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

McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt

1: Outbreak Of Vitas Gerulatis 2: Prag Vec At The Melkweg 3: Christian Rock Concert 4: Lets Not 5: Yipps (My Baby Got The) 6: Hedley Verityesque 7: A Lilac Harry Quinn 8: Our Tune 9: Girlfriend's Finished With Him 10: Everything's A.O.R.

Sunday Night is Biscuit Night in the Rotf household

Soundtrack to "A Life Aquatic" (contains Bowie songs sung in Portugese).

Steve

Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses by Steven Osbourne. Hot stuff!

EW

Monolake - Digitalis / Plumbicon

DS

The Orb - Adventures beyond the ultraworld

I'm in that dreamy escapy mood at the moment, suitable music.

Miles - The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions Disc 4

On Deck - Kate Bush - Never for Ever

Alice in Chains 'Unplugged' - dark, but magnificent.

John Cale-------Black acetate---arrived today.

Cowboy junkies - Early 21st century blues. Perfect antidote to a busy day and a welcome return to form

Waulk Roots - Capercaillie to be followed by:-
A History of Progressive Folk 2 CDs.
Both rented from Library.

Howard

Mozart: Symphony No. 21 K134 - Allegro
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Ton Koopman (The Erato Autumn 1990 Collection)

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay

It's supposed to be their masterpiece, may well be, I don't know, but it sounds like nice clean fun.

Easy Rider - OST(ish)

Howard

Herbie Hancock's new album "Possibilities," great early morning groove for a Saturday.

Moved onto Brendel & Brendel Beethoven cello sonatas (delightful) and now Vivaldi Arie d'opera, vol. 27 in Tesore del Piemonti series. Wow! check out track 6

The "free"** NAIM Hi-Fi Choice sampler.


** Only free if the mags £3.90 every month.

Howard

Just been enjoying Decca's Erich Kleiber set (part of their Original Masters series). Mostly Beethoven symphonies, and thoroughly enjoyable. A song for £6.


regards,

Tam

Bach Cantatas vol. 1, Gardiner - Gramophone CD of the year, a remarkable effort and deleterious on the bank balance

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Originally posted by Huwge:
Bach Cantatas vol. 1, Gardiner - Gramophone CD of the year, a remarkable effort and deleterious on the bank balance

I was pleasantly surprised by the sample on last months cover disc. It's good to hear it lives up to the hype (although I can feel the strain on my wallet already!).


regards,

Tam

Tam

Re Erich K, you must mean £6 per disc, surely?

Let me know if you experience really bad "crackling" for a few seconds in the last movement of the (Beethoven) Ninth. I've had two copies and it's present on both.

Graham

Nope, £6 total for all 6 discs (there's a reason for Britannia!)

I've only listened to the first 4 discs so far (including the Ninth, which I think is the worst in terms of sound quality). As far as the crackling you mention goes, there's certainly something funny going on in those last few seconds, though I'm not sure I'd describe it as crackling, more like the kind of juddering interference when a tape is stuck. Other than that, though the set has been excellent.


regards,

Tam

Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, Barenboim. Strange, I have the Gould version which I don't much care for (unlike his excellent Goldbergs) so I only bought this because it was on sale, but am finding it wonderful. May have to buy Book 2 as well now!


regards,

Tam

Haydn - Paris Symphonies; Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Delightful, definitely worthy of the Gramophone plaudits. Will have to dig out vinyl Dorati / Davis versions to do a proper compare & contrast

Tom Middleton: Jedi's Nights Out. ( May the Funk be with you )

Haydn: Seven Last Words (Kodaly, Naxos). Can anyone recommend a good string quartet recording? The Kodalys play well but the recording's shit.

Thanks,

EW