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
Always gobsmacked by how good this album is. One of my favourite Floyd albums.
The best album of Rush in my mind. Especially like the song Camera Eye, such a great build up and that just with a trio.... Also in high res.
Funny I've just put this on myself. Cracking album.
The best album of Rush in my mind. Especially like the song Camera Eye, such a great build up and that just with a trio.... Also in high res.
Agreed, their best album and one of the ones, along with Farewell to Kings, that got me completely hooked. The Hirez version is excellent
On vinyl...
Me too. Really enjoy this one on Vinyl
The best album of Rush in my mind. Especially like the song Camera Eye, such a great build up and that just with a trio.... Also in high res.
Agreed, their best album and one of the ones, along with Farewell to Kings, that got me completely hooked. The Hirez version is excellent
Are you referring to the new 2015 hirez version that has just come out? how does it compare to the previous versions?
The best album of Rush in my mind. Especially like the song Camera Eye, such a great build up and that just with a trio.... Also in high res.
Agreed, their best album and one of the ones, along with Farewell to Kings, that got me completely hooked. The Hirez version is excellent
Are you referring to the new 2015 hirez version that has just come out? how does it compare to the previous versions?
Sadly no, the 2015 version isn't yet available in the UK
The best album of Rush in my mind. Especially like the song Camera Eye, such a great build up and that just with a trio.... Also in high res.
Agreed, their best album and one of the ones, along with Farewell to Kings, that got me completely hooked. The Hirez version is excellent
Are you referring to the new 2015 hirez version that has just come out? how does it compare to the previous versions?
Sadly no, the 2015 version isn't yet available in the UK
Pity, I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0KvwcaJLLk
Hanna's last album, released in 2003, few months after his death.
Karajan/BPO: Death and Transfiguration & Four Last Songs
Heavily gilded and the score thickly laid out, there is no moment which is reflective or intimate thoughts. Karajan pains over everything with glitter paint. Interesting way of treating flashback scene where everything is shrouded in a fog perfect way to treat a fragment of distant memory. ( it's sort of like Ravel's La Valse )
What's better on this record actually is Strauss' 'Last Four Songs'. sung by Janowitz.
Collection of bitter sweet tunes. Sweeping orchestration is smooth as butter, elegant and classy. If not a touch generic. These are beautiful mature songs Strauss wrote just before his passing. I found them much more lyrical and personal than his orchestral work. Last two tunes are extremely autumnal as a closing of one’s chapter full of retrospective moments out in exposed. Janowitz’s voice is holographic and effortless.
Linda Ronstadt: Lush Life
2nd of her vintage swinging tune collection with Nelson Riddle Orchestra.
Polished digital mastering and production won 1985 Grammy.
I still think that I can't get on with Ronstadt's happy sunny key up voice is wrong for slow sorrowful ballads like 'Lush Life' or Holiday's 'I'm a Fool to Want You'. ( albeit noone can top her ) All these tunes sound like sung by a child talent from 'America's Got the Talent'.
Nelson Riddle Orchestra of course is fabulous. Expecting to hear Sinatra's voice instead.
This is not gelling as Streisand singing opera with Brooklyn accents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6FO9-m5MV0
Music by the Georgian composer Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli.
Giuseppe Sinopoli/Staatskapelle Dresden: Strauss Death and Transfiguration 2001 recording
Its slow opening has a feeling of an epic saga to begin. Slow tempi as Karajan running the clock almost at 27 min.
Extremely pictorial I can *see* a man growing up. Sinopoli does not let the flashback segment overly romantic by inserting bite of brass here and there whilst still retaining a dreamy quality. The final movement is majestic and unstoppable magical force transforming a dying man to the next being. Huge scary dynamics gives a powerful visual turn of events.
He had me glued to the seat and I almost jumped out on the first strike of the timpani. :/ ( he did this on Respighi's Pines of Rome, too! )
I normally don't care for an omnibus programming but this 2008 release Thorens' demo disc in conjunction with their 125th Anniversary turned out to be an excellent pressing.
It's a digital recording but a huge soundstage on my even humble pair of Briks creates a engulfing wall of sound.
I hadn't listened to this one in quite some time...
I hadn't listened to this one in quite some time...
"Falling In and Out of Love" and "Amie" are fantastic songs, and probably the only PPL tunes I know. How's the rest of the album?
Cliff Richard. Essential Early Recordings. On 2 CDs from 2010. Forty-two songs recorded from 1958-59, Cliff was a busy man with a great voice and could rock with the best of his era.
Karajan/BPO: Death and Transfiguration & Four Last Songs
Heavily gilded and the score thickly laid out, there is no moment which is reflective or intimate thoughts. Karajan pains over everything with glitter paint. Interesting way of treating flashback scene where everything is shrouded in a fog perfect way to treat a fragment of distant memory. ( it's sort of like Ravel's La Valse )
What's better on this record actually is Strauss' 'Last Four Songs'. sung by Janowitz.
Collection of bitter sweet tunes. Sweeping orchestration is smooth as butter, elegant and classy. If not a touch generic. These are beautiful mature songs Strauss wrote just before his passing. I found them much more lyrical and personal than his orchestral work. Last two tunes are extremely autumnal as a closing of one’s chapter full of retrospective moments out in exposed. Janowitz’s voice is holographic and effortless.
Give Jessye Norman a try, her four last songs are far superior in my ears....
Stratosphere by Tangerine Dream (1976)
"After the more ethereal sounds of Phaedra, Rubycon and Ricochet, Stratosfear very much lives up to the wordplay in its title, as it is probably the darkest sounding of the group's post-Ohr albums. Interestingly, TD recorded the soundtrack to the film Sorcerer at the same time, and the two records are strikingly similar in sound, both featuring menacing pulses and wandering mellotron-flute melodics." - Discogs commenter
Rhino 180g vinyl reissue to start the day: