mikeweil

Strade Vecchie Grillo - Sicilia - 2018 Can't find a pic.

Discograhical inaccuracies can happen to anyone. The Tom Lord Disco also has Page for these two sessions.

His mind obviously was a bit oversexed, but that was appropriate. R.I.P.

The Louis Armstrong Decca 1930's set is on the Running Low list, too.

The Heaven On Earth CD is really worth investigating. Very good band.

I have a similar brochure from Paiste with setups of their endorsers. These manufacturers published an updated version every few years.

Gerard Gibbs, Hammond B-3 and a new drummer, Alexander White - I'm curious. Saw them live some years ago, I love Carter, but think he needs real challenging sidemen to play his best.

Judging from his name the leader is of Armenian descent. Could musicians from these four cultures record like this today?

This instrument is now considered a sidetrack in music history. Keyboard instruments with a pedal existed as clavichords and harpsichords, mainly as practice instruments for organists at home, although there is some speculation that Bach may have used one in his Leipzig concerts. Haendel used a special custom made organ/harpsichord combination with pedal in his British oratorios and organ concertos. There was an attempt to popularize grand pianos with a separate pedal register in the nineteenth century, but only a dozen composers were interested, Schumann, Liszt, and Alkan among them. There a few playable historic instruments in European piano collections, but rarely used or recorded. If so today, by organists who are trained in pedal playing. I know of only two or three recordings.

Mine was a birthday present, supposedly bought in a Frankfurt boutique.

I have one of these - all are unique, different records ..... I'm glad the music on mine doesn't interest me! A challenge for any turntable ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- now playing:

There is a recording of the piano concerto on the Hyperion label, but there is no remark in the booklet that Hamelin used a pedal piano. https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/66717-B.pdf The only solo works recorded on a pedal piano, AFAIK, two preludes, are on this disc: - pédalier instruments in playing conditions are very rare, and recordings on them all the more so. There is an article in German by Martin Schmeding giving a good overview: http://www.gdo.de/fileadmin/gdo/pdfs/AO-1003-Schmeding.pdf

I'll give it a listen.

Cantine San Silvestro SABBIE, ROERO ARNEIS DOCG 2017

Early "Clavier"-Concertos from a Munuscript now preserved in a Slovenian library. Great notes by an expert from Austria: The Austrain composers developped their concertos independentzly from German traditions, had no idea of the Bach family or Haendel concertos.

I found Maltempo to be an excellent technically accomplished painist - which one must be to play Alkan, who must have been a frightening pianist, technically, for his contemporaries. Alkan's music must be performed by an equally comptetent pianist and should be taken in small doses. Does the box include Maltempo's recording on a historical piano? That one is stunning for the sound effects. http://www.vincenzomaltempo.com/en/

Judging from the tracklist and samples it is indeed a compilation from various Prestige sessions: https://www.amazon.de/Great-Summit-Kenny-Burrell/dp/B07VXDW681/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&keywords=kenny+burrell+great+summit&qid=1566483139&s=gateway&sr=8-1

Weren't the reference tape copies RVG made for Coltrane always mono? What RVG said about mono vs. stereo mixes in his notes for the SACD reissue of the session with Hartman stopped me shedding tears about lost stereo mixes. Lots of hype about stereo, IMHO.

Yesterday: Still contemplating what to take with me for listening in the car ...

Maybe conducting turned him on?

I suspect a translator's inaccuracy. If the German original reads "männlich" it's not necessarily a reference to genitals visible under garments. It tells more about Ploderer than about Webern. Who cares, anyway? With pants as baggy as they were back then, who would get a hint? See this photo of Webern and Schönberg: