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Oh, I bet that's good! Baker's studio recording of Vier ernste Gesänge is -- Yowza! -- really, really good. What do you think of this BBC recital, soulpope?

Discs 8 & 9

Pharoah Sanders - Village of the Pharoahs / Wisdom Through Music (Impulse)

Buy with confidence, amigos. My Charles Tolliver Mosaic Select set arrived quickly, exactly as described. Thanks again, mikelz!

Second listen today: Having just re-watched 2001: A Space Odyssey recently, there's something about this music that reminds me of the "Dawn of Man" section of that movie. Both share a similarly strange, otherworldly but still-somehow-familiar quality. Dr. Freud's Das Unheimliche!

Chopin: 4 Ballades, etc. / Zimerman (DG)

The worst of the PDs are just plain LAZY and DISRESPECTFUL to the music & musicians. One small step away from those shite downloads with the wrong musicians on the cover. I'm not lumping them all together. Example: I'll plop for Fresh Sounds if the OJC is no longer available. Different kettle of fish. *************** Sorta off topic, but these Savoy DL covers still bother me: If the medium is the message, then it's loud and clear: "We couldn't care less." Same vibe (pun intended) as the cheap PDs.

Charles Tolliver - Mosaic Select 20 Disc 1 - originally released as Live at Slugs', Vols. 1 & 2 Such great music. The whole band cooks... but Stanley Cowell. (!!!)

Been coming back to this again and again lately:

David Oistrakh - The Complete EMI Recordings Disc 8 - Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No. 1 with Lovro von Matačić, London SO - Violin Concerto No. 2 with Alceo Galliera, Philharmonia O - Violin Sonata No. 2 with Vladimir Yampolsky (p)

Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI) Disc 1 - Highlighted by a superb Beethoven Symphony No. 7 (with the Chicago SO) plus works by Ravel, Bizet, Rossini

Yeah, that.

IIRC, this is the first Andrew Hill record I ever heard. ...I was just beginning to dig in to Bobby Hutcherson's discography, and I heard Dialogue. Hill's playing (and compositions) on that album blew me away. The chance to hear Hill and Hutcherson together again is what led me to Eternal Spirit. It's still one of my favorite Andrew Hill records.

Thank you!!!

Wow! Has this ever been issued on CD or vinyl???

Yes. Alexeev is subtle, maybe even understated -- there's nothing on display except the music -- so I think some overlook him. In that regard, Alexeev sort of reminds me of a younger Geza Anda.

My favorite pianists focusing on Brahms' solo repertoire (aside from Rösel) are Dmitri Alexeev and Rubinstein. I understand why many love Lupu's Brahms. He's just not my cup of tea.

I agree. I definitely prefer Rösel's Brahms over the more well-known Katchen set.

Disc 1 - Rösel's recordings of Brahms' First Piano Sonata and Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - with the London PO Tried and true. and One of my desert-island discs -- for Brahms' exquisite Clarinet Quintet.

More Pat: Brilliant.

Two amazing Metheny records.

Contact - 5 on One (Pirouet, 2010) featuring Dave Liebman, John Abercrombie, Marc Copland, Drew Gress, and Billy Hart

Prompted by the Dexter-on-SteepleChase talk elsewhere on the board: Oh yeah.