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
Pollini/Jochum/Vienna Phil: Beethoven Piano Concerto No.2 1982 recording
DG's early digital recording which gives awful thin string tone and brightish balance.
Pollini’s piano cut through like a laser beam. They managed to suck out all the life out of the tune.
They put on an older Concerto No.4 recording with Bohm which was recorded back in '76 and same venue, same engineer, and in spite the fact that they squeezed the entire concerto on one side, this analogue recording sounds much better than the stark digitally recorded No.2.
The Best Of Three Dog Night. 20th Century Masters Millennium Collection. On CD from 2000. From the liner notes: "Try to imagine AM radio in the early '70s without Three Dog Night." I get the point. TDN were prodigious hit makers in the day despite none of these songs being their own originals. A big part of the musical lexicon from my youth, I intrinsically know every word of every song in this collection.
(2010)
North's playing is superb - one of the handful of really great lutenists around, his playing is always most expressive and never dry. A word also for the recording, supervised by the team of Norbert Kraft and Bonnie Silver who have produced so many great "plucked" recordings for Naxos and recorded in a church acoustic in Ontario. - An Amazonian Commenter
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
On Deezer Elite
(2009)
Some more beautiful lute playing just fits the mood this morning.
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge
(1980)
The lovely Mindy. Great album
On vinyl.
(1969)
A pleasant thirty minute trip down musical memory lane with this one.
"The central focus and main theme of the album within the ongoing story of characters is that the government is going to ban music."
"Joe’s Garage, it’s strange, it’s chaotic, it’s quirky and it’s genius, its Frank Zappa."
At my holiday location - listening e.s.t great album, great mobile music set Sony NW-ZX2 and Shure SE846
Last cd in the car towards my holiday location. This cd brought me into appreciating linkin park which is a bit an odd number out for me...
this his I think is there greatest so far...
Started with this one. Filled for a side with an excellent live version of Posthumous Silence, their greatest album about a father going through the diary of his daughter which committed suicide while being depressed, you can feel the emotions - the singer brings it across ver well. The second part of this live one is a set of some older numbers with the also great Artificial Paradise, at which point in time the singers voice is lacking a bit....
People might think I am depressed as well as I had another depressing theme on in the car. The death of a child, an emotional record of I think it was the singers own experience, brought me into this great band. The song itself is by the way close to 60 minutes and heavy but beautiful....
Streaming | Deezer Elite
(1st June 2015)
Joining in with the love for this one on the forum, half way through my first listen and it's special.
First record in days must be good. Imho.
Fits the weather.
Francesco De Gregory - Amore nel pomeriggio
On vinyl. Classic Records pressing from a few years back.
On CD:-
