What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2017
2017 has arrived today, so time to start this thread afresh.
Last year's thread can be found here;
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Haim Ronen posted:Florestan posted:Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Einav Yarden (piano)
A group of sonatas from Haydn's later, middle period. Einav Yarden plays with such elan and refreshing life-affirming qualities. Her playing just seems to sparkle.
Doug,
I listened to my countrywoman agreeing that she really shines, but then I took a breath and tried to think of what pianists I already have playing Haydn piano sonatas and off my head I came up with Marc Hamelin, Ragna Schirmer, Murray Perahia, Ivo Pogorelich, Alfred Brendel, Sviatoslav Richter… and that's without going into any harpsichord playing. Unlike you, I feel that I have reached a saturation stage and my exploring drive is in a hibernation mode. Enjoy the discoveries.
Haim
Haim, you have a point. I know I have gone past the point of saturation but their is no going back for me now as it is too late. I will eventually slow down but for the moment I will continue to deny any addictive tendencies and refuse any interventions: it is something that I still enjoy. Each new recording brings with it the possibility and anticipation that I find even more musical joy for my remaining finite life. Having multiple recordings of the same works opens up new worlds that only one recording could never continue to do. Some are mistakes and others are serendipitous finds but one always has to have hope that tomorrow will be a better day and with it maybe a new discovery. Personally, I really connect with Einav Yarden and this disc (and her other of Beethoven / Stravinsky) is worth every penny to me as it gives me inspiration and it is a pleasure to listen to and spend time with.
The flaw in your argument of course is to imply that multiple artists + Haydn (or any great composer) equals duplication. Every fingerprint is unique and this is also true with music and all the various artists who offer their interpretations. I am happy I can listen to Pogorelich one day and Schirmer the next and so on.
I only have two complete Haydn Sonata sets but feeling guilty I wanted to see for myself just how much duplication I had with the addition of this wonderful Einav Yarden disc. As it turns out it is not so bad. By doing this I discovered something that I was going to comment on originally. Out of 62 Sonatas, Haydn probably only wrote 10% (6) of them in a minor key. Pretty standard for him and the time period. What I wanted to say earlier was that the disc ends with the b-minor sonata. After the 5 major key sonatas before this just hearing the sixth made me sit up as it is just so much more interesting (to me) to hear music in a minor key. The drama, the character, the beauty is just immediately so much more evident. What is interesting to me is that where there was duplication in recordings that I own, the b-minor sonata was one of the most duplicated.
I think Haydn should have written more sonatas in a minor key ;-)
Ragna Schirmer: No Duplication
Zhu Xiao-Mei: No Duplication
Tzimon Barto: No Duplication
Claire-Marie Le Guay: No Duplication
Angela Hewitt: No Duplication
Ivo Pogorelich: No Duplication
Andras Schiff: No Duplication
Iddo Bar-Shai: Sonata no. 39 in D major, Hob. XVI:24
Alfred Brendel: Sonata no. 47 in b minor, Hob. XVI:32
Yevgeny Sudbin: Sonata no. 47 in b minor, Hob. XVI:32
Emanual Ax: Sonata no. 47 in b minor, Hob. XVI:32
Wolfgang Dimetrik Akkordeon: Sonata no. 44 in F major, Hob. XVI:29
Denis Kozhukhin: Sonata no. 39 in D major, Hob. XVI:24
Sonata no. 47 in b minor, Hob. XVI:32
Alain Planes (3 CD’s): Sonata no. 39 in D major, Hob. XVI:24
Sonata no. 47 in b minor, Hob. XVI:32
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (5 CD’s): Sonata no. 39 in D major, Hob. XVI:24
Sonata no. 40 in E-flat major, Hob. XVI:25
Sonata no. 47 in b minor, Hob. XVI:32
Marc-Andre Hamelin (6 CD’s): 100% Duplication
John McCabe (complete): 100% Duplication
Rudolf Buchbinder (complete): 100% Duplication
Jeroen20 posted:If I had to name the 10 best jazz albums ever made, this one would be in it!
In my top 10 as well.
Florestan posted:Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Einav Yarden (piano)
Sonata no. 44 in F major, Hob. XVI:29 | Sonata no. 39 in D major, Hob. XVI:24 | Sonata no. 40 in E-flat major, Hob. XVI:25 |Sonata no. 41 in A major, Hob. XVI:26 | Sonata no. 46 in E major, Hob. XVI:31 | Sonata no. 47 in b minor, Hob. XVI:32
A group of sonatas from Haydn's later, middle period. Einav Yarden plays with such elan and refreshing life-affirming qualities. Her playing just seems to sparkle.
This is indeed beautiful music and well played by Einav Yarden. I just listened to it via Tidal. Thanks for posting.
Regards, Jeroen.
A + 3 | 24/96 WAV Download
(2016)
Radiohead's latest excellent album to start off this bright morning.
1st run
Back to Bach with the Brandenburg concertos.
Thinking today of Chuck Berry, now just setting this one up - this has to be the definitive version of Johnny B. Goode - played by Jimi Hendrix.
16/44 WAV. 1st play. Lovely way to start the morning
A great album to start my Sunday listening..
Duke Pearson - piano
Donald Byrd - trumpet (all tracks except #3)
James Spaulding - alto saxophone, flute (all tracks except #3)
Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone (all tracks except #3)
Bob Cranshaw - bass
Mickey Roker - drums
Music Matters 2017 reissue of the 1964 Blue Note Records release.
.sjb
16/44 WAV. not played this for a while
Duck walking around to this. It can't be helped!
Thanks for all the great tunes.
16/44 WAV. IN memory of CB, RIP.
Closest I can get in my library. Hope he doesn't mind.
Clinton was obsessed with making a funk record as ornate and elaborate as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and that shines through in Motor Booty Affair's dedication to world-building genre-hopping and pure conceptual density in an almost cinematic way.
I've never really been a fan of Rory Gallagher (possibly because I was deaf for a week after seeing him in the '80s), but his live in studio version of 'When My Baby She Left Me' on this BBC album is exemplary small group blues rock. The remaining tracks aren't so bad either, but for use of tone and subtle technique that first track takes some beating.
Kendrick Lamar’s major-label albums play out like Spike Lee films in miniature. In both artists’ worlds, the stakes are unbearably high, the characters’ motives are unclear, and morality is knotty, but there is a central force you can feel steering every moment.
Marais is credited with being one of the earliest composers of program music (programme music is a type of art music that attempts to musically render an extra-musical narrative. The narrative itself might be offered to the audience in the form of program notes, inviting imaginative correlations with the music). . His work The Bladder-Stone Operation, for viola da gamba and harpsichord, includes composer's annotations such as "The patient is bound with silken cords" and "He screameth".
there version of "i love you more than you'll ever know" and "i'd rather go blind" are to die for!!
On CD. Swans in their goth phase.