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
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Arclight ~ ARC (2014)
Arclight once again sees DiN label boss Ian Boddy teaming up with Moogmeister Mark Shreeve as the duo ARC. Recorded live in concert at the Capstone Theatre, Liverpool on 15th November 2014.
The music on Arclight features all the trademark ARC elements of thunderous sequencing, grand choral pads & ambient electronic textures. The title track is a tour de force of Moog sequencing ranging from infectious melodies & grooves to industrial mayhem & dynamic jumps.
Nobody does it better live than ARC,I think,in terms of expansive thinking and realisation of ideas... the whole experience of this live concert is quite astounding...certainly too much to completely take in with one listen,so this will reveal even more riches over time...such a fine balance between the expansive sweep of the synths,the micro detail and the accuracy and variety of the sequencing to create a satisfying whole...all in real time...an astonishing and intense mix of the analog and the digital.
CD. I recently bought the box set with 7 cd's. Just listening to the first one.
Members could recommend another version?
This is excellent and highly recommended:
7 x CD - EMI Classics 1999 : )
Recording dates range from 1978 - 1984
I haven't listened to many LvB string quartets, and would think after over 30 years since the Alban Berg set there should be more resent and fabulous modern SQ performances around by now...
These performances, the ABQ's first of two cycles, remain my favorite, as well. The Maurizio Pollini of string quartets. I also have a soft spot for the Italian Quartet. Who, on a totally irrelevant note, recorded the Brahms piano quintet with Maurizio Pollini.
EJ
On CD:-
CD. I recently bought the box set with 7 cd's. Just listening to the first one.
Members could recommend another version?
This is excellent and highly recommended:
7 x CD - EMI Classics 1999 : )
Recording dates range from 1978 - 1984
I haven't listened to many LvB string quartets, and would think after over 30 years since the Alban Berg set there should be more resent and fabulous modern SQ performances around by now...
These performances, the ABQ's first of two cycles, remain my favorite, as well. The Maurizio Pollini of string quartets. I also have a soft spot for the Italian Quartet. Who, on a totally irrelevant note, recorded the Brahms piano quintet with Maurizio Pollini.
EJ
Hi EJ,
my favourite...
Quatuor Bulgare [ 10 x LP box-set ]
The libretto is completely in French, it gives historical account of where LvB was, what he was doing, with whom, and i guess what inspired his imagination to write the string quartets.
I wish i could understand French : (
It doesn't give any mention of the year these LP performances were recorded...?
But these guys wring huge amounts of emotion from the works, and always with a fine sense of rhythm, sometimes bouncy, but it pulls me in to enjoy : )
Dimo Dimov - violon
Alexandre Thomov - violon
Difmitre Tchilikov - alto
Dimitre Kosev - violoncelle
An album I've always liked, in part because I saw EL&P live a couple of times during which they played some songs from this. Back then, I was teenager at the time, there seemed to be a bit of a loudness competition between bands performing live. As a consequence my friends and I took counting the number of speakers cabinets before the band came on stage. I seem to recall that despite EL&P only having three band members, they held the unofficial record (based on my mates running tally) on having the most. And, yes, they were commensurately loud!
On vinyl
On CD:-
Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Live At The Fillmore East (1970). On HDCD from 2006.
He missed an opportunity to turn this album from being a great album to an outstanding one by the tracks he missed off of it.
Do you mean the acoustic side?
Yep and Cinnamom Girl.
Wow this old vinyl is cleaning up well! Picture of him as a boy naked on the first page of the liner, probably would be arrested if I posted it here.
CD. I recently bought the box set with 7 cd's. Just listening to the first one.
Members could recommend another version?
This is excellent and highly recommended:
7 x CD - EMI Classics 1999 : )
Recording dates range from 1978 - 1984
I haven't listened to many LvB string quartets, and would think after over 30 years since the Alban Berg set there should be more resent and fabulous modern SQ performances around by now...
These performances, the ABQ's first of two cycles, remain my favorite, as well. The Maurizio Pollini of string quartets. I also have a soft spot for the Italian Quartet. Who, on a totally irrelevant note, recorded the Brahms piano quintet with Maurizio Pollini.
EJ
Hi EJ,
my favourite...
Quatuor Bulgare [ 10 x LP box-set ]
The libretto is completely in French, it gives historical account of where LvB was, what he was doing, with whom, and i guess what inspired his imagination to write the string quartets.
I wish i could understand French : (
It doesn't give any mention of the year these LP performances were recorded...?
But these guys wring huge amounts of emotion from the works, and always with a fine sense of rhythm, sometimes bouncy, but it pulls me in to enjoy : )
Dimo Dimov - violon
Alexandre Thomov - violon
Difmitre Tchilikov - alto
Dimitre Kosev - violoncelle
Cool, Beps. No idea who these guys are, but the other mystery is: what's the Presto doing between the Scherzo and Finale movements of Op. 127?
EJ
long time no play, but still as expressive as ever...
enjoy
ken
Bob Mould Beauty and Ruin
On colored vinyl -- love it!
On colored vinyl -- love it!
Nice, I want.
Hi EJ,
my favourite...
Quatuor Bulgare [ 10 x LP box-set ]
The libretto is completely in French, it gives historical account of where LvB was, what he was doing, with whom, and i guess what inspired his imagination to write the string quartets.
I wish i could understand French : (
It doesn't give any mention of the year these LP performances were recorded...?
But these guys wring huge amounts of emotion from the works, and always with a fine sense of rhythm, sometimes bouncy, but it pulls me in to enjoy : )
Dimo Dimov - violon
Alexandre Thomov - violon
Difmitre Tchilikov - alto
Dimitre Kosev - violoncelle
Cool, Beps. No idea who these guys are, but the other mystery is: what's the Presto doing between the Scherzo and Finale movements of Op. 127?
EJ
Well spotted!
It's disque no.7 / Side A which has 3 tracks, the libretto states:
Maestoso - Allegro
Adagio ma non troppo e molto contabile
Scherzando - Vinace
Finale ...is on the start of Side B
Harmonia Muddle? 
...now listening to Disque 1 / Op.18 no.1, & no.2
Nice near mint condition vinyl, from the 70s i think, and a fabulous SQ : )
Debs
Masters At Work: Soul Heaven 12" singles
Grooving on Nu Yorican Soul on a hot summer night.
| A1 | –Blaze | Here With Me | |
| A2 | –Black Ivory | Mainline | |
| B1 | –DJ Oji Feat. Esteban (2) | Esteban | |
| C1 | –Rebirth, The | Everybody Say Yeah (Album Cut) | |
| C2 | –Morillo* Feat. Leslie Carter | Waiting In The Darkness | |
| D1 | –Roni Size Meets Nuyorican Soul | Watching Windows |
MC 5 Kick Out the Jams. On vinyl. Original pressing. Detroit musical muscle circa 1969.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDt7qztCXbs
Nostalgica, remembering the French horn playing of our daughter during her grammar and high school days. Now left at home, the instrument hash't been touched for years.