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;
On Vinyl
As the name implies, this album consists of pieces composed with the saxophone in mind. Nine saxophonists in all (from the London Saxophonic) pitch in on the disc, which also features some piano, folk-rock vet Danny Thompson on contra bass, several percussionists, piano, and occasional ensemble vocals; Moondog himself contributes bass drum, bongos, and (as a member of the ensemble) vocals throughout.
dave marshall posted:If we're talking dodging between genres, then I'll raise you a ZZ Top, and see you with this ..............
Kodo - Blessing Of The Earth.
Want to test your system?
Nothing better than some heavy duty Japanese drumming ...........boom boom!
Superb Dave, I remember going to see a Kodo gig back in about 1990 or '91, fantastic and very different.
Mudcrutch. On 2 LPs from 2008. It took the band 38 years to release a their debut album. Well worth the wait.
Revisiting Toscanini/NBC's Brahms 3rd.
Recorded at Carnegie Hall, it sounds pretty good for the vintage (1952).
Starting this morning with Beethoven.
Very nice guitar based jazz quartet...
From last night this brilliant album ...
2013 Audio Fidelity limited edition reissue on 180-gram transparent red vinyl; mastered by Kevin Gray.
My first CD
Klemperer/Philharmonia: Brahms Symphony 3
Contemporary and this set aged much better than Toscanini set in that the styling is pretty *now*. Layer upon layer of instruments make it rich but it’s well organised so the tune is easier to follow.
I love his rendition of Academic Festival Overture. This is a prime example of how the score should be done. Even Klemperer could not save the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink cheezy finale but done in a tongue in cheeky way.
The 70s were such a musically fertile period,. And this album is a fine example.
Kind of a strange album...
He is perhaps not the best one for playing this kind of music, but I do like his soft tonality .......and at the same time it sounds very good to me, so perhaps it's even good also compared to objective standards...
Bert Schurink posted:He is perhaps not the best one for playing this kind of music, but I do like his soft tonality .......and at the same time it sounds very good to me, so perhaps it's even good also compared to objective standards...
As I enjoy it so much I thought I add a Guardian review on this album...
Schubert: Piano Sonatas D960 & D664 CD review – sensitivity and rapture
Kate MollesonLast modified on Thursday 13 April 2017 22.00 BST
Javier Perianes revealed to the Guardian that his most memorable live concert experience was hearing the great Romanian pianist Radu Lupu playing Schubert’s Sonata in B flat major, D960. He said he would “never forget that emotion from the very first to the very last note”. Now he has recorded the same sonata – Schubert’s last – and made his own very personal account of its huge emotional scope.
With Perianes, the touch is always warm and the edges are never harsh: the hymn-like opening is whispered and tender, the exploratory passages are wide-eyed and the song-like melodies really sing. He doesn’t get the glimpses of rage and terror that some performers do, but instead gives us sensitivity and unguarded rapture. He pairs D960 with the blithe A major Sonata, D664, and brings space and weight to music that some pass off as slight. It’s generous playing.
Goodness! Prime live Jerry on two CDs!
Handel' Messiah - Heather Harper, Helen Watts, John Wakefield, John Shirley-Quirk and the LSO conducted by Colin Davis
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My first recording and still one of the best. Not long before this recording John Shirley-Quick taught at my father-in-law's technical college in the Epsom area. The drive that all the soloists bring to their performance is quite remarkable.
Marc Minkowski's recording on CD also excellent.
The 1980s were in many ways a low point for popular music. But when it was good, it was very, very, very good - as with this belter from 1983. Fantastic performances from all the musicians, superb songwriting from Johnson (great lyrics especially) and some absolutely banging tunes. I'd forgotten just how good this is - an absolute classic from start to finish. As they used to say, "all killer, no filler". I'm listening to the 1990 Epic CD - simewhere I have the original cassette, which has an entire album's worth of extra material on Side Two. Must dig it out...
Original vinyl from 1976, Vangelis 'Albedo 0.39'
Otis Taylor - Fantasizing About Being Black.
I may well have posted this one before, 
, but you really do need to give this a whirl.
Trance blues from Otis, the present day John Lee Hooker.
It's on Tidal, so you've no excuse not to .............. have a listen ............... NOW! 