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

Cate Le Bon - Cyrk

Some indie pop I heard on the local college station.  First listen. 

Sharon Van Etten - epic

playing disc no.6 of 10 x CD box-set...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Symphony no.2 in D major op.36

Philharmonia Orchestra 1960 (Wien / Vienna, Live)

Symphony no.7 in A major op.92

Philharmonia Orchestra 1955

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Cheers

Flettster

Cheers

Flettster

Kuma, thanks for the reminder!

EJ

EJ,

I haven't quite gotten into Haydn's music yet ( good God. He wrote a LOT! ) but what I love is Harnoncourt's Bach.

I'm digging many of his Bach Telefunken records ( not those awful DMM ones ) sonically and musically. Surprising that the way they play them sound fresh. Sort of a new twist on ancient tunes.

For sure I will pick up his Haydn in the future.

Speaking of HIP conductor how do you rate Hogwood?

I sort of like his Mozart No.25 actually. His orchestra doesn't do *big things* but I like the tight timing and close inner working of musicianship.

Concertos #19 and 20

Cheers,

EJ

Kuma, once you get around to Harnoncourt's Haydn, be sure to go for his recording with the Concertgebouw, they are much bolder than his remakes with his own HIP orchestra.

Can't say the early HIP scene made much of an impression on me at the time, but I am catching up and do find the occasional treasure, incl. Pinnock's Messiah, Gardiner's St Matthew Passion and Monteverdi operas, and Norrington's Mozart operas and Beethoven symphonies. I haven't gotten around to HIP Mozart symphonies, I am not especially fond of the works themselves.

EJ

Cheers

Flettster

First time I've heard this album. OK, but not normally my sort of stuff.Seems well engineered:- 

8/10.

I know this might seem unbelievable but this is the first time I have listened to this Album.

So if you give 8/10 to an "OK" album, what do you give to "Good", Very Good" and "Outstanding" albums?

Lovely thick vinyl:

On vinyl: Brilliant album.

A proper start to the morning:

First play

Side 6:

Chaconne from Partita in d monor for Violin solo BWV 1004, Hartmut Lindemann, viola

WA Mozart / JS Bach: Largo & Fugue no. 5 from Six slow movements and three-part fugues for violin, viola and double bass K404a (after the Largo & Fugue from Organ Sonata no II by JS Bach, BWV 526), Gaede Trio

On the black stuff.

Arrived yesterday, first play today...

Piano Magic -  Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet + Chemical EP

It's only melancholy-roll, but I like it

Less electric guitars & more acoustic/electronic tones compared to the previous album, 'Ovations'.

Japanese vinyl (with nice gatefold and booklet) - their most underrated album IM(NSH)O:

JN was playing this black stuff on another thread a few days ago.

So i thought i would dig my original vinyl copy out for its first play in a very long time.

Stu.

Nice one Stuart. An old favourite of mine.

I remember seeing them on the OGWT and was hooked.

John.