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
Original Blue Horizon vinyl.
Spectral Mornings 2015. Getting used to listening to this with lyrics. It's becoming quite addictive.
Big Big Train - English Electric inspired by the above.
A nice Brit-Jazz collection.
The Frapp - "Tales of Us" on vinyl. not had enough Frappage recently.
During the weekend I was traveling a lot in the car, and I listened a couple of cd's from this collection. All of very high quality, no matter the classical violin concertos or the chamber music...., absolutely recommended ....
Just been watching Odyssey on catch up and fancied some music from Mail.
Is this the recent vinyl reissue? And if so how do you rate it?
Clive
Sorry cannot help on the SQ of the reissue, this is a recently purchased 1969 first UK pressing Vertigo Swirl label. However I suspect it will sound better than the reissue..
Very nice! and pricey?
Clive
Kuma, this is probably my favorite of the group.
Thanks EJ!
Listened this weekend further to some best of the band albums..... This being one, my opinion of course, best heard in one go..
FZ - Bongo Fury
Steve Wonder's most glorious album, in my view. Who needs a reason to listen to this? Old, yes, but somehow ageless.
Not their best but not a bad album overall, as most of their albums, their is always a base quality...
Definitely their best in my opinion. A great progressive concept album, about a girl being murdered. The live version live scenes of New York is also a great album...
More Frapp on vinyl. Frapp the first, in fact:
Great album, rough and raw but a master piece. I am not sure if I like this one or Be more...
Their best and for me most accessible album, others might choose other albums, for me this one is brilliant, while the other ones also have their charms but they are less easy to listen to...
Chopin's music lends itself to such a wide range of interpretations, it is impossible to refer to one recording as definitive. Nevertheless, this is definitive.
EJ
First serious listen to this one, will require a couple of more turns to get into my like list...
Their best and for me most accessible album, others might choose other albums, for me this one is brilliant, while the other ones also have their charms but they are less easy to listen to...
Bert, please define "accessible" as I find their early albums such as Pablo Honey and The Bends their, let us say, less complex musical offerings. On the other hand, Kid A, The King of Limbs, In Rainbows are much more lapidated albums. Just wondering....
Mozart: Great Mass in C Minor. Raymond Leppard/New Philharmonia 1973 recording.
Here's another of Mozart's incomplete Mass.
The tune just keeps going higher and higher like unfolding the whole universe. Soprano shows a great technical command and maintaining a proper proportion in the transition from high to low is pretty good albeit not as intimate as it should be. This mass on the whole is worthy of the name ‘Grand Mass’. Truly large in scope and it has the unearthly bigger than life feel to it.
It does not have the urgency of Requiem, however.
Their best and for me most accessible album, others might choose other albums, for me this one is brilliant, while the other ones also have their charms but they are less easy to listen to...
Agree. IR is a modern classic. But I also agree with Tony2011 that Pablo Honey and The Bends are pretty straightforward (but none-the-worse for it). HTTT, Kid A and Amnesiac are more challenging for sure.