their cover art!

Also a great artist from Bandcamp

apologies, made a mistake with the picture...

And now my second Cars album for the day.

Georg Friedrich Händel:  Lisa Smirnova (klavier) 

Die Acht Grossen Suiten:

Suite No. 2 in F major, HWV 427

Suite No. 8 in F minor, HWV 433

Suite No. 4 in E minor, HWV 429

Suite No. 5 in E major, HWV 430

Suite No. 3 in D minor, HWV 428

Suite No. 6 in F-Sharp minor, HWV 431

Suite No. 1 in A major, HWV 426

Suite No. 7 in G minor, HWV 432

The first Eight Great Suites are being played to celebrate the arrival of a four volume set of scores from Bärenreiter Urtext of the keyboard works from Händel this week.  Like with Bach, all this music is very intimidating to play while being deceptively straightforward but enjoyable to listen to in the right hands.

Occasionally, through the years, I have become distracted and forget about how excited a beautiful edition of the score makes me feel to own, to hold, and to use.  While everything and everyone goes digital, I will remain staunchly set in ways.  Digital is fine for convenience here and there but for things that matter - forget it.  Digital will never replace or improve upon the real thing.

Yes, I have a large library of CD's etc. but equally as crazy and a lesser known fact is that I do strive to have another library of music scores and books.  One day I dream of making my own wooden shelves with drawers (maybe 75mm or 100mm in depth) that I can lay flat scores (instead of stacking or putting on edge upright).  Of course, already I would need hundreds and hundreds of drawers to organize everything.  I got this idea years ago after buying some scores from a music store in Amsterdam.

I know some individuals who use an i-Pad to read the score.  On the piano or any instrument you can tap your foot to turn the page (which is about the only real advantage) but other than this I want to mark up my score with a real lead pencil and slowly, over a lifetime, let the pages reflect a special relationship.

I will hopefully never be forced to read a book (on an electronic device) or have to play my piano using a digital view of the score.

Great album. Have a listen to Level One if you haven't yet. Not as good but also very enjoyable. 

Georg Friedrich Händel:  Ragna Schirmer (klavier) 

After Smirnova comes Ragna Schirmer.  Everyone seems to focus on the first Eight Great Suites but this is one of my favourite recordings because Schirmer has recorded sixteen Suites here in total.

A wonderful must have recording as well.

"Man muß lernen, was zu lernen ist, und dann seinen eigenen Weg gehen."

                                                                                Georg Friedrich Händel

 (One must learn, what is to be learned, and then its own way to go.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...re=player_detailpage

(1976)

Some good 'Dan to drift away to on this cold, blustery summer day.

AIFF

Nils Lofgren Live, it's very cool.

Inspired by Lewis Hamilton's Great Escape

Well we went to the vintage tractor rally a few fields away.

As predicted it is now rainning here in East Yorks.

So we are sat in doors with Yorkshire tea, tea cakes and home made Yorkshire raspberry jam listening to:

Reminiscing on our time in Birmingham and when we first heard this album at Griffin Audio way back in '89.

Richard