Gentleman, Please tell me about the ÂIl Cornetto it sounds fascinating. I am but a classical neophyte at this point and truly looking to expand my horizons. I love classical or folk music with ancient instrumentation. Would this fit into that classification? So please, do tell and is it available on vinyl?! As always, Happy Listening! |
Good one! I stared at his name on "Rough Mix, "Who By Numbers" looked over Led Zep but missed his name. I was gonna say Clapton cuz of the Delaney & Bonnie ref and Clapton played a lot of the lead parts on "Rough Mix". That was fun. Maybe we should start posting thematic evenings of music and quiz folks on what the commonalities are... |
OK Slipknot1, Evidently there are no other takers to this challenge of rock trivia. So you have taken an avid stab at it and deserve to know the answer I was looking for. Glyn Johns. Glyn either engineered and or produced each of these recordings. He has a long list of credits that would leave anyone proud and most of his work have a sonic signature of clarity and detail as you may well know by listening to these albums. Happy Listening! |
Rushton, My first reaction to "Il Cornetto" is how delicate and airy the lute/guitar passages are as they weave through the soundscape. A lot of people may pass this recording by fearing the "acquired taste" of harpsichord, but the combination of the lute, cornett, chamber organ/harpsichord are just right IMO. Very easy on the ears, nice late night listening at lower volumes, and a tremendous recording from a production standpoint. Thanks for bringing this one to my attention! |
Montepilot, good to see your list of music! Nice to have more classical music listed for those like me who live mainly in that world. Slipknot, any reactions to "Il Cornetto"? Hope I didn't lead you down the path of "it must be an acquired taste" on this LP... Tonight here has been: John Lill playing Schuman's "Fantasia in c, op 17" on a beautiful all analog recording produced in 2004: Green Room Productions 4001. This is recording engineer Tony Faulkner's label and reflects his return to analog tape for his own productions. A lovely 1964 Steinway piano captured by Neuman M50 tube mikes into a Studor A80 tape deck, then half speed mastered by Stan Ricker and pressed at RTI. Outstanding performance by Lill, captured in outstanding sonics by Faulkner. Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps performed by Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Decca SXL 6691 (the Speakers Corner reissue sounds very good! besting my original Decca in many respects). . |
R f, I have to append my answer: They weren't all issued in the same year, or in the early 80's. I didn't take into account "Beggar's Banquet" and a couple of others. My other guess would have been that each LP was the second effort for each artist, but the Led Zep is their 1st LP, right? I give up. What is it? |
R f sayles, HMMMM- My guess is that these LP's were all issued in the early 80's, perhaps in the same year? Tonight, so far: "Il Cornetto, Works Of Italian and British Composers of the 16th & 17th Century" (Klimo Edition Open Window OW 004) Baroque era music performed on original instruments including the cornett, viola da gamba, harpsichord/chamber organ and lute/baroque guitar. Liszt "Sonata, Piano Works By Franz Liszt" Robert Silverman (Stereophile STPH008-1) |
Tonight our listening has a common thread... any idea what it is??? Led Zeppelin ÂLed Zeppelin on JP Atlantic Delaney & Bonnie & Friends w/ Eric Clapton -On Tour on Atco The Steve Miller Band -Sailor on Capital Eagles ÂDesperado on Asylum John Hiatt -Stolen Moments on A&M Rolling Stones -Beggars Banquet on JP London FFSS The Who -Who by numbers on MCA Pete Townsend & Ronnie Lane -Rough Mix on Atco Traffic ÂTraffic on UK Island Joan Armatrading -S/T on A&M white label So much vinyl, so little time... Happy Listening! |
Since my wife Rhonda is away for the weekend I'm dipping into my 20th century composers records this evening and through the weekend. This Friday evening I begin with the Gerhard Concerto for Orchestra (Argo ZRG 553) Rich palette of diverse percussion instruments w/harp & strings. Sumptuous. Edgar Varese, Arcana and Ionisation. Mehta. Decca SXL 6550 A sonic delight. In regard to "Ionization" the liner notes say: "...the piece seems to evoke the sounds and harsh reality of city life, in contrast to the sounds of nature." Varese uses sirens that sound off at various times during the performance. I can relate to this music since moving from the quieter Bay Area in California to the city of Boston a few years ago. Jay McShann, Just A Lucky So And So, Sackville reords. Joyful blues, what more can I say. Needed this to settle my mind after an initial foray in Bartok's Bluebeards Castle. After Judith goes through the first door to discover Bluebeards previous widow, I could'nt handle anymore 20th century composers in one sitting. Will have to resume later. BTW the recording is with Solti conducting the LPO. Decca SET 630. My copy is a bit beaten up and I am looking for a replacement. When I am up to it I want to compare it with a Hungaroton recording with Janos Ferencsik I acquired more than 20 years ago when I was first introduced to this work. Although it is a digital LP I remember it being quite vivid in my memory. Have a great weekend all of you, Kind regards, |
I know these pieces show up in my postings a lot, but I use them as references to help tell me what my system is doing. Right now, I am evaluating the Walker Reference High Definition Links on my speakers. I suspect after the past several listening sessions with them, they will be staying.. Holst "Choral Hymns From The Rig Veda" Imogen Holst/English Chamber Orchestra/Purcell Singers with Janet Baker, Thomas Hemsley, Robert Tear (Argo ZNF 6) Rachmaninoff "Piano Concerto No. 3" Byron Janis/Antal Dorati/London Symphony (Mercury SR90283) Speaker's Corner reissue Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue" (Columbia CS 8163) Both Classic Record's reissues: 33 1/3 rpm 200g and 45 rpm 200g |
Yes, the William Walton "Facade Suite" on Reference Recordings was exactly as good as I remembered: an absolutely outstanding performance, recording and pressing (from my 03/04 post above). One of Reference Recordings' best. William Walton's Symphony No. 1 - a great piece of 20th century orchestral music - Previn/LSO, RCA (recorded by Decca). Robert Lucas: Usin' Man Blues, Audioquest 1001 (a Kavi Alexander recording, and very special sonically because of that) Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, Verve MGV 4001/2, Speakers Corner reissue (Well, it sounds more like Ella than Cole Porter, but the remastering is well done sonically, and Ella is always Ella) Marin Marais: "Works for 2 Viols and Harpsichord", Sarah Cunningham, et al., ASV GAU 112. (I enjoy Baroque music, and Marais' writing for viol is always worth listening to, but I confess to taking it in small doses because I find a sameness from piece-to-piece that I just can't get around. This is an excellent record, and shows just how good a digital recording on LP can sound.) . |
Listening now to the Analogue Productions 45 rpm reissue of Bill Evans Trio: Explorations. Another great record in this series! On the turntable earlier today have been: Dave Grusin: Discovered Again, Sheffield LAB5 direct-to-disc Gregorian Chant/Epiphany, by The Schola Hungarica, Hungaraton SLPD 12559 William Bird: Missa In Tempore Pachali | Mass: In Assumptione Beatae Mariae Virginis, performed by Chanticleer on Harmonia Mundi HMC 5182 Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits, S&P Records S&P(2)-507 (if you like Orbison and you've not yet listened to this Steve Hoffman mastered 2-LP set, you're missing a huge treat - the music and sound quality puts a smile on my face!) The Nylons: Happy Together, Open Air OA 0306 Linda Ronstadt: Hasten Down the Wind, Asylum 7E 1072 (wonderful vintage stuff here) Coming up: William Walton's Facade Suite, with the Chicago Pro Musica on Reference Recordings RR16 (a superb performance as I recall)... . |
Dipping one toe back in the water...Past few days, sorry no commentary: -----Elpees----- Link Wray -- Great Guitar Hits [Vermillion, '6?] The Beau Brummels -- Vol. 44 [Vault, '68] The Kinks -- Face To Face [Reprise, '67] Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds -- The Fabulous [Columbia, '66] The Shadows -- More Hits! [EMI/Columbia (England), '65] Hank Marvin -- S/T [EMI/Columbia (England), '69] Roy Harper -- One Of Those Days In England (Bullinamingvase) [Chrysalis (Canada), '77] The Raindrops -- S/T [orig. Jubilee, '63, reissue Murray Hill, '85] Baby Washington -- With You In Mind [Veep, '68] Blue Magic -- S/T [Atlantic, '74] Ronnie Foster -- On The Avenue [Blue Note, '74] Harold Betters -- Do Anything You Wanna [Gateway, '63?] Johnny Hodges -- Used To Be Duke [Verve, '5?] Johnny Hodges -- The Blues [Verve, '5?] Johnny Hodges -- Perdido [Verve, '5?] The Miles Davis Quintet -- Workin' With [orig. Prestige '59 (rec. '56), reissue Fantasy OJC, '87] Lee Morgan -- The Rajah [Blue Note, '84 (rec. '66, unreleased)] Doc Watson -- The Essential [Vanguard, '73] Linn Barnes & Allison Hampton -- Forms And Fancies (Renaissance and Baroque Music for Two Lutes) [Oak Leaf, '83] Plus many singles... -----Ceedees----- Dave Bartholomew -- Very Best Of [Bayou, '?? (rec. 50's)] Link Wray & The Raymen -- "They're Outta Here," Says Archie [Rollercoaster (England), '04 (rec. '58, unreleased)] Dee Dee Warwick -- I Want To Be With You (The Mercury/Blue Rock Sessions) [Hip-o, '01 (rec. '60's)] Dee Dee Warwick -- The Atco Sessions [Marginal (Belgium), '95 (rec. 70's)] The Searchers -- EP Collection [See For Miles (England), '89 (rec. 60's)] Blue Ash -- Around Again [Not Lame, '04 (rec. 70's, unreleased)] |
*Rickie Lee Jones -Traffic From Paradise on Geffen De *Rickie Lee Jones -Pirates on first press WB (forgot how good and dynamic this album was) *Rickie Lee Jones -Flying Cowboys on Geffen white label promo *Hi-Fi A La Espanola on Mercury/Speakers Corner 45RPM ...WoW! I can't beleive a new/sealed original of this record could sound better ...and one just went on ebay for the tune of about 540.00USD. Some body give me my medicine! |
Prokofiev "Love For Three Oranges Suite" (Mercury SR-90006) Thanks Rush! Wynton Marsalis "Hot House Flowers" (Columbia FC 39530) Oscar Peterson Trio with Milt Jackson "Very Tall" (Verve V-8429) Original pressing with quite a few ticks and pops, but the music shines through Mozart "Symphony No.41 in C Major, K.551 "Jupiter"" Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt/London SO (Mercury SR-990184) |
"Dances Anciennes de Hongrie & Transylvanie", Clemencic Consort, Harmonia Mundi HM 1003 "Harmonia Mundi Sampler" Harmonia Mundi HM 0015 - bite sized tastes of some of the best... Bach, Cantata: Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV2 Bach, Cantata: Wie schon leuchtet der Morenstern, BWV1 ...Harnoncourt/ConMWien, Telefunken SKW 1/1-2 Bach "Goldberg Variations" Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord, Deutsch Harmonia Mundi 065 99710 . |
Enjoying 14" of fluffy white snow today with a fire in the woodstove and, on the turntable, we have: Richard Strauss "Eine Alpensinfonie" von Karajan/Berliner (Deutsche Grammophon DG 2532 015) Dire Straits "Love Over Gold" (Warner 23728-1) Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense" (Sire 25186-1) Not sure what's up next though. Olympic coverage on the tube may coax me out of the listening room. |
Rickie Lee Jones -POP POP! on Geffen/Alto analogue Yo La Tengo -I Can Hear The Heart Beating as One. on Matador Van Morrison -His Band and Street Choir. on WB Burbank Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man. on Epic Chet Atkins' -Workshop. on Living Stereo RCA Victor The Velvet Underground -Loaded. on (gray marbled)Cotillion Elvis Costello -King of America. on Columbia ...and on it goes with an eclectic mix of mostly older pop. Happy Listening! |
Hi Foster, the Walker Audio amps stands are indeed keepers! Inserting Valid Points under the butcher block in lieu of the sorbothane improved the already good results yet another material degree. Lloyd had offered the sorbothane as a lower cost option, but Ann insisted that we should listen to the full component stand as Lloyd intended it to be. She was right, it was better. I never cease to be amazed at how EVERYTHING makes a difference and how much the details matter. . |
montepilot, Looking forward to you joining the fray. It's always nice to have another vinyl enthusiast along. IÂm driving Coincident Total Eclipses (with tubes) and employ Israel BlumeÂs ICÂs and TRS speaker cables with great success. No less than two hundred hours of break in were needed though. Ouch! Rushton, That was my only regret in visiting your splendid hometown to see a Paul Cézanne exhibit in 1996. I spotted, but then didn't have time to see the Rodin Museum and do it justice. Hey, I haven't heard comment from you on the result of the amp stands the two of you were auditioning some weeks back. Did they prove out, are they keepers? Happy Listening! |
Montepilot, The Tallis Scholars performance of the Allegri Miserere is not particularly rare and I see it show up from time to time. You might consider monitoring the monthly fixed price sale lists from Mikrokosmos and Ars Nova. And thanks for your kind comments about my posts. . |
montepilot, 2-07-2006 Thanks Rushton, I have enjoyed all of your postings. I am now on the hunt for the Tallis Scholars performance of the Allegri Miserere and the Bach Peasant and Coffee Cantatas you have written about. After some intense internet searching I have come up with zilch. Anyway the cables arrived today. After a proper burn-in period of the new equipment I will be ready for some serious auditioning. I am currently using a VPI basic scout with no upgrades and have followed slipknot1's upgrading strategy on his VPI with great interest. I may wish to tap into some of his experience later as I seek to improve my phono performance. Kind regards to all, |
Montepilot, I look forward to your contributions once you're up and running! Foster (R_F_Sayles), your comments about the Claudel/Rodin exhibition caused me to go look at the DIA web site. That was one we'd have enjoyed seeing, too! Now you've got me thinking about a visit to the Rodin Museum here in Philadelphia... Regards, |
2-06-2006 Montepilot I just acquired my first set of tube monoblock amplifiers from Israel Bloom at Coincident and a Manley Shrimp linestage. It is all beautifully sitting in place like someone all dressed up with nowhere to go. I am still waiting for some long enough inteconnect I ordered to finalize the connections. So for now it all sits in silence. Until the interconnect arrives my stack of vinyl is anxiously waiting in the wings for me to relish and hopefully contribute to these threads. This entire segment has been thoroughly enjoyable reading. I send my warmest regards to all of you. Fellow audiophile, montepilot |
...Not all of us here in Detroit are at the super bowl... After a day at the closing of the Claudel & Rodin exhibit "Fateful Encounter" in the DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts, tonight we're listening to: The Dave Bailey Sextet -One Foot in the Gutter on Epic (Grab this one while you still can. It's a great performance, and a beautifully dynamic recording.) followed up by -2 feet in the Gutter on Epic (also) Miles Davis -Kind of Blue on Columbia/Classic Records Gene Ammons -Blue Gene on Prestige Ben Webster -meets Oscar Peterson on Verve Records Blue Michell -Blue's Moods on Riverside/AP 45's Life is anything but blue tonight! |
Clifton Chenier! Boogie 'n' zydeco and Boogaloosa Boogie- It's almost 1 a.m. and this dude won't let me go to bed. Los Lobos/ A Time To Dance- this is the EP which put them on the map for all those who had never heard of them. Of course, if your from East LA, like yours truly, you heard these dudes at Belvedere and Garfield, Montelbello Park, Joey's wedding, at the CYO... BB King/ Best of- On The Thrill is Gone drums truly sound like they are in my room. |
Stuck at work today, but unwinding tonight with: Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington "Recording Together for The First Time" (Roulette SR52074) Classic Records 200g reissue. And what a wonderful reissue this one is! Satchmo's voice is locked dead center with Ellington's piano on the left. Quiet surfaces and a lot of fun to listen to. Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler "The Best Of...Private Investigations (Mercury Records 987576-7) Fairly new LP release. Curious effort this one. When I ordered it, based largly on the track listing, I thought I would be getting a remaster compilation pressed on heavy vinyl. These tunes are remixed, different presentation/performances of some of their most familar work. No judgement, as I want to give it more time to get my ears used to it. Rimsky-Korsakov "Scheherazade" Maazel/Cleveland (London CS7098) Nice performance of this warhorse. Not quite the sonic fireworks of the RCA/Reiner/Chicago. Tchaikowsky "Symphony No.6 in B Minor, Op.74 (Audio Fidelity FCS 50,002) One of those "Oh wow, an Audio Fidelity for 2.00 here in this junk store" moments. Record cleaner has not really been able to salvage this one. Too much surface noise getting in the way of the performance. |
A lovely wet day here, and this evening we've heard thus far: "Lute of the Renaissance", Kecskes -lute, Harmonia Mundi HMU 766 "Italian Music for Lute, Baroque Guitar and Harpsichord", Hubscher -lute, Gross -hpd, Klimo Open Window OW 003 (from a great, but sadly limited, series of baroque music recordings by the German audio manufacturer Klimo) Prokofiev: Love for Three Oranges | Scythian Suite, Dorati/LSO, Mercury SR 90006 (Classic Records 45 rpm reissue) Next up: Malcom Arnold's "Duo to Two Cellos" courtesy of members of the Nash Ensemble on Hyerion A66171. . |
Bartok: 44 Duos for Two Violins, Wilkomirska -vn, Szucs -vn, Hungaraton LPX 11320 Kodaly: BIS LP 172 ...Sonata for Cello & Piano, Lavotha -vc, Aberg -pf ...Duo for Violin & Viola, Lavotha -vc, Sparf -vn Kodaly: BIS LP 25 ...Sonata for Solo Cello, Helmerson -vc (a marvelous cellist) Handel, Messiah 'Highlights', Barbirolli/RPO, Vickers, Tozzi, Vyvyan, RCA CRL2 0192 (a fun alternative version with superb soloists) . |
Ray, it can still happen... when everyone else is sleeping (or whatever) one can still find a deal on ebay. Nice snag on the Cole Porter Songbook. I'm happy for you on the Monk find as well. Happy Listening! Tonight I got together with the local Royal Oak HiFi group, it was a small turn out and we just listened to a lot of great vinyl, and some new equipment. Very nice! |
Rushton,Im waiting on a "mint"copy of Cole Porter Songbook,Verve MGV4001 2,that i got on an ebay action for 4.50 i was the only bidder,,hopefully sounds good!RFsayles,i just got a Prestige Original Jazz Classics "Thelonious Monk,Sonny Rollins"that sounds very good!Stiltskin ,,any idea when your arms going to be delivered? |
