What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XI)

Mathias Eick:  The Door

Hamelin plays Chopin / Godowsky - Etudes

Nothing replaces the original but transcriptions can really augment music you really love and is the ultimate compliment to a composer by other great composers.

Currently, with these selections I only go to the point of 7'-27" to listen to the Op. 10, No. 6 Etude transcribed for the left hand alone.  This elaborative transcription of the original study is a nice illustration what one may feel while playing the original but cannot express outwardly.  It is a piece of music that contains so much pain and sorrow and yet Chopin gracefully restrains all this and keeps it underneath - really between the player and his/her piano.

J.S. Bach | Walter Rummel: transcription of the aria "Die Seele ruht in Jesu Händen", Jonathan Plowright (piano)

In the part 2/2 below after 2'-40" marks the resolution and return of the theme it just raises the hair on the back on my neck and brings me to tears every time I play or listen to this.  The Hyperion recording is very much better sound wise.   The whole piece actually moves me tremendously but at this point you have been informed by what came before it and the memory of this struggle.  The Rummel transcriptions of Bach are absolute gems as this man truly understand the music of Bach.  His score is very detailed and particular on how it should be interpreted.  The response here at this point is very symbolic.  The tone of the piece is very dark but there is a beautiful sense of coming from darkness into light and this is represented by the pitch (low vs. high).

J.S. Bach: the aria "Die Seele ruht in Jesu Händen" sung by Soprano

Sergei Rachmaninov:  Trio élégiaque n°2 op.9 

Leonid Kogan (violin)
Fiodor Luzanov (cello)
Evgeny Svetlanov (piano)

Earlier in the afternoon:  First Aid Kit - The Big Black & The Blue

(2010)  CD 

Now:  The Lone Bellow - Then Came The Morning

(2015)  CD

CD.

Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim

(2008)   CD

Just returned from a Vocal Arts of Cincinnati concert at historic St Francis De Sales Church.

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Steely Dan. Aja. An OP from 1977. An LP much lauded in audiophile circles, it's a sonic treat no doubt. Musically it's very good, though I prefer SD's first three albums.

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. Shooting Rubber Bands At The Stars. On vinyl from 1986. The only of Edie's albums I own and I don't play it often, but thoroughly appreciate it when I do.

The Band. Eponymous second album from 1969. On the Capitol lime green label mastered by Bob Ludwig. Supposedly the pressing to have for SQ, I stumbled across it in the used bins this past summer. I have a few CD compilations, but this is my only LP from The Band. It grows on me with each listen.

Bert Schurink posted:

Great Red Garland fan but don't think I have heard this album so I will investigate.

Nowadays such a cover might create a couple of issues..

If you like porcupine tree or sylvan this could be intersting for you as well-

Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch official live recording from their tour to promote his current album.

Should have warned myself, saw this original albums series cheap and thought why not, to less realizing that this guy has been more the base of the Muzak industry (elevator music), have som further music anyhow which is not offensive......

Much, much better than what I listened to before...

Probably belongs in the "what makes you cry," thread.

The remastered deluxe release on Tidal. Sounds very nice indeed.

G

On CD:-

Streaming | Deezer Elite

(2015)

Put this one on as I've heard good things about this guy during his tour backing up Steve Hackett. He is a fan of old prog, Genesis, Marillion, Peter Gabriel and so on...

Cos its Rickie Lee Jones innit.

Clean as a whistle recording from 1979 - no remastering just great.