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I'm only Streaming -  Sweet Billy Pilgrim's New Album Now @ Mojo...

The album - Crown And Treaty has received 4/5 star reviews. Sid Smith was full of high praise in this months Prog Magazine. Tim shows his Robert Fripp chops on Archaeology, with a hint of Tron 'plugin'. The good news is that the band can play this stuff live, as a 6 piece and they are the Dog's . Catch em if you can on tour. I'm seeing them for the 4th time this year in Cambridge on 26 May.

http://www.mojo4music.com/blog...lly_pilgrims_ne.html 

http://www.sweetbillypilgrim.com/home.html

Why? 'Cos I've just received it.

steve

On CD:-

Disc 2

[disc no.3 of 7xcd box-set]

Quartet in D major op.18 no.3

Quartet in A major op.18 no.5

Quartet in F minor op.95 "Serioso"

Agents of Fortune [Original recording remastered, Extra tracks, Original recording reissued]

Blue Oyster Cult | Format: Audio CD

Playing for the third time the first movement of the Fantasie D.934.

Haim,

Are you going to see Paul Lewis this Sunday?

Debs, the first question is very hard to answer.  I would hate to help you spend the money and then you are not satisfied.  It is a fair chunk of change and you really are getting two Beethoven number 3's, 5's, 6's and two Brahms 3's recorded in different years plus Bruckner 8, Schubert 8 & 9, Brahms 4, the Haydn Variations and the Wagner Tristan and Isolde.  Without a doubt the better value might be to buy the 12 cd complete set from Audite.

Oddly enough my set was received damaged and I am awaiting a replacement so I hope this isn't widespread and I get another lemon.  It looked like each disc had some press marks all over each side from some sort of handling machine.  There was some warpage in a few of the records but nothing too terrible.  I have only played LP1 & 3 (comparing the two Pastorale symphonies from 1947 and 1954) plus LP 14 and despite the flaws mentioned above did not really hear any obvious effects from this so far.  These seem to be very quiet records.

Remember, I am the guy who has to deal with anaphylaxis if I have to listen to a poor mono recording so I was a little worried about what I would be getting here.  I am relieved to tell you that I was very moved by what I heard.  More so on the 1954 recordings (than on the one 1947 so far) I heard an unbelievable warmth, detail and dynamic range that I was not expecting.  While I am not particularly familiar with Furtwängler this Audite LP set and the CD set will really be my first foray in becoming acquainted with him and his style.  Previously, I stayed away because I wasn't convinced by the mono quality available (which I have some but could not listen to).  I believe Audite did a remarkable job in providing these from the original analog tapes.  From my minor taste of this so far I have no regrets at all.  It is a very special set to me.

Doug

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Piano Concerto no.20 in D minor KV.466

[1] I. Allegro 13:00

[2] II. Romanze 08:31

[3] III. Rondo: Allegro assai 07:10

Clara Haskil piano

[4] Ouvertüre aus: Die Entführung aus dem Serail 04:08

[5] Ouvertüre aus: Die Zauberflöte 06:41

[6] Marsch der Priester (Zauberflöte 2. Akt) 05:13

[7] Ouvertüre aus: Le nozze di Figaro 03:48

RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin - Ferenc Fricsay

Recordings from 1954

Documents © 2011 (10 x cd box-set) playing cd no.3

Well worth the cost (imho) of buying this box-set for the Mozart alone!

This is the most perfect growling moody kv.466 i've heard to date.

Utterly fantastic : )

Debs

Thank you for your interesting reply, Doug.

Sorry to hear about the poor vinyl quality control, hope the replacement are nice…

i don’t know whether I mentioned this before: but I have a theory about warped records which can have a superior sounding pressing, sod’s law perhaps, but I’ve had a few warpy records actually sound really lovely, and later with the replacements; perfectly flat but with a sound of lesser depth… if you know what I mean.

And don’t worry about tempting me buying this set, would have done so already if I could justify the expenditure, and fortunately (for my bank account) the music on this set brilliant it may be is not on my drooling hit list.

Although I can see it’s an interesting set, probably a good investment too, being so historical, and Furtwangler being one of most intriguing of conductors, in fact he was almost as good as Fricsay ; )

Debs

On iPod walking in to work.

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Vinyl

It has the little Woolworth sticker on the inside of the sleeve dated 9 Oct 1982. Probably purchased with hard earned paper round wages. I would normally be found in the record section of Woolies on a Saturday morning.

I'm not sure if I've seen this posted before, but it really is a great album. They describe his voice as a mixture of Isaac Hayes and Otis Redding. For real aficionados of Blues, some might find it a tad cheesy, but more than made up for by his deep, resonant and soulful voice.

Cheers

Flettster

Black Stuff. 

The title says it all.

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We Just Are.

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