Album of the Evening

[biosailor]

16 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

How is SQ of these remasters?

 

Not very good, to be honest. Quite veiled, although I don't have a local copy as I streamed from Qobuz. But disappointingly bad SQ. Nevertheless, the music is great!

[sphinxsix]

My first listening. Enjoying it a lot! Very nicely recorded CD issued by Naxos.

 

[Paul R]

On 3/21/2019 at 9:39 AM, rando said:

@coot Glad focus is returning to his professional skill set instead of nationality or which side of the fence he'd fall on if fell upon. 

 

@AnotherSpin Swastikas are a Christian symbol possibly near the same age as an upright cross. Don't let circumstance deceive you into thinking us likely to celebrate any violent organization.  Nor forget the consequences of leaving them unchecked. 

 

In my younger years I might have posted something like a Solti and Gergiev World Orchestra for Peace album.  Or maybe some Karajan Gold (Lizst and heavy on the lead role one supposes).  Would have to politely ask myself to cut it out though.  

 

So @Paul R here is a pretty fantastic collection taking in some pretty deep lows and airy heights.  Full of hope and wonder. 

 

 

This was in the mailbox this afternoon!  Oh boy, I know what is on my listening list for this evening!  

 

[semente]

20 hours ago, Hugo9000 said:

BIS's original standalone release (single disc, before being included as part of that excellent boxed set pictured in WAM's post) of the Sibelius violin concerto played by Kavakos includes the original version of the concerto as well as the familiar revised one, which made it much more interesting for me.

 

In the revised version, competition is rather stiff, since the field is led by what I consider Jascha Heifetz's finest recording, in excellent dynamic sound on the Living Stereo Hybrid SACD release.  Other great interpretations include Christian Ferras on CD with Karajan, and on video with a young Zubin Mehta (I have the DVD), Gil Shaham, and I also like Viktoria Mullova's recording.  It was her first CD, coupled with the Tchaikovsky violin concerto.  A fitting first recording, as she had won both the International Tchaikovsky Competition (violin category, obviously lol) and the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition!  She defected from the Soviet Union shortly after--I still remember how exciting the news was at the time!  I guess defections are mostly forgotten now.

 

I was fortunate to listen to Kavakos play the Sibelius VC live.

(Currently) my favourite recordings are Kavakos', Ferra's and this one:

 

[AnotherSpin]

7 hours ago, semente said:

 

I was fortunate to listen to Kavakos play the Sibelius VC live.

(Currently) my favourite recordings are Kavakos', Ferra's and this one:

 

 

+1 for Kavakos

[Musicophile]

Easter is coming.

 

24/192 from Linn Records 

[firedog]

https://play.qobuz.com/album/0827969361429

 

 

The Cellar Door Sessions, 1970. Miles live and in fusion mode. Fantastic stuff  if you like jazz fusion.  6 disc set recorded over 4 nights in  a club by Columbia. Excellent sound. McLaughlin joins in on last 2 discs. Keith Jarrett keyboards. Jack DeJonette drums.
Out of print and expensive in CD form. Hooray for streaming. 

[Hugo9000]

Rosemary Joshua

sings

Henry Purcell

Harmonia Sacra

Christophe Rousset/Les Talens Lyriques

 

 

Exquisite in every way!

[rando]

19 hours ago, Paul R said:

 

This was in the mailbox this afternoon!  Oh boy, I know what is on my listening list for this evening!  

 

 

In that period he was every bit as respected as Copland for his compositions, domestically.  No hit machine to produce sliced up pop hooks in those days.      

 

I previously posted the Sibelius Violin Concerto recording by Camilla Wicks on Biddulph.  The Mullova/Ozawa on Philips is also quite good as well.  

[biosailor]

[cambridgehank]

1 hour ago, firedog said:

https://play.qobuz.com/album/0827969361429

 

 

The Cellar Door Sessions, 1970. Miles live and in fusion mode. Fantastic stuff  if you like jazz fusion.  6 disc set recorded over 4 nights in  a club by Columbia. Excellent sound. McLaughlin joins in on last 2 discs. Keith Jarrett keyboards. Jack DeJonette drums.
Out of print and expensive in CD form. Hooray for streaming. 

i found it on Amazon for $40 US

[firedog]

1 minute ago, cambridgehank said:

i found it on Amazon for $40 US

That’s mp3

[cambridgehank]

4 minutes ago, firedog said:

That’s mp3

Yes it is. That is all I have.

[AnotherSpin]

3 hours ago, firedog said:

https://play.qobuz.com/album/0827969361429

 

 

The Cellar Door Sessions, 1970. Miles live and in fusion mode. Fantastic stuff  if you like jazz fusion.  6 disc set recorded over 4 nights in  a club by Columbia. Excellent sound. McLaughlin joins in on last 2 discs. Keith Jarrett keyboards. Jack DeJonette drums.
Out of print and expensive in CD form. Hooray for streaming. 

 

McLaughlin is very impressive here, I believe it is his only live recording with Davis available. Jarrett on electric piano. Great recordings.

[RickyV]

[semente]

[Melvin]

Listening to Chet .. again. Such a great late-night listen. Goes well with a nice glass of Bourbon.

 

[austinpop]

On 3/30/2019 at 9:50 PM, Musicophile said:

Would be interested in your feedback on Rouvali. Obviously I have limited expertise on the symphonies. 

 

I finally got a chance to listen to Rouvali’s Sibelius 1st. Decent performance, decent recording. Certainly more compelling than Paavo’s version with Orchestre de Paris.

 

However, to my ears, neither holds a candle to Osmo’s version with the Minnesota Orchestra. This is both an outstanding performance and recording. But do note I have no musical training, so this is just my preference.

 

[christopher3393]

O Vos Omnes: Music For Lent & Holy Week

 St. Ignatius Loyola Choir 

 

 

 

Good selection. Better performances of individual works available.

 

Review: http://www.classical.net/~music/recs/reviews/m/msr01138a.php

[Paul R]

And now to the totally obscure... 

 

 

This was my test album, to see how good a restoration I could get to digitally.  Haven't quite got it exactly where I want it, but that is probably because I stop working and start listening to it. It still sounds better on the turntable than digital, but I think the album just needs a better cleaning than I can give it. Maybe with a pressure washer. (grin - just kidding!) 

 

Can't find a version of this online to compare with, but it is a lot of fun if you can find it. 

 

 

 

 

[rando]

[sphinxsix]

From AllMusic Review by James Christopher Monger:

 

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The Smithsonian Folkways-issued debut album from Carolina Chocolate Drops frontwoman Rhiannon Giddens, former Carolina Chocolate Drops cellist Leyla McCalla, multi-instrumentalist Allison Russell (Po' Girl, Birds of Chicago), and alt-country/blues singer/songwriter Amythyst Kiah, Songs of Our Native Daughters is a bold, brutal, and often beautiful dissertation on racism, hope, misogyny, agency, and slavery told from the perspective of four of modern roots music's most talented women, who also happen to be black. That all four artists are adept banjo players is no fluke, as that distinctly American instrument has been at the forefront of the country's musical evolution since the 1800s, though almost always via the hands of a white male. Looking to the past for inspiration, from Creole culture and minstrelsy to the abolitionist and suffrage movements, the quartet have constructed a set of songs that are grounded in centuries of suffering, yet resolute in their humanity.

 

Streaming today, buying tomorrow.

 

[Jud]

55 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

From AllMusic Review by James Christopher Monger:

 

 

Streaming today, buying tomorrow.

 

 

Heard this, bought it, it's great.  The little bit I've heard of Giddens' newest on Nonesuch sounds excellent, too.

[biosailor]

[Musicophile]

After playing around with the new Coltrane 58 box, going back to my probably favorite Coltrane album ever:

 

 

24/192 remaster from HDTracks