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

I am now on a Scriabin marathon and rampage.  This is actually a very nice set with some fine playing by Maria Lettberg.  I love Scriabin.  Just finishing up the Preludes and will switch to the DVD next before returning to the Etudes.

As they say on the credit's " A slab of pure quality..... Jazz meets R n'B vibe in the 21st Century"

Cheers

Flettster

On a pretty warped piece of vinyl:-

Sounds OK though.

Blue Horizon 1971. US blues/psych rock, similar in many ways to Cream. A lovely minty copy. Probably hasn't been reissued on vinyl but should be available on CD.

PS Richard, Stu and Tony,

Deja Vu, fortunate to have an excellent !st press copy (fathers old collection). My old orange/green label copy pales in comparison SQ wise. Now I have the 552 etc you can really appreciate the harmonies which tend to blur on lesser systems I had. Also have the 1st CSN 1st press in similar condition but prefer Deja Vu.

Steve

Bonus CD:-

On not so perfect vinyl:-

My copy is on the Philips label but this looks like a straight reissue. In the performance, dad clearly dominates the proceedings with some superb pianism, while Adrian could from time to time display a bit more face. Partly the music of course, as Doug has said above, these sonatas were written for piano with cello accompaniment. Overall a lovely disc, and among my favorite versions of this music.

Cheers,

EJ

Now feeling the need to watch re-runs of Taxi 

One from earlier.

Both on the black stuff.

RE: Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Cello

Hi EJ,

Actually I was just joking around a little previously.  What I was really trying to say in a round about way was that with Beethoven the cello finally was playing a more substantial role in the partnership and that Beethoven was the pioneer in this regard.  The evolution was gradual though and can be seen in the writing of say the Piano Trios of Haydn to Mozart to Beethoven to Schubert and then to push the point forward to Brahms to Ravel to Shostakovich, for example. 

It may not sound fair of me as a pianist to dismiss the difficulty of the different instruments but even a cellist would probably agree that the cello writing in a Haydn piano trio is not exactly pushing the limits of the instrument.  It is very much just a Basso Continuo line.  Beethoven changed this dramatically and the cello / violin parts in his chamber music became very much more interesting and challenging (read: fun to play).  Everyone no has the chance to contribute to great music making.  Here the composer creates an interplay of passing the ball back and forth between the different instrument, so to speak, despite the fact that a piano is entirely a different beast in relation to a string instrument (ie. Harmony vs Melody).  A pianist essentially is covering both aspects and the reason a Piano Trio may be 70 pages long and the string players only need 5 pages of music.  Ah, but I digress....  

Lastly, I should add that it stands to reason that the piano part is often the most difficult since the composer himself was typically a pianist first and foremost.

I have Nine types of Light (on CD) and like it a lot. That vinyl deal sure is tempting though...

Liberty 1970 vinyl. 

In a prog mood tonight. Vinyl Deram 1972. Canterbury prog.

Steve, I'm loving some of these album covers! 

Vinyl

Includes a great cover of "This Flight Tonight"

Leonard Cohen ........On the Guardian Music  It's very good!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/musi...hen-old-ideas-stream

Not for the Feinthearted - atavistic Crowley-inspired madness, but great fun

DB.

Some one here recommended this , on CD:-

Spotted this the other day in HMV Belfast  £25 on vinyl

playing disc no.2...

String Quartet no.3 in F major, Op.73 (1946)

Two Pieces for Strings Octet, Op.11

Studio recordings, Moscow, 1983

Piano Quintet in G minor, Op.57 (1945)

Live in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire 5-8 September 1983

[ADD] Stereo (6 x CD box-set) - Melodiya © 2006

Pines of the Via Appia, a.k.a. the Roman legion marching into Rome. Should be heard live, really, but as discs go, the Karajan is good. 

Cheers,

EJ