Track 5: Hablando is especially good
Enjoyable, but compared to the live performance the piano seems a little bit too prominent. This is a studio recording, itâs a shame the live performances were not issued as were their Beethoven , below. I recall the Mozart were live broadcast.
Thanks. I will check it out. I do try to buy music that I like so it is on my server for future use. Listening to Tidal thru Roon and there is a lot of stuff available to listen to there too.
Youâll have to buy this one
![Kreisler: Violin Music [Jack Liebeck, Katya Apekisheva] [Hyperion: CDA68040]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/613wr8NeufL.jpg)
Johannes Brahms: Gesang der Parzen, Op. 89
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre RĂ©volutionnaire et Romantique/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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Helen Merrill âDeep in a Dreamâ . . . a very satisfying album with interesting production.
From inventive moodiness to down right funkiness.
Stanley Turrentine & Milt Jackson âCherryâ CTI Supreme Blu-Spec CD2
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J.S. Bach: âWeichet Nur, betrĂŒbte Schattenâ BWV 202 (Wedding Cantata)
Joanne Lunn, soprano
Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki
I continue to enjoy Suzukiâs Bach interpretations. Additionally, Bis always has wonderful sound.
I greatly enjoy the concept of listening to Eastern musicians performing Western music.
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Wolfgang Fortner (1907-1987)
David S. Ware, âGo See the Worldâ (Columbia 1998)
DSWâs version of âThey Way We Wereâ is unreal. Here is what AllMusic has to say about it:
The hinge of the entire album is âThe Way We Wereâ (yeah, the Marvin Hamlisch tune), where Coltraneâs microphonic modalism meets [pianist Matthew] Shippâs polytonal architecture of scale and [bassist William] Parkerâs scalar framework for a sonic exploration of gargantuan expanse. The skittering skeins of notes and chords Shipp lays down for the ballad have Ware dropping every tonal shade he can come up with on them, as [drummer Susie] Ibarra sends time to the bathroom for a break. The original melody slithers back in the window as a modal blues in Wareâs brilliant, soulful grunt and wail. You can hear all the melancholic nostalgia in the world in his playing, which in itself resists the feeling as if it were the deadliest thing on earth. Ware is looking for alchemical transformation with his band, to take what was once sickly sweet and syrupy and make of it a vital force for change both musical and social. This tests the notion of interpreting standards to the breaking point and shatters them with a battering ram. I can see Barbara Streisand choking on this as if it were broken glass in her throat, yet she could not deny with her dying breath (nor could Hamlisch) the reinvention of the tune through a lyricism so pure it has been purged of false emotion and looks back only as a reference point for going further. Into what is what cannot be known, but further is both the question and the answer. Ware has gone and seen the world, and heâs found it heartbreakingly beautiful, able to be understood only by the utterance of music.
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Mr. Ware is apparently not my cup of teaâŠglad you enjoy it.
Bummer that DSWâs music isnât your thing . . . but that is what makes a horse race!
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discovered this great young singer watching youtube videos of Normans rare guitarsâŠ
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Led Zeppelin II. Because once in a while you just have to.
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After four months in mothballs, my PSA system is back up, albeit with NHT Super Ones in place of the Vandersteens while I wait for the demon kitty to stop jumping on top of them (they are well protected, but unlistenable). Kate Bush seemed a good place to start!
Next up, Brendan Perry. This sounds amazing on the NHTâs, maybe everything is getting warmed up?
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I REALLY like this album!
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This is a long time favorite, too bad it is pretty harsh sounding (accentuated by the bookshelf size speakers). I did find that reversing phase noticeably helped, an unusual observation for me.