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I am not a hard core fan. Frankly I don't know, I bought a used vinyl copy for 60 euros several years ago, because I found it at a nice price. I think that its mammouth size had obscured its merit. There are other KJ solos more highly regarded like Munich and Bregenz (1981), a part Koln. I found the japanese concerts interesting, some more then others. About the grunting, it's in jarrett's average.

After an afternooooon of classical music (Mozart and Mahler) now spinnin': The Doors - The Doors - Elektra, stereo brown label. It's Saturday night, for chris+++++!!!

I'm sure he would have loved that comment. I thoroughly recommend this book, a good chunk of which is about how contemporary philosophy and literature influenced Haydn into taking that kind of approach to his audience (quite a small and directly observable entity for him at that time, of course). Blurb: Schroeder here sets out to challenge the widely held view of Haydn as an inspired instrumental musician who composed in isolation from 18th-century enlightened thinking. By means of both documentary and musical investigation the author seeks instead to present him as a culturally and politically sensitive representative of the Age of Englightement. Haydn's awareness of contemporary aesthetic opinion and the tenets of the Enlightenment is reflected by the transformations in his own compositional style, and there are fascinating implications here for our understanding of instrumental music from the second half of the eighteenth century. Of fundamental importance in this survey is Haydn's relationship with his audience, which, it is argued, had a significant bearing on the nature of the works. The author suggests that Haydn was well acquainted with the contemporary view that works of literature or music should serve a moral functionand he points to numerous instances in the late symphonies where this end is effectively pursued. For the eighteenth century, however, morality did not imply dullness; indeed, its goals were best served through wit, humour, popular appeal, and beauty, as well as through intellectual challenge. I agree 100 per cent with Schroeder. I strongly associate Haydn with the Age of Englightement. It seems to me that he embodies the faith in the Reason and the educational purpose of arts in general. Beethoven was already beyond that, following his genious in a 'bourgeois' manner, a self conscious artist that 'wrote for the posterity' as he reproached a musician that didn't understand one of his later works during the rehearsal. (the story could be fake, but it's nevertheless explicative).

Lately I filled my gaps in Haydn's symphonies buying the missing box sets of my Dorati's Decca vinyl collection. So I am listening to them more then ever. And WOW! Haydn's music is such a beauty: a perfect balance of drama, peace, elegance, joy. If I'd appoint a musician of the title of 'classic' this would be Haydn. The early works rooted in Bach and Haendel and the late ones already in the Beethoven and Schubert era Listen to the symphonies one could really understand, even an amateur like me, the development of this magnificient form of art. Sure Mozart is Mozart as Ludwig Van is Ludwig Van, but Haydn possess the clarity of the greats, he's suprising and delicate at the same time. The (late) Mozart and Beethoven throw one in their world, without any advise, take it or leave it, like a dive in the unknown, Haydn walks with you, hand in hand, leading one in his marvellous works, like Virgil with Dante in the Comedy.

Not that particular one, but Japanese Vertigo LPs are very hard to find! Was this just recently re-issued on vinyl? I've seen sealed copies of it in two different shops this past week. I don't know, mine is a Vertigo original german pressing.

Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame - BN, Music Matters 45rpm reissue. This stuff is expensive, but it's definitely the best sounding reissue I met, and the cover art is simply gorgeous.

Mendelson - Symphonies - Karajan, BPO, DG box set.

Georges Bensoussan - Europe. Une passion génocidaire : Essai d'histoire culturelle

Count Five - Psychotic Reaction - Double Shot

Ah! I thought exactly the same thing.

Thanks for sharing, Jim. Actually after reading the title's thread I had in mind some caustic and pessimistic joke about my decade, but after your post... well, all my best to you and to your many "bands".

Who's Brigitta?

Far East Family Band - Nipponjin Join Our Mental Phase Sound - Vertigo. Prog Rock from Japan, 1975, produced by K. Schultze. I bet you don't know it.

Gustav Mahler - Symphony N.5 - LPO/Tennstedt, EMI.

Haydn - Early Symphonies - Dorati/Ph. Hungarica, Decca.

Definitely, though I replaced it with originals, PJ's are still at human prices. I prefer the sound on the Mosaic Select ! It could be, I never compared them, I liked so much the music I had to get the originals, one those old Jedi tradition.

Ash Ra Tempel - Starring Rosie - Ohr

"Sagar" from Ananda Shankar - ST - Reprise.

Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar - Reprise

Yep, the early Chet Baker and Mulligan are at Blue Note level, but I got the Amys from the 20/40 bucks range.

Definitely, though I replaced it with originals, PJ's are still at human prices.

Agree, all the PJ Amy records are tremendous, IMHO. now spinning: Cream - Wheels Of Fire - Polydor

Yes, all the best and merry Christmas Aloc.

I don't like burger anymore, I used to go to a McDonald near the studios where I worked, it was open 24h, usually at 3 or 5 AM, really weird stuff. I did lots of stupid and dangerous things in my youth. I tend to think at burger like a compressed musical file, I mean why eat a low-rez steak when one can have the real thing?