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

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Originally posted by munch:
Gian the post man rings once . munch

I usually don't give him the time to!

Groovy night!

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Originally posted by munch:
Stevie Wonder Innervisions munch

Great taste munch as it is part of a brilliant period of Stevie recordings, Talking Book, Music etc and Songs in the Key. Not many artists can say that they have recorded 4 discs one after another that are classics.

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Usual lack of imagination leads me back to Bach. Or perhaps I just like his music the best...

Goodnight dear friends from Fredrik.

Fredrik,

It is always good to hear from you, regardless of what you are listening to or how many times you are doing it.

Here is something that was at least inspired by Bach..

Best regards,

Haim

what a precious gem, Haim !

I only have ONE Nikolaeva recording, but it's in my treasure chest (a live recording from Salzbug, when she wasn't too young, any more, but was she ever young ? well, anyway...)

cheers
Stefan

crap...

cheers
Stefan

Never too late for golden oldies..............

A new one, pretty nice , I think Diccus62 might enjoy... not top rank like Lizz Wright or OTR but worth spin.

Ian

Strange, but I don't seem to have seen discussions about this one, here...

Just at the very first seconds, here...

cheers
Stefan

not nearly as poorly produced as many forum members seem to think

SJB

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Originally posted by mtuttleb:
Haim,

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm just about to order this, which seems to cover pretty much everything on DG label

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006YXP0/ref=or...TF8&m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF

Regards
Mark

Mark,

That is a lot of Michelangi. Please let me know how well he plays the German composers.

Regards,

Haim

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Originally posted by kuma:

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:

Haim,

I've picked this CD up today ( unfortunately not on a vinyl ) as well as this one.

It's lovely.

Kuma,

I am glad you liked Claude & Arturo.

I always thought that the French composers had their own magical way with piano work.
I do not suppose that you are suffering too much listening to them on the 555...

Regards,

Haim

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Originally posted by sjust:


Strange, but I don't seem to have seen discussions about this one, here...

Just at the very first seconds, here...

cheers
Stefan

Stefan,

Last week I was searching for Dowland's music, and among other things I listened to Sting.
I did not like at all his song presentation, and I ended up selecting two other Dowlands on Linn and Naxos.

I will report when I get them from JPC.

The Shostakovith's 24 Preludes is the only work that I have with Nikolaeva. Would you have anything else to recommend by her?

Regards,

Haim

Well, you got me back into French piano music again...

Here is another excellent one: Alexander Lonquich playing Gabriel, Olivier & Maurice (Faure, Messiaen & Ravel).

Haim

Oh Boy, this one is pretty poor really isn't it?



SJB

Sharrock on guitar and Pharoah Sanders on sax drive this rock-tinged excursion into free jazz territory.



Probably one of my top 10 desert island jazz albums.

Classic Perlman

PACE

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Originally posted by IanGtoo:


A new one, pretty nice , I think Diccus62 might enjoy... not top rank like Lizz Wright or OTR but worth spin.

Ian

I'll have a check, thanks ian

diccus

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:

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Originally posted by sjust:

Strange, but I don't seem to have seen discussions about this one, here...

Just at the very first seconds, here...

cheers
Stefan

Stefan,

Last week I was searching for Dowland's music, and among other things I listened to Sting.
I did not like at all his song presentation, and I ended up selecting two other Dowlands on Linn and Naxos.

I will report when I get them from JPC.

The Shostakovith's 24 Preludes is the only work that I have with Nikolaeva. Would you have anything else to recommend by her?

Regards,

Haim

Have given Sting 1.5 spins, now, and am not disgusted by it. Firstly, it's the musical material that I do like a lot. Secondly, Karamzov's playing and the instruments he uses are absolutely worth it. Thirdly, teh recording isn't bad, either in my view. Now, whether Sting's singing is authentic, approporiate or anything else, is debatable. Whether it's nice, a matter of personal taste. Absoluteley d'acore with you.

As a confessing Sting "fan" (have seen him in his VERY early Police days as a side act together with Eberhard Schoener - imagine that... And his solo work has never failed to have an effect on me), I'm biased, and also value the fact that somebody breaks his usual boundaries, takes "risk", and does something different.

More opinions ?

cheers
Stefan

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Mark,

That is a lot of Michelangi. Please let me know how well he plays the German composers.

Regards,

Haim

Haim,

There is already a slightly negative review of the Beethoven and Mozart on Amazon UK which I attach. I think considering the cost of some discs individually, the box set is good VFM even though the Beethoven and Mozart does not quite hit the mark. I look forward to receiving this early March.

Regards
Mark

"Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli is one of those performers who seems to divide listeners. For some he is a magician capable of conjuring wonderful sonorities and colours from his instrument. For others he is an icy perfectionist whose playing is as unengaging as it is perfectly controlled. This DG set contains a good cross section of his recordings, though it does not contain his perhaps most famous recording, the Brahms 'Paganini Variations' made for EMI. Strangely this set left me in two minds about Michelangeli. The Mozart and Beethoven concerto recordings on the first discs left me rather cold. But there are some real treasures here too: Schumann's 'Carnaval' and 'Faschingsschwank aus Wien'; Brahms' 'Ballades'; some exquisite Chopin (the first 'Ballade' and a handful of mazurkas); and last but not least some Debussy ('Images', 'Children's Corner' and 'Preludes'). The Debussy recordings are stupendous and worth the price of the set on their own. The control of colour, mood and voice is fantastic and you will not hear these pieces played better."

Jackie Leven - Forbidden Songs Of The Dying West

Rickie Lee Jones-The Sermon on Exhibition Boulevard

i really groove this album.

PACE