what was the last cd you bought?

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Josh Rouse: 'Subtitulo'. Short, sweet and mellow but a bit forgettable.

I loved Nashville and played it at my weding as 'background music'. Subtitulo gets a stinker of a review in the new and much improved Uncut.......... I'm still away to see him in Newcastle in May tho..Regards

Richard

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

me:
bill evans - explorations
horace silver - cape verdean blues
martha agerich - bach toccata, english suite, ...
vince guaraldi - charlie brown
something from ecm i don't remember (and can't spell anyway - rather dark)

regards, +bf

ps> everything from blue note and riverside 6.99€ at the moment ici!

Recommendations from you fine folk on the forum to start me in the jazz world. Just arrived but nowt to play them on........160 is still poorly. Gagging for music in the house.

and..................

The Avalanches "Since I Left You"

£1.25 from a charity shop. Bargain.

wending it's way as we speak

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