What are you listening to? (VOL VI)

Diamond Bollocks is my favorite Beck track on my favorite Beck album. Also an awesome test track for auditioning HiFi watching peoples reactions as it flicks from thing to another. Beck = Genius.

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Originally posted by Chief Chirpa:

Dean...

Cheers
Flettster

And earlier Black Dub by Black Dub. A new group from Daniel Lanois with Trixie Whitley, Brian Blade & Daryl Johnson.

Really like this.

Cheers
Flettster

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Originally posted by fasterbyelan:
Lovely record Debs, unfortunately it's a while since I last played it. Have you heard Liszt's piano version?

Karl

I do respect Franz Liszt for the fine composer he was, and especially for some of his more familiar works that I can appreciate and enjoy. But his piano transcriptions leave me cold.

imho it renders compositions of older masters palatable for ear-trumpeted Victorians, or at best like listening to Silent Movie Soundtrack music that’s very cheesy and dull.

My listening-sample experiences have come from this HUGE Hyperian / Liszt 99 x CD box-set (for February 2011 release.) Leslie Howard (piano)

It’s a special price! How much are they going to pay people to take it away?


Total duration: 7255 cheesy minutes 52 seconds

Someone on this forum will probably buy that big box set, I better apologise now before I get a lambasting

Debs

Bach Piano Transcriptions - 5

Prelude and Fugue in G major BWV.541 (arr Goedicke)
Prelude in B minor from Clavierbuchlein fur W F Bach BWV855a (arr Siloti)
Prelude from Cantata No,35 BWV35 (arr Siloti)
Prelude and Fugue in D minor BWV.539 (arr Goedicke)
Air from Orchesral Suite no.3 in D minor BWV.1068 (arr Siloti)
Adagio from Sonata for violin and Keyboard in F minor BWV.1018 (arr Siloti)
Fugue in C minor BWV.575 (arr Goedicke)
Andante from Sanata for solo violin in A minor BWV.1003 (arr Siloti)
Passacaglia in C minor BWV582 (arr Catoire)
Siciliano from Sonata for flute and keyboard in E flat major BWV.1031 (arr Siloti)
Toccata and Fugue in D minor ('Dorian') BWV538 (arr Kabalevsky)

Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke (1877-1957)
Georgy L'vovich Catoire (1861-1926)
Alexander Il'yich Siloti (1863-1945)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)

Hamish Milne piano Steinway & Sons

[DDD] Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, London, October 2004

hyperion cd ~ Duration 72'03

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The Toccata - 13 minutes and 55 seconds of stupendous emotion!

Highly Recommended!

Debs

Black Dub - Black Dub

One more time. Love the production on this album.

Cheers
Flettster

Karl

EST - Strange place for snow

Chris

Switching halfway the nocturnes to Arrau. Very different, and equally impressive.

Cheers,

EJ

EJ

Is it okay to play nocturnes this late in the morning?

Debs

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 4

Ashkenazy, LSO - Previn

Decca SXL 6556

Karl

Debs,

It isn't really, but I get away with it due to lack of British manners!

EJ

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Originally posted by fasterbyelan:
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 4

Ashkenazy, LSO - Previn

Decca SXL 6556

Karl

Talk about morning music... I'll join you!

EJ

Karl, do you know these? Despite the early digital recording, the performances are even more impressive than the ones that Ashkenazy did with Previn IMO - largely due to the contribution of the Concertgebouw Orchestra.

EJ

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Originally posted by Flettster:
Black Dub - Black Dub

One more time. Love the production on this album.
Cheers
Flettster

Thanks for posting this, I was not aware of it. I am a fan of Trixie's too soon departed father, Chris Whitley. Fortunately, I got to see him live one time, and Trixie was onstage but she was about twelve and just dancing and grooving to her dad's music.

regards
Jeff A

OK, time to move on to another thread.

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