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

Espiritu /Guilherme Verguerio, piano & Carlos Dos Santos, guitar / naimcd041

Haim

Siegfried/Bohm.

regards, Tam

Neil Young – Silver & Gold

Bit of a Neil Young fan and bought this ages ago, played it in the car a couple of times and didn’t think I liked it.

Just started listening to it again on my system and it’s excellent!

Kelly Joe Phelps "Roll Away the Stone"

Gentle bottleneck blues guitar and gentle be-wailing.

Sounds okay at low levels too. Good late-night fare?

Family, Fearless; a cruelly underrated group. In that 'unclassifiable' category that many English groups of the late 60's/early 70's fell into: Eclectic. As warm as a friendly local Leicester pub and a pint of Tetley's.

PFM - the western.
Big Bud - Indian summer.
Susumu Yokota - the boy and the tree.
Aim - Cold water music.
Nookie - In at the deep end.
Air - Blue moon safari.

regards,

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Originally posted by bhazen:
Family, Fearless; a cruelly underrated group. In that 'unclassifiable' category that many English groups of the late 60's/early 70's fell into: Eclectic. As warm as a friendly local Leicester pub and a pint of Tetley's.

You have a great record collection - another gem from Family and I agree they were hard to classify, but easy to enjoy.

On my turntable this evening is Willy and the Poorboys by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

4th copy of 'Chuck Mangione: Feel So Good' which is finally clean and quiet enough to play.

Just putting on the Goldbergs from Walcha, again, prior to hitting the hay, and really concentrating... And I shall not sleep till it ends. Not Nachtmusik at all...

fredrik

Kelly Joe Phelps - Tap the Redcane Whirlwind - still one of my best albums of 2005

M Ward - Transistor Radio.
Nice but I think his other album The Tranfiguration of Vincent is even better. They're very similar anyway.
Deon

Ferenc Snetburger - Nomad - superb guitar jazz, with an element of world thrown in in an ECM type style with the wonderful Arild Andersen on bass. Great atmospheric evening music.

I'm listening to Bedouin Soundclash - Sounding a Mosaic. There is just something about the first track that makes you want to groove, and it grows on you. The rest of the album is getting there, but slowly.

I'm also playing Jackson Browne - The Next Voice You Hear - particularly Tender is the Night. I think I will invest in some of his vinyl.

Trying to get into Franz Ferdinand, but still not sure about them, but I really like the first two tracks on Green Day's American Idiot.

Thought about Kate Bush, but the cardboard cover is so cheap and tacky - guess I'll wait for the vinyl - I know records come in cardboard covers, but they are far more substantial and interesting.

Brad

Bluesy Burrell - Kenny Burrell with Coleman Hawkins.

Great combination from 1962, beautiful contrast between Burrell's guitar and the big fat sax of Hawkins.

Supporting musicians, Tommy Flanagan (Piano), Major Holley (Bass), Eddie Locke (Drums), Ray Barretto (Conga), not bad either!

Nic

Now that the neighbours have had a lie in, moved onto Muse - Absolution

Nic

Schubert Symphony No.8 Wiener Philharmoniker R. Muti

Grieg followed by Schumann Piano Concertos in A minor, S. Richter

Biber / Harmonia Artificiosa /Musica Antiqua Koln. Perfect for Saturday morning.

Haim

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Originally posted by HR:
Biber / Harmonia Artificiosa /Musica Antiqua Koln. Perfect for Saturday morning.

Haim

Good boy
Was that following my recommendation ?

cheers
Stefan

On a roll today

Ravel Piano concerto in G. Arturo B. Michelangeli, 1958 on EMI classics

Peter Weniger - Legal Paradizer

Boys ! (and girl...) If you got speakers that can do bass THIS is the CD for you. Walls shaking and all...

(Note to myself: must not forget to order new (sound-proof) door. Will be my next upgrade...)

cheers
Stefan

Revisiting old Joan Armatrading LPs from late'70s, definitely worth the trip but some of these discs are getting fairly worn out now

Dear Friends,

Just got the lovely old 1931 HMV Paris recording of Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto with the phenomenal Marcel Moyse as Flute player, and the delightful Lile Laskine as Harpist. I last listened to the 78s of this perormance in 1973 preparatory (with the score in hand too!) to my first concert (London Mozart Player under Harry Blech in the Malvern Festival Theatre), and the Pearl CD is splendid. My goodness I'd forgoten what a superb performance this was! So much space and poise for all the phrases to so beautifully be brought out. I bought a Classics For Pleasure new recording (can't remember the artists) which was strangely my first ever record of it though I am terribly fond of this little piece of popular Mozart. It was hopeless. My goodness things have not improved much in any respect in the last seventy five years on this showing. I could not imagine it being nicer than this veteran effort...

I also got the 1969 Prom performance of the Great C Major under Boult, whose reading is splendid I know, and so I have a delightful evening ahead in so many ways!

All the best from Fredrik

Eva Cassidy - Eve by Heart

Fantastic

Spock

The great C Major I mentioned really is even more than expected. Wonderful. everything that was fine in the two commercial releases of Boult, I have or have had (1934 and 1971), is there coupled with a fantastic flow and and fire. Even the dreadful Albert Hall acoustic seems to fail to diminish the inner voices, which naturally form the underpinning of the music and Boult's reading. BBCL 4072-2. Also included is a very fine Anacreon Overture and another by Cornelius, which is less interesting as music.

The performance I would now like to find is Boult's 1954 recording on Pye, which EMI now own, but has never reappeared since its release. Boult was at his height in the fifties, though to be honest the only reservation I have about this live recording is the audience, who are both too noisy and too early in their applause. They start nearly a bar before the end, but then it must have been a wonderful concert... A bit of Italianate enthusiasm cannot really be gainsaid.

All the best from Fredrik

Good boy
Was that following my recommendation ?

cheers
Stefan[/QUOTE]

Yes,
Thank you again, Stefan.

Regards,
Good boy