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

Keith Jarrett & Garry Burton

On vinyl. First listen for a purchase from a couple of days ago:

Nigel 66 posted:

I love this album, brings back good memories

I've always thought Previn's recording of Shostakovich's 5th Symphony with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on EMI to be my favourite version, albeit I recall a dreadful edit, which I must have missed today (either that or it had always mistracked at that point previously). I've just discovered by reading the sleeve notes today that it had been digitally remastered. Oh well, it still sounded mighty fine. 

I've always thought Previn's recording of Shostakovich's 5th Symphony with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on EMI to be my favourite version, albeit I recall a dreadful edit, which I must have missed today (either that or it had always mistracked at that point previously). I've just discovered by reading the sleeve notes today that it had been digitally remastered. Oh well, it still sounded mighty fine. 

1968 - vinyl - UK first pressing...

Miles Davis, Kind of Blue from the 50th anniversary box set.

Jeroen20 posted:

Keith Jarrett & Garry Burton

Think i'll join you with some lazy Sunday afternoon vibes : )

LP - jazz wax records 2015 reissue : )

Honey tea and amber brandy....

Yellowjackets - a rise in the road.

Very nice jazz by the Yellowjackets. It's straight-ahead jazz with some contemporary elements. 

Clive B posted:

I've always thought Previn's recording of Shostakovich's 5th Symphony with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on EMI to be my favourite version, albeit I recall a dreadful edit, which I must have missed today (either that or it had always mistracked at that point previously). I've just discovered by reading the sleeve notes today that it had been digitally remastered. Oh well, it still sounded mighty fine. 

Clive, i find 1980s digital remastered vinyl can be easy enough on the ear, at least in those days the engineers preserved the essence of the performance; unlike later day digital remastering of re-mixing and LOUDing. I agree it can often sound mighty fine, especially on vinyl.

Also, i read somewhere that if you want to appreciate Russian Symphony music at it's best you'll need a Russian orchestra with a Russian conductor - who am i to argue; i'll stick with the Moscow PSO & Kondrashin and be happy 

Debs

Nocturnes for early Sunday morning:

Irish composer John Field was an influential pianist and composer in early 19th century Romanticism, particularly because of his set of 18 Nocturnes, which affected the keyboard music of Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, and most importantly, Frédéric Chopin, who came to compose the most famous nocturnes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWvqCDzZiQ0

Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:

Beautiful rainy morning! While packing and moving out.....

 

 

 

Gian,

Have a smooth move, hopefully not too far.

Haim

Bert Schurink posted:

 

 

 

So far it looks ok, let's hope the values out of the tests are also good. If I am lucky I will go home tomorrow.

Good. I hope it wasn't anything serious, Bert. Just a minor DR upgrade?

Haim Ronen posted:

Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:

Beautiful rainy morning! While packing and moving out.....

 

 

 

Gian,

Have a smooth move, hopefully not too far.

Haim

Dear Haim! Walking and thinking about the next place i'll move to......

On vinyl. Because it is perhaps my favourite album of recent years (released in 2000).

great 5th from Szell and his Cleveland band.  Recorded in 1959...

Crowded House - Recurring dream

More vinyl from the brilliant Broadcast, featuring the late and much-missed Trish Keenan:

naim_nymph posted:

Clive B posted:

I've always thought Previn's recording of Shostakovich's 5th Symphony with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on EMI to be my favourite version, albeit I recall a dreadful edit, which I must have missed today (either that or it had always mistracked at that point previously). I've just discovered by reading the sleeve notes today that it had been digitally remastered. Oh well, it still sounded mighty fine. 

Clive, i find 1980s digital remastered vinyl can be easy enough on the ear, at least in those days the engineers preserved the essence of the performance; unlike later day digital remastering of re-mixing and LOUDing. I agree it can often sound mighty fine, especially on vinyl.

Also, i read somewhere that if you want to appreciate Russian Symphony music at it's best you'll need a Russian orchestra with a Russian conductor - who am i to argue; i'll stick with the Moscow PSO & Kondrashin and be happy 

Debs

Well I do also have a version by Ashkenazy who was, at least originally, Russian, but it's not as good as either of the versions I have by Previn.

I think you're right about digital remastering. It's the compression that's more a problem than the digitisation, which gets sort of smoothed out in the vinyl transfer. 

Dipping into the box-set for the CD which includes the No.5 in D minor Op.47 & No.6 in B minor, Op.54

Recordings from 1967 : )

An afternoon of vinyl for me . . .