Album of the Evening

[WAM]

Music from Big Pink, one of the best albums ever recorded:

 

[biosailor]

[Jud]

2 hours ago, WAM said:

Music from Big Pink, one of the best albums ever recorded:

 

 

Yes, although I'd be interested in suggestions regarding versions with the best SQ.

 

The Weight of course is a classic, but I particularly love Chest Fever.

[WAM]

 

1 minute ago, Jud said:

Yes, although I'd be interested in suggestions regarding versions with the best SQ.

 

I bought the 50th Anniversary Edition (" Newly Remixed and Remastered" it says...). I received the disc only yesterday, but the first impression is that sq is damn good (I haven't heard others visions, so I have got no reference).

 

{For what it's worth: I spin my discs in a Moon 260. I also rip my discs and use a MacBook Pro/Audirvana for desktop listening (or an Auralic Aries G1 if I am to lazy to feed the Moon, (Moon and Aries use the same dac, the Moon pulverizes the Aries)).}

[Hugo9000]

Truls Mørk

Sergei Prokofiev

Sinfonia concertante

Nikolai Myaskovsky

Cello Concerto

Paavo Järvi/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

 

 

My favorite cellist!  I can't think of anything he's done where I prefer any other interpretation to his.  Perhaps I prefer Paolo Pandolfo for the Bach cello suites, but Pandolfo played them on a viola da gamba haha!  So that doesn't actually count against Truls Mørk!

 

[Daverz]

On 3/10/2019 at 6:15 AM, Musicophile said:

 

I really wanted to like this album, but didn't succeed at all (starting from the horribly 90s looking cover). Here's my not very positive review:  https://musicophilesblog.com/2019/03/10/youn-sun-nahs-latest-album-immersion-really-not-my-cup-of-tea/.

 

Let me know what you think. 

 

One of my favorite Jazz singers.  But I don't see this streaming anywhere, so I'm not yet able to add an opinion.

[Musicophile]

2 hours ago, Daverz said:

 

One of my favorite Jazz singers.  But I don't see this streaming anywhere, so I'm not yet able to add an opinion.

 

Qobuz has it in Europe, that’s where I found it. It’s actually no.1 of their download charts right now

 

Just be warned, as I wrote in my review there is not a lot of “Jazz“ left in this album. 

 

https://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/album/immersion-youn-sun-nah/yvy58rxra6auc

 

You can also find it on YouTube: 

 

 

And I see it on Spotify:

 

 

 

 

[firedog]

12 hours ago, Jud said:

 

Yes, although I'd be interested in suggestions regarding versions with the best SQ.

 

The Weight of course is a classic, but I particularly love Chest Fever.

Well, Qobuz has several versions available. The 24/192 sounds more highly volume compressed than the newer 24/96 (remixed and remastered 2018) which sounds more like the original, I think (I don't have it available to  compare).
 

Of course, for those who aren't Jud, if you are only going to get one of their albums,  the Live "Rock of Ages" is the one to get...😉

[Melvin]

[AnotherSpin]

On 3/10/2019 at 3:43 PM, Musicophile said:

Please check it out. I may well be the only one not liking it!

 

I did what you asked for. I was very diligent and insistent, and was able to get through 3d track. After that – back to music!

[Musicophile]

25 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

 

I did what you asked for. I was very diligent and insistent, and was able to get through 3d track. After that – back to music!

Glad to hear I’m not alone.

[Jud]

4 hours ago, firedog said:

Of course, for those who aren't Jud, if you are only going to get one of their albums,  the Live "Rock of Ages" is the one to get...😉

 

Or if you *are* me, you've had that album and treasured it since soon after the LP came out. I second the recommendation, but you could hardly go wrong either way.

[mrvco]

On 7/24/2016 at 2:23 PM, sphinxsix said:

 

 

A very interesting band. Thx for the recommendation!

I think you may like Charles Lloyd's 'Sangam' if you don't know it.

 

Sangam is amazing.  Listened to 'Air Hadouk' last night.. good stuff.

 

https://tidal.com/album/89414143

https://open.qobuz.com/album/3298499014807

 

[biosailor]

[Hugo9000]

When I was young, I decided to save a few things for later in life--a few novels, certain musical works, a few acclaimed films, by a few of my favorite authors, composers, directors/actors/actresses.  My purpose in this was to allow for the excitement of enjoying something great for the first time in advanced age, rather than experience it all in my youth.  There was, of course, a risk that I'd never experience them at all were I to die too early haha!

 

I saved several oratorios by Handel for the age of 50.  Which arrived recently.    So today, the anticipation of Saul ends finally, shortly after the 280th anniversary of its premiere.

 

I chose the recording based upon Rosemary Joshua's participation as well as reading reviews of the recording as a whole.  She is superb in the music of Handel (her recording of Handel duets with Sarah Connolly on Chandos is stunningly beautiful, for example).

 

George Frideric Handel

Saul

René Jacobs/Concerto Köln

 

 

This is truly glorious, and I may well perish from ecstasy before I reach the end haha!  I hope not, as I have Esther, Partenope, and Belshazzar still to hear!

 

 

[Daccord]

8 hours ago, mrvco said:

 

Sangam is amazing.  Listened to 'Air Hadouk' last night.. good stuff.

 

https://tidal.com/album/89414143

https://open.qobuz.com/album/3298499014807

 

 

I started listening without paying attention to the album info. By the 6th track I realized there was something familiar. Ah, it's Bloomdido Bad de Grasse, from Gong. And now for some camembert (electrique).

 

[AnotherSpin]

15 hours ago, Musicophile said:

Glad to hear I’m not alone.

 

To feel separate is a tragic mistake of the mind.

[qdwieertteyrujpo]

15 hours ago, biosailor said:

Beautiful music; thank you very much!

[Melvin]

Chemistry? You bet! I just love this duo ..

 

[rando]

I have to start this off with a humorous Amazon review of the Japanese HMCD release I possibly should have investigated first.  In any case I avoided an unwanted brush with Karajan.  Whom her first recording of these works with this orchestra was done with.  

 

"It is impossible to really describe this recording. It must be experienced, not written about. This violin concerto is such a war horse for both the soloist and the orchestra that one rarely hears it performed these days. This interpretation is so fresh and genuine that I felt as though I were hearing the piece for the very first time. It's a pity that the composer can't hear this CD.

However, I have a major gripe with Amazon.com. I pre-ordered the CD in August and the price was about $54.00 - which I was only too happy to pay since this is the world's greatest violinist playing with the world's greatest symphony orchestra. The CD finally arrived in mid-December. And all of the album notes are in some Asian language! Is this a bootleg copy or something? Not really a problem, as I already know these works. But now I see that Amazon is selling the same CD along with a DVD for only $18.00! Extremely unfair pricing for those of us who pre-ordered! Thumbs down to Amazon."

 

 

 

[AMR/iFi audio]

 

[semente]

[rando]

Make that twice in one evening I hit upon albums there very well may be better releases of.  This one was released as SACD in 2015.

 

[Hugo9000]

Alexander Scriabin

Symphony No. 2

Neeme Järvi/Royal Scottish National Orchestra

 

The andante (3rd movement) is so gorgeous!

 

 

 

 

 

[Paul R]

On 3/16/2019 at 4:27 PM, Jud said:

 

Yes, although I'd be interested in suggestions regarding versions with the best SQ.

 

The Weight of course is a classic, but I particularly love Chest Fever.

 

Caledonia Mission for me, but honestly? I like the 1969 "The Band" a bit better. Possibly because it has "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" on it, and I have (had) relatives that resembled that remark...  How a bunch of Canadians ever got that song so right, I do not know.

 

Sad to say, they would probably be shot if they went to perform that today.  Modern songs only heap hate on people, mainly on wimmen' and old white men. 

 

-Paul