What are you currently listening to (Classical)?
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I finished listening to this today. The liner notes were a bit disconcerting by stating the performances use some HIP (fast tempos, vibrato-less strings, and "almost" no pedal on the piano), but the results were not as egregious as I feared! Due the the strings' otherwise expressive playing, one really doesn't miss vibrato, and Bahrami's keyboard skills don't need much pedaling to play with legato. Very good sound. (Two derive from live concerts and have a slightly more distant perspective.)
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I was thinking; where should I post this music selection that I am listening to right now, for the second time...in the Classical music section, in the Jazz section or in the general music section?
From the RedBook:
* We have talked briefly in the past about this "album". If you like classical, or jazz, and also audiophile sound recording (piano is very nice, the acoustic bass spooky good, and the drums present), and if it is not in your music library yet, just get it...you'll love it! It's a lively and beautiful music recording.
Jacques Loussier - Plays Bach: The 50th Anniversary Recording
"The 1950s were one of the most experimental periods in the history of jazz. In the wake of the big-band era of World War II and the late 1940s, jazz combos on either side of the Atlantic scaled back in size and sought innovative ways to do more with less. The results were often exploratory and experimental. Musicians everywhere grafted different musical ideas to the widely accepted jazz conventions of the day.
For Jacques Loussier, the results of these experimental forays ultimately played a prominent role in the evolution of jazz. In the 1950s, he was a young pianist trying to find ways to improvise on the compositions of J.S. Bach. When he took the occasional break from his classical training to entertain friends by mixing elements of Bach with jazz, the results were something fresh, innovative and widely popular in the Paris club scene – popular enough, in fact, to launch a career.
Jacques Loussier assembled the first incarnation of his Play Bach Trio in 1959, and immediately forced musicians and audiences of both jazz and classical music to rethink the boundaries – and indeed, the similarities – between their respective genres. Five decades later, Telarc International – a division of Concord Music Group – celebrates this landmark anniversary with the release of Jacques Loussier Plays Bach: The 50th Anniversary Recording."
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Man, that acoustic bass sounds so delicious! That's the reason why I am playing the disc for the second time today.
This is my Christmas present to the people who don't have it yet and should...I think, very highly.
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? Warm thoughts in 'tis the season' John, and to all other classical and jazz music lovers...here in this thread, and over there ?
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I was thinking; where should I post this music selection that I am listening to right now, for the second time...in the Classical music section, in the Jazz section or in the general music section?
From the RedBook:
* We have talked briefly in the past about this "album". If you like classical, or jazz, and also audiophile sound recording (piano is very nice, the acoustic bass spooky good, and the drums present), and if it is not in your music library yet, just get it...you'll love it! It's a lively and beautiful music recording.
Jacques Loussier - Plays Bach: The 50th Anniversary Recording
"The 1950s were one of the most experimental periods in the history of jazz. In the wake of the big-band era of World War II and the late 1940s, jazz combos on either side of the Atlantic scaled back in size and sought innovative ways to do more with less. The results were often exploratory and experimental. Musicians everywhere grafted different musical ideas to the widely accepted jazz conventions of the day.
For Jacques Loussier, the results of these experimental forays ultimately played a prominent role in the evolution of jazz. In the 1950s, he was a young pianist trying to find ways to improvise on the compositions of J.S. Bach. When he took the occasional break from his classical training to entertain friends by mixing elements of Bach with jazz, the results were something fresh, innovative and widely popular in the Paris club scene – popular enough, in fact, to launch a career.
Jacques Loussier assembled the first incarnation of his Play Bach Trio in 1959, and immediately forced musicians and audiences of both jazz and classical music to rethink the boundaries – and indeed, the similarities – between their respective genres. Five decades later, Telarc International – a division of Concord Music Group – celebrates this landmark anniversary with the release of Jacques Loussier Plays Bach: The 50th Anniversary Recording."
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Man, that acoustic bass sounds so delicious! That's the reason why I am playing the disc for the second time today.
This is my Christmas present to the people who don't have it yet and should...I think, very highly.
______
? Warm thoughts in 'tis the season' John, and to all other classical and jazz music lovers...here in this thread, and over there ?
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Philipp Heinrich Erlebach: Overture No. 4 in D minor
Capricornus Consort Basel/Peter Barczi
Benjamin Frankel: Bagatelles for Eleven Instruments, Op. 35
Queensland Symphony Chamber Players
Roger Smalley: Symphony (1981)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra/Patrick Thomas
Capricornus Consort Basel/Peter Barczi
Benjamin Frankel: Bagatelles for Eleven Instruments, Op. 35
Queensland Symphony Chamber Players
Roger Smalley: Symphony (1981)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra/Patrick Thomas
Very dark, despairing, and violent works, especially "Magma." Truls Mork plays beautifully in "Tenebrae," a cello concerto written for Rostropovich. Excellent sound.
Was this disc already part of your collection when I posted about it several days ago or did you spotify it? Anyway, glad you liked the recording.
I checked it out on YouTube and ordered it. Thanks for posting it! (By the way, I don't Spotify...)
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