Album of the Evening

[austinpop]

49 minutes ago, firedog said:

Rite of Spring: Like the performance, but don't think the recording sounds powerful enough in some places. I don't think it's the orchestra, I think it's the way it was recorded/mixed// mastered. 

 

Possibly. Anyway, it's just what I happened to be listening to last night.  

[JoeWhip]

Right now it is Claire Martin’s Bumpin, with Jim Mullen playing some damn tasty guitar.

[ripples]

[AudioDoctor]

Teaching the girls to play air guitar...

[sphinxsix]

On 3/28/2020 at 11:46 AM, Musicophile said:

 

24/96 remaster from Qobuz. 

 

On 3/28/2020 at 1:30 PM, AnotherSpin said:

 

This recording never fails to amaze me, everytime listen it as new!

Thanks guys, I bought 24-96 as an alternative to:

I couldn't find one when I was looking for it some time ago, none of the performances I checked out even approached the Freire - Chailly recording and this one is magnificent indeed.

 

Now playing..

If someone hasn't heard about this recording:
"In 1964, between the recently completed Crescent, and six months before the start of the sessions for A Love Supreme, the John Coltrane Quartet cut the music on Blue World. This wasn't an album proper, but music to accompany Quebecois director Giles Groulx's then-unfinished debut feature film, Le Chat Dans le Sac (it had been shot but was still in the editing stages; neither Coltrane nor his bandmates had seen it). The director, who lionized the saxophonist, reached out through a connection to his bassist Jimmy Garrison. The session was cut in a single day (June 24, 1964) at Rudy Van Gelder's New Jersey studio on quarter-inch tape. The director took the tape with him back to Canada, ultimately using only ten of the 37 minutes that appear here (which is available for streaming on the internet). As Coltrane historian Ashley Khan notes in his liner essay, this music has been hiding in plain sight ever since."
(24-192)

 

[sphinxsix]

Haven't been a huge fan of Brahms until now. I absolutely love what I'm hearing.

 

 

[graham]

[orresearch]

[AnotherSpin]

12 hours ago, sphinxsix said:

Haven't been a huge fan of Brahms until now. I absolutely love what I'm hearing.

 

 

 

I'm the only one who believes the cover picture is weird? The table's too close to the clavichord, there's nowhere to put the seat. Instrument has no back legs. Shadows from the right pair of legs of the table are not from the window. The surface of the table is too much shifted to the right.

[Bob Stern]

Why is a clavichord in the picture at all?  Brahms would have played a modern grand piano.

[AnotherSpin]

12 hours ago, sphinxsix said:

Haven't been a huge fan of Brahms until now. I absolutely love what I'm hearing.

 

 

 

Forget to tell. You may try "Volodos Plays Brahms". It received great reviews, also from our friends here.

[AnotherSpin]

17 minutes ago, Bob Stern said:

Why is a clavichord in the picture at all?  Brahms would have played a modern grand piano.

 

He had grand piano at his Vienna's home. And upright in Baden-Baden years earlier.

[sphinxsix]

14 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

 

Forget to tell. You may try "Volodos Plays Brahms". It received great reviews, also from our friends here.

Thanks, I have it!

 

37 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

 

I'm the only one who believes the cover picture is weird? The table's too close to the clavichord, there's nowhere to put the seat. Instrument has no back legs. Shadows from the right pair of legs of the table are not from the window. The surface of the table is too much shifted to the right.

It also has very cold, depressive atmosphere. Just started to ask myself - is the woman going to jump out of the window.? 

[AnotherSpin]

5 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

Thanks, I have it!

 

It also has very cold, depressive atmosphere. Just started to ask myself - is the woman going to jump out of the window.? 

 

She can't, the artist forgot to draw handles and locks on window frames.

[AnotherSpin]

23 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

It also has very cold, depressive atmosphere.

 

The author of the painting on the cover, Vilhelm Hammershoi, had many images in the same space. Here's one of them. His style was distinctively gloomy.

[sphinxsix]

1 hour ago, AnotherSpin said:

 

The author of the painting on the cover, Vilhelm Hammershoi, had many images in the same space. Here's one of them. His style was distinctively gloomy.

 

These paintings are filled with dead silence.

Even the most 'crowded' one I've found:

 

 

Not my kind of painting.

[semente]

 

[AudioDoctor]

Album of the Morning?

 

I love this album!

 

24/88 download from Qobuz

[accwai]

5 hours ago, Bob Stern said:

Why is a clavichord in the picture at all?  Brahms would have played a modern grand piano.

 

One would have thought modern grand piano didn't exactly exist in Brahms' time. Wouldn't square grand piano like this be more likely back then in a domestic setting?

 

 

5 hours ago, AnotherSpin said:

The author of the painting on the cover, Vilhelm Hammershoi, had many images in the same space. Here's one of them. His style was distinctively gloomy.

 

What's the difference between gloom and stillness? Is this gloomy?

 

 

How about these?

 

 

 

 

 

[AnotherSpin]

54 minutes ago, accwai said:

What's the difference between gloom and stillness? Is this gloomy?

 

If stillness means perfect balance and peace, there's nothing gloomy about it. But words are just words, different people put different meanings in them.

 

P.S. Really like picture with table 🙂

[orresearch]

[Musicophile]

7 hours ago, Bob Stern said:

Why is a clavichord in the picture at all?  Brahms would have played a modern grand piano.

The "modern" grand piano was still a very recent invention when Brahms composed these in the 1890s. And a Steinway of the time still sounds different to a top of the range Steinway from today. 

 

You can hear Andreas Staier play op. 118 on this excellent album on a Steinway from 1875. Worth checking out.

 

[Seraph]

Stan Getz & Chet Baker ‎– The Stockholm Concerts
Label: Verve Records ‎– 537 555-2

 

Even though life had taken its toll Chet still had that sweet gentle touch.

[The Computer Audiophile]

On 3/18/2020 at 2:32 PM, kumakuma said:

 

Great album!

 

I'm sure you know this but there are two versions of this album - the original release and the soundtrack from the movie which is essentially Bruce and his band playing the album live in his barn.

 

BTW, I highly recommend the movie to anyone who hasn't seen it.

Thanks @kumakuma for turning me on to this version of the album. It played a huge role in my Ayre QB-9 Twenty review.

 

 

[kumakuma]

5 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Thanks @kumakuma for turning me on to this version of the album. It played a huge role in my Ayre QB-9 Twenty review.

 

 

 

Glad to hear this. Great review, BTW!