Original promo copy of Andre Previn’s Holst - The Planets
Bought this as NM from a Discoger recently, but it sounded more VG - VG plus. Came from the private collection of quite a famous Music Label Senior and Music reviewer, so just given it a spin through the HumminGuru and what do you know, sounding stone cold Near Mint now!
I don’t have the LP and only owns the CD, it sounded fatalistic, scarily dynamic;
I’ve heard it performed live twice. I’m not sure that it needs interpreting, it just needs focus and concentration to remember where you are.
Phantastic, I wish I could see and hear that!
Yes it’s quite static, but I have it in so many instrumentations, and even in the same ones, the sound is different and the attack. Can’t get enough of Reich.
I have the old British EMI pressing of that LP. It really is nice.
Yes, indeed, a fine sounding LP, and a fantastic performance.
Great version of it, really glad I picked it up. It’s on the TAS list and a favorite classical of mine, so had to get it.
Listening now, very nice, thanks for the post.
Colin Currie is an interesting guy. Apparently he founded the Colin Currie Group for Reich’s 70th birthday.
For his 80th birthday, Reich composed a score for the Royal Ballet called “Runner”, for choreography by Wayne Mcgregor called Multiverse. The other Reich piece used was “It’s Gonna Rain”, a fascinating electronic piece he created in 1965. I can’t say I liked the dance, but the music was good, never to be performed again.
It was a triple bill, the other two pieces had music by The White Stripes and Mark Ronson respectively (yes, at Covent Garden).
That was in 2016. A few weeks ago we saw a magical piece by Wayne Mcgregor called UniVerse, based on Jim Henson’s film “The Dark Crystal” with totally amazing music by Joel Cadbury, who mainly composes for film and TV.
Here’s the Spanish dancer Laura Morera dancing to the White Stripes. Please explain to me, what is classical music?
Thanks, teresting! Have this album, too!
By the way and aside of Reich…for all friends of the other kind of classical who might not know this one, it’s mandatory alone for the first track.
I hope she comes with a new album soon, love all she made so far. One is available as LP, too.
this thread is the most useful for finding fine music. the others seem to be a contest of who can post the most every day (I haven’t opened one of them for a week and see that over 1,300 albums have been listed during this time), making it less than useful or credible
Your contributions to any of them can improve their quality and diversity. Regarding quantity posting to a degree it seems to be more about who can load up the server files with album cover images. I’m retired and have the time and inclination, so what I post is what I am listening to at the moment.
For the Strictly Jazz Sounds thread I sample those albums posted that I am unfamiliar with.
Steve Reich Proverb City Life, the piece Proverb based on text from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Culture and Value, summing up Reich’s music in general:
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life!
I have never thought of any of the “listening to” threads to be recommendations, but rather literally what someone happens to be listening to.
It is when someone also posts comments that I pay explicit attention. I otherwise just look at the albums to get a sense of what is out there in the various genre.
Well, regarding the Strictly Jazz Sounds, mine tend to be suggestions offering up Creative Music that an audiophile community may be unfamiliar with.
I’ve struggled with the notion of describing music in words, for one I’m not good at it, and second the music stands on its own, it is beyond description. My thought is to expose the community to creative sounds unheard (potentially) and let the adventurous explore.
My lead in and basis for the Strictly Jazz Sounds thread:
As a follow-up to a post by serhan, I am initiating a thread dedicated to all things jazz with its primary focus on jazz you are listening to and your comments regarding the listening experience. I must say the thread title is not of my own doing but of friends who have a weekly, (Thursdays 2-5pm) radio program dedicated to Jazz, entitled Strictly Jazz Sounds. They are rather shy so I won’t name them here, but they do provide for incredible jazz on a community radio station, WORT-89.9FM.
What I am hoping for with this thread, and the PS Audio Community’s support is a place to share our jazz listening experience. Tell us what you are listening to and share your impressions of that listening experience. The conversation is as important, or maybe more important, than sharing the title or album cover alone.The intent would be to share new jazz releases, performances that are more obscure, and those performances one is passionate about. Discussion regarding each performance is strongly encouraged.
Jazz is an interesting category and it means many things to different ears. As this thread progresses we can discuss that aspect as well.
I’d like to kick this thread off with Sonny Stitt’s Tune-Up!.
The Sonny Stitt album I am sharing is a little less known number entitled Tune-up! released as Cobblestone CST 9013, and reissued on the more familiar Muse label, MR 5334. Players in addition to Sonny (as,ts), Barry Harris (p), Sam Jones (b), and Alan Dawson (dr). have had an affinity for Sonny Stitt for a long time, especially for his carrying forward the tradition of Charlie Parker’s be-bop and building on that tradition.
With that, Mr Sonny Stitt and Tune-up!
