JS Bach, The Art Of The Fugue. Glenn Gould, organ. Sony Classical Glenn Gould Anniversary Edition CD (remastered by Glenn Gould).
This is volume I of Gould’s recording of the Art of the Fugue on the organ of All Saints Anglican Chapel in Toronto (there was never a Part II, so the cycle remains incomplete). According to the booklet, Gould played half of the Contrapunctus manualiter, i.e., without using the pedals, and barely used them for the others, which was unanimously condemned by the critiques at the time. I for one know nothing about organ playing, but I feel that something grand was happening in that church that day. You be the judge.
BTW This is the only commercial recording of Gould on the organ, and his only recording of that work. The CD also includes recordings from CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) of radio and TV performances of the Art of the Fugue by Gould on the piano.
Chris Rea (Vocals, Keyboards, Guitars), Kevin Leach (Keyboards), Max Middleton (Acoustic Piano, Fender Rhodes, String Arrangements), Robert Ahwai (Guitars), Eoghan O’Neill (Bass), Martin Ditcham (Drums, Percussion), Karen Boddington (Vocals), Carol Kenyon (Vocals) and Linda Taylor (Vocals).
Streaming on Qobuz (44.1/16)… kicking off this morning with Chris and he has the toes tapping and body swaying on this gray overcast and gloomy morning and always puts a smile on my face. Chris and the band are sounding mighty sweet!
This is Hyperion’s record of the month, with 20% off for newsletter subscribers. Bargain! Stephen Hough is such a lyrical player and this is a fine recital album. I’m most grateful to @trickydickie who helped me out with the discount code as I’d rather foolishly binned the newsletter before reading it properly.
Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams . This is a new release from a very talented young lady from West London. She’s great as is the album on first listen .
I always play tracks from the following three records in a group. They where the theme tune to our second holiday together that we spent on Koh Phangan and Ko Tao over Christmas and New Year 2001/2002 , first up
Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded
I love Tracey Thorne’s vocal style she’s extremely underrated IMO yes she is quite one dimensional but she sings that one dimension incredibly beautifully.
The huge follow up to Blue Lines only a select few bands can manage to equal or even better an incredible debut but Massive Attack did, again featuring Tracey Thorne doing her thing and the brilliant live ‘Sound System’ version of Light My Fire sang by Horace Andy.
Chris Rea (Bass, Drum Programming, Guitar, Keyboards, Hammond Organ),
Martin Ditcham (Drums, Percussion), Julie Isaac (Vocals), Debbie Longworth (Vocals), Max Middleton (Fender Rhodes, Piano), and Pete Wingfield (Hammond Organ).
Streaming on Qobuz (44.1/16)… continuing on this morning with another album from Chris Rea and he and the band and are sounding sublime! …dreams of laying on a beach somewhere and then a nice cool dip in the ocean…
The (Godfrey) boys come from the same village as me and Paul lives in the next road - saw him in Waitrose last year - ticked off in my I-spy book of ‘rock stars’.
