Vivaldi.
All kinds of Vivaldi.
Just ripped a few CDs (long overdue), finished splitting the Big Vivaldi Box into its 15 or so component albums and restoring original album art, bought the Gli Cogniti box set (see Baroque thread) and added it all to my library....
this is going to take a while to listen to.... Lots of Vivaldi.
Having seen all the snow in the NE of USA on this morning's news bulletins I'm playing snow/winter themed music to start with this morning. I hope amc and any other affected are alright - a day or more off work/school I suspect.
This is very vivid. I suspect that my history of listening to classical music has been to some degree colored by picking up a lot of cheap but not necessarily stellar recordings and rarely seeking out particular recordings that may cost more. Nereffid and Kez are slowly nudging me to take my choices more seriously. I already had my eye on the Gli Incogniti version of the Four Seasons, though, and grabbing it for no more money along with three more disks of material was a good move.
ETA My one complaint with this set is the tagging - the track titles are just things like "1. Allegro" - no work or composer.
If the Beyer is Vivaldi with verve and vigor, this I'd describe more as sprightly-with-decorum. Nice to hear the roots of the Sky track 'Vivaldi' from Sky 2 in the mandolin concerto.
Debut solo album by Leyla McCalla, cellist and touring member of Carolina Chocolate Drops (she appeared on their Leaving Eden album). Big mistake not to include this in my best of 2014 list, but I only just now discovered it. McCalla was heard playing on the streets of New Orleans by Music Maker Relief Foundation co-founder, Tim Duffy. According to their website, Music Maker's primary aim is to "preserve the musical traditions of the South by directly supporting the musicians who make it, ensuring their voices will not be silenced by poverty and time." They have assisted and partnered with over 300 artists, issued over 150 CDs and reached over a million people with live performance in over 40 states and 17 countries.
I might be the last person to know this, but I did not realize that Carolina Chocolate Drops themselves are one of Music Maker's discoveries. More info on Leyla McCalla's story and this worthy foundation are here and here
- "Future Travel (1981) is a journey in sonic imagery. It is set sometime in the future and its starting point is Earth. The traveler, whose point of view we imagine, is a spirit being, representing the first awareness of a new form of consciousness to which humans have evolved. At an earlier point in the evolution of the Earth human beings had become aware of the unstoppable momentum of the course they had set and the unlikelihood of their surviving. Consequently, attention was turned towards learning to direct the process of their evolution to a new form. This form is a macroscopic one, a large-scale organism, to which all, individual entities of earlier Earthly forms contributed. The first awareness of this new form of existence is beginning now.
"And Out Come the Night Ears (1978) is a solo for piano interfaced with an electronic system developed through a particular improvisation practice that manifests anew in each performance. Because this practice has an identity in my mind associated with specific piano exercises I composed for myself, certain musical materials, particular interactive electronics techniques, and a body of performances, it is as such a piece that is not a piece and I call it a piece. The recording presented here is extracted from an approximately one-hour-long performance given in a concert that was coincident with the rollout of the then new Buchla 300 Electric Music Box. I sometimes think of the piano as if it was an orchestra, and in this rendition, the Buchla 300 provided a means of extending that orchestra." David Rosenboom @ New World Records http://davidrosenboom.com/
David's a wonderful performer, composer and nice guy.
It's nice to see that someone's taken interest in releasing these
early pieces that he had to release on his own in small quantities
back in the early days decades ago. Years ago, at a David Tudor
symposium, he showed his extraordinary piano skills by performing some
rather difficult new music pieces. A couple of long concerts over two nights.
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John Bonamassa- Different Shades of Blue
Vivaldi.
All kinds of Vivaldi.
Just ripped a few CDs (long overdue), finished splitting the Big Vivaldi Box into its 15 or so component albums and restoring original album art, bought the Gli Cogniti box set (see Baroque thread) and added it all to my library....
this is going to take a while to listen to....
Lots of Vivaldi.
Having seen all the snow in the NE of USA on this morning's news bulletins I'm playing snow/winter themed music to start with this morning. I hope amc and any other affected are alright - a day or more off work/school I suspect.
One of the classic Bruce Springsteen concerts
This storm seems to have mostly missed me so far - less than an inch of snow this morning, and the forecast is not for too much more.
(From Awesome Tapes From Africa a few years ago).
This is very vivid. I suspect that my history of listening to classical music has been to some degree colored by picking up a lot of cheap but not necessarily stellar recordings and rarely seeking out particular recordings that may cost more. Nereffid and Kez are slowly nudging me to take my choices more seriously. I already had my eye on the Gli Incogniti version of the Four Seasons, though, and grabbing it for no more money along with three more disks of material was a good move.
ETA My one complaint with this set is the tagging - the track titles are just things like "1. Allegro" - no work or composer.
Gaeoudjiparl aka. Goodiepal
Dirty Dishes - Guilty
Quite enjoyable punky indie pop.
Craig
Tunnel Six - Alive
Vivaldi break.
The Floozies - Do Your Thing
Electro funk. Enjoyable.
Craig
If the Beyer is Vivaldi with verve and vigor, this I'd describe more as sprightly-with-decorum. Nice to hear the roots of the Sky track 'Vivaldi' from Sky 2 in the mandolin concerto.
Also.
Mica Levi - Under the Skin OST
Craig
Debut solo album by Leyla McCalla, cellist and touring member of Carolina Chocolate Drops (she appeared on their Leaving Eden album). Big mistake not to include this in my best of 2014 list, but I only just now discovered it. McCalla was heard playing on the streets of New Orleans by Music Maker Relief Foundation co-founder, Tim Duffy. According to their website, Music Maker's primary aim is to "preserve the musical traditions of the South by directly supporting the musicians who make it, ensuring their voices will not be silenced by poverty and time." They have assisted and partnered with over 300 artists, issued over 150 CDs and reached over a million people with live performance in over 40 states and 17 countries.
I might be the last person to know this, but I did not realize that Carolina Chocolate Drops themselves are one of Music Maker's discoveries. More info on Leyla McCalla's story and this worthy foundation are here and here
Anti-Vivaldi.
- "Future Travel (1981) is a journey in sonic imagery. It is set sometime in the future and its starting point is Earth. The traveler, whose point of view we imagine, is a spirit being, representing the first awareness of a new form of consciousness to which humans have evolved. At an earlier point in the evolution of the Earth human beings had become aware of the unstoppable momentum of the course they had set and the unlikelihood of their surviving. Consequently, attention was turned towards learning to direct the process of their evolution to a new form. This form is a macroscopic one, a large-scale organism, to which all, individual entities of earlier Earthly forms contributed. The first awareness of this new form of existence is beginning now.
"And Out Come the Night Ears (1978) is a solo for piano interfaced with an electronic system developed through a particular improvisation practice that manifests anew in each performance. Because this practice has an identity in my mind associated with specific piano exercises I composed for myself, certain musical materials, particular interactive electronics techniques, and a body of performances, it is as such a piece that is not a piece and I call it a piece. The recording presented here is extracted from an approximately one-hour-long performance given in a concert that was coincident with the rollout of the then new Buchla 300 Electric Music Box. I sometimes think of the piano as if it was an orchestra, and in this rendition, the Buchla 300 provided a means of extending that orchestra."
David Rosenboom @ New World Records
http://davidrosenboom.com/
It's nice to see that someone's taken interest in releasing these
early pieces that he had to release on his own in small quantities
back in the early days decades ago. Years ago, at a David Tudor
symposium, he showed his extraordinary piano skills by performing some
rather difficult new music pieces. A couple of long concerts over two nights.
John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Chuck Berry with David Rosenboom on the Mike Douglas Show @ Youtube
- Kindly posted by Ac2 a year ago.