What are you listening to? (VOL VI)

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Originally posted by DenisA:

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Originally posted by Voltaire:
I haven't been bitten by the PT bug and thats fine but every now and then I dip my toe in the water to see if I have changed my mind. Enjoyable nevertheless.

We are a broad church here, patience my son

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by Voltaire:
I haven't been bitten by the PT bug

I think you might appreciate his other band...rather fine music.

Thanks Lontano...not on Spotify so I will have to purchase.

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Originally posted by Voltaire:

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Originally posted by Lontano:

That's what happened with me. Liked it to start with but then it's depth and longevity struck. I don't get tired of it but it reveals more musically and lyrically each time. It is to me one of those albums that does not make headlines but will be considered a classic for years to come.

Exactly. The lyrics are beautifully intelligent and the music seems to be both contempoary and nostalgically rooted in the past.

If you close your eyes on 'Chicken Bones' it could be Chas & Dave! ( A compliment from me)

And of course I love 'JC hates faggots' which is balanced by the beautiful pro gay 'Caramel' which could have been written/performed by Anthony & The Johnsons.

Yes, I have to indeed join the love fest for this fine album.

Dan Arborise

I turned on MTV this morning while I was doing chores to find two little boys leaping about doing some kind of mash up of classic songs. Just I was about to put my foot through my tv... there was Vanilla Ice, still looking and sounding brilliant but seemingly in cahoots with these two little turds! My sister later explained that they were something called a Jedward?

Thus I am playing this single to remind myself when VI was cool.

Ice Ice Baby...

Prince - When Doves Cry.

Great single. I still consider Prince one of the most talented human beings on the planet.

Utterly superb imho

This Aida, recorded by Decca in conjunction with a run in La Scala with most of the same cast, never really got the press it IMO deserves. Like the Otello with Domingo from the same period, Maazel conducts an amazingly sensitive performance, with perhaps the most touching final duet I've ever heard on CD or in the house. Additionally, this was meant to be Pav's show and it absolutely is, but he was surrounded by the best that Scala could muster at the time - which was considerable.

EJ

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Originally posted by Voltaire:


Utterly superb imho

I could have sworn you were playing QueenII. Well i am now anyway

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Originally posted by Lontano:

I could have sworn you were playing QueenII. Well i am now anyway

Lol. I was but my mum popped in and requested a bit of Scott Walker..

Back on track.

One of my all time fav albums. Dreadfully recorded but brimming over with inspired creativity...classic.

David Gray "Draw The Line"

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Originally posted by EJS:

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Originally posted by naim_nymph:

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Originally posted by EJS:

Bach's well-tempered clavier... in easy listening edition as well as '80s hardcore harpsichord. Still looking for a harpsichord recording that captures a bit of the fun in this music.
EJ

Hi EJ

Have you heard Isolde Ahlgrimm's 1954 recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier?

It's my favourite by far, a wonderful dynamic and vibrant feel even though it's mono enhanced for stereo from original mono recordings.
The book I & II is contained within a Philips 10 x LP box-set along with The Art of Fuge, Preludes BWV924-943 and six Partitas BWV 825-830 ~ all musikally great fun! [i know... i don't get out enough!]

Another version of Ahlgrimm's Art of Fuge is currently available on CD, this is merely 'very good' imho.

i'm not sure if anything else of her solo cembalo Bach works is available on CD (?)

...but it really should be ; )

best regards
Debs

Debs, I don't know her at all! Apart from the Art of the Fugue you mentioned, I haven't been able to find anything substantial by her on CD...

Currently listening to Staier's Goldberg variations. Interesting instrument, and wonderful presentation - I'd love to hear Book I of the well tempered clavier performed in a similar manner!

Cheers,
EJ

Hi EJ,

Isolde Ahlgrimm is available on CD in various chamber and orchestra musik ensembles, and they are all fairly good imo. Her solo work on CD, apart from the AofF on amazon, is around but you need to hunt it down. I recommend the Handel Harpsichord Suites No.s 1-4 Prelude and Fugue in G Major especially at the £3.99 price on ebay, i have purchased a few Ahlgrimm cd's from 'grooves-inc-uk' (based in Basel Switzerland)

Shame you haven't a turntable, someone in your location on eBay (Netherlands) is selling a Ahlgrimm Philips 10 x LP box-set of Bach Das Cembalowerk II which contains the Goldberg Variations Plus aria variata, variations, English Suites, French Suites, Inventions, Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge, Preludes, more Preludes, Fantasies, Toccastas, and a rather splendid Passacaglia BWV 582 in C minor...

It may be just as well you not having a tt, this box-set is a bit pricey!

all the best
Debs

p.s. Also highly recommended ~ Helmut Walcha

Howard Levy, harmonica
Miroslav Tadic, guitars
Mark Nauseef, drums

Music of the Balkan.

Via Spotify
First listen after seeing it on here a few times

As the light fades from the day seem a rather fitting soundtrack

One track... 'Broken the speed of the sound of loneliness'.

Magical.

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Thus I am playing this single to remind myself when VI was cool.

Which minute was that then?

Now on Spotify:-

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Originally posted by naim_nymph:

i'm not sure if anything else of her solo cembalo Bach works is available on CD (?)

...but it really should be ; )

Debs

A few of Isolde Ahlgrimm´s 1950 Philips recordings can be had here (English suites, French Suites and Toccatas):

http://www.baroquecds.com/bachworks.html

I own the WTC and the Art of Fugue from that set and agree, that the interpretations are well worth knowing and that the AoF is preferable to her later recording for Tudor..

I have also owned the Partitas and the French Suites, though I found these rather underwhelming.
She was an important figure in the development of the early HIP movement.

Taken By Trees "East Of Eden"

steve

Cold war rhetoric and big band swing - now that's a weird combination. It was 1957 after all; Sputnik had been launched, Eisenhower was president, and Operation Plumbbob, the nuclear tests, was underway. The photo of the cover looks to be taken from the footage below.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYQOfs98ljM

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer

This is one of those albums that has grown with me its just what Pop music should be like, an unknown classic on a classic label, Boys Own Productions.









Dean...

Debs, this one's for you!



Although this was recorded in the mid-eighties, it strikes me as decidedly old school Bach - Vesela plays her huge organ with reverential dedication.

Incidentally, I've had this since 1991, when I managed to pick up a truckload of historic and recent Supraphon records during a holiday in Czechoslovakia. It was a good time & place to start a classical music library, but it was this record that kept me away from Bach for a long time. Twenty years on, I see its charms but it's still not the most exciting thing in town.

EJ