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

Europe's 72 are great and one of my favourite recordings

KR

Tony

There is no youtube link; but track No1 and No2 are toxic ones  too.

Spent the day sorting out over 4000 records. Forgot I had this one:

Must declutter more often....

KR

Tony

Portugal. The Man - In The Mountain In The Cloud

Still  decluttering... how the hell did I end up with 4 copies of Exile on Main Street? Mistery...

KR

Tony

The ultimate JD song;Final epitath?

KR

Tony

Cheers

Flettster

Cheers

Flettster

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

CD 1
Sonate in C major Hob XVI:1
Sonate in B flat major XVI:2
Sonate in C major Hob XVI:3
Sonate in D major Hob XVI:4
Sonate in A major Hob XVI:5
Sonate in G major Hob XVI:6
Sonate in C major Hob XVI:7
Sonate in G major Hob XVI:8

Walter Olbertz piano

Recordings from Lukaskirche, Dresden (various dates) 1967 & 1968

[ADD] edel classics cd no.1 of 9 x CD box-set © 2001

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OK. Debs,

Will join you with a more recent performance. Ragna Schirmer came out lately with a three discs recording of Handel suites for keyboard which is really outstanding.

Hi Haim,

I like Haydn’s piano sonata compositions and find them a half-way house between Mozart and Beethoven, although unlike most of Beethoven’s piano, these can be played and sound great on a well tempered harpsichord, and unlike the beautiful Mozart they are more engaging somehow.

Walter Olbertz plays to my liking, I don’t know much about the chap [b1931- and think he’s still alive] but reading the small print in the booklet one can see many different recording dates which suggests he may have taken time to carefully practise small amounts of these works for the many recording venues. The sound recording is fantastic for the era, and allows a feel of emotion for these works which imho can be less forgiving on piano than a harpsichord.

Although I know there is room for more emotion this may require a well thought out modern recording and a non-fudging fingered pianist [such as Angela Hewitt] to ring out some more charm.

Thank you for the Ragna Schirmer recommendation, now noted within my wish-list : )

Debs

The Jupiter.

As I'm working my way through the box, I'm finding a lot to like. The interpretations are 'old fashioned' bigband for sure, but as so often, the cliche that this leads to muddled textures and a soup of sound doesn't hold up. Instead, textures are lucid, instrument groups nicely play off of each other, and Krips keeps things together well. 

Cheers,

EJ

EJ,

I've got his Mozart's last 6 symphonies on vinyl box set and I've got the feeling that he was just having a great time with it. 

He does have a tendency to be a tad slowish but I find him do better on Mozart pieces than Beethoven symphonies in spite the latter is available on Audiophile Everest recordings.

LP The Decca Record Company Ltd. © 1966 / recordings (p) 1965 : )

Jacques Loussier piano

Pierre Michelot bass

Christian Garros drums

side one:

Prelude no.1 Italian Concerto

side two:

Partita in B Flat

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For only-Early-Music-lovers - simply bad.

For all others - brilliant.

Well, for my first dip into Mozart's symphonies, he's proving to be a convincing advocate for this music! I may look further into other recordings to get my bearings, but won't be surprised if this is the set I will keep returning to.

Cheers,

EJ

Keith Jarrett - Facing you.

Sunday mornings...

Chris

Michael D'Abo - Broken rainbows

Chris

Scritti Politti - Songs to remember.

Chris

Giving this wonderful new triple 180g box set a second play.

Lovely pressings and brilliant SQ.

Stu.

Ben Howard, Every Kingdom on CD.  Stunning debut album, beautifully recorded.

Kuma,

How is Aimard with Beethoven? The only (very good) performance of his I have is a Messiaen disc of Preludes and Etudes.

Haim

Saw him on Later with Jules Holland and he was great but hadn't heard much about the album. I think I'll be getting this one soon. Thanks.