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Post by egoodstein on Jun 30, 2012 12:55:48 GMT -5
Last few, over last few weeks: New very fine, quiet but intense trio album by UK jazz pianist Nicki Iles (w. Jeff Williams on drums, Rufus Reid on bass), 'Hush.' 3 originals & 6 covers of cool folks like Brubeck, Kenny Wheeler, Ralph Towner, Miles & others. www.amazon.com/Hush-Nikki-Iles/dp/B006O4EFY8/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341077952&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=nicki+iles+hushAlso thanks to Robert for turning me onto Regina Spektor, whose stuff I'm really enjoying. Esp. (at the moment) newest ones I've gotten: '09 album 'Far' & the 'Live in London' one (good cross-section): www.amazon.com/Far-Regina-Spektor/dp/B00204AA0O/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1341078069&sr=1-1&keywords=regina+spektor+far&: www.amazon.com/Live-In-London-Explicit/dp/B004BCCC6S/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1341078143&sr=1-2&keywords=regina+spektor+live+in+londonI also am enjoying that new Primitives 'obscure '60's covers' album Arjan mentioned here (& Walt at 'goddesses'): www.amazon.com/Echoes-And-Rhymes/dp/B007CKA8Q2/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1341078812&sr=1-1&keywords=the+primitives+echoes+and+rhymes& impressed by the new Garbage album, 'Not Your Kind of People'. Maybe a bit more 'pop' in feel for them, but I like the songs/arrangements (mostly) and Manson's voice is great here I think: www.amazon.com/Not-Your-Kind-People-Deluxe/dp/B007H9B8FS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341078369&sr=8-1&keywords=garbage+not+your+kind+of+people& nice live one (from '11) of B'way singer Sutton Foster, 'Live at the Carlyle'-- better than her 1st studio solo (if some of same songs), if I like most her cast recordings ones still (Anything Goes/Thoroughly Modern Millie esp.): www.amazon.com/An-Evening-With-Sutton-Foster/dp/B004KSA0NU/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1341078610&sr=1-1&keywords=sutton+foster+at+the+cafe+carlyle
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Post by robertaxel on Jul 8, 2012 11:57:25 GMT -5
catching up on my latest musical craze.. Regina Spektor... Begin to Hope... a good place to become familiar with this talented artist, as it more 'accessible' than some of her earlier work: www.amazon.com/Begin-Hope-Regina-Spektor/dp/B000FFJ80IAlso, as Ed posted the 'Live at London' is a great start too,.. a steal as it includes the CD AND the DVD for $20 US.
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Post by erik on Jul 8, 2012 12:18:05 GMT -5
The Missa Latina by the contemporary Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra, with Andreas Delfs conducting the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. Look for a Classical Works Spotlight segment on this work very soon.
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Post by egoodstein on Jul 9, 2012 11:32:25 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Oct 18, 2012 9:31:19 GMT -5
Anne Sophie-Mutter navigates her way through two Russian violin concertos of the 20th century (Prokofiev's 1st, and Glazunov's), plus Rodian Shedhrin's "Stithira", with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C., led by the late, great cellist and conductor Mstislav (Slava) Rostropovich. Traveling Alone, by Tift Merritt, certainly to be on my list of best albums for 2012.
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Post by egoodstein on Oct 19, 2012 11:00:31 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Jan 6, 2013 13:57:46 GMT -5
The concerto by Elliot Carter is spotlighted in the Classical Works Spotlight #210 segment.
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Post by jhar26 on Mar 9, 2013 9:44:53 GMT -5
My first opera on blu ray as opposed to dvd. And it's a GREAT one. Anna Netrebko and Elina Garanca are outstanding.
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Post by arjan on Mar 10, 2013 15:13:49 GMT -5
A concert for Kirsty MacColl was a concert in 2010 which is now released on cd. Kirsty's songs are performed by artists like Amy Macdonald, Alison Moyet, Andrea Corr, Eddie Reader and of course Billy Bragg who does his own song which Kirsty had covered (A new England). Varying results as you can expect but overall something worth having.
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Post by erik on Mar 10, 2013 19:00:54 GMT -5
Her mother Liz has won songwriting Grammys for having worked with T-Swift, but Caitlin is a different kettle of fish altogether. More or less in the alt-country/rock/Americana genre, she impressed a lot of people with her first full-length CD Own Side Now in 2010. This new one, released on March 5th, expands on it with songs like "No One To Call", "Only A Clown", "I Was Cruel". and "Golden Boy." And she admits to being quite influenced by Linda Ronstadt, even though she's only 25 (going on 26).
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Post by jhar26 on Mar 11, 2013 5:22:45 GMT -5
The mailman put this DVD in my mailbox today....
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 11, 2013 9:10:55 GMT -5
I've been wondering about that Kirsty tribute album. I'll probably get it, though sometimes these tributes are problematical; but some 'logical' artists there as well as maybe surprises. Nice to see anyway.
Bout those operas: that Rodelinda was on public TV here not so long ago, & I enjoyed quite a bit. The Anna Bolena sounds nice: better as DVD maybe, as I like Netrebko more as an actress than singer per se (though I like some of her albums). Garranca I think is really good: I've sev. of her recital albums and like them all & varied rep as well.
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Post by erik on Mar 29, 2013 9:02:25 GMT -5
One of the best albums from last year (thanks to Robert for pointing it and said artist in question out):
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 30, 2013 0:25:38 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Apr 5, 2013 9:02:24 GMT -5
A couple of soundtracks from the past: The score for director Stanley Kubrick's ultra-controversial 1962 film LOLITA, composed and conducted by...are you ready for this?...Nelson Riddle. It's sometimes a bit cheesy and chintzy, but quite right for the film. And Riddle wasn't even Kubrick's first choice; Bernard Herrmann was first up, but had to turn it down over being told he'd have to use a Rachmaninoff-like love theme composed by Bob Harris, the brother of the film's producer James Harris. A conflation of two scores for the hard-hitting and violent 1976 western THE LAST HARD MEN: one, an original and fairly modernistic score by Leonard Rosenman that got rejected over whether a nasty rape scene should have underscore in it; and a compilation cribbed cues from past Western film scores done by Jerry Goldsmith that were actually used. The liner notes spell it out. It is a fascinating comparison.
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Post by egoodstein on Apr 6, 2013 9:37:44 GMT -5
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Post by arjan on Apr 7, 2013 7:09:22 GMT -5
Live at the BBC is always good quality. This is no exception. 7 songs from a recording in 1991, 11 from 1993. Great recordings, includes most singles and even A Good Heart which she wrote but was recorded and made famous (at least in Europe) by Fergeal Sharkey. It's not a new album but I recently decided I wanted it
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Post by erik on Apr 14, 2013 13:13:50 GMT -5
American classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein and modern Americana goddess Tift Merritt collaborate on this eclectic project that combines their two styles into a very unique mixture. This is one likely to end up on a few Best Of lists for 2013...notably mine (hint, hint).
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Post by erik on Aug 4, 2013 13:02:42 GMT -5
The Dixie Chicks' lead singer (and upfront Bushwhacker) makes a solid solo debut with this album, whose title track is a cover of a Roger Waters song from Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall. Natalie co-produced this with L.A.-based roots-rock musician extraordinnaire Ben Harper. The second album from the sisterly two-thirds of the Dixie Chicks (to wit, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire) is a typically rootsy affair with a lot of rural twang that, fortunately, doesn't sound faux-hick. Tony Banks, the keyboardist for Genesis, makes an impressive foray into the classical world with "Seven", a 58 minute-long, seven-part orchestral suite poised somewhere between populist film music and serious classical composition.
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Post by jhar26 on Oct 31, 2013 19:25:28 GMT -5
A purchase that will delight Erik. A box set with the six studio albums that the Eagles recorded in the 1970's. I like all of them to varying degrees with the exception of The Long Run which has a couple of decent songs but also some very mediocre stuff. But other than that I like 'em. Order of preference: 1 Hotel California 2 One of these Nights 3 The Eagles 4 Desperado 5 On the Border 6 The Long Run
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Post by erik on Nov 1, 2013 17:51:00 GMT -5
Well, the Eagles are a group that one either takes or leaves. And as Rick Nelson once sang: " You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself." In the meantime.... French-Canadian conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin has some pretty big shoes to fill, namely those of Leopold Stokowski and Eugene Ormandy, in taking up the mantle as the music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, but this recording is an impressive first step, combining Stravinsky's "The Rite Of Spring" with the large-scale orchestral transcriptions of J.S. Bach made by Stokowski, including the ubiquitous Toccata And Fugue In D Minor.
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Post by Andrew on Nov 1, 2013 21:37:04 GMT -5
I'm glad to see this board is back. I just recently received in the mail the new CD by ezra furman called day of the dog. Ezra is a singer/songwriter from Chicago. I've been following his career since it started basically.I haven't had a chance to listen to this new one yet except for a couple songs which are excellent.
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Post by egoodstein on Nov 2, 2013 9:59:30 GMT -5
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Post by Andrew on Nov 11, 2013 10:11:26 GMT -5
A difficult one to answer without boring y'all thoroughly. I've become a flea-market/yard-sale rat and every week I've been coming home with a load of $1 CDs, LPs, and DVDs. I also do still buy new stuff. Recently the new Ezra Furman, Justin Timberlake, Jake Bugg (newish) have all come in the mail, and I just ordered new CDs by Yoko Ono, Arctic Monkeys, and Arcade Fire. If you go to deepdiscount.com and look through their sale section, you will find some very interesting new CDs for very cheap. I'll be spending some time soon just kicking back and listening to music, and I'll be sure to post reviews here.
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Post by arjan on Nov 16, 2013 6:51:43 GMT -5
A few internationa;l hightlights from the past months:
Minor Alps - Get There (see topic I made) Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt Swearin' - Surfin Strange (singer is waxahatchee's sister) The Julie Ruin - Run Fast (kathleen hanna's new band) Sam Phillips - Push Any Button Joan Jett - Unvarnished (she's back!) Superchunk - I Hate Music
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