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
Mono vinyl from the recent box. Sounds pretty darn good.
Had a hard time finding a copy at a reasonable price. For a while, the asking price for a used copy was $115. This is my first disc of The Mayback Recital Hall Series:
Official live recording from their US 2015 tour
Seen them live three times in 2015. Amazing Band
Title: Complete Piano Trios
Composer: Johann Nepumuk Hummel
Artist: Trio Parnassus
MDG Gold
Im just on track 4 CD1. Please put an ear to this cd. First time listening to Hummel, very impressed.
I was playing this earlier this afternoon when I was aware of so much thunderous bass. When the bass continued between tracks, I realised it was the Army on tank exercises on Salisbury Plain!
Is this not one of the finest rock albums of all time?
YES!
Vinyl.
Talking Heads. Stop Making Sense. Original CD from 1984. David Byrne can channel a lot of vocal energy through a mic, can't he? Always a fun, interesting character musically and beyond.
Pollini: Chopin Preludes Op.28 1975 recording
This was a huge let down.
This is a very unimaginative reading in that it does not provoke strong visual images. Pollini’s Preludes are almost as fast as Cortot he’s dashing through them but his tunes do not leave the lasting impressions nor a sense of attitude or style.
Had a hard time finding a copy at a reasonable price. For a while, the asking price for a used copy was $115. This is my first disc of The Mayback Recital Hall Series:
My favourite Maybeck Recital CD is Marian Mcpartland.
This as the infamous CD that clipped the NAP150 when driving the Briks at a moderate volume. I lost two tweeters. 
Streaming | FLAC
Side two, Magnetic Winds, Black Sun and Perihelion.
Streaming | Deezer Elite
(2007)
Neil Young. Silver & Gold. On HDCD from 2000. A calming, soft album, harkens back to "Harvest".
Will see him next month live...
Streaming | Deezer Elite
Brave (Live) ~ Marillion
(2013)
If anything this is better than their great studio album.
"Recorded on the 9 March 2013 at the Marillion Weekend in Centre Parcs, The Netherlands. This CD features the whole of the Brave album performed in full plus all of the encores set. Audio taken from the Brave Live 2013 Bluray & DVD sets".
On vinyl. Can't think of an excuse for listening to it, other than the fact that it's brilliant.
Streaming | deezer Elite
(1993)
Classic early Pendragon with lovely guitar work reminiscent of Pink Floyd in some places. Something in their progressive style always hits the spot with me, hence it being played now.
More Fela on vinyl:
A very good mid /late. late / mid period Van double album featuring a duet with John Lee Hooker on "Gloria"
Original Vinyl
On CD:-
