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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Jeroen20 posted:Duke Ellington meets Count Basie
I have this and read an account of the recording from Ellington biography. Turns out it was other people's ideas to put them together but both thought they were better or at least different from each other. Egos are hard to meld together. They could never get off the road at th same time, or was it they didn't want to do it? But since big band music was at a low ebb it meant money to both of them to keep their bands going. Still both of them are very interesting, I tend to like Ellington, he's more exploratory and lyrical with his music. My Basie recordings seem more energetic and his band kept going after he passed which was good for his music.
in the queue, next up......
I found the Columbia Album, the two albums have 6 songs on each one, two with the same title and four with different titles. The concerts were recored in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Ann Arbor. From the liner notes on the Polydor release it does mention that there are differences: "Fortunately, there was enough worthwhile, often brilliant material on the tapes of both albums, with only one duplication of repertoire. The sole repeated item, the melody of Hancock's "Maidien Voyage" and Corea's "La Fiesta," differs noticeably from the version on the Columbia album. For one thing, it clocks in seven and a half minutes shorter at 27 and a half minutes. For another, "Maiden Voyage" is developed more elaborately and "La Fiesta" incorporates more touches from the avant-garde and generates a little more heat. Indeed the Polydor album seems to have been programmed with more of a classical bent than its Companion."
Looking forward to it!
Salonen is my favorite local guy tho Dudamel is conductor now of LA Phil and did a year long Mahler, he seems to have punched up his conducting. I heard Esa-Pekka conduct this, it sure has clarity and punch.
I just started a book "Why Mahler, How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World" Norman Lebrecht, first chapter is more of a personal account then it will go into his biography. I read Alma's biography, very touching but she was a scamp at times, knew he was jealous but had men courting her all the time. Maybe that is why some passeges are a bit dour?
Doug, I decided today not to touch any of my 80+ CDs parked on the coffee table. The hardworking 3.5 is getting a Friday rest.
......now playing
Andy Bey - American Song
....why....because I want to listen to a lush soulful voice to gently ease me into this hot and lazy Friday evening.
Papa Doo Run Run - California Project. 1985 Telarc CD-rip. Beach Boys' hits covers in nice sound. Summer fun!
Vinyl [Analogue Productions]
Now Playing......
Mark Knopfler - Screenplaying
Why - It's Friday Night, a good night to go to the movies and hear some music.....
.....a 1993 release with 18 tracks of music from the movies, Cal, Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Princess Bride, and Local Hero.
New classical music..
Streaming WAV
(1973)
On this beautiful summer morning I'm starting off streaming disc two from this early live Yes album.
Stevee_S posted:Streaming WAV
(1973)
On this beautiful summer morning I'm starting off streaming disc two from this early live Yes album.
For some reason Yes never seemed to have captured a good sound quality when recorded live. I have this on vinyl and CD (the ripped CD is slightly better) as well as the Progeny set and Keys to Ascension, none of which really convey the beauty of the music owing to SQ limitations.
The music on this album, however, is coiled into my DNA.
Angela Hewitt - Bach: The art of the fugue
Until yesterday I only had two Tangerine Dream titles in my collection, but having played Phaedra earlier in the week I decided I ought to fill in some gaps. I've never heard this before (well, not knowingly) but it seems already known to me. Maybe it's the induced trance state!
Clive B posted:Until yesterday I only had two Tangerine Dream titles in my collection, but having played Phaedra earlier in the week I decided I ought to fill in some gaps. I've never heard this before (well, not knowingly) but it seems already known to me. Maybe it's the induced trance state!
Nice choice Clive. Just in case you don't know too much about the album you can find out a lot about it from Amazonian reviewers comments here.
Not a name I can recall seeing on this forum but one of the great modern saxophonists.
Very dynamic trio music, currently cheap at Qobuz....
In 24/192 WAV, a fellow forumite recommendation. A terrific recording, great music. Highly recommended.
Karajan's second (?) recording of Metamorphosen, from 1983. Sonically, this has all the hallmarks of early digital but past that, this is a stupendous reading of a work that likely symbolises the regret and suffering in Germany, and the loss of culture, after the second world war. Under Karajan, the work gains a Bruckner-like monumentality that may not be the only reason to see it, but is impossible to turn away from as of the first note.
Despite the sonics, an essential classical record.
Cheers
EJ
Quite a bit of garden noise from the neighbors, so I thought I need to compensate a bit with some brutal music. Of course not distirbung them, just keeping the noise outside...
