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;
seakayaker posted:.....next up
Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
.....flashback to the '70's ----- love Joni's voice
Such a superb album. Not a weak song in sight! This was the album which got me interested in Joni. I found it in a stack of albums owned by a girlfriend in the 80s - it wast the only album in her collection which interested me. Maybe that's why the relationship didn't last!
I was just listening to Desert Island Discs on BBC R4 where a piece was played by Arvo Pärt, the delicacy of which reminded me of Gabrielle Aplin's cover of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood song, 'The Power of Love'.
Having commented on Seakayaker's post above I felt compelled to play it myself. I wish I could say that it takes me back to the first time I heard it, but it doesn't. Maybe that's because I've played it off and on through all the years since then.
Continuing with more Joni. This one escaped me and I only bought a copy last year, so it's like a new release to me 
(Probably) my favourite of her studio albums...
Just a great Artist
Pcd posted:
Great voice
Just re-released on the Marge label (Bandcamp).
1962 - Tidal Masters...
1970 - Tidal Masters: To Bonnie From Delaney
1962/63 - Tidal....
Can you see the real me? Can you?
A masterpiece!
premiered in 1934, recorded in 1957 with Stravinsky conducting...fascinating mélodrame for speaker, chorus, soloists and orchestra.
CD from the complete box set on Sony/Columbia.
`......First up
Freddie Hubbard - Live at the Northsea Jazz Festival, 1980
From all about Jazz website: "Originally a two-LP set and now a single CD, Live At The Northsea Jazz Festival, 1980 definitely falls into the "gem" category. The trumpeter/flugelhornist is captured on stage at The Hague in Holland, where he leads a cohesive quintet that includes Davis Schnitter on tenor sax, Billy Childs on electric keyboards, Larry Klein on electric bass and Sinclair Lott on drums—and where he truly soars on familiar originals like "Red Clay," "First Light" and "One Of Another Kind" as well as an explosive version of John Coltrane's "Impressions."
It is a lovely wake-up call this morning.....
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943): Sandro Russo (piano)
Piano Sonata No. 1 in d-minor, Op. 28 | Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33: No. 3 in c-minore & No. 6 in e-flat major, Op. 39: No. 5 in e-flat minor | Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 | Four Earl Wild Arrangements
1971 - Tidal...
Just playing the cd which came with the album because I'm suffering with man-flu and feeling too knackered to get the LP out.
Blue note trip - Sunset / Sunrise
With the warm weather and the start of the weekend I find I'm in the mood for a blue note trip CD.
Something a little different very enjoyable though.
I think we have an impending electrical storm so thought I'd squeeze this in before switch-off!
G