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;
Next up .......
Sean Rowe - Madman
ewemon posted:
This one is sounding nice this evening.
Local record store gave away an autographed TT by him today. I didn't win it. 
Next up......
Paul Brady - Another recommendation .....
Another of my (in)famous $5 Big Lots purchases...
A + 3 | WAV
Beethoven - piano trios
On CD:-
T Rex - The Slider
Beethoven's 3rd Eroica, with HvK at the helm...
Its Sunday.
Not for the TD purist (4 CDs of re-edited cuts many with additional music grafted in) plus 1 CD of new (in 1994) material. Issued by Virgin/EMI in 1994 at the same time as the remasters of TD's "classic" Virgin label catalogue and the companion compilation "Dream Sequence". This is the 2002 reissue which unfortunately is copyright controlled and I had to use audiograbber to be able to rip for streaming.
Indeed special as others mentioned - I will expand her collection on my Melco...
First play of the vinyl copy. I don't find it too dissimilar to the first album; perhaps not so immediately catchy, so maybe it'll have a long lasting appeal. My copy will have to go back though owing to localised 'scuff scratches' in side two which are a little intrusive in the quieter passages. I guess this is due to some foreign object trapped between the vinyl and the cardboard inner sleeve which scratched the vinyl in transit. I cannot understand the logic for cardboard inner sleeves. If the artist wishes to add a lyric sheet, why not a separate piece of card and put the vinyl in a decent antistatic sleeve?
Lee Ritenour - Alive in L.A.
seakayaker posted:Next up......
Paul Brady - Another recommendation .....
I hope you enjoyed it.
Listening to it myself on battered 30+ year old vinyl, while packing a picnic to head out to one of the Great Get Together picnics, must remember the Factor 50.
Vangelis - Themes
Once again, Sunday brings round the trauma of ironing coupled with the therapeutic Radio Paradise. I don't think RP has ever been more RP-like than this morning. Thelonious Monk, Alt-J, Bonnie Raitt, Rolling Stones, Crooked Still...... excellent!
I'm a subscriber to Qobuz Sublime (I'm not on a retainer, honest!) and, over the past couple of weeks, have been looking at the offers from the Naxos catalogue, particularly the Guitar Laureate and Recital series. I came across this, for about £3:50 download at CD resolution, which I think is very good:
Nothing like a nice Haydn quartet on a hot sunny lunchtime. On a Naxos CD:
Gloria Estefan - Mi Tierra.
This is Gloria Estefan singing in her native language, which I prefer.
Another one of the Kodaly Quartet's marvellous readings of Haydn, again on CD:
