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

Thanks Adrian, I will have a look at the Burning Shed shop, and check a few prices elsewhere too.

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Messa da Requiem

Maria Stader soprano

Marianna Radev mezzo-soprano

Helmut Krebs tenor

Kim Borg bass

RIAS Kammerchor

Chor der St.Hedwigs-Kathedrale

RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin ~ Ferenc Fricsay

 Polydor (p) 1954

[ADD] Deutsche Grammophon CD 1995

Surely the best choon is Sicko Cell?

"I'm the information: Cocaine powder"

Dance floor destroyer. What they call Gun Finger Music. Loved it when James Blake dropped it on Boiler Room live

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        Just about the best choon of the last couple of years, Hyph Mngo:

Yerp, Sicko Cell is another Joy O gem, for sure. I thought it was maybe Pearson Sound / Ramadanman when I first heard it, so not a bad guess.

Talking of whom, there's some choons on this Rama ep...

I somehow got asked for ID only a year or so ago (which was funny, but good) but unlike Rama above, at least I look older than thirteen, heh heh.

Just looked and I have that James Blake Boiler Room podcast (22.12.10) listed in my iTunes, though the download keeps stopping. ( I remember you mentioning them so I'm subscribed, but I almost never listen to them, doh.)

Yay or nay?...

This even got a mention in the recent Naim Connections thing, but for me, so much better before he opened his mouth (CMYK, Klavierwerke, etc). Other than the Feist cover, he just can't sing - his recent EP with Bon Iver was atrocious, lol.

Alfred Brendel recorded four albums of Haydn sonatas and other keyboard works, in the 70s and 80s. Truly extraordinary playing, there is no going back after you've heard these performances.

EJ

EJ.

Ah.. so that's what he's good at!

I have to remember to try his Haydn then.

So far I've listened to his Beethoven and Schubert both of them are rather ho hum.

Kuma,

Have you heard his 1980s Schubert cycle? Far better than his earlier analogue work or his later live recordings. His Beethoven is an acquired taste - of his three complete sonata cycles I have a soft spot for his last one (it is also the best packaged CD set that I have, with CDs in envelopes depicting the original CD covers, spread over two cap boxes, both of which and a bound booklet in a very thick hard cardboard slipcase. And not least, signed by Mr. Brendel in Amsterdam on 23 - 2 - 1997).

Cheers,

EJ

On Vinyl. Hated this when first released maybe because it was such a departure from their previous stuff. Love it now, only took 23 years.

I think you might also like...

EJ,

I've only got the Philip or Turnabout/Vox release vinyls. After hearing those I didn't want to spend any more on his newer stuff!

Which Schubert CD do you recommend purely based on his performance?

For Beethoven, tho, I've only tried his early Sonatas and I *could* blame on Haitink for dull performance on the piano concertos.

Or you just weren't baked enough.

On Vinyl

Still making my way through my first listen of this via flac/usb stick into my uServe>nDac.  Probably will get my vote for Album of the Year 2011.  It's quite good.

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Selected Works...

Music for the Royal Fireworks

Watermusik suite in G major

Oboe Concerto in G minor no.3

Concerto Grosso in B flat op.6 no.7

Organ Concerto in F major "Cuckoo and the Nightingale"

Concerto Grosso in B flat major Op.3 no.1

Overture (to Berenice)

Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Dream Music (Ariodante/Alcina)

Pour les Chasseurs I & II (Il Pastor Fido)

Playing the first 2 LPs of this wonderful 3xLP box-set, the third LP is all snippets of various Handel operatic works that are interesting enough to demand a proper scrutiny when i have more time later : )

Debs

I just really like what he does with the bagatelles - joyful

The Buena Vista Social Club are warming up the living room. If there is one disc that consistently reveals more as you upwardly tweak your system or even just optimize, it has to be their first disc. Currently it's their output over the years, shuffled and streamed. n-DAC another, non-regretted purchase, to say nothing of the 555PS

on vinyl;

earlier....

Rickie Lee Jones: Girl at her volcano

and now

I was blown away on first hearing, and quite sober. Although I liked 'Colour of Spring', this album was a huge step from that.

I really don't like a lot of 80's music, but when I heard this, and the stark guitar chords just into 'The Rainbow' showed that someone still knew what a guitar was, and that everything didn't need to be smothered in DX7 synth sounds.

E.M.I. tried to sue them for making un-commercial music with this album, but the case was thrown out of court. Their four album deal with E.M.I. was up, and they moved on to Mercury (I think).

It is in a lot of later musicians favourite albums, Karl Hyde of Underworld said 'I reminds me to try harder'.

Alongside 'Laughing Stock' this remains one of my favourite albums. Apparently Mark Hollis spends most of his time quietly playing golf these days, and is happier for none of the hassle of the music industry. Good for him, but a bit of a pity for those who love his music.

In performing terms, one of UK's best partnerships