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
Meshell Ndegeocello - Comet, Come to me
Blimey, got to listen to three albums today!
Tap your foot. Thinking, ooh this is quite good. Turn it up a bit more, slap your foot a bit harder. Large.
WAV 16/44.1 stream. One of my all time favourite albums. 
This, on double vinyl. Acquired today. Sound is pretty impressive:
Now listening, start to appreciate it more...
A great, intensely moving recording of Butterfly.
EJ
A great, intensely moving recording of Butterfly.
EJ
Looks like an impressive cast. I have Kaufmann's Wagner album which, although just selected arias, is sung with intense emotion.
An outstanding solo performance by the polish pianist Vladyslav Sendecki. The New York Village Voice named Sendeki "one of the world's top five jazz pianist" but I never heard of him until Stefan Just recommended him.
Originally Posted by EJS: 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
EJ,
No I have no heard Khacharyan set yet. How is it?
Faust/Melnikov on period instrument sounds interesting.
To me, tho, I imagine Brahms was a romantic sort of chap in that tunes like this should be played with full of emotions albeit should be done in a classy way. Not the outburst of raw emotion like Beethoven but still water runs deep sort of way.
Not sure why anyone wants to strip of that complex human feelings out the Brahms' sonata particularly.
Another band that doesn't get much love on the forum, at least not that I have noticed...
Badura-Skoda/Fournier/Janigro: Schubert Piano Trio No.1 Op.99 1958 recording
Written in later in Schubert's life along with Winterreise and late piano sonatas, this trio runs over 40 min. filled with many of Schubertian touches. Singing melody line, abrupt stops in the middle of the tune and general wondering around. Underlying melancholia peaks out occasionally.
This Westminster mono recording holds up relatively well but the strings are on a dry side and the performance did not stand the test of time sounding dated.
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?
Lloydy,
Thanks for asking. I'd go -
1) Ram
2) Band On The Run
3) Chaos & Creation In The Backyard
4) Flaming Pie
5) Electric Arguments (The Fireman)
How about yours?
Streaming | FLAC
(1985)
This is another of those Virgin remasters from 1995.
"Oft-ignored (certainly least mentioned) among the Virgin albums, Hyperborea is probably the group's most daring work of the 1980s. Whilst the gradual change towards melodic instrumental pop music is evident in the progression found through Exit, White Eagle and Le Parc, via the two live albums Logos and Poland, Hyperborea exists on its own, appearing out of left field and sounding entirely unlike anything the band have recorded before or since." - Bullfinchart [Discogs]
Piano – Yefim Bronfman
Violin – Renaud Capuçon
Cello – Gautier Capuçon
Schubert Piano Trio No.1 2004 recording
Lively and dynamic everyone seems determined to outdo each other.
Capuçon brother’s playing is plenty expressive altho, Bronfman's piano is a tad bland.
A great, intensely moving recording of Butterfly.
EJ
Looks like an impressive cast. I have Kaufmann's Wagner album which, although just selected arias, is sung with intense emotion.
watch this space for a short review of his new Puccini album!
EJ
Originally Posted by EJS: 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
EJ,
No I have no heard Khacharyan set yet. How is it?
Faust/Melnikov on period instrument sounds interesting.
To me, tho, I imagine Brahms was a romantic sort of chap in that tunes like this should be played with full of emotions albeit should be done in a classy way. Not the outburst of raw emotion like Beethoven but still water runs deep sort of way.
Not sure why anyone wants to strip of that complex human feelings out the Brahms' sonata particularly.
Kuma, I don't think that the deconstructionists would phrase it quite like that! I sure enjoy the different viewpoints although in the end, I agree with you that Mutter/Orkis and Suk/Katchen seem to come closest to an ideal synthesis.
EJ
Great album
start the morning off with this.
WAV 16/44.1 stream. Recording and playing truly wonderful. Shows how good CD can sound.