Album of the Evening

[rando]

I should note that this is an excellent (studio) recording from their time as 'Ensemble-In-Residence at NPR.  

 

Would be interested to see reception, not going break my streak of older discs, new Artemis Quartet Shostakovich release garners.  There are multiple others here whose balliwick this more closely aligns with.  

 

 

 

 

[Soothsayerman]

[mevdinc]

Discovered this recently, it's full of great effects, perfect for testing your system.
Especially the first track.

Bob and Ray Throw a Spectacular Stereo
 

[rando]

[HIFI]

Greg Brown from Red House Records.  Always enjoy this labels recordings and Greg Brown is quite the story teller

[HIFI]

New , to me, artist....

[firedog]

Recently available at Qobuz in hi-res for only $6.99 to Sublime subscribers. Very good album; and great sound, as usual from Mack Avenue Records.

[rando]

An album that spawned an interesting and unexpected conversation here on the outright utility and meaning of jawn.  You young kids hanging out in clubs picking up all the latest lingo!

 

 

Realized I'd never heard a single track off this album that wasn't a remix.  In fact, an artist approved remix became the de facto version of everything on the album.  Disquieting how lifeless the studio versions are in comparison to how much further the same musical elements are turned up in the semi-official techno-rock versions everyone actually listened to.

 

The xx

 

[STC]

 

Very spacious feel with micro details. 

[christopher3393]

5 hours ago, rando said:

An album that spawned an interesting and unexpected conversation here on the outright utility and meaning of jawn.  You young kids hanging out in clubs picking up all the latest lingo!

 

 Where does “jawn” come from? “The consensus is that it came from ‘joint,’ and from New York":  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-enduring-mystery-of-jawn-philadelphias-allpurpose-noun

 

Leonardo da Vinci, la musique secrète

Doulce Mémoire, Denis Raisin Dadre

 

 

Album Description:

 

"2019 will see the 500th commemoration of the death of one of the greatest geniuses humanity has produced: Leonardo da Vinci, scientist, inventor, painter – and musician. Doulce Mémoire, having devoted themselves to Renaissance music for the past 30 years, have decided to pay homage to Leonardo. Their founder-director, Denis Raisin Dadre, an eminent specialist in the music of the period and a great lover of pictorial art, has devised an original programme: ‘Rather than just make music from the time of Leonardo, I’ve taken my cue from the paintings themselves. I’ve worked on what could be the hidden music of these pictures, what musical pieces might be suggested by them….’ He chose around fifteen paintings, many of which are now in the Louvre: The Baptism of Christ, The Virgin of the Rocks, Portrait of Isabella d’Este, Portrait of an Unknown Woman (La belle ferronnière), Saint Anne, St. John the Baptist… and of course La Gioconda. He then matched them with works by Jacob Obrecht (1457-1505), Josquin Desprez (1450-1521), laude for the Annunciation. There are also some frotolle, and songs to texts by Petrarch accompanied by the lira da braccio, an instrument Leonardo played himself. This recording comes with a handsome booklet, including reproductions of the pictures by Leonardo, some in detail, giving an intimate insight into them; there is also a text by Denis Raisin Dadre explaining his selection"

 

https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/leonardo-da-vinci-la-musique-secrete-doulce-memoire-denis-raisin-dadre/qn358a5j67slc#moreInfo

 

Booklet: https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/AJ0456.pdf

[Hugo9000]

@christopher3393  Thanks for including the booklet link!

[slartybartfast]

 A favourite Mali singer

[AudioDoctor]

I hope this starts page 666 because I think this is a fitting album for that.

 

damn, I tried.

[Hugo9000]

39 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said:

I hope this starts page 666 because I think this is a fitting album for that.

 

damn, I tried.

😂

 

😈  Nice try!

[Hugo9000]

Richard Strauss

Also sprach Zarathustra

Herbert von Karajan/Berliner Philharmoniker

 

My favorite of the four Karajan recordings I have of Also sprach Zarathustra, and of my three Karjan Don Juan recordings.

 

[Hugo9000]

Claude Debussy

Nocturnes and other works.

Lan Shui/Singapore Symphony Orchestra

 

Recently released by BIS (my Hybrid SACD just arrived today!).  I hope this won't be the final recording conducted by Lan Shui.  He retired from the SIngapore Symphony last year, but he did accept a post as principal guest conductor in Taiwan.  He is my favorite conductor of Rachmaninov's orchestral works, Debussy, and Beethoven's symphonies.  All of his recordings on BIS are worth owning in my view.  Wonderful conductor and musician, the music lives in him.  BIS engineering is spectacular as always, by the great Thore Brinkmann in the case of this recording.

 

 

[rando]

6 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

Where does “jawn” come from? “The consensus is that it came from ‘joint,’ and from New York"

 

From smoking too many joints is the most likely origin.  Certainly came to prominence in some indiscriminate East coast location. 

 

Hella sick jawn boi... and so on among the less well spoken social elements that lay claim to overusing new words until they lose respectable usage.  A handful of years back it was less widely appreciated.  Someone closer to ground zero could more accurately comment on how fashionable the term jawn is.  For the purpose of our conversation there are no negative connotations, but it is past its sell by date.

 

 

Interesting very low DR disc someone gave me their promotional copy of.  Getting my "dark" albums out of the way before you animals litter the next page with sin.

 

 

 

Bob Moses 

Days Gone By

 

[Soothsayerman]

[Hugo9000]

Anna Moffo

 

Gaetano Donizetti

Lucia di Lammermoor

 

[Hugo9000]

oops, duplicate!

 

[Hugo9000]

George Frideric Handel

Coronation Anthems

Simon Preston/Choir of Westminster Abbey

Trevor Pinnock/The English Concert

 

 

...and since it's now Independence Day in the U.S., next in the queue:

 

Leontyne Price

God Bless America

Charles Gerhardt/National Philharmonic Orchestra

 

(on headphones lest anyone else hear and think I'm playing this in support of current governments of the nations associated with these two albums haha!   also, it's 2:30AM and the windows are wide open hahahaha!)

[qdwieertteyrujpo]

Might need some getting used to, but I really love these two:

 

Even when they cover Leonard Cohen

 

[rando]

Not shy about saying the modern meaning of this holiday is about entertaining fireworks first and the need to remember masses of our recently dead who made that so gratefully diminishing every year.  Discouraging focus on the evil of man.

 

Single layer SACD Special Expanded Edition.  

 

 

[ronfint]

July 4, 2019

 

[HIFI]

Peaceful morning listen