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[bedouin]

Osvaldo Coluccino - Gemina (Due Punti Edizione 2010)

I saw this cd recomended by Simon Reynell on AT website and bought it from SoundOhm. Received today. Great music!

yes, this is a good one.
There is also another disc by Osvaldo Coluccino, "Voce D'Orlo" published by Rai Tre which is really strong.

[grisha]

20 Jahre Inventionen V: Luigi Nono

[J.F.]

20 Jahre Inventionen V: Luigi Nono

Not even sure I have this particular CD. I love the Quando Stanno Morendo from a 3-CD sampler-box from colegno (recordings from the elctronic studio in Freiburg), also the Canciones a Guiomar on one of the Nono-CDs on the Wergo-label. I heard a recently issued alternative version of Quando... on I believe a Neos-CD, and that didn't do anything for me. To my ears, it pretty much lacked the ton of atmosphere the Freiburg-version has.

I keep searching a recording of Nono's La terra e la compagna (1957). Does anybody know if this exists at all, and where it might be available?

[billygomberg]

last two nights

Pelleas & Melisande (Debussy) at the Metropolitan Opera

War Requiem (Britten, conducted by Seiji Ozawa)

serious double-header there

[horaflora]

Jessica Rylan - long slow changes

[horaflora]

Marcus Schmickler - Palace of Marvels (queered pitch)

[bedouin]

The Sealed Knot - Unwanted Object
Re-issue of the Confront classic. Had forgotten how incredible this disc is.

[nirav]

Jessica Rylan - long slow changes

Wow, first mention I've heard of this one in a while. IIRC, Jessica told me that this one was her Radigue tribute.

If anyone wants one, I've still got 5 left, $6ppd.

[Jesse]

Nirav, I'm in, where do I send the $$?
Thanks.

[orangettecoleman]

Fennesz - Plus 47 degrees 56' 37"
I find his solo albums starting with Endless Summer pretty boring, but everything he did in the 90s is brilliant for me. It seems like the more he had to fight against technological limits, the more interesting he was. Once the software and hardware developed to the point where he could do anything easily, he seems to have lost focus...

[jpeatt]

Fennesz - Plus 47 degrees 56' 37"
I find his solo albums starting with Endless Summer pretty boring, but everything he did in the 90s is brilliant for me. It seems like the more he had to fight against technological limits, the more interesting he was. Once the software and hardware developed to the point where he could do anything easily, he seems to have lost focus...

I hear a lot of what I like about this album in 'Venice'.

I've been getting into Beethoven's 9th in the last few days, and am just now working my way through a pile of cheap David Munrow lp's.

Beethoven dudes - what is the best version of the 9th that's easily available?

[Jesse]

http://www.pristineclassical.com/LargeW ... ASC261.php

[J.F.]

I'm listening to what must be at least the 10th Melt-Banana mix I made.
At this moment I'm at the "covers"-section, having "Showroom Dummies" playing. Oh, now it's "We will Rock You". I recognise these two make an odd pair, since the decidedly electronic and rockist approaches (of the Kraftwerk and Queen originals) are just similarly decidedly interchanged in these Meltie-versions.

[hatta]

Beethoven dudes - what is the best version of the 9th that's easily available?

Can't agree with Jesse about the Furtwängler there; those big German orchestra's just crush the life out of those pieces for me. My preferred version is John Eliot Gardiner with Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and Monteverdi Choir. In a quick search I can only find complete cycles available but these are well worth it (and man a lot cheaper these days). Believe me if you haven't heard these warhorses played by a smaller orchestra, following the original scores they really are a revelation.

That being said, everybody has their own preferences and some love the big, bombastic Teutonic versions, others demand it as HIP as you can get and everything in between. So read what the classical nerds (who put the nerds here to shame, let me tell you) have to say about recordings across the spectrum.

[grisha]

20 Jahre Inventionen V: Luigi Nono

Not even sure I have this particular CD. I love the Quando Stanno Morendo from a 3-CD sampler-box from colegno (recordings from the elctronic studio in Freiburg), also the Canciones a Guiomar on one of the Nono-CDs on the Wergo-label. I heard a recently issued alternative version of Quando... on I believe a Neos-CD, and that didn't do anything for me. To my ears, it pretty much lacked the ton of atmosphere the Freiburg-version has.

I keep searching a recording of Nono's La terra e la compagna (1957). Does anybody know if this exists at all, and where it might be available?

i think this one is an even older recording than the Col Legno one ('83 vs '85)? it's a great performance, though the recording is a bit shaky, there's clipping in some spots. haven't listened to the one on NEOS, but what i read about it is pretty similar impressions to what you wrote.

[Joda]

Fennesz - Plus 47 degrees 56' 37"
I find his solo albums starting with Endless Summer pretty boring, but everything he did in the 90s is brilliant for me. It seems like the more he had to fight against technological limits, the more interesting he was. Once the software and hardware developed to the point where he could do anything easily, he seems to have lost focus...

Damn, Plus 47 degrees 56' 37" is such a good album. I agree with your opinion of the direction his solo output took.

[Wombatz]

Walt Dickerson, Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things. Only beautiful things on this one. Wilbur Ware between Dickerson and Cyrille is a perfect choice, because he's so very much there. Some great moments where starts listening to the noises of music-making instead of the music itself. Spun it twice in a row.

Re Beethoven: I'm a fan of the Zinman Tonhalle Zürich recordings.

[Stephen]

EMMANUEL HOLTERBACH: 23 panoramas de fréquences
(GALERIE ROGER TATOR, 2010)
book, 64 pages + CD

This a book of 64 pages of 15 x 21 cm with color photos. French / English texts by Lionel Marchetti and E. Holterbach. Photos by E. Holterbach. CD contains 23 field recordings of urban and peri-urban sound images from Lyon and Saint-Etienne, France.

This just arrived, and is magnificent, highly recommended.

[surfer]

Beethoven dudes - what is the best version of the 9th that's easily available?

Can't agree with Jesse about the Furtwängler there; those big German orchestra's just crush the life out of those pieces for me. My preferred version is John Eliot Gardiner with Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and Monteverdi Choir. In a quick search I can only find complete cycles available but these are well worth it (and man a lot cheaper these days). Believe me if you haven't heard these warhorses played by a smaller orchestra, following the original scores they really are a revelation.

That being said, everybody has their own preferences and some love the big, bombastic Teutonic versions, others demand it as HIP as you can get and everything in between. So read what the classical nerds (who put the nerds here to shame, let me tell you) have to say about recordings across the spectrum.

I'm with Jesse, for me, Furtwangler IS Beethoven (as Maria Callas famously once said), and the best version of the 9th I've heard is the '51 Bayreuth:



It's a justifiably famous performance at the re-opening of the Bayreuth Festival in 1951, and for many, its the only version they need. not as extreme an interpretation as the '42 version, which I happen to prefer, even though the '42 does run a bit roughshod over the OTJ chorus, but if you're interested in hearing that, this is the one to get on the Music & Arts label:



To my ears, there is no greater collection of Beethoven symphonies, and anyone serious about Beethoven should at least listen to these wartime versions, I've never heard anything as intense in my life. If my house was burning down, its the one recording i'd grab. The "Eroica" is perfect. and the Coriolan is incredible. not for everyone, admittedly.

[surfer]

As a footnote, Fred Maroth (who lives near Berkeley) runs Music & Arts as a small boutique label, and a labor of love. He paid out of his own pocket to have Maggie Payne remaster those wartime recordings. You can listen to samples and buy them directly from him at: http://www.musicandarts.com/CDpages/CD4049h.html