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
Bjorn Riss, Lullabies in a car crash on CD. Why? because it is so so good.
CD AIFF rips :
Barclay James Harvest - Mocking Bird
Jackson Browne - Looking East
CD rip:-
Mary Chapin Carpenter - State Of The Heart
Streaming | FLAC
(2004)
On CD:-
I'll have a little RUSH too, CD rip:-
RUSH - Snakes and Arrows
I wonder if this was the angriest album he ever made...
"He knows just how liked to be kissed"
Streaming | FLAC
(1976)
Apart from it being a cracking album of RT doing his thing, no other reason than I happened to be sorting some of the metadata for it just now and decided to give it a play.
Savage Garden on CD. Not sure why I like this ablum so much, but I do 
It's Pop
but Great music
its the reason I like it
A great early RC album from 1957.
A gift. Jean-Claude Pennetier displays an enormous range and palette in Fauré's piano music - under his fingers, the music matches Chopin in urgency and tragic inevitability, beneath a veneer of elegance. I've never heard these works played at this level - stunning.
EJ
Original mono vinyl. Sounds really fine.
Pletnev Live at Carnegie Hall: 2000 recording.
Everytime I play this, I lament I wasn't there.
This is one of the best live concert captured onto the album. The sound quality also excellent.
Stephen Bishop: Beethoven Piano Sonata No.31 & 32. 1973 recording
Pletinev's 'Live at Carnegie' is a tough act to follow for sure. It's so interesting that certain pianists have it together grabbing me by a neck even from the very first note.
Bishop ( now Kovacevich ) comes off light weight and lacking commanding power and passion.
But he's 10x more lyrical than Awadagin Pratt. ( his sonata was difficult to stay on to the end ) :/
Lonnie Liston Smith: Love is the Answer 1980 release
Still the same easy laid back groove but more with that 80s sound bites.
Digitally mastered vinyl. ( what they did here is record analogue convert it to digital for mastering and then convert it back to analogue! ) crazy... and the outcome shows.
Some trax off his up and coming album.
Several trax off her up and coming album.
A gift. Jean-Claude Pennetier displays an enormous range and palette in Fauré's piano music - under his fingers, the music matches Chopin in urgency and tragic inevitability, beneath a veneer of elegance. I've never heard these works played at this level - stunning.
EJ
Not arguing I just will have a listen to this, but did you ever hear the baracolles of Delphine Bardin..., I love this music.
Just had a quick listen to this new album, varied and interesting on first listen, will put this on my buying list for tonight.
