Unsomnambulist
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The Tummies - 9:30 Girl (2020)
Liverpool by way of Nashville, Tenn. LOL.
Liverpool by way of Nashville, Tenn. LOL.
What are you listening to? January 2022
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axolotl
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Intriguing.The Tummies - 9:30 Girl (2020)
Liverpool by way of Nashville, Tenn. LOL.
How did you find this group/album (recognizing that you are only the second person on RYM to catalog listening to it)?
Ojai Sam
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Los Angeles Philharmonic (Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond.) - Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (2006)
While I was working yesterday, this album popped up in my new music queue. I started playing it without too much thought, but after about five minutes, I realized it was something special. The first thing I noticed was the sparkling yet warm sound quality. Turns out it was the first live recording at the new Walt Disney Concert Hall. Then, I observed that Salonen and the Angelinos had imbued this familiar Stravinsky work with a new urgency and immediacy. The liner notes quote the Los Angeles Times to the effect that "the conductor and orchestra breathe as one." Recorded toward the end of Esa-Pekka's long tenure at the LA Phil, this album is tangible proof of the tremendous improvement that he made in transforming a still occasionally sleepy ensemble (sorry, Andre) into a world class progressive orchestra capable of handling damn near anything.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
Not on Spotify.
While I was working yesterday, this album popped up in my new music queue. I started playing it without too much thought, but after about five minutes, I realized it was something special. The first thing I noticed was the sparkling yet warm sound quality. Turns out it was the first live recording at the new Walt Disney Concert Hall. Then, I observed that Salonen and the Angelinos had imbued this familiar Stravinsky work with a new urgency and immediacy. The liner notes quote the Los Angeles Times to the effect that "the conductor and orchestra breathe as one." Recorded toward the end of Esa-Pekka's long tenure at the LA Phil, this album is tangible proof of the tremendous improvement that he made in transforming a still occasionally sleepy ensemble (sorry, Andre) into a world class progressive orchestra capable of handling damn near anything.
on the Sam-O-Meter.Not on Spotify.
Unsomnambulist
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Someone mentioned it on Reddit.
axolotl
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^ I happened to see Antal Dorati on a few occasions when he was conducting the National Symphony Orchestra in the Kennedy Center.
Two compositions stick out in my mind.
One was Also Sprach Zarathustra. Until that concert, I had no idea that pipe organ figured so prominently in the work.
The second was Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle. The scoring on that, complete with wind machine, blew me away... um, figuratively.
P.S. Do you have a version of Bluebeard's Castle? If so, do you have Dorati's version?
Two compositions stick out in my mind.
One was Also Sprach Zarathustra. Until that concert, I had no idea that pipe organ figured so prominently in the work.
The second was Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle. The scoring on that, complete with wind machine, blew me away... um, figuratively.
P.S. Do you have a version of Bluebeard's Castle? If so, do you have Dorati's version?
lpfreak1170
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The Tummies - 9:30 Girl (2020)
Liverpool by way of Nashville, Tenn. LOL.
Listening.
Ojai Sam
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I got this one as part of a collection but don't recall playing it:
So far, this one with the Bavarian State Orchestra and Fischer-Dieskau is my favorite version but I'll have to give Antal a spin:
Unsomnambulist
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Do you attend estate sales?
axolotl
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He used to conduct them with full choral singing.
Ojai Sam
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No, I’m sort of a bottom feeder on eBay. Occasionally I’ll find a large collection at a reasonable price. This month I found a nearly complete run of American Heritage magazine from 1955 through 1979.
Ojai Sam
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Yes at Roger Wagner’s sale we performed “Empty Saddles in the Old Chorale”.
axolotl
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At first, I read that as Robert Wagner, then Richard Wagner.Yes at Roger Wagner’s sale we performed “Empty Saddles in the Old Chorale”.
Either would have been a lost opportunity; I would have expected no less than "Ride of the Valkyries."
Unsomnambulist
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Eels - Extreme Witchcraft (2022)
How is it? I don't know. RYM doesn't like it.
How is it? I don't know. RYM doesn't like it.
axolotl
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Eels - Extreme Witchcraft (2022)
How is it? I don't know. RYM doesn't like it.
From the cover art, it looks like E just saw the RYM ratings.
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axolotl
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Of course he does. It's three of the other 25 letters of the alphabet.
I don't think I've heard anything by Eels since Wonderful, Glorious.
Unsomnambulist
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You mean there are people that know all 26 letters?
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