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
Marianne Muller - viole de gambe et direction
Sylvia Abramowicz - viole de gambe
Violaine Cochard - clavecin
Charles-Édouard Fantin - guitare baroque
Claire Antonini - théorbe
Recorded: St Michael Church, Paris. October 2005
Debs,
I will join you with a Marais pour la violle et le theorbe;
Haim,
i'll see your duo and raise you the whole Freiberger Barockorchester
A peaceful nightcap before bedtime : )
Debs
So easy to love Roland Hanna. Today's arrival from Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CTMkJD8taA
Oistrakh/Klemperer/French National Orchestra : Brahms Violin Concerto 1960 recording.
I decided to pull my reference for this work.
Yep. No doubt about it. This is still a great performance from very mature artists playing together nearly ideal on all counts.
Exciting but romantic. Out going but oh so intimate. So sophisticated yet they can let their hair down in a flash keeping it real. These guys have more emotional range than most any readings coupled with laser sharp technique and know-how.
When are we going to have a super talent like them?
Kuma,
I'm not familiar with that recording, but your comment makes me wish I was.
How does it compare with this (a version I really like?)
Claude
Streaming | FLAC
(1977)
This double album featured live tracks from a Hammersmith Odeon gig and new studio material; playing the CD 1 rip for now.
"The Latin infused blues rock era is caught live on tour in Europe in 1976, while the soul/funk tight song oriented direction is heard for the 1st time with all new studio cuts. Both styles are scattered across all 4 sides and melded together seamlessly" - An Amazonian
An album from my childhood. It's going in the cart.
Originally Posted by EJS: First spin. Kaufmann's long-awaited Puccini album is very classy, with Pappano and the Santa Cecilia orchestra and Kristine Opolais and other singers engaging in duets and various bits to add necessary colour to a recital of bleeding chunks that could sound monotonous in lesser hands.
Kaufmann tries and fairly achieves characterisation within the excerpts, but the most important thing is that he is just at home in much of this music. I think he is a bit plain in the arias from Tosca and Il Tabarro, but the more tender sections from La Boheme (where he dials down the power appropriately and colors his voice to Opolais) and La Rondine are very well done, and best of all are the excerpts from La Fanciulla del West and Turandot. Kaufmann's voice is in great shape.
EJ,
Thanks for your review. I was wondering about this release as it comes in vinyl format.
Sounds like it's much better than his Wintereise.
Stunning first solo album. Madness? Confidence? Brilliance? All three. I rank it alongside Kate Bush, Rickie-Lee Jones and Tori's first records. If I had to choose, RLJ by a fraction, though.
Found last night vinyl hunting $2.99. Featuring the hit "Kodachrome!"
So much filthy vinyl in Seattle...that with almost no scratches.
Distinctly 80's style jazz, but better than most of the genre...
OMG OMG OMG!
This album is PRaT heaven...solid all the way through...the instruments are incredible! This album was recorded just for the Credo it seems!
Vinyl
Oistrakh/Klemperer/French National Orchestra : Brahms Violin Concerto 1960 recording.
Originally Posted by ClaudeP:
I'm not familiar with that recording, but your comment makes me wish I was.
How does it compare with this (a version I really like?)
ClaudeP,
I think the biggest difference is in their timing and colour/tone of the fiddle. Not the tempo ( altho, Giulini/Perlman set runs the longest so far ) itself but how they time to play a next note.
I find that Giulini/Perlman set is more accessible and down to earth than Klemperer/Oistrakh however rhythmically, it does not have the lyrical flow and feels over laboured in some spots. That *effortlessness* I hear from Heifetz, Milstein and Oistrakh is missing in Perlman's playing. It is hard to pin point and express in words.
Perlman's got the Klezmer style with a few rough edges which I like his lack of pretense. But he just does not have the same degree of anticipation and urgency of Oistrakh which I think it's related to the timing. Oisrakh/Klemperer set just happens to be in the same wavelength as mine so everything falls in the right places ( for me ). Their style comes as easy as a breathing.
Also, comparatively I hear that in spite plenty of surface emotions the music does not come off expressive and an extra layer of depth missing. Further more, noone has that Oistrakh's brilliant transparent tone. That's his very own. So, this set does not have the ultimate stopping power. ( again, for me )
Anyways, if you haven't heard the Oistrakh/Klemperer version, do give it a try.
They might give you a whole new insight into this familiar score.
More from my latest used vinyl binge...cleaning 5 per day and listening.
Surprisingly good...I watched the show but wasn't a fan of the music. This sounds great.
Ok just cleaned this...more used vinyl spoils from Sunday...neat album cover and title:
Wow again! More used, filthy vinyl lucre from yesterday. Beautiful!
When this system works right it's pretty sweet.
Streaming | Bandcamp
(2012)
I haven't heard if EFSS are doing any more in this Ouddorp series, so far this is the second in their trilogy of Berlin School albums.
Crikey!!! In Vinyl bliss...
Oistrakh/Klemperer/French National Orchestra : Brahms Violin Concerto 1960 recording.
Originally Posted by ClaudeP:
I'm not familiar with that recording, but your comment makes me wish I was.
How does it compare with this (a version I really like?)
ClaudeP,
I think the biggest difference is in their timing and colour/tone of the fiddle. Not the tempo ( altho, Giulini/Perlman set runs the longest so far ) itself but how they time to play a next note.
I find that Giulini/Perlman set is more accessible and down to earth than Klemperer/Oistrakh however rhythmically, it does not have the lyrical flow and feels over laboured in some spots. That *effortlessness* I hear from Heifetz, Milstein and Oistrakh is missing in Perlman's playing. It is hard to pin point and express in words.
Perlman's got the Klezmer style with a few rough edges which I like his lack of pretense. But he just does not have the same degree of anticipation and urgency of Oistrakh which I think it's related to the timing. Oisrakh/Klemperer set just happens to be in the same wavelength as mine so everything falls in the right places ( for me ). Their style comes as easy as a breathing.
Also, comparatively I hear that in spite plenty of surface emotions the music does not come off expressive and an extra layer of depth missing. Further more, noone has that Oistrakh's brilliant transparent tone. That's his very own. So, this set does not have the ultimate stopping power. ( again, for me )
Anyways, if you haven't heard the Oistrakh/Klemperer version, do give it a try.
They might give you a whole new insight into this familiar score.
I grew up with Perlman/Giulini, had it on tape since I was a kid and then as one of my first CDs. Later I realised the first CD issue sounds OK, and then EMI flubbed the transfer for their Greatest Recordings series. Let's hope they did better with the 2011 remastering, which will be issued shortly in high resolution.
EJ
Streaming | Bandcamp
Black Horses Of The Sun ~ Dave Bessell (2015)
Lovely Berlin school ambient here by one half of ARC.
This from my parents collection lovely original vinyl... 
Streaming | Bandcamp
Morphogenic ~ Parallel World & Dave Bessell (2012)
Wanting to hear some more ambient electronica from Dave Bessell, I decided to play this collaboration with Parallel Worlds. No Ian Broddy from ARC involved (with playing) this time. So far it's very involving and enjoyable.
"Bessell has a formal education in classical composition and these skills blend perfectly on Morphogenic with the intricate, sequenced rhythms of Bakis Sirros aka Parallel Worlds. Whilst the eight tracks have all the fluidity and organic feel of analogue synth dominated pieces, they have a shape and form to them that make them fascinating compositions. As well as joining Sirros in the analogue arsenal with his mighty Macbeth M5n, Bessell also provides some very effective and unusual guitar backdrops. Bakis made extensive use of Serge, Buchla and Oberheim synths in this recording which contribute to the warm and organic soundscapes. Bessell also writes custom software that is employed to great effect in providing unusual and detailed textures through which the incessant, complex rhythms and beats of Sirros rise and fall." ~ Bandcamp (Atrist's label) blurb
Very broad soundscapes, nice but too ambient for me, from Bandcamp..
