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Post by jhar26 on Aug 20, 2008 4:12:12 GMT -5
Every forum has a thread like this, so why should we be any different? I listened to this one yesterday. More accessible and tuneful than a lot of his later work this would make for an ideal first buy for anyone wanting to check out Wagner. This performance is first class - actually, it's said to be the best recording of this opera.
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Post by erik on Aug 20, 2008 13:08:41 GMT -5
A great 1984 recording of Franz Joseph Haydn's mercurial Mass No. 9, the "Paukenmesse" (referring to the provocative use of timpani in the final Agnus Dei section), also known as "Mass In Time Of War", made by Leonard Bernstein with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, plus a solid quartet of vocal soloists, including Brigitte Fassbaender. The Mass settings that both Haydn and Mozart made, plus Mozart's never-to-be-forgotten D Minor Requiem, are among the greatest choral works of their day, but they are also very forward-looking (IMHO).
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Post by dawnstar on Aug 21, 2008 0:38:42 GMT -5
I've been listening to Within Temptation. New stuff for me anyway. Ben
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Post by egoodstein on Aug 21, 2008 1:25:08 GMT -5
Today/yesterday I've been listening to Kay Hanley's 'Weaponize' album again. & new live album of Fiery Furnaces, 'Remember''-- really good sound & more 'reconfigurations' & odd medleys of material than typical live pop album. Also new album by UK jazz/ambient pianist Carolyn Hume 'Gravity and Grace' (quiet/nice-- need to hear it more). & classical-- Katya Apekisheva's Grieg solo piano pieces album, & another she made a few years ago w. violinist Jack Liebeck of various stuff-- Prokofiev/St-Saens/Chausson/Ysaye. Both very good IMO. Oh- & some of Rebecca Kilgore/Dave Frishberg's Frank Loesser album 'Why Fight the Feeling.' Ed
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Post by jhar26 on Aug 21, 2008 11:45:52 GMT -5
The Mass settings that both Haydn and Mozart made, plus Mozart's never-to-be-forgotten D Minor Requiem, are among the greatest choral works of their day, but they are also very forward-looking (IMHO). Mozart's C Minor Mass that he wrote to celebrate his marriage with Constanze is also an awesome work in my opinion.
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Post by jhar26 on Aug 21, 2008 11:56:49 GMT -5
I'm currently listening to a box-set with five original albums - including some bonus tracks - from Johnny Cash. It only cost me 13.48 pounds on Amazon UK, very cheap for five albums.
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Post by erik on Aug 21, 2008 12:53:16 GMT -5
Quote by jhar 26 re. Mozart's Mass In C Minor: I believe that was the one referred to as the "Great" C Minor Mass, his seventeenth and final setting. Also from me, as of late: The 1969 Memphis Anthology: Suspicious Minds consists of everything Elvis recorded during those two 10-day marathon sessions of early 1969 in his hometown of Memphis, and then some, all of which re-established him as a force after one too many lousy B-movies. Rarities like the exciting "Stranger In My Own Hometown" stand alongside the hits, such as the King's 18th and final #1, the epic "Suspicious Minds." And of course, the second one is a single-CD compilation of the very first two albums Linda made in 1967 (plus four tracks from a 1968 album that was a solo project in all but name) as the female member of the folk-rock trio the Stone Poneys. The collection shows her to be a team player, as she would continue to be on more than a few occasions from that point forward, and a tremendous lead vocalist, particularly on the Mike Nesmith-penned folk-rock classic "Different Drum", her first hit.
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Post by arjan on Aug 22, 2008 14:39:55 GMT -5
No Age, a band I saw at the Lowlands festival. A duo that is being compared to Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. Pointless of course, this 1 guitar can never compete with the interferences of the dual or triple guitars from those bands. But you get the idea. It reminds me more to the impact Psychocandy, the influential Jesus and Mary Chain album had. Also there's some Superchunk (voice, pace) and Dinosaur jr (noise). A band with a non nonsense attitude, can become big.
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Post by Antonio on Aug 23, 2008 16:54:28 GMT -5
I'm having a Tori Amos day:
Scarlet's Walk (2002 album), right now and Little Earthquakes in the evening.
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Post by egoodstein on Aug 25, 2008 1:17:39 GMT -5
Haven't had too much time to hear music last couple days. But when I have: new rerelease of very last Maxine Sullivan album-- 'Together'-- songs by Jule Styne w. pianist Keith Ingam's Sextet ('87). She was ill & that kinda apparent in voice, but still great . And also new-- fine new choral music 'Threshold of Night' by UK contemporary classical composer Tarik O'Regan. Very interesting settings of poetry & other performed by group Conspirare, dir. by Craig Hella Johnson. Also earlier today & last night I listened again to some of Richard Stekol's 'Point of Stars'-- really liking that lately. Ed
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Post by robertaxel on Aug 25, 2008 9:36:52 GMT -5
Astrud Gilberto.. like being on a beach with a mojito.. without the sunburn or hangover!
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Post by arjan on Aug 25, 2008 10:49:50 GMT -5
After seeing Mark Lannegan and his new band The Gutter Twins at the Lowlands festival i decided it was way overdue to buy an album with his voice. So, it's a Screaming Trees compilation. Great, Nearly Lost You and Julie Paradise are superb.
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Post by egoodstein on Aug 30, 2008 13:48:26 GMT -5
Today listening to newish recordings of some Benjamin Britten songs, 'Britten Abroad' with Susan Gritton, Mark Padmore & pianist Iain Burnside, & Helmuth Rilling recording of Haydn's Theresa Mass & "Mass in the Time of War' with Oregon Bach Festival Orch./Chorus & Stuttgart Chamber Orch. Pop-- Rilo Kiley's "More Adventurous' which I hadn't heard in awhile. Might be my fave of theirs. Ed
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Post by erik on Sept 3, 2008 12:50:34 GMT -5
Good to see Helmuth Rilling surveying some of Haydn's latter-day Mass settings, especially with those two ensembles in Stuttgart and Oregon. In fact, there seems to have been a noticeable up-tick in the number of Haydn Mass recordings in recent times; and I think it's because this is an area of Haydn's output that hasn't exactly been mined to death.
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Post by Antonio on Sept 3, 2008 16:51:13 GMT -5
Right now?
Adele - 19
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Post by egoodstein on Sept 3, 2008 20:09:21 GMT -5
>>Good to see Helmuth Rilling surveying some of Haydn's latter-day Mass settings, especially with those two ensembles in Stuttgart and Oregon. In fact, there seems to have been a noticeable up-tick in the number of Haydn Mass recordings in recent times; and I think it's because this is an area of Haydn's output that hasn't exactly been mined to death.<<
**Yes I agree. He has done a fine job with Bach-- & lately turned to Haydn, I think some is because of reasons you give. In general, some fine Haydn albums the past few years (this one is very good too). This one and Amsterdam String Quartet's recent recording of 3 Haydn Quartets & Marc-André Hamelin's recording of JH piano sonatas come to mind right away for me. Haydn has definitely become a composer I always find interesting, even surprising things to admire-- really deserves being 'up there' with Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, etc. Ed
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Post by erik on Sept 6, 2008 18:33:11 GMT -5
With respect to Haydn--I hope Sony will reissue Leonard Bernstein's classic 1976 recording of the composer's Harmoniemesse (No. 14) that he did with the New York Philharmonic and the Westminster Symphonic Choir. They had it out once about fifteen years ago as a 2-CD package that included Lenny's 1960 recording of "The Creation"; but now I hope they release it just by itself on one CD. That '76 recording of the Harmoniemesse is one of the single greatest recordings of any of Haydn's works in history (IMHO).
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Post by erik on Mar 13, 2009 20:51:18 GMT -5
Here's one that I hope will see a revival. For those who have pegged Henry Mancini as a mere composer of popular film music, like for THE PINK PANTHER, DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES, or BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, you may want to keep in mind that the man did some work in the suspense field, like with WAIT UNTIL DARK in 1967 and EXPERIMENT IN TERROR in 1962; and he also concocted a scintillating Latin jazz score for Orson Welles' 1958 cult classic TOUCH OF EVIL. But nobody ever expected Mancini to be capable of this: Although an extremely uneven combination of outer space sci-fi and vampire horror (it was based on Colin Wilson's 1975 novel The Space Vampires), director Tobe Hooper's berserk 1985 opus LIFEFORCE boasts an incredible score from Mancini that is in sheer need of a revival (especially since the film, though a cult item these days, was a critical and commercial disaster in its original theatrical release). Elements of Debussy's "Nocturnes" and Gustav Holst's "The Planets" are interwoven through the early parts of the score; then the music takes a Wagnerian turn of sorts as the film reaches its explosive climax. Mancini's main theme is a vigorous D Minor scherzo along the lines of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with staccato brass and string lines reminiscent of the symphonies of Mahler and Bruckner. An incredible score all around, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Mancini's direction.
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Post by Antonio on Apr 1, 2009 13:15:59 GMT -5
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Post by arjan on Apr 1, 2009 17:26:57 GMT -5
Pascale Picard, a singer-songwriter from Canada. Triggered by the album cover I decided to listen to some of her music, and it's really good.
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Post by egoodstein on Apr 3, 2009 11:31:13 GMT -5
That's nice (Pascale). Lately (past week or so) I've been listening to: Pop: Eleni Mandell's 'Artificial Fire'; Don Dixon & Jump Rabbits (Jaime Hoover/Jim Brock) 'Nu Look' (mostly covers in trio arrangements) and singer a little bit like Pascale but English-- Jessica Grace-- her 'Insert Quirky Title Here' album. Here are some YT's of stuff from those albums Jessica Grace: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBilc9QrLNsEleni Mandell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=slP1SEnfX6EDon Dixon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XJ85sPe-Gw . Also: Jazz-- The Bridge Quartet 'Day' (awaiting new 'Night' album ). Also singer Miranda Sage 'Daydream'; & weird duo Jessica Constable/Andrea Parkins as 'The Skein'-- 'Cities and Eyes.' Classical-- newest version of Bach's 'Well-Tempered Clavier' by Angela Hewitt and 'Tchaikovsky Songs' by Christianne Stotijn. Ed
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Post by erik on Apr 8, 2009 12:40:04 GMT -5
Great 1982 recording of two great American works--one derived from Gershwin's ultra-popular opera; and the other inspired by a little trench in northwestern Arizona. Who says nothing good comes from Detroit anymore? Lenny's one and only recording (made in April 1990, seven months before his death) of W.A. Mozart's Great Mass In C Minor (No. 17), with a quartet of world-class vocal soloists and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Included are "Exsultate Jubilate" and the ever-popular (and extremely poignant) "Ave Verum Corpus."
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Post by Antonio on Apr 8, 2009 17:22:06 GMT -5
Rigt now:
Omega Bugembe Okello - Sili Kwabulilanga (He won’t leave you)
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Post by Antonio on Apr 16, 2009 14:42:23 GMT -5
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Post by Antonio on Apr 22, 2009 15:36:18 GMT -5
Iryn Namubiru - Y'ono ;D
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