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

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Originally posted by Huwge:
Can't help but smile at Stefan going back to his roots

Yeah, great LOUD music.

Early Saturday morning. Snow outside, the music inside:

Elizabethan Consort Music / Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall / AliaVox.

Haim

The Kennedys - Half a Million Miles

More info on them here.

Jim

Gidon Kremer's take of the 2nd Bach Partita. Huw, you were right, his reading IS exceptional, and gives yet another perspective into this great work.

And (for a change, after all this rumgenörgel about the ML being bad with low volumes) - capturing recording (the ones in St. Nikolaus) beautifully presented by the Summit !

cheers
Stefan

quote:

Originally posted by sjust:
Gidon Kremer's take of the 2nd Bach Partita. Huw, you were right, his reading IS exceptional, and gives yet another perspective into this great work.

And (for a change, after all this rumgenörgel about the ML being bad with low volumes) - capturing recording (the ones in St. Nikolaus) beautifully presented by the Summit !

cheers
Stefan

S

Stefan,

This is why they are called 'Summits'. You are supposed to reach a new one every time you listen to them. How do you say 'Summit" in German?

Haim

Haim - summit in German is Gipfel

Today, have enjoyed the new Souad Massi - quite different to Deb, will probably need a few more plays to take it all in.

Also, an awesome disc 1 of a Stravinsky / Shostakovich set - a DG collectors edition of works recorded for the label by Leonard Bernstein. The Israel Philharmonic and Lennie certainly know how to do the Russian stuff, however, the dynamic range of the Firebird can make you unpopular if the other half happens to be on the 'phone at the same time.

Tomorrow, I am really looking forward to the reading of the Leningrad with the Chicago SO.

Although the recordings were made between 1977 and 1989, given that this set was released this year, I can see this making my discs of 2005 list.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Huwge:
Haim - summit in German is Gipfel

Huwge,

Thanks a lot. A great sounding word 'Gipfel' It even rhymes with Eiffel (the tower). The view is graet from the Eiffel's gipfel....

Enjoy the week-end,

Haim

quote:

Originally posted by Huwge:
Haim - summit in German is Gipfel

Today, have enjoyed the new Souad Massi - quite different to Deb, will probably need a few more plays to take it all in.
(...)

Huw,
Had the new Souad Massi in my hands (and on the Player in the record shop, today). Wasn't convincing enough for me to buy. Have my problems with the coherence of music (very appealing) and language (less so...)

cheers
Stefan
(continuing with Kremer - after a lengthy lunch which was a favour to the electrician that had installed my mains, about 1,5 yeary ago...)

Stefan & Huwge,

Have you heard of Esther Ofarim? She has a great voice and I have her disks in Hebrew. She is an Israeli who lived for a while in Germany where she reached her career's 'GIPFEL' (you see guys, I am learning. My grandmother from Berlin would have been proud of me) singing in German. Check her out:

http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=2923090

Best regards and good night,

Haim

Very late Saturday night, music before bed-time:

Achirana / Vassillis Tsabropoulos, Arild Andersen & John Marshall

Rosslyn / John Taylor, Marc Johnson & Joey Baron

Good night,

Haim

G Lounge: Milano
'soulplanet jazz emsemble'

Downtempo acid jazz groove complied by Marco Fullone.

quote:

Have you heard of Esther Ofarim?

Haim,
I haven't hear of her - I am sure Stefan has, but I will seek out a disc. Thanks for the tip.
Huw

Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)

"Diva"

EMI Classics

Of course, Germans (at least of a certain age...) know Esther Ofraim. She used to be one half of the "Abi & Esther Ofraim Duo", known in the sixties and seventies. In fact, I have read about her singing again (I think there's even a 2005 release...).

Is that a recommendation, Haim ?

Oh, and, while we're recognizing serious learning efforts on your side, here's a little help for the word "Gipfel" which is meant to give you the oportunity to shine endlessly (given the right opportunity to use it...) The pronouncation is:
G like in Goofy
i like in ship
p like in prodigy
f like in fun
e like in treck
l like in lust

I have a wav file, in case you're interested, unfortunatly you can't attach in the music room.

So, even, if it would be nice to sound like Eiffel, it doesn't quite...

cheers
Stefan

Stefan & Huw, Good morning.

This is an album which I heard great reviews of, and I intend to get it.
Esther is singing world music in different languages.

http://www.elusivedisc.com/prodinfo.asp?number=FIMXR001


Haim

PS

Stefan,
My wife teaches poetry, and your Gipfel poem might end up with her. Who knows? You might become famous..

Was in a serious mood, so I listened to Brahms' Fourth Symphony, LPO under Sir Adrian Boult done in 1954. Now I am feeling jolly again! Not that the performance is jolly, but it IS uplifting. Tremendous, really, and on times I think it is the greatest Brahms Symphony reading I know...

All the best from Fredrik

Sunday morning:

Antonio Vivaldi / Sonates A Pisendel / The Boston Museum Trio

The instruments are violin, viola de gambe and clavecin. Very delicate anda bit slower music, not typical Vivaldi.
Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755), a celebrated violinist and composer at the Saxon Court had travelled to Venice (on the expens of the king of Saxony) to study with Antonio. He is the only person to whom Vivaldi dedicated any of his work.

Haim

Celtic Voices.

"Women of Ireland"

Followed by:

Máire Brennan

"Whisper to the Wild Water"

Sunday night, some Jazz:

J.J. Johnson /Standards /Antilles

Recorded live at the Village Vanguard in 1988. JJ plays the trombone like it was the easiest instrument you could play. Track two, 'Shortcake', is my favorite of this album.

http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=1117010

Haim

LP of Miles Davis "In a Silent Way", Columbia, digital remaster from original analog tapes.

This recording has a shocking amount of tape hiss, at least three times louder than anything I've heard before. It's unlistenable.

Steve

Avian Migration: "Heavy Breathing" LP includes "Cough-Cough We All Fall Down" (bonus material)

Check out the "Breathless" track for a real dose of good old-fashioned blues.

Rabih Abou-Khalil - Between Dusk and Dawn

Early (1986) recording with congenious players like Charlie Mariano, Glen Moore (Oregon) and Glen Velez. An extraordinary sound bath indeed !

in heaven,
Stefan

Missus is out so a vinyl night for me

Koln concert - Keith Jarrett - sublime

Blue - Joni Mitchell - sublime

Eliminator - ZZ top - nostalgia for my youth kicking in

Love over Gold - Dire Straits - yes really

and back to CDs for the Bach (Pinnock) overtures which Fredrick F. introduced me to.

Evenings like this are too short..

Ian

Dino Saluzzi / Cite de la Musique / ECM

Dino Saluzzi, bandoneon
Marc Johnson, double-bass
Jose M. Saluzzi, acoustic guitar

Magical.

Haim

Dear Ian and Friends,

More Bach here too... The First and Second Partitas so far but I must hit the hay soon.

Fredrik