What are you listening to? (Vol VII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 29 December 2010
Vol VI - https://forums.naimaudio.com/ev...8019385/m/9042967727
Vol V - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...385/m/9962941917/p/1
Vol IV - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...8019385/m/1832985817
Vol III - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...385/m/6192934617/p/1
Vol II - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...8019385/m/3112927317
Vol I - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...8019385/m/6532968996
AND - this might be of interest:
http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...962920617#1962920617
On CD:-
Vinyl.
Vinyl 2 x 180g ~ Sundazed Music Inc © 2009
Arthur Lee - Love Lost (Original recordings from 1971)
On Vinyl. One of the all time classic album sleeves.
On Vinyl
On CD:-
Me Too.... but on Vinyl 
That's a coincidence.........
I bought a copy of "Even in the Quietest Moments" on CD today to replace my old vinyl copy. Played it in the car today to get my fix! Great album.....enjoy 
Think I'll stay with Supertramp for now, with this classic
Brings back great memories of my younger days. Every house in our street seemed to have a copy of this......On Vinyl
Girl at her Volcano from this Boxed Set!
Beethoven - Showing us how to rise above our circumstances with life affirming music in B-flat major and e-flat major.
Liszt - Music about life and for the living. I believe Liszt understood the human condition, represented through music, more than most.
Picking albums at random to go over specifically Op. 110, A-flat major piano Sonata (no. 31).
Bruno Walter once pointed out that the characteristic pattern of Beethoven's music was as beginning in darkness and proceeding to light. In the various Adagio transformations leading up to and then into the Arioso dolente, I can think of few other pieces of music that portray grief so poignantly. You can hear the musical equivalent of sobs or wailing. The crooked rhythms point to the unspeakable despair as well. This of course from a composer who defiantly raised his fist to his impending deafness. You don't need a score to hear this. It is just prior to the Fuga and then returns briefly shortly there after.
The entire Sonata is a roadmap through exquisite beauty to grief and, finally triumphant joy. Nadia Boulanger said, "the greater the art, the larger the emotions it can hold." There is so much to discover in this music....
