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Post by arjan on Oct 8, 2014 10:52:38 GMT -5
Today: Earlier: Some very whacky, fun stuff by Manchester indie 'anti pop/anti folk' duo Lovely Eggs: They're great I have 2 albums of them. Still trying to find a physical copy of teh EP this song is on.
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Post by profblues on Oct 8, 2014 12:42:29 GMT -5
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Post by jhar26 on Oct 8, 2014 14:54:00 GMT -5
New Prince album. Decent, but nothing remarkable compared to his 80's and early 90's albums. Two songs would have been good enough to have ended up on one of his albums during his prime - "Breakdown" and "Breakfast can Wait." The rest is not embarrassing, but it's not more than ok either. 6/10.
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Post by egoodstein on Oct 8, 2014 17:32:31 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Oct 8, 2014 19:08:24 GMT -5
Dating from 1977-78, this box set of Robert Schumann's four symphonies, made by the Philadelphia Orchestra under James Levine, is one of the most impressive such sets of this terribly underrated composer's symphonic output. The sound of the orchestra is energetic and robust for Levine, and maintains the quality established under Leopold Stokowski, and continued under Eugene Ormandy. Recorded in 1989, this is Zubin Mehta's second go-around with Holst's interstellar extravaganza (his first being his classic 1971 London recording with his Los Angeles Philharmonic); and while it may not match what Mehta did in the City of Angels, the Big Apple's big band under his direction nevertheless impresses.
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Post by robertaxel on Oct 24, 2014 12:45:16 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Mar 10, 2015 9:28:46 GMT -5
Hans Zimmer's score to director Christopher Nolan's 2014 magnum sci-fi opus INTERSTELLAR, a film that, like the 2013 masterpiece GRAVITY, owes a fair amount to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 10, 2015 16:07:34 GMT -5
Last couple days, listening a lot to a couple very new recordings: New album of hardly ever recorded Baroque opera Niobe, Regina de Tebe by Agostino Steffani. Fascinating, very well performed IMO: www.amazon.com/Agostino-Steffani-Niobe-Regina-Tebe/dp/B00H2SIXMK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1426021456&sr=1-1&keywords=agostino+steffaniUK jazz/'art song' singer Joanna Wallfisch (daughter of class. violinist of note, Elizabeth Wallfisch) new one, 'The Origin of Adjustable Things,' w. jazz pianist Dan Tepfer. Kinda like Norma Winstone, but rather different voice. Pur-dee & many intriguing tracks: www.amazon.com/Origin-Adjustable-Things-Joanna-Wallfisch/dp/B00S0DW5IE/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1426020974&sr=1-1&keywords=joanna+wallfischAlso, just got & listened to only once so far: Isabelle Faust playing the Schumann Violin Concerto (w. also Piano Sonata no. 3, w. frequent chamber music companions Alexander Melnikov/Jean-Guihen Queyras there), Freiburger Baroque Orch. Part 1 of 'Trilogy' feat. Schumann trios coupled w. other works. www.amazon.com/Schumann-Trilogy-Vol-1-Isabelle-Faust/dp/B00QMTDBFY/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1426021198&sr=1-1&keywords=Isabelle+Faust+Schumann
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Post by erik on Mar 10, 2015 18:22:05 GMT -5
A pair of double CDs: A 2-CD set of four of Igor Stravinsky's great 20th century ballets ("The Firebird"; "The Rite Of Spring"; "Apollon Musagete"; "Petrushka"), as performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Antal Dorati. Five late symphonic masterpieces of W.A. Mozart (35, 38, 39, 40, 41), with the Dresden State Orchestra under the direction of Sir Colin Davis.
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Post by robertaxel on Mar 10, 2015 19:42:45 GMT -5
A run of masterpieces that very likely has not been matched since...
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Post by erik on Mar 16, 2015 9:12:58 GMT -5
More from the wunderkind of Salzburg: Mozart's 12th and 17th piano concertos, lesser known they may be than some of his other ones, are nevertheless given sterling performances on this 2005 Philips recording by the legendary Alfred Brendel, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Sir Charles Mackerras' direction.
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 16, 2015 12:30:34 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Mar 17, 2015 18:11:18 GMT -5
Choral works by Franz Schubert: This re-release of recordings made in the mid-1980s features, among other things, the composer's imposing (but shockingly short) German Mass, and his (in Latin) Mass No. 2, a very touching setting of the Latin Mass scored by vocal soloists, chorus, organ, and string orchestra. This comes from a series of recordings of Schubert's choral works made by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under the direction of the late Wolfgang Sawallisch (long the artistic director of the Bavarian State Opera, and music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra during the 1990s and the early part of this century).
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Post by erik on Jul 15, 2015 19:33:47 GMT -5
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Post by egoodstein on Jul 16, 2015 0:46:56 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Aug 7, 2015 18:28:42 GMT -5
A live 2007 performance by the Philadelphia Orchestra under their then-Music Director Wolfgang Sawallisch of the Goethe-inspired "Calm Sea And Prosperous Voyage" by Felix Mendelssohn:
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Post by egoodstein on Aug 9, 2015 11:48:55 GMT -5
Way busy last few days & some personal complications goin' on, but when time: Very nice live one of talented young classical piano trio, The Sitkovesky Trio: The brand new one, another great one, of 'Romantic' songs (i.e., songs about the various aspects of love/romance) by Lorraine Feather:
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Post by erik on Aug 16, 2015 19:43:15 GMT -5
I've only heard about this Canadian-born alt-country/rock songstress with the Hispanic surname over the last few years, but she's been around the block a while. I will submit this as a surefire candidate for one of the best albums of 2015.
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Post by egoodstein on Oct 23, 2015 23:43:06 GMT -5
Earlier today, latest ('12) studio album by Little Feat, Rooster Rag, which I'm finally catching up to & liking-- quite varied mix: Jazzy mellow one:
More 'typical'; Little Walter's Mellow Down Easy:
Seattle jazz singer Carrie Wicks, whose new 'Maybe' album I'm liking a lot: Bob Dorough's 'Small Day Tomorrow'
Her own (co-writer) Ghost of a Perfect Flame:
& tonight, fine youngish opera singer who specializes mainly in Baroque/early classical era stuff, Amanda Forsythe, here w. Cleveland group Apollo's Fire:
Handel's 'Da Tempeste,' from Giulio Cesare (1724):
Mozart's 'In Un Istante,' from early opera Lucia Silla (1772):
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Post by egoodstein on Nov 14, 2015 16:33:42 GMT -5
Today among other things. . . Excellent folk virtuoso fiddle-playing sisters Rowan and Ana I’m digging recently have fine brand new album, Already Home. Rowan plays too with solid UK folk trio Lady Maisery, & Ana lives now in the South of France, so they use too some trad. song/instrumentals from (esp.)Provence and the Auvergne. Mix of vocals/distinctive instrumentals. 1st album from 2013, Glad Gold Hearts, is also very good. Here’s very thoughtful/thorough review of new one, with a couple YTs too. www.folkradio.co.uk/2015/11/the-rheingans-sisters-already-home/
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Post by erik on Nov 15, 2015 13:39:15 GMT -5
From two recent film scores:
"Glienicke Bridge" (from BRIDGE OF SPIES)--Thomas Newman:
"Theme From 'The 33'" (from THE 33)--James Horner:
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Post by profblues on Nov 16, 2015 10:26:46 GMT -5
last night while sort of semi-watching the movie A River Runs Through It, there was a reference to an obscure jazz band called the Clicquot Club Eskimos. It was sort of disparaging reference to them as the character was talking about the difference between "colored jazz as opposed to the Clicquot Club Eskimos" so anyway I decided to do a little research this morning and this is sort of what I found... The Clicquot Club Eskimos was a popular musical variety radio show, first heard in 1923, featuring a banjo orchestra directed by Harry Reser. A popular ginger ale, Clicquot Club, was Canada Dry's main rival. Clicquot (pronounced "klee-ko") was the name of the Eskimo boy mascot depicted in advertisements and on the product. In the early 1920s, Reser's banjo performances on WEAF/New York were sometimes described by newspaper columnists as "sparkling," and this prompted WEAF production manager George Podeyn to approach the Clicquot company about sponsoring Reser's band. The policy of the U.S. Department of Commerce (which regulated radio broadcasting at that time), was that advertising on radio broadcasts was not allowed. However, the Eskimo theme was carried through whenever possible. Band members wore Eskimo outfits when performing before a studio audience, and barking dogs were a component of Harry Reser's opening theme tune, Clicquot. Sheet music illustrations depicted the band performing in frigid far North settings. The radio program aired on WEAF from 1923 to 1926, graduating in 1926 to the then brand-new NBC Radio Network, where it was heard as a half-hour show on Thursday at 10pm, then Thursday at 9pm (1927-28), Tuesday at 10pm (1928-30) and Fridays at 9pm (1930-33). On January 23, 1933, it began on the Blue Network, Mondays at 8pm, continuing that year until July 24. After a two-year hiatus, the program resumed Saturdays at 8pm on CBS, where it was broadcast from December 21, 1935 until January 4, 1936, returning to NBC that year from January 12 to April 12, airing Sundays at 3pm. Reser's band used different pseudonyms on recordings made for many different labels. Tom Stacks was the featured vocalist. The tuba player was Maurice Black (1891-1938).
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Post by erik on Jan 21, 2016 21:56:41 GMT -5
Revisiting this great 1993 DG recording of great works by Maurice Ravel (including that great 20th century musical experiment "Bolero") with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra led by the recently-departed Pierre Boulez:
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Post by egoodstein on Jan 22, 2016 16:06:41 GMT -5
Revisiting classic one by the late (d. January '16) from '72/'73 Paul Bley just at the moment : Also new one from Eleanor Friedberger I'm liking a lot on early listening: Earlier today, Mozart and Schubert string quartets by the Chiaroscuro Quartet:
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Post by erik on Jan 25, 2016 20:10:18 GMT -5
Revisiting Glenn Frey's final solo album, 2012's After Hours: And another great Ravel recording made by Pierre Boulez with the Berlin Philharmonic:
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