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

Not the best, but still an enjoyable album..

Strange album with a couple of highlights..

Quite a good album of the guys, of course not as good as the early albums, but decent...

CD rip - WAV

Streaming | Deezer Elite

Continuing on with CD 2 of 2. I played CD 1 the other day and it's really Beck at his best so I wanted to hear the rest this evening. The album is now in a virtual shopping trolley.

The Honey Dewdrops.  Very taken with this duo.  On CD. 

Just finished   - silver lining   (2012)

Now:  Live From Folk Alley At Fayetteville Roots Festival      (2014)

Tracks 1-6 recorded live at the Fayetteville Roots Festival, August 2013.    Fayetteville, Arkansas. 

Tracks 7 & 8 recorded live in Saranac Lake, NY, June and December 2013

Looked up the festival, they have had some interesting lineups.  http://www.fayettevilleroots.com/ 

Streaming 'disc' two of this via Tidal

Streaming | WAV

(1994)

Sounding as good now as it did back in the day.

Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:

Here's one of the most touching moments: the meeting between the italian and the russian wife 

Gianluigi,

Sophia of course is gorgeous and beautifully acted, but another interest for me was that Russian wife played by Lyudmila Savelyeva who played Natasha in Russian production of 'War and Peace'.

Beautiful woman!

Chris Dolan posted:

One for Peter (911gt3r) - as I recall how much he liked my CD of this on his system 

Don't know the album, Chris, but that's a smashing photo.

M 

George Fredrik Fiske posted:

Klemperer’s recording was the result of a passion on his part for the music for it was long outside what EMI considered his “core” repertoire.

He did the recording anyway, and made something of stoical power. more Easter than christmas in spirit, but with staggering power in the choruses. And rather kind support for his eminent soloists. The overture gives a very bad idea of what will follow! It might have been by Brahms in Adagio mode, but thereafter it becomes thoughtful and vital, and sometimes “very” fast even by modern standards.

Klemperer had that disconcerting habit of keeping tempo to the end double bar as in the Hallelujia chorus, which ends in mid air! A wonderfully powerful response to the music!

ATB from George

George,

your comments on these various recordings make this a richer place, rather than a place where people just list records...

I am no officianado of classical music to add anything of value to this learned banter, but i read your comments with great interest and i thank you for them...

enjoy

ken

MDS posted:

Chris Dolan posted:

One for Peter (911gt3r) - as I recall how much he liked my CD of this on his system 

Don't know the album, Chris, but that's a smashing photo.

M 

jee Chris!!! what a lovely plinth!!! 

enjoy

ken

On vinyl. A little energetic music for a dreary, damp Sunday afternoon.

Hilary bought me this for Christmas. It's a wonderful album. 

First listen to Seal's latest album which I received as a Xmas pressies. Early impressions are favourable and reproduction quality is very good as usual.

M

Scriabin's mazurkas are among his most accessible works, and beautifully played by Francois Chaplin (an older recording re-issued a while ago). 

EJ

Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:

Beautiful woman!

Russian production of this film contains one of the best battle scene ever filmed.
I recall I was just blown away by the sheer scale of it. No CGI. The most expensive film ever produced in Russian and this production makes the Hollywood version with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer look like a child's play.