King Crimson, “The Night Watch,” recorded at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, November 23, 1973. A legendary performance in excellent sound quality.
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Always a fun one, especially the over the top cover of the Forest of No Return from Babes in Toyland.
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Part of any Core Crimson Collection, assuming you have the appropriate Discipline.
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Saw Tomeka Reid and her Quartet with Mary Halvorson in Madison and again in Stevens Point. Fantastic music.
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Qobuz. CD. I have never been a fan of vocals in classical music, be they opera, oratorios or cantatas, and try to avoid such works. Every so often I check to see if my arbitrary prejudice is intact. There is nothing wrong with this album. The arrangements were a bit sparse but Ms Von Otter has a very pleasant voice, particularly when she resists the temptation to introduce trills and warbles. I nevertheless listened to it with little enthusiasm until the penultimate track; an instrumental Piccinini chaconne. That small pearl was my reward.
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What is it with that warbling!!! Sounds bloody awful in my humble opinion, and is the main thing that makes me leave the room when Opera is playing…
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Qobuz. CD. Laziness led me to select another album by Musica Antiqua Koln, who tend to be a ‘safe bet’. This was a selection of popular pieces by mainstream composers. Fine, but I did not feel that it advanced my musical education much, It would be an excellent album to use as background music for a dinner party. This is useful, since my wife holds a lot of dinner parties!
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BTW, thanks for the Guitar Gabriel recommendation, great Piedmont Blues playing and fantastic CD sound.
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