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What are you listening to? Part III

Scepticalscribe said:
Hespèrion XXI - La Capella Reial De Catalunya Jordi Savall - Granada 1013-1502.
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Fascinating. What a find. Downloading it now off Apple Music... the store version doesn't include a PDF of the booklet, so I will like to have the CD for that and better quality sound. Some user on Amazon uploaded a photo of back of the CD with enough tracklist details to send me to AM looking for it. It's also up on YT as a full playlist but with a few of the tracks deleted for some reason so I'm not going to risk embedding one here and having it end up gone too although I'm tempted. I listened to a few of them... wow.

Well I can play the Apple Music tracks while I wait for "the real thing" to arrive. Thank you for posting about it!

Pro tip if one is looking for it on AM - search for Savall Granada, don't put the dates.
 
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LizKat said:
Fascinating. What a find. Downloading it now off Apple Music... the store version doesn't include a PDF of the booklet, so I will like to have the CD for that and better quality sound. Some user on Amazon uploaded a photo of back of the CD with enough tracklist details to send me to AM looking for it. It's also up on YT as a full playlist but with a few of the tracks deleted for some reason so I'm not going to risk embedding one here and having it end up gone too although I'm tempted. I listened to a few of them... wow.

Well I can play the Apple Music tracks while I wait for "the real thing" to arrive. Thank you for posting about it!

Pro tip if one is looking for it on AM - search for Savall Granada, don't put the dates.
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Delighted you have discovered this album and that you like it.

Jordi Savall (and Hespèrion XXI) have some amazing albums.

In fact, tonight, along with Carmina Burana (now on my mp3 player), I have spent some time ripping some of my (exceedingly extensive) collection of CDs (including more than a few from Jordi Savall) to my mp3 player (and no, it is not an iPod).

Have you come across Ostinato (that stupid spell check insisted that I wished to spell "obstinate" instead), by Jordi Savell and Hespèrion XXI? If you like that Renaissance/Baroque style, I expect that you would enjoy this particular album; personally, I love it.

And another I added (to my iTunes, and mp3 player) this evening was El Nuevo Mundo - Folías Criollos by Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI. Well worth a look (and a listen).

And, ah, finally (for tonight), may I also suggest Musica Nova - Harmonie des Nations 1500-1700 - Hespèrion XXI Jordi Savall.
 
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LizKat said:
Fascinating. What a find. Downloading it now off Apple Music... the store version doesn't include a PDF of the booklet, so I will like to have the CD for that and better quality sound. Some user on Amazon uploaded a photo of back of the CD with enough tracklist details to send me to AM looking for it. It's also up on YT as a full playlist but with a few of the tracks deleted for some reason so I'm not going to risk embedding one here and having it end up gone too although I'm tempted. I listened to a few of them... wow.

Well I can play the Apple Music tracks while I wait for "the real thing" to arrive. Thank you for posting about it!

Pro tip if one is looking for it on AM - search for Savall Granada, don't put the dates.
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The booklet that comes with each (beautifully presented) CD album, is, in itself, an exquisite work of art, and sets out the background, and the musical history of the form of music (and the actual pieces of music) on the CD, in several languages (French, English, Spanish, Italian and German, I could identify; I think the sixth - clearly another Latin derived language, is either Catalan or Portuguese).
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
I think the sixth - clearly another Latin derived language, is either Catalan or Portuguese
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It's Catalan... and Jordi Savall has been a proponent of independence for Catalonia.

This morning I am not listening to music but fiddling around in an iTunes test library looking at features I've used in the past to edit or view music, and making notes on whether I see mention of those features so far in discussion elsewhere of the Apple Music app that will replace iTunes when the Catalina MacOS ships.

LOL maybe I should import a few requiem Masses to my test library. I hope I won't need them when I eventually upgrade to Catalina! I am not a beta tester but I know what I like to use in iTunes so I'm asking some pointed questions in those Catalina music-oriented threads.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
The booklet that comes with each (beautifully presented) CD album, is, in itself, an exquisite work of art, and sets out the background, and the musical history of the form of music (and the actual pieces of music) on the CD, in several languages (French, English, Spanish, Italian and German, I could identify; I think the sixth - clearly another Latin derived language, is either Catalan or Portuguese).
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And, @LizKat, there are more: I have just now added Esprit Des Balkans (Balkan Spirit), Bailar Cantando Fiesta Mestiza En El Perú, and the Celtic Viol II - all courtesy of Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI.

Yet to be added (I feel that I have just begin to rediscover music) are tow stunning books (not booklets) that contain a CD tucked into a sleeve in the final page of the (hardback) book.

These are: Venezia Millenaria 700-1797 - the year that Venice ceased to be an independent state - (again, Hespèrion XXI and Jordi Savall), and Les Routes De L'Esclavage - The Routes of Slavery.
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LizKat said:
It's Catalan... and Jordi Savall has been a proponent of independence for Catalonia.

This morning I am not listening to music but fiddling around in an iTunes test library looking at features I've used in the past to edit or view music, and making notes on whether I see mention of those features so far in discussion elsewhere of the Apple Music app that will replace iTunes when the Catalina MacOS ships.

LOL maybe I should import a few requiem Masses to my test library. I hope I won't need them when I eventually upgrade to Catalina! I am not a beta tester but I know what I like to use in iTunes so I'm asking some pointed questions in those Catalina music-oriented threads.
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Ah, that makes complete sense, and I had thought that it resembled Catalan more than Portuguese but I couldn't be certain.
 
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Rory Gallagher - "Calling Card" album.

Great talent who never received the money and fame he deserved. RIP...
 
Ana Vidovic: Valses Venezolanos - definite favorite - i probably personally bumped up her youtube views on this one - lol

Great melody - looks difficult to play but she does it without effort and in 3 tempos :)

 
AustinIllini said:
This woman is truly spectacular. Apple Music Essentials: Kacey Musgraves

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Agreed! Kacey is my favourite female artist and deserves all the awards she has won for her work. Two of her first albums are available of Youtube for a listen. You can see just how much she has grown since she was a teen artist. At least she doesn't yodel anymore, (although she was really good at it!).
 
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Happy Birthday Laurie ...


I saw Laurie Anderson at Oberlin College on her first tour with her cassette tape bow violin and just knew :cool:.
Thanks Laurie!
 
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Listening to "Crime of the Century" - saw this concert in Halifax and also "Even in the Quietest Moments" Halifax awesome shows :)

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Can't find any you tube links - they are very protective about their music rights - great music!
 
Tech198 said:
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water
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She caught a lot of undeserved flack for that song. Most people that bitched about it just totally failed to realise that it came from a place of fear for her. She literally felt she was dying from Lyme Disease, (which can kill you). Not close to her usual music, but not a bad song and not one people should have been mean about.
 
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