What are you listening to? (Vol VII)

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer

Doug,

Thank you. You really have a good memory.

Haim

Acorn "No Ghost"

Earlier in the morning:

Claude Debussy, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (Piano)   1. Khamma 2. Jeux 3. La boîte à joujoux

Disc 14 - Lieder

Jakob Dylan

Afternoon gents... This album sounding rather nice.

Lea Krueger

Originally posted by Florestan:

Disc 14 - Lieder



Wow! I didn't know about this cycle. Is it worth the investment?

Claude

Jackie McLean - Bluesnik;   Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame

Probably my favorite among all ECM's New Series collection.

Sampled Hi Def download of Trichotomy from the naimlabel website.



Now Hot by the Squirrel Nut Zippers -  real foot tapping stuff

The fifth installment of Goerne's magnificent Schubert edition.

EJ

Originally posted by Florestan:

Disc 14 - Lieder



Wow! I didn't know about this cycle. Is it worth the investment?

Claude

Claude-this all depends how interested you are in Schubert and lieder, in particular.  This is a huge collection - 21 cd's.  On the box, you mostly see the three song cycles highlighted but this only accounts for 3 of the discs - D795, D911 and D957.  The remaining lieder probably number close to nearly 1000.  These are the lieder of course that most suitably can be sung by a baritone.  It's a musical investment for me.  These days though it isn't much of a financial investment - very affordably, at least compared to the cost of this amount of music would have been several years ago.

Many gems to be found here but you better like lieder to get your money's worth, I guess.  One shortcoming is that this comes with only a listing of the pieces and no program notes.  The lyrics and translations can be had online but I still like to read informative program notes.  I guess this is the tradeoff for getting more music.  After-all, I can probably be resourceful and find other sources of info.
Doug

Claude, Doug,

If I may add: Deutsche Grammophon contracted F-D and Gundula Janowitz to record all Schubert songs for solo singers - F-D taking the songs for male voice and Janowitz the girly stuff. It's too bad DG didn't package them together, as there are quite a few gems in Janowitz' contribution, and her discs are harder to find. As far as I know, DG never recorded the part songs - for a really complete overview, the Hyperion Schubert edition (which incidentally gives quite a few 'male' songs to female singers) is unequalled.

EJ

On vinyl:-

enjoying this with a nice pint of Erdinger

This double LP arrived this morning.  Lovely flat black vinyl and, of course the music is sublime.  But then I already knew that. 



The inner sleeves are a bit of a tight fit though.

Ray LaMontagne

A bit of variety for a Saturday afternoon







Danny