The all-new 'what are you listening to?'

[someone]

Sept 23, 2008 19:15:22 GMT 10 timothystevens said:

Last night I was out in the car and I heard bits of a BBC Prom Concert in which the New York Philharmonic did Ravel's Mother Goose suite, and later played the arse out of Tchaikovsky 4. The orchestra was conducted by Lorin Maazel and it was going off. So that brings y'all up to date. Now someone say something!

sure - Did you hear 'Soundings" from the same BBC proms series? Its a 3 year old Elliot Carter piece - beautiful - Scottish National Orchestra..

[timothystevens]

No, I didn't.

Hasn't slowed down though, has he? Amazing.

[shaggaz]

Ooh, I went to Dixons today and bought a bunch of discs I like but didn't yet own:

The Beatles: The White Album (oh my god)
Vince Jones: Here's to the Miracles
Crowded House: Recurring Dream
John Coltrane Quartet Plays...

oh and...

The Gil Evans Orchestra plays the music of Jimi Hendrix. Jury is out on this one at the minute, it's certainly entertaining.

[gator]

A great weekend of music...First the Schoenberg Ensemble performing Smetanin, van der Putte and Ligeti - stunning - total conviction and heart into that music - so rare to see that..best Hamer hall gig ever for me (I missed Wayne in 2005) and of course it was only about 2/3 full with masses of comps - - no Brahms or Mozart on the program I guess...
then a workshop with Sitarist Kartik Sissadri and Tabla -ist Arup Chattapadyee - who didnt play enough but what they did play was astonishing - and Kartik's description of his music and how it relates to everything else - was the most incisive and articulate I have heard.

Then listening to the Hoodangers on Sunday arvo - who amaze me every time I hear them..can only be likened to some kind of crusty organic engine that once it gets warmed up is unstoppable - what a band..

And Sco and Lo , Lost and Found ,this weekend and lots of other cool stuff at York....yippee!

[punter]

Colin Stetson solo saxophone album 'New History of Warfare Vol 1'
Sublimely good

[erin]

damn. I missed the Schoenberg concert. I went to the Eighth Blackbird on friday though and it was great. They gave out heaps of comps but the house was still only half full. I found the choreography pretty distracting but the compositions were great.

[vickibonet]

Stevie Wonder opening his set with All Blues at Rod Laver.

Where I sat the sound was a shocker but others in better audio positions said it sounded good.

It was fun, but it had me reflecting on how much better gigs are at smaller venues with acoustic instruments and how much I'm hanging for Wang.

[timothystevens]

Keith Jarrett: The moth and the flame.

Ouch.

[captain]

ooooh love this thread. Complete Beethoven string quartets, Edgard Varese stuff, Skip James, and some amazing drum and fife music from Mississippi that is an amazing link between Africa and blues music.
Also Lightnin Hopkins.

[andgar]

Skip James is killer - the early recordings or the 60s stuff???

[captain]

60's.... Do you have any of the early stuff?

[andgar]

Yeah, the early stuff (from the 1930s) is incredible. He only recorded 18 tracks, apparently for some furniture company that needed records to sell with their turntables... His singing sounds great in the 60s, but the early guitar playing in phenomenal

[timothystevens]

Sven Libaek: Grass: A rock musical
J. S. Bach: St John Passion
Marilyn Crispell: Vignettes

[kenny penguin]

Care package from Amazon today:

Sun Ra - Secrets Of The Sun
Charlie Daniels - Uneasy Rider, Whiskey, Ti John Grease & Wolfman
Johnny Paycheck - The Beginning, On His Way

[dodgy]

Frank Di Sario's "Trust"
Marc Hannaford's "Polar"
The Hoodangers' "Stor Fisk Lille Fisk" (love the St Vincent's Hospital version of St James Infirmary ... "so cold, so pale, so dead")