what was the last cd you bought?

Thanks for confidence Haim!
Beautiful records!

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Thanks for confidence Haim!
Beautiful records!

Seconded. Both of them are great !

cheers
Stefan

Yesterday I picked up:
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl (- sounds great on 1st background listening in kitchen whilst cooking!);
Neil Young - Praerie Wind - Good but perhaps relies rather too much on structures used to good effect on Harvest Moon;
Paul Simon - Graceland Remaster - a fantastic record which I know inside out from vinyl;
Elgar's Violin Concerto - Nigel Kennedy / Vernon Handley - not yet listened to - this one is for tomorrow!

Peter

The Cat Empire - Cities
The Whitlams - (forget name but new 2cd one)
Bruce Springsteen - The Seeger Sessions
Triple J Hottest 100 Vol 13
INXS - Switch

Some pop, some rock, some folksy, some a real mix

Lonnie Liston Smith: Loveland
Love this record!

Last Amazon order, recommend Front page with Dennis Chambers, Birelli Lagrene and Dominique Di Piazza for Jazz Rock fans. Some CD's have still not reached me.

Jonas Hellborg: Personae
Jonas Hellborg: Icon
Jonas Hellborg: Good people in times of evil
Mattias "IA" Eklundh: Freak Guitar: The Road Less Traveled
Mattias "IA" Eklundh: Freak Guitar
Ted Greene: Solo Guitar
Bireli Lagrene: Live in Marciac
Jim Hall: Concierto
Dennis Chambers: Front Page
Vital Information: Vital Information
Bill Frisell: East/West
Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy's Big 4
Ella Fitzgerald: Porgy & Bess
Tord Gustavsen Trio: The Ground
Emily Remler: East to Wes
Steve Topping: Time and Distance
Jeff Berlin: Crossroads
Miles Davis: We Want Miles
Steps Ahead: Live in Tokyo
Liquid Tension Experiment:Liquid Tension Experiment

Nice one but only listened on ipod and in car so far, cant wait to get time on the system

Early days yet, formulating an opinion.

A mini splurge on Amazon netted:-
Archiv triple CD JSB Brandenburgs The English Concert.
June Tabor - Anthology (£3.38 bargain)
Bangles - Greatest Hits.

On order

The Legend of Sweeney's Men: Anthology - Sweeney's Men
Eleanor Mcevoy - Eleanor McEvoy
Harvest Storm - Altan
The Landing Step - Grada

Scribbled In Chalk - Karine Polwart
Crash Course In Roses - Catie Curtis
Timeless - Martina McBride
Heartaches & Highways - Emmylou Harris
G.P. / Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
*Revival - Gillian Welch
*Tambourine - Tift Merritt
Bramble Rose - Tift Merritt
Trio - Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris

Still waiting for
Taking The Long Way Home - Dixie Chicks
*The House Carpenter's Daughter - Natalie Merchant

* replacement for previously copied discs

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto. Two VPO soloists, VPO, Munchinger on Decca. I have failed to find a really satisfactory performance of this, and I hope that this performance is fine. I got it a week ago, and loaned it away even before playing it, due to a conversation about the classics with a heavy metal loving friend! I refered him to the slow movement as a top starting point with the classical style! I hope I was right.

The coupling is the two Flute Concertos.

Anyhow, I am still hoping that it gets the music right. Fredrik

Dear Fredrik

Karl M�nchinger was a great conductor, now sadly forgotten in our rush for period performances. I own a number of his Bach recordings, and I have heard him live twice, the first time performing The Art of Fugue, the second time performing Mozart Flute Concerto nr.1 (with Jean-Pierre Rampal) and the Jupiter Symphony. His Mozart was, if possible, even more shining than his Bach. What do you thimk of the recording? Werner Tripp (on the CD if I�m not mistaken) should be excellent.

Regards,

Dear pe-zulu,

It is splendid in every way! It is just so natural, and completely unforced in the way it unfolds. The slow movement, which often sounds artificially phrased and excessively sweet, is less moulded than usually, and flows gently and some what more deeply than usual, and becomes a real node of stillness (not static of course, but emotionally strong and steadfast) between to outer movement wich are of course gaity in music! Really a sort of perfection.

The rest of the disc has the two Flute Concertos played by W Bennett with the English Chamber Orchestra under G Malcolm, and as recorded these sound more muscular than the VPO! It is another approach altogether, and rather more on the surface, which is fine, but it is much rarer to find such depths found as Mucnchinger and his esteemed soloists do in what is always called lightweight Mozart - the Flute and Harp Concerto.

You see I am very happy to find this, dear pe-zulu.

All the best from Fredrik

PS: For anyone else interested in this the release is Decca Sequenza 440 080 2

Arrived this afternoon from Germany:

* Gianluigi Trovesi Nonet / Round About a Midsummer's Dream / Enja
* Leszek Mozdzer / Piano / ARMS Records
* Charles Lloyd / Sangam / ECM
* Ralph Towner / Time Line /ECM
* Stephen Stubbs / Teatro Lirico / ECM
* Martin Speake / Change of Hearty / ECM
* Rolf Lislevand / Nuove musiche / ECM

Stefan, thanks for the recommendations.

Haim

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Originally posted by whiteflyer:

*Tambourine - Tift Merritt
Bramble Rose - Tift Merritt

I've got tickets to see Tift Merrit this month (i think!) in Newcastle , but havent any of her records, what do you reckon?

Ta

Diccus

I have resisted Seger sessions but cannot any longer after hearing the live reviews.

Neil album sounds class streaming on his site.

Both winging their way as we speak.

Diccus

Both from ECM new series

Beethoven Sonatas Vol. 2 with Andras Schiff
Stravinsky/Bach with L. Kavakos and P. Nagy

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Originally posted by Diccus62:

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Originally posted by whiteflyer:

*Tambourine - Tift Merritt
Bramble Rose - Tift Merritt

I've got tickets to see Tift Merrit this month (i think!) in Newcastle , but havent any of her records, what do you reckon?

Ta

Diccus

If I lived near you I would take the tickets off your hands.

I've been to gigs before from band who I've never heard of (Hot Club of Cowtown) and always enjoyed it, good way to hear a band and a night out anyway

Bought it but wont have it till 22nd

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Originally posted by HR:
Arrived this afternoon from Germany:

* Gianluigi Trovesi Nonet / Round About a Midsummer's Dream / Enja
* Leszek Mozdzer / Piano / ARMS Records
* Charles Lloyd / Sangam / ECM
* Ralph Towner / Time Line /ECM
* Stephen Stubbs / Teatro Lirico / ECM
* Martin Speake / Change of Hearty / ECM
* Rolf Lislevand / Nuove musiche / ECM

Stefan, thanks for the recommendations.

Haim

Haim, Stefan,

I can sense you are interested in ECM recordings... I bought this one a couple of weeks ago...very good percusion....and acoustics...I, played aswell in a Naim session here in Vienna (long-tone hifi):

contemporary music of Nik Bartsch’s Ronin, featuring Sha, Contrabass and bass clarinets, Bjorn Meyer bass, Kaspar Rast , drums and Andi Pupato percussion. ECM records 1939. A superb experience.

regards and...

naimly yours

efrain

Altan - Local Ground
Altan - Island Angel
Solas - Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers
Dervish - Live in Palma

Looking forward to playing them later.

Howlin' Wolf - His Best (Chess compilation)

Riverside jazz compilation, excellent value at £5 from Fopp.

"Road Runner" Albert Lee and I have been given "the Seeger Sessions".