What are you listening to right now #53

[poco a poco]

Purcell 'Songs & Airs' - Emma Kirkby with Rooley and Hogwood. 1983 L'Oiseau-Lyre (Decca) LP.

 

[poco a poco]

From Soprano to Baritone now. Benjamin Luxon with Alan Rowlands piano. John Ireland 'Songs - volume one. 1975 Lyrita LP. Lovely recording.

Suprisingly the price of most of these Wonderful Lyrita LP's have dropped back from the high prices when the Americans and Japanese were buying them up following HP's Super Disk recommendations in the Absolute Sound (of old).

 

[herb]

Rautavaara piano concertos 1, 2 and 3. Very northern.

 

[blossomchris]

Ravi Shankar - Inside the Kremlin, record.


Bloss

 

[alan967tiger]

Depeche Mode - Ultra.
2007 SACD.

 

[Seeker_UK]

Berlin School heaven.

 

[Alex N]

This track won a Grammy...

The Roots - Things Fall Apart

 

[vince rocker]

Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer "Not Dark Yet". Magnificent.

 

[Alex N]

 

[Barry williams]

I can't stop playing this black stuff.

 

[alan967tiger]

Bowie - Station to Station.
2016 CD - if I had to choose, this is my favourite lp of his

 

[guey]

Plaid - Double Figure

 

[herb]

Various Mozart Symphonies from an Archiv box of them all, The English Concert under Trevor Pinnock. Feet tapping away......

 

[alan967tiger]

The Verve - A Northern Soul.
2016 deluxe CD box.

 

[PsB]

Today seemed a good day to dig out Jordi Savall's Mare Nostrum.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mare-Nostrum-Hesperion-Jordi-Savall/dp/B005Z4D3SC/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1503086612&sr=1-5&keywords=mare+nostrum
Released shortly before Monserrat Figueras' death in 2011, it is a celebration of the common ties that bind the musical traditions around the Mediterranean, and a plea for mutual understanding.
Medley from 2013 concert:

 

[Aethelist]

Wanted to listen to something purely Spanish. Then realised I don't actually own anything. As such.

Need to get me some of this.

Check out that little finger on his left hand.

[YOUTUBE]2oyhlad64-s[/YOUTUBE]

 

[DIB]

Listening to the new Robin Trower CD, Time and Emotion.

One of my very favourite guitarists, I love his style, and at 70+ he's still got it.

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[alan967tiger]

James - Gold Mother
1991 CD

 

[herb]

The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra. 3 CDs, a hoot. Good Jazz

 

[alan967tiger]

James - Seven
2001 CD - I might make it a James weekend