Listening to..(2)

[Sunset]

(07-25-2012 03:13 PM)knitterbookbinder Wrote:  

(07-25-2012 02:50 PM)Sunset Wrote:  In the CD changer(yeah, I'm a neanderthal)
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5. JS Bach's suiten 1-6 for unaccompanied cello

As opposed to those of us with big vinyl collections? ;-)

These are some of my faves: ditto with the solo violin suites, especially on original instruments without modern tuning. So much more interesting and rich sonically....

Vinyl certainly has a warmer feel to it. I still have most of my old albums(Blackmoore's Rainbow, Ronnie Montrose's Gamma project stuff etc), I just don't have a turntable to play em on.

Re JS...I always know I'm hearing something special when I get the compulsive urge to throw a chair through a plate glass window, and JS def fits into that category for me. After mangling stringed instruments for over 30yrs now, I just picked up a cheapo chinese cello. My good buddy and riding partner I mentioned in my intro(the one who surreptitiously purchased and had delivered to my home 3 travelogues written by some guy) is also a burned out concert level cellist, and she's been trying to point me in the right direction(that is, when she's not emasculating me for my "schmaltzy" taste in cello pieces).

I really love the incredible range of this instrument and I'll continue to try, but at the moment my level of proficiency produces a sonic fussilade akin to some poor feline being strangled.