What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)

Richard Morris posted:

nigelb posted:

Greg Brown - Covenant

Thanks to whoever it was who posted this originally. I like it. 

Blue Car, on this cd, is a great song.

It never ceases to amaze me the people who have managed to go totally under my radar. I imagine I'm going to enjoy Tidalysing his back catalogue if the first listen to this album is anything to go by. 

.sjb

Boston - 9/24/72 - with the big band...

Christian Grovlen - Bach Inside Polyphony

• Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor
• Sinfonia no 1 - 15
• French Suite no 3
• Partita no 5

He plays the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, French Suite and partita very nice. For the Sinfonias he plays them somewhat 'subdued' which sounds fine at the beginning. But as some point I got a bit bored.

Heifetz Concertos - Sibelius,Prokofiev,Glazunov. All on one nice sounding disc that costs less than $10. RCA 'Living Stereo' recordings from 1959 Sibelius/Hendl/CSO, Prokofiev#2/Munch BSO & 1963 Glazunov/Hendl RCA VSO.

Amy Macdonald  -  "Under Stars"  (2017)

Streaming WAV

(1977)

Because its been a while since I've played anything from theses boys. This is the German version of the classic album.

Hannah Aldridge - Gold Rush

I am having a lovely time with second listens to stuff I have Tidalised from this fine place. I rather like this. To help you decide if you would like a listen I would describe Hannah's music as soft country rock. Yes, that's about right.

Once again thanks to whoever it was who originally posted this on here. 

ewemon posted:

Richard Morris posted:

ewemon posted:

 

Tower Records Japan exclusive issues a series of SACD's remastered from the original analogue masters. 

Have hardly stopped playing this since I got it.

Any comment on the sound, compared to older releases?

 

I need to compare it with the 4 other versions I have playing through an OPPO which is not my normal way of playing cd's. (1st pressing Japan, 1st WG mastering, Gold disc and a SHM version).

I believe the cd layer is just a mastering of the standard Japanese cd but must admit that I am finding nuances in the music that I feel I have never heard before whilst playing the SACD layer.

I wasn't quite sure of the sound initially as I didn't feel there was much bottom end even so I can't stop playing it but I would rather compare it against some of the other copies of the set I have before making a judgement. 

This is my most played album of all time and my fav disc.

Yes, Ewe, it is an outstanding album.  I'm a little curious as to how many of your CDs are transfered from the original masters. I have an  AAD ECM (German pressing) from 1996 and the SQ is rather good but not spectacular and it also contains the original encore missing on earlier pressings. 

The great jazz trio - Monk's Moods

Hank Jones – piano, arrangements
Eddie Gomez – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums
Terumasa Nino – cornet (#1, 5)

Streaming WAV

(2007)

Because I want to run in and hear what this Uniti Atom can do. Impressed! 

1969 - vinyl - Uk first pressing - mono...

ewemon posted:

This is lovely.

Nice one Ewe. Great tip.

N

Berg Violin Concerto (1935), Bartok: Two Rhapsodies (1928) - Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Boulez conducting the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra

Spent about £52 on 11 LPs and 4 CDs at Oxfam yesterday. This cost the premium price of £4.99.

You might be interested in my brief précis of the cover below.

This is the first one to be cleaned and what dramatic works! The first was a commission which Berg delayed writing until the death of Manon Gropius the beautiful young daughter of Alma Mahler. It became in effect her Reqiuem. Unfortunately he died soon after and before it's premier which also made it his Requiem. It is a very beautiful and moving work which deserves to be played more often.

The two Rhapsodies were composed after Barton's expressionist phase which others were just moving into. His music changed radically as he developed a more ritualistic concept based on the folk music of Eastern Europe: he took over and absorbed its rhythmic and melodic shapes and harmonic forces, and in doing so forged an idiom recognisably his own. 

Having read some of the posts on the "Liberalism - Gone Mad" thread I feel sad for [@mention:1566878603872495] that debate can become so personal. Mahler and other composers suffered at the hands of those seeking to uphold their opinions rather than see that existence has an almost infinite number of possibilities that take time to develop. Some survive and others do not. At the age of nearly 70 I am becoming more musically adventurous than in my youth. We should all share what we experience more and listen and respect different view points trying to learn from others.

Phil

Sloop John B posted:

Richard Morris posted:

nigelb posted:

Greg Brown - Covenant

Thanks to whoever it was who posted this originally. I like it. 

Blue Car, on this cd, is a great song.

It never ceases to amaze me the people who have managed to go totally under my radar. I imagine I'm going to enjoy Tidalysing his back catalogue if the first listen to this album is anything to go by. 

 

.sjb

Start with Poet Game which I still think is his best.

2012 - Vinyl - Triple US pressing...

Patty Griffin, Servant of Love. Title track is a real stunner both musically and sonically.

A guilty pleasure. Another surprise from Asset's jukebox playlist.

"Automatic shoes give me 3D vision and the California blues"

Sheer poetry!

Bach Organ Favorites, vol. 3 - E. Power Briggs - played on The Flentrop tracker organ in the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Cambridge, Massachusetts 

Another of yesterday's Oxfam acquisitions, this time for £1.99. This organist has a massive list of recordings to his name. Hearing this LP I can understand why. If you want an introduction to organ music and Bach's work this is the place to start. The SQ is fantastic. The first and third Preludes and Fugues on the first side span a period of 20 years. The first is known as Arnstadt after the town where Bach held his first post as organist, and last known as Cathedral dates from Bach's Weimar period.

The second side of 6 Schubler Chorale Preludes, starts with the well known wachet Auf! Ruft Uns Die Stimme or Sleeper Awake!

There are some really deep notes. More importantly the works illustrate the organ mimicking so many orchestral instruments in its own way. The vinyl sounds stunning.

Phil

Max_B posted:

Last night, soon before going to sleep, while my wife was sleeping already in the couch after a 12 hours travel back home including car, a ferry, three trains... And I wanted to try a new box I added to the system. Beautiful music.

Max, you should have listened to the Boxtops through your new box..

A class ACT, highly recommended:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...st=RDPj1LMgCUWys#t=0

TOBYJUG posted:

Sounds like a mix of Shpongle and Amazon rain forest bird sounds.