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
Taste - Live At The Isle Of Wight (1971)
Original vinyl
Couldn't copy the link, so without picture... Exclusively for my friends by Oscar Pieterson, great music - recording of varying quality (high resolution download).
The 4 cd box set:
or my pick of the original albums:
Enjoy
Dave
Echoes of the Oscar Peterson trio's:
Rec. 2013
Available on Spotify Premium, CD and download.
Grrrrreat.
Dave
Portland has declared Tuesday, January 20, 2015 as "Decemberists Day".
http://www.oregonlive.com/musi...and_festivities.html
Therefore, it seems appropriate to play:
The Decemberists
"Castaways and Cutouts" (2002) SP
I was at their very first-ever live show opening set in a small Portland club, opening for Jerry Joseph. Talked to bass player Nate Query that night and he told me "this is the band that is going to make it". Prophetic. Good people, they have worked hard for many years. And made some wonderful music.
Agree with you there Jeff. Please pass on my best wishes to your good lady.
Couldn't copy the link, so without picture... Exclusively for my friends by Oscar Pieterson, great music - recording of varying quality (high resolution download).
The 4 cd box set:
or my pick of the original albums:
Enjoy
Dave
I just looked this up on Amazon - wow, all I can say is at those prices I'll have to imagine how good it is.
I have never heard a bad disc from this man. Some better than others of course, but all good or better that I have heard.
More Weinberg:
Sonata for piano and violin No.4 & 5.
This CD include his early piece called '3 pieces' which was written when he was 15.
A command of instrument at this early age without a formal training is remarkable.
Underlying feeling of uncertainty and anxiety are already present in these early scores. German expressionism like contrasty abstract dark shadows and bright lights.
Coming off form Weinberg, Schubert Violin pieces are walk in the park.
So hummable. 
Love the lively A Major 'Duo' Sonata which reminds me a bit of Trout Quintet's sunny disposition.
The sound of violin in this DG box set is a bit of a let down from ECM, tho.
Couldn't copy the link, so without picture... Exclusively for my friends by Oscar Pieterson, great music - recording of varying quality (high resolution download).
The 4 cd box set:
or my pick of the original albums:
Enjoy
Dave
I just looked this up on Amazon - wow, all I can say is at those prices I'll have to imagine how good it is.
I have never heard a bad disc from this man. Some better than others of course, but all good or better that I have heard.
The whole set on high res is delicious. However at the beginning and somewhere further the piano is being captured in a bit strange way - I think it has to do with the pieces where Oscar plays loud. But if you can live with those places in the collection it's fine. The music as always is very good. The high res set was by the way from a pricing perspective reasonable.
Wow.
This is pretty intense. Has anyone tried Weinberg's work?
It's going to take me repeated listen to get a handle on it but this is a bit like lost in a dark forest in a dream.
Originally Posted by Bert Schurink: No, I listened to it - but it was too far away for me to appreciate it. For this type of music I need more mainstream type of stuff otherwise I disconnect.
Avant-Garde free form jazz or atonal classical music are new territory and these for sure aren't for every day listen.
One thing tho, the great digital recording by ECM engineers help these tunes more life and colours.
A lots of double stops but Kremer produces beautiful tonal blend with a tight rhythmic tensions to keep the tune moving at all time.
There is a sense of effortless and pitch black digital background suits this bleak score. His scores demand 100% attention all the time and I need to be totally immersed in them otherwise they quickly turn into series of inconsequential annoying noise.
Compared to Ustvolskaya, Gerhard, Ferneyhough, or Carter or Schoenberg at their worst, this is positively easy listening! 
EJ
If you see it like that yes :-). I in general have a more difficult time appreciating string quartets etc, so there I do love it but have a lot of the mainstream material like Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Bartok, Shostakovich..... The "extreme" stuff I would not be able to listen too and regard it as "noise". And it's not like I have that across genres - for instance free jazz can work for me.
Very delicate playing, so that one forgets about the lesser sound quality...
Pink Floyd. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967). 40th Anniversary 2 CD set from 2007. Listening to the mono CD this evening. I only discovered this in the last few years and like it more with each listen. I hear parallels with the Beatles, The Who, and Donovan.
Couldn't copy the link, so without picture... Exclusively for my friends by Oscar Pieterson, great music - recording of varying quality (high resolution download).
The 4 cd box set:
or my pick of the original albums:
Enjoy
Dave
I just looked this up on Amazon - wow, all I can say is at those prices I'll have to imagine how good it is.
I have never heard a bad disc from this man. Some better than others of course, but all good or better that I have heard.
The single albums are available on Qobuz at a very reasonable price.16-bit CD Quality £6.47/album. 
Dave
fabulous album!
fabulous album!
imho this and Revival are her best
and i do especially love this one
On Jamaican vinyl.
My speakers are hopelessly inadequate to handle all that sweet bass.
fabulous album!
imho this and Revival are her best
and i do especially love this one
I agree. Love Revival too.
Gilliam Welch and David Rawlings are really something live.
Surprisingly amusing too!
fabulous album!
imho this and Revival are her best
and i do especially love this one
I agree. Love Revival too.
Gilliam Welch and David Rawlings are really something live.
Surprisingly amusing too!
Indeed looks like they've been made to play together
Music On Vinyl, double LP