What are you listening to? (Vol VII)

On Silver!

Must dig out the Black one!

On CD:-

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Ariodante is one of Handel's best operas and one of the most recorded. Marc Minkowski made name with his recording starring Anne Sofie von Otter and a vigorous, often driven performance. By contrast, Alan Curtis goes for a low key direction, more supportive of his singers, in some ways less theatrical and in the long run, less wearing / more interesting. In Joyce DiDonato he has probably the best and most charismatic Handel mezzo around today.

Curtis has recorded a comparatively huge number of Handel operas now, in a series that started off quite dull, in all fairness, but became better with every installment.

Cheers,

EJ

 Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads

Victor Borge, "Live at the {London] Palladium,1972" - priceless, and absolutely no musical taste required!

Only Tom Lehrer reaches this level of musical irreverance in my view! Maybe Dawson or Morecomb and Wise, but not consistently!

Tzar Ivan Ivanovich Fall-of-off! With Miss Mulvey ... Crazy funny ...

ATB from George

 Tracy Chapman

Next up is Mendelsohnn's Oktette with members of the Vienna Philharmonic! Okay, this is the rediculous to the sublime in a few seconds! iTunes is great!

ATB from George

JPN Black Triangle

 The Cure - Seventeen Seconds  still sounds fantastic

Jurgen Friedrich Quartet (with Kenny Wheeler) - Summerflood

Excellent jazz from a former student of John Taylor; used (like new) copies available on Amazon for less than £4 delivered :-)

One of my favourite Nick Cave albums.

 Aloe Blacc - Good Things      One of those albums that just hits the spot. Don't know why because it's not the sort of music I listen too. Heard this in my local HMV and just walked around the store listening to it. Glad I got this

Mine too. I have this in 24 bit off of the recently released CD/DVD issue. Playing through the unitiserve and sounding rather good.

 New Order - Blue Monday 12in Vinyl   Then off to bed

Yep. Love that one.