Album of the Evening

[Musicophile]

 

New release on Qobuz, but obviously old material (1950). Shoe-box sound, but beautiful playing.

[Klavier]

Suites No. 3 and 5. Lovely.

 

[WAM]

Friday evening, classical music and "difficult" jazz is out of bounds in our little menagerie, it has to be hard bop, cool jazz, blues, soul, etc. I came across this beauty on Stereophile.

 

 

 

[Ralf11]

15 minutes ago, WAM said:

... "difficult" jazz is out of bounds..., it has to be hard bop...

 

 

 

 

 

so, hard bop is not difficult?

 

it sure doesn't seem hard either...

[AnotherSpin]

Mahler 9th, Bernstein/Berliner

[christopher3393]

Anthony Braxton ‎– Creative Orchestra Music 1976

 

good fun.

 

 

[AnotherSpin]

1 minute ago, christopher3393 said:

Anthony Braxton ‎– Creative Orchestra Music 1976

 

good fun.

 

 

 

this was my first Anthony Braxton LP back in 1976...) Great album from unique musician.

[AnotherSpin]

Mahler 9th, Karajan/Berliner

[rando]

[semente]

[AnotherSpin]

Mahler 9th, Bernstein and Karajan. The same orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, the same time. Leaving aside ideology (you know what I mean) just two interpretations. Tight, straightforward, super-controlled, every note used, paranoic precise version from Karajan. Convincing? Maybe. Airy, free-breathing, spacey, slightly sloppy sad Bernstein. Musical? Probably so.

[BacHolz]

3 hours ago, Klavier said:

Suites No. 3 and 5. Lovely.

 

Prompted by your earlier post, I just received mine. Lovely, indeed

[Klavier]

Extraordinary playing and excellent sound.

[BacHolz]

6 minutes ago, Klavier said:

Extraordinary playing and excellent sound.

 

Here is an amusing bit of artistry...

One Guitar, Four Hands

One Guitar, Six Hands!

 

 

[Klavier]

3 hours ago, BacHolz said:

 

Here is an amusing bit of artistry...

One Guitar, Four Hands

One Guitar, Six Hands!

 

 

Haha, yeah, I think the Assad brothers started the one guitar four hands routine many years ago.

[Nikhil]

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

 

[Musicophile]

A beautiful new chamber recording featuring little known Czech works:

 

 

Beautifully played. 

 

See my review here:

 

https://musicophilesblog.com/2017/07/29/the-suk-quintets-new-recording-beautiful/

[rando]

[Klavier]

Bought this today (download). The Violin Concerto is pretty good--the poor violinist plays for 28 solid minutes. For this sort of piece, though, I prefer the Schoenberg Violin Concerto. Had to turn off "Antiphon," and haven't been moved to play "Insel Der Sirenen" yet.

[BacHolz]

21 hours ago, Musicophile said:

A beautiful new chamber recording featuring little known Czech works:

 

 

Beautifully played. 

 

See my review here:

 

https://musicophilesblog.com/2017/07/29/the-suk-quintets-new-recording-beautiful/

 

Very nice and thanks, I will add this to my limited library. What I have enjoyed discovering was this compilation...

Czech Chamber Music - Domus Ensemble

 

 

[Musicophile]

 

Two things I don't listen to often enough, opera and Tchaikovsky. A good opportunity to rectify both in one go. 

 

And yes @AnotherSpin, before you get started, I know Netrebko is a Putin fan. Still has. a beautiful voice though 

[AnotherSpin]

19 minutes ago, Musicophile said:

 

Two things I don't listen to often enough, opera and Tchaikovsky. A good opportunity to rectify both in one go. 

 

And yes @AnotherSpin, before you get started, I know Netrebko is a Putin fan. Still has. a beautiful voice though 

 

She is sponsoring terrorists in occupied Donbass area, I finished.

 

BTW, there are some awesome recordings of Eugene Onegin from soviet period. The one which I would suggest is with Galina Visnevskaya (she was the boss in the family of Rostropovich) and Ivan Lemeshev. The sound is very soviet, but performance is breathtaking. This is the best I know, and I am not sure I am able to embrace any European reading of this.

[AnotherSpin]

It is very interesting though. Please help me to understand. There is parallel thread in a forum, where people tell you should delete copies of CD if you part with polycarbonate piece because of the ethic and rule of law. But, people seem to be quite blind and deaf to the fact that in the very centre of Europe around 15 thous of people were killed and who knows how much people were displaced after their houses were destroyed or raided by russians and their collaborants. Lets go back to the music and beautiful voices.

[elcorso]

On 7/28/2017 at 7:48 PM, Klavier said:

Extraordinary playing and excellent sound.

 

Did you got the download from Brazil?

 

With mine had several issues, like the ZIP file was corrupted and have to repair it, after a lot of intents and finish with the las track unreadable by the music player !!

 

Thanks,

 

Roch

[Klavier]

2 hours ago, elcorso said:

 

Did you got the download from Brazil?

 

With mine had several issues, like the ZIP file was corrupted and have to repair it, after a lot of intents and finish with the las track unreadable by the music player !!

 

Thanks,

 

Roch

Yes, I did, but mine was flawless! Sorry you had a problem. Someone else mentioned a problem with their tagging, but this one works fine with JRiver MC22 software. My other purchase from them was a CD, so it obviously had no such issues! I do plan to order the 10-string Bach recording soon, most likely a file, so wish me luck!