What are you listening to right now? (VOL I)

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Originally posted by sjust:

May report later about

From first impressions could be interestign fro you, Haim.

Peace
Stefan

Thank you Stefan,

I have it already on order from JPC as well as a Trovesi, a Towner, a Lloyd, a Stephen Stubbs, a Mozdzer and a Speake. I will report when I get the stuff.

Frieden,

Haim

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:

Gianluigi,

So much music! Do you have time to breathe?

Regards,

Haim

Stefan,

You would love her.

Haim

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Originally posted by HR:

quote:

Originally posted by sjust:

May report later about

From first impressions could be interestign fro you, Haim.

Peace
Stefan

Thank you Stefan,

I have it already on order from JPC as well as a Trovesi, a Towner, a Lloyd, a Stephen Stubbs, a Mozdzer and a Speake. I will report when I get the stuff.

Frieden,

Haim

Now, that I've been through with it, I KNOW that you'll like it. A precious piece of music making, really...

Schalom
Stefan

quote:

Originally posted by HR:
So much music! Do you have time to breathe?

Dear Haim!
These is one of these days (night already) when the record just come one after another with no sign of getting bored!
A good day!
I love music!
Now i'm listening to this:



I don't know why but i think you'd like it.
It's electronic music with strings and classical melted inside.
I do like Murcof records very much.
He's so delicate and can create such perfect atmosphere.

Cheers and peace!
Gianluigi

Splendid.



SJB

quote:

Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:

quote:

Originally posted by HR:
So much music! Do you have time to breathe?

Dear Haim!
These is one of these days (night already) when the record just come one after another with no sign of getting bored!
A good day!
I love music!
Now i'm listening to this:



I don't know why but i think you'd like it.
It's electronic music with strings and classical melted inside.
I do like Murcof records very much.
He's so delicate and can create such perfect atmosphere.

Cheers and peace!
Gianluigi

Gianluigi.

Murcof seems interesting but I am going to get first Beethoven's piano & cello music though I have some of those sonatas with Barenboim and Dupres.

Regards,

Haim

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Originally posted by sjust:
[Haim

Now, that I've been through with it, I KNOW that you'll like it. A precious piece of music making, really...

Schalom
Stefan[/QUOTE]

Good Stefan,

I like also the photograph. Kind of an unusual angle and the subtle colors.

Frieden for the Nacht,

Haim

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After missing my Air F****e flight from Paris, calming down with the beautiful




Peace,
Stefan

Great Saturday night music. I saw Eric Harland in San Francisco 2 weeks ago with the SF collective where Joshua Redman said his next recording will be with Eric and a percusionist or bass, similar to this recording.

Anthony

Great you like it, Anthony - so do I ! (Also the SF collective)

Now:


and



Both very fine records featuring Klucevsek (Well Tampered Accordion) and others in a magical combination of all kinds (small big, ...) of accordions.

Gems, really.

Peace and cheers (Gianluigi: ),
Stefan

Just back from a fairly stressful (business-wise) trip to Hong Kong and chilling to the latest Lisa Ekdahl - Pärlor av glas



When my brain is back on European time I will add the Hiline and fit my new 'geddon and have a proper listen to these new bits - tomorrow most likely

Just lstened for the fourth time since yesterday afternoon to Solomon playing Beethoven's first two Piano concertos! I cannot get over it. This is the most exciting performance I have got on record for maybe twenty years - exciting in the sense of illuminating the music, not fireworks! It takes me back to early days of first encountereing the greatest music in virgin state. a great deal of this stems from never having really understood the Second Concerto fully...

I never really cared too much for it before, and have had such luminarries as R Serkin, D Barenboim, A Schnabel, among others in the work. Solomon manages to be both exquisitely beautiful and also strong, but most of all, in his hands it hangs togethter as a whole. I can see this reading as a key to me understanding a previously misunderstood work. That is priceless.

There are times when one comes across a reading of music that is so satisfying that one can but conclude that is is very correct as to its way!


Stiil learning! Fredrik

The first 4 Brandenburg Concertos with Trevor Pinnock directing the English concert.

This a.m.:

Lucinda Williams-Essensce
The Clash-London Calling

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Further Attepmts / Todd Garfinkel / MA Recordings

Todd Garfinkel, piano
Shigeo Sugiyama, bass/cello
Tomohiro Yahiro, percussion/tabla

This is a further attempt on my part to point out that Further Attempts is one of the most magnificent, intimate piano music that I ever heard. The Bosendorfer Imperial 290 sounds so clear and delicate that I always feel like I am sitting on the piano bench, next to Garfinkel who is doing his magic.
Perfectly recorded in 1988 in Harmony Hall, Mastsumoto, Japan.

I am willing to bet that no forum member has this music. For how long? It is up to you guys.

Regards,

Haim

I thought I would be jet-lagged, had a wide awake spell and fitted my new 'geddon. Why didn't I buy one of these earlier - there have been a sequence of black discs spinning but The Healer has just turned up with Mr. Mud on guitar. I hate to think what adding a Hicap or Supercap to my Flatcapped Stageline will do 'cos it sounds mighty fine as is.

John Lee Hooker (backed by Muddy Waters and his band) - Live at the Café Go Go

I am listening to my 8 year old son practising for his Grade 2 piano. It's amazing to see a little one playing so nicely. Hardly Mitsuko Uchida, but one day maybe..........

Nigel

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Originally posted by Huwge:
I thought I would be jet-lagged, had a wide awake spell and fitted my new 'geddon. Why didn't I buy one of these earlier - there have been a sequence of black discs spinning but The Healer has just turned up with Mr. Mud on guitar. I hate to think what adding a Hicap or Supercap to my Flatcapped Stageline will do 'cos it sounds mighty fine as is.

John Lee Hooker (backed by Muddy Waters and his band) - Live at the Café Go Go

Huwe,

Good to have you back. This is the Hooker I listen to the most.

Regards and best luck with the work,

Haim

Thanks Haim, have a few more years to get through before reaching that one! Sadly, all my Hooker LPs are in chronological order

B is back now so it will be Beautiful Bossa Nova on CD next

Again.
Warmly recomended.

Brahms Fourth Symphony twive in a row! Addado with the Birlin Phil from around 1990, and then Felix von Weingartner in about 1940 with the LSO.

This makes a fascinating contrast, and one that starkly demonstrates the Birlin tradition (Furtwangler/Karajan/Abbado) of Brahms playing with the approach of a conductor who Brahms admired and worked with! It is a reasonable supposition that there was hardly a Brahms tradition in London at the time! Thus the older recording probably represents exactly what Weingartner wanted!

The amazing thing is that the performances are very close in style to each other, though the sonorities of a modern recording in Berlin are naturally rather more deeply upholstered than those of an English orchestra in Wartime London.

It would be idle to pretend that the older recording gets a more spiritual result, but it is more energetic to some extent. It does demonstrate that Abbado was part of a great Brahms lineage not so far in style from the oldest great Brahmsian to make records of the music!

Fredrik

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Just lstened for the fourth time since yesterday afternoon to Solomon playing Beethoven's first two Piano concertos!.....

Prompted by Fredrik I dug this disc out (it having been a while since I last had a listen), it really is stunning stuff. Indeed, if it wasn't for the fact I struggle with the Solomon 4th (as I struggle with any non-kempff 4th) this would be by far and away the best cycle I've ever heard. In summary, no self-respecting Beethoven fan should be without these discs (and either of the Kempff 4ths).

I'd especially agree with Fredrik about the second, it's a concerto that is often unconvincing (though clearly, from this performance, that's no fault of the music).

regards, Tam

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Again.
Warmly recomended.

Ho finalmente capito, Gianluigi...
After posting this 3+ times, you have convinced me that I need this CD. Order placed, a minute ago...

Now, I think it's fair to expect that YOU buy Ralph Towner's new one ("Time Line") - which I listen to with grate joy, again and again. Look ! It's on there again !

ci sentiamo,
Stefan