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

Posted by: Richard Dane on 29 December 2011

With 2012 almost upon us, it's time to start a fresh thread.  I've gone back to an earlier thread title because often the "why" is the most interesting part of the post.

 

Anyway, links:

 

Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1

Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229

Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495

Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042

Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474

Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043

Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290

 

 

 

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by GML

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by pocusfocus

Another classic album

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by Lloydy

 

Haven't listened to this for years

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by BigH47

Via iTunes:-

 

 

A great album, with Richard Thompson as a bonus.

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by pocusfocus

Classic Purple

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by cto007

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by apye!

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by apye!

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by pocusfocus

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by apye!

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by pocusfocus

Outstanding.

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by Lloydy

 

Memories of teen years

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by Lloydy
Originally Posted by pocusfocus:

Outstanding.

I totally agree. This was an album I missed when it was first released. Love it now!

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by tpia

 

One for the Baroque box junkie. 

 

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by lutyens

 

just got my copy on lovely thick vinyl from the US. Wonderful .......and a fab pressing!

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by pocusfocus

Another outstanding album

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by Flettster

 

Definitely grows on you this album.

 

Cheers

Flettster

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by Flettster

 

Cheers

Flettster

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by patk

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by patk

The Holmes Brothers - Feed My Soul

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by Haim Ronen

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by patk

The Blind Boys of Alabama - Higher Ground

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by patk

 

Thelonious Monk - Alone in San Francisco

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by Flettster

 

Cheers

Flettster

Posted on: 17 February 2012 by Florestan
Originally Posted by Aleg:
Originally Posted by Florestan:
Originally Posted by Aleg:


wonderfully relaxing

Ach!

Pass Go, Pass the Wish List, straight into the shopping cart!

(I wish I could have heard this last year when I was learning the Franck...)


Do you play the cello part or piano part? I think your Avatar already gives me the answer?!

 

I think it would be wonderfull to be able to play the cello, I love the instrument. And my wife being a pianist, we could do the Franck at home.

 

I would love to see your CD collection, I think I would like it very much

 

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aleg

 
Aleg,
Yes, you guessed it.  I am a pianist but cello is a second love.  I own a cello too but due to lack of time I am still very much a bottom rung beginner.  Still, something as simple as playing an open low C gives me so much pleasure and satisfaction.  When holding an instrument, the vibration through your body and the room can never be duplicated even to a listener in the same room and certainly not by the best stereo replay.  If you are patient and can persevere for the long haul I would really encourage you to investigate what it would take to get you playing the cello.  You have an ideal situation and a perfect partner for this.  That would be my dream relationship!  Playing chamber music with someone ultimately ties you together as if you were married anyway.  You have to get along and work out the differences in opinion and character and whittle each other down.  It helps if you really like that person to begin with.  Then you will experience intimacy at such a heightened level where you can anticipate the other through movement or breathing.  
 
 
Originally Posted by EJS:

 

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        Aleg, Doug,

Curious to hear the Franck - is it a reworking of his violin sonata?

Cheers,
EJ


Yes, it is a transcription for cello of the Violin Sonate.
You can have a listen here:http://www.qobuz.com/album/fra...oulenc/0822189019518
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Aleg

 

There is some debate over which came first.  Some believe that this sonata was written for the Cello first.  In any event, Franck presented this piece as a Violin Sonata to violinist Eugène Ysaÿe on the morning of his wedding (who then scrambled to learn it and play it with a pianist that very day for the guests).

 

There is absolutely no difference between the score for violin or the score for cello other than the cello part is written in the Tenor Clef as opposed to the Treble Clef.  Essentially, it means the cello has to play mostly in its upper range.

 

After spending more than a year of my life with this Sonata I've come to appreciate this piece now more than ever.  If I don't hit the submit button soon I think I could easily write a 10,000 word essay on the piece as their can be so many things to say about it - both intellectually and on an emotional level....