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

Yep, got all that. Vinyl is un-played due to lack of a TT .

Not listened to for a while

From last night, and on Vinyl:-

Found this on LP in Green Park market in Bath for £2. The record is in good condition, but the music is just sublime! With a rythm section comprising Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb and the additional guesting of Johnny Griffin on tenor sax, this is wonderful music making. A brilliant discovery.

Debut recording

Refreshingly played on a modern piano (Yamaha CFX)

released on 1001 Notes (also in 48/24 high res)

On Vinyl

Hi Kev,

I'm waiting for my copy (different cover shown on amazon). What's your verdict?

Denis

I can really recommend this album. However please don't be put off by the cover it is shockingly bad, considering the quality of the contents. Jenny Lewis is a talented writer and singer.

Graham. 

The Amazing World of Arthur Brown .... 

On CD:-

Hi Denis,

I think it's an excellent album, I really like the tracks Tightrope, Mercy, Liberty and Jennifer, and the others are pretty good as well, I think you are going to like it.

Kev.

On vinyl and with the original cover.

steve

Thanks Kev, I ordered the Saint Saviour LP after seeing her on the Sound It Out film on TV.

Playing disc no.4...

Sonata in E flat major, Hob.XVI.25

moderato - tempo di menuette

Sonata in A major, Hob.XVI.26

allegro moderato - menuetto al rovescio - finale (presto)

Sonata in G major, Hob.XVI.27

allegro con brio - menuetto - finale (presto)

Sonata in E flat major, Hob.XVI.28

allegro moderato - menuetto - finale (presto)

Sonata in F major, Hob.XVI.29

moderato - adagio - tempo di menuetto

Sonata in A major, Hob.XVI.30

allegro - adagio - tempo di menuetto (con variazioni)

[ADD] (p) 1976 VEB Deutsche Schallplatten

edel classics GmbH © 2001 (9xCD box-set)

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On CD:-

First listen! A new recording of Handel's most famous opera, Julius Caesar. The field is very competitive, from the old but still relevant New York recording with Beverly Sills to the more recent Jacobs and Minkowski recordings, not counting video. Halfway into Act I, the recording sounds hugely accomplished, with varied voices and especially contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux giving everything she's got as the titular hero. Alan Curtis also shows himself from his best side, subtle and sensitive to his singers. I love Handel done well, and so far this is superb. I'll report back after I've had the chance to digest the whole recording.

Curtis has recorded for all the big labels, and most recently issued a great Ariodante on Virgin. Naive has afforded him an even better sound than ever before, and the overall production values are OK although the flimsy slipcase is a distinct step back from Virgin's cap box.

Cheers,

EJ

Written two years before his death in 1987, Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet is a shimmering, pristine musical event. Contrasting Aki Takahashi's widely-spaced piano arpeggios with Kronos Quartet's extended chords, Feldman allows lingering sounds from either the piano or the strings to haze over many of the piece's near-silences. Kronos plays their parts with tremulous fragility, often making pointedly clear the viola's musical valley between the leading violins and the trailing cello. By the time Feldman composed this piece, he was deeply committed to extended works--chamber pieces that could telescope motifs and worry their tonality so that it warbled between hauntingly atonal and familiarly tonal singing. This is a powerful, evening piece, one that can set an extravagantly crystalline musical mood. --Andrew Bartlett

This disc has some killer cuts on it - as Billboard put it; "Blending '60s soul with '70s salsa and the more laid-back flair of the '90s Buena Vista sound"

First CD, Messaien's "Turangalila Symphony"

Vinyl

Sia - We Are Born

On Vinyl