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

steve

Aleg,

Thanks for the heads up. I had no idea these were available!

I looked at their catalogue and I see another Schubert release so I will get that, too.

I hope they work on my Cd player. It's been a while I have played a hybrid disc and hope the sound quality improved from the past.

Would love to replace my vinyl copy of Sandering/Lennigrad Rachmaninov and Mravinsky's Tchaikovsky set.

It would be cool if they release Gauk/USSR Phil's Schuman's Piano Concerto, too!

Getting in the mood for the weekend with Digweed/Sacha - Communicate

Followed by the following which arrived a few days ago - 

Karl

The xx - Coexist   

Then

Beth Gibbons and Rustin man - out of season

Chris

I tried one on my Naim CD5XS and it played just fine.

Normally I rip the SACD layer and convert it to high res WAV And playback from my audio pc

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Aleg

Why? Because I wanted to sing along to Don't Stop Believin' (badly)

steve

This is one of those nights I'm so glad my hifi can do the music justice. 

I waver but this is probably my favourite Rory album, "what's that I hear is going all around town?"

Ane Brun - Spending Time With Morgan

Discovered the now deceased Mr. Howard from the Documentary 'Autoluminescent'. The guy seemed like a complete narcissist and probably a bit of a wanker to know but what a great raw rock album this is. I love the dark twisted decadence and drama of these songs. It's as if the sound is emanating from a big black space. I can't really liken this to anything I know. Is anyone familiar with this album?

Etudes befitting the news of the day.

Cheers

Flettster

Kempff's Schubert Sonata No.16.

Very different from Richter. 

Ever lyrical, his notes are light as air without any pretence or mucho posturing. The music sounds so natural yet rhythmically *with it*. He never show the mechanism of how it's done.

The Emerson Quartet: Bach-The Art of Fugue

Franz Schubert: Doric String Quartet

Quartet for Strings no 13 in A minor, D 804/Op. 29 no 1 "Rosamunde"

Quartet for Strings no 14 in D minor, D 810 "Death and the Maiden"

Doug,

Looks like my guys are having more fun walking.

Haim,

Fun is often so overrated!  

Your guys look lost; my guys look purposeful.  Your guys lack symmetry and cohesiveness; my guys form a strong team with the prowess to face the musical challenges at hand.  Your guys live in a one-dimensional coloured world; my guys are at the centre of a perfect black & white world full of adventure, puzzles and mazes offering never ending symbolic virtue .

Great performance and again a very good remaster.

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aleg

Doug,

My guys look like musicians, yours like IBM executives.

"One could be forgiven for thinking that this disc might just be a case of another classical pianist deciding to indulge a 'hidden passion' for jazz, but thankfully it represents no such lapse in taste from Marc-André Hamelin or Hyperion. Hamelin sets out his stall straight away in his chatty and unstuffy liner note, stating simply 'there is no jazz in this recording'. He goes on to qualify that statement and explain that even if the music on the disc - by Friedrich Gulda, Nikolai Kapustin, Alexis Weissenberg and George Antheil – might sound like jazz with a feeling of improvisation and creative abandon, all but one of the numbers is fully notated.

Hamelin, however, manages to make the fistfuls of notes all sound improvised and effortless. One suspects that in the hands of a lesser pianist, the difficulty in having painstakingly to learn and reproduce all the notes in the score would come through in performance, robbing them any feeling of what Hamelin calls 'the heady kind of freedom associated with jazz performance.' But although it's difficult to tell what jazz aficionados might make of a CD like this, collectors of piano music are going to find the results irresistible."

Hugo Shirley, MusicCriticism.com

Trick of The Tail original CD release and darn marvellous it is LOUD!