What are you listening to right now? (VOL II)

it's electric! wow

~<>~ Tobias Hume (c.1569-1645) ~<>~

I... Musicke
II.. The Spirit of Gambo
III. Captaine Hume
IV.. Love

Emma Kirby soprano

LABYRINTO ~ directed by Paolo Pandolfo

Paolo Pandolfo bass & tenor viols
Guido Balestbacci bass & tenor viols
Juan Manuel Quintana tenor viol & consort bass
Alba Fresno consort bass
Eduardo Eguez theorbo, lute, Bandora & guitar

Recorded in the Church of Sornetan Switzerland in December 1995

28 tracks total playing time 77:33 / CD @ 2008 www.glossamusic.com

electric too!

it's great!

On the black stuff

Cara Dillon - Cara Dillon




Julie Fowlis - Cuilidh. I haven't got a clue what she's singing about but it's beautiful stuff anyway.

On the Black Stuff

Earlier:-
the new (2nd) SHM-CD rock/blues sampler
Followed by

Car music today.
Recorded live in 1998 on tour in Europe. Kept playing my two favorite tracks: 'A Dog's Life' & 'Musique Mecanique'.

Beethoven's Egmont Overture, and Fourth and Fifth Symphonies. Live 1957 recordings by the BBC in the Royal Pestival Hall of performances by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Otto Klemperer [Overture 13-11, Fourth 8-11, and Fifth 24-10], on Testament [CD] SBT 1407.

I am really left wondering after these if Beethoven has been better served on any recording left to posterity. Concepts like performance practice and interpretation, or even orchestral brilliance, are left so far behind that it seems simply like a connection with the spiritual world of Beethoven, something transcendental ...

There is nothing to say of these performances, except the observation that they should be listened to at least once by anyone who cares for this music. These performances conform to no preonception at all, either musical or technical. Quite the most extra-ordinary music making ...

ATB from George