What are you listening to right now? (VOL I)
Posted by: Tam on 06 June 2005
Anyway, to kick things off, I'm currently, and probably for most of the rest of this week, listening to Radio 3's Beethoven Experience. They're doing one of the piano concertos at the moment and (number 2 with Glenn Gould). Anyway, the experience thing probably needs its own thread, but, even on this cheapo radio it's proving fairly enjoyable.
So, what are you listening to right now?
So, what are you listening to right now?
Love Corrine's voice!
I'm singing along 'la la means I love you'.
Haim
Morton Feldman / Piano and String Quartet (1985) / nonesuch
Koronos Quartet
Aki Takahashi, piano
"What I am after is somewhat like Mondrian not wanting to paint bouquets, but a single flower"
The piece was composed two years before his death.
Haim
TIME Further Out / The Dave Brubeck Quartet / Columbia
'A jazz interpretation of the Joan Miro painting 1925. Conceived as a blues suite, each reflection is in the form of 12 bar blues or a variation thereof'.
Haim
A great a capella group.
Beautiful voices.
Tears of Lisbon / Hueglas ensemble, Beatriz Da Conceicao & Antonio Rocha / Sony
"Tears of Lisbon reveals the soul of Portugal in a program featuring music of the Renaissance placed side by side with today's popular fado".
Exceptional.
Haim
"Tears of Lisbon reveals the soul of Portugal in a program featuring music of the Renaissance placed side by side with today's popular fado".
Exceptional.
Haim
[QUOTE]Originally posted by sjust:
Djivan Gasparyan - Heavenly Duduk
Not from this world. A real master Duduk player !
stefan,
Something for you:
A collection of the greatest female singers of Istanbul from 1920 through the mid forties, the golden era of Turkey's cabarert-style nightclubs.
Music was restored from original metal discs.
Regards,
Haim
Djivan Gasparyan - Heavenly Duduk
Not from this world. A real master Duduk player !
stefan,
Something for you:
A collection of the greatest female singers of Istanbul from 1920 through the mid forties, the golden era of Turkey's cabarert-style nightclubs.
Music was restored from original metal discs.
Regards,
Haim
For As Many As Will = Shirley and Dolly Collins's last album with contributions from Barry Dransfield and Philip Pickett, Tony Engle. Michael Gregory and Paul Nieman
From Lancashire Lass to The Harvest Home Medley, this is another superb folk album.
I'm still recovering from the error in the New Year's honours list that omitted Dame Shirley Collins (Sir Tom Jones - they're having a laugh).
I've just read
It's about Shirley's early life in 1959 Shirley when she went with American musicologist Alan Lomax on a year-long journey through the musical heartland of the Southern States of America. During this trip they recorded the music of religious communities, social gatherings, prisons and chain gangs for the U.S. Library of Congress and discovered the bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell. These original recordings were featured in the Coen brothers’ film "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou". Shirley’s book recounts this journey, intercutting and complementing the American narrative with an autobiographical account of growing up in Hastings and London during and after the war. It goes with out saying that I thought "America over the Water" was superb and thoroughly recommend it to anybody and everybody.
quote:Originally posted by sjust:
ADAM:
WHY CAN'T WE DELETE OUR OWN THREADS ? THIS IS EMBARRASSING !!!
No kidding.
Well, Forum members have to put up with more spelling and grammar errors by me!
Both arrived tonight:
Rejoicing / Pat Metheny / ECM
In The Year of The Dragon / Geri Allen / Winter & Winter
Stefan,
I guess it must be my recent mood, but I clearly prefer the Geri Allen album though it sounds more 'plain'.
Regards,
Haim
Bill Evans / Alone / Verve
Recorded in New York in 1968, remastered in 2002. Some of the best solo piano one can listen to.
Haim
