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
Great trio - Live Jazz Lounge coverage...
Streaming | Deezer Elite
Jack White, Blunderbuss on CD. Is he a Genius or a Nutter? I am still undecided, but I do like it.
Richter/Oistrakh: Brahms Violin Sonata No.3
Change of weather prompted me to listen to burnished coloured Brahms and dark, yet absolutely beautiful music full of life and passion that is really even better if you listen to a cello / piano version Schubert. of Franck (although the violin rendition is probably more standard and popular 
).
Sorry Kuma. I don't know what came over me but I could not resist. 
How are Oistrakh and Richter in this recording?
Doug.
Straight away it’s more obvious the piano has a lot to say about than most readings I have listened to where violin is the sole start on the piece. Not so with Richter. He's never obtrusive but just enough accents and phrasing relevant to the story telling. Even for the 2nd movement where usually a fiddle is a star here ( and still is for this set ) but Richer adds subtle sparkling touches here and there as part of highlights from the past.
It's never going to be romantic or overly sweet. I admire this performance rather than love it. For the No.3 sonata, I would like a bit more schmaltz.
Regarding Franck, I must admit I haven't explored his music just yet.
Late Schubert tunes are also my fave for fall/winter... Winterreise weather. Maybe because he died in November...
Another one...
Great live
album, melody and rhythm ....
This album has my favorite rendition of "Shadow of Your Smile" ever...
Viktoria Mullova's Brahms Violin Sonata No.3 & Concerto with Abbado/Berliner: 1992 & 1995.
Her Violin Concerto is beautifully played but I can't really warm up to it as she sounds too nervous and jittery. Her Adagio does absolutely nothing for me. Altho, It sounds good for live digital recording. Violin tone comes off rather thin for my taste.
For Sonata No.3, I can't really get on with the piano player ( Piotr Anderszewski)
Piano sound a bit disjointed and hard. Rhythmically awkward in some spots, too.
I get the feeling they are not working closely together like Oistrakh/Richter, rather doing their own things.
Paul McCartney. Press To Play. On CD from 1986. I could readily rank my top five McCartney albums and argue the merits of each. This one however, would sit squarely at the bottom of the list with no recourse from me.
Mutter/Orkis : Brahms Violin Sonata No.3 2009 recording
This is by far my favourite Sonata No.3 so far. Mutter and Orkis working close together and Mutter's beautiful breathing whispering tone creates a monologue like story telling.
Extremely intimate, there’s something captivating and dear about this set that is very human.
Streaming | FLAC
(1973)
This was the last album they made before the landmark signing to Virgin Records. It has rightly been described as perhaps their furthest departure from rock or pop and is really quite avant garde. This is Esoteric Recordings' expanded and remastered 2011 issue which features a second CD highlighting some music from their concert at the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin (1973)
Kuma, Mullova and Anderszewski went and recorded the Brahms sonatas to descale the music from its excess romanticism - it's been controversial forever, I remember heated debates in the record shop (with me in the 'pro' camp). Things have now been taken further by Faust/Melnikov on period instruments, whose performances sounds like a deconstruction of these works.
Have you heard the Khachatryan siblings on Naive?
EJ
Paul McCartney. Press To Play. On CD from 1986. I could readily rank my top five McCartney albums and argue the merits of each. This one however, would sit squarely at the bottom of the list with no recourse from me.
Just as a matter of interest, what are your top five McCartney albums?
Cheers
EJ
(1986)
Another Esoteric Recording re-master from 2011, not so sure about this one...
Very nice interpretation for this wonderful work. Perfectly recorded by Glossa label.
BP.
UK first press (bought the day it came out, in 1978). His most low-key, but, I think, the best of his solo albums.
