Giving the P3 a spin with this:

steve

Nos 8, 9 and 10 (with Lupu).

Cheers,

EJ

On cassette!

Hi Dave, glad you like the album. I'm still waiting for my delivery from the webshop. I was notified on monday my order had shipped, so should be here soon.

Listening for now on Bandcamp - http://thegathering.bandcamp.com/ 

Denis

Jeremy Denk (Steinway & Sons Piano)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 32 in C minor, Op. 111

György Ligeti: Études for Piano, Book 1 & 2

I have spent the summer happily considering what "I" would like to play this coming year with my cello partner.  It's nearly the same every year as I quite clearly know what I like.  This year, I was strongly leaning to something German like Beethoven with a second choice of Brahms.  On the other hand, the competing forces in my other mind were for something Russian like Shostakovich or Prokofiev.  Then, a week ago, the dreaming came to an abrupt end when the score for Mendelssohn's D Major Cello Sonata showed up in my mailbox.  I was not terribly familiar with this work.  I think this may have resembled something similar to giving my son liver and onions for supper when he might have thought he was getting steak and baked potatoes.  Kicking and screaming aside, I have spent the last week listening to this Sonata twelve times plus about four hours work on the keyboard.  Well, I think I'm finally warming up to it already even if it is in D major.  It is amazing how one can turn your attitude around with some persistence in working the details out.  After-all, for anything worthwhile, resistance is usually futile.

I think the lesson should be clear to me already.  Over the years, she has picked things that I would never have considered (at least until I learn my inexhaustible list of favourites) and each time after spending hundreds of hours learning these things they subtly grow on you in ways I couldn't have ever imagined.  And for this I am glad.  If left to my own devices, I wouldn't grow nearly as much.  More Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich, Prokofiev will come soon enough.  

So note by note, bar by bar, and a mountain of tedious detailed work, here goes listen number 13 first before another 2 hours or so of incredible fun and fulfilling "work" at the piano tonight.

Re living my teenage years, a more mature J5 emerging on this one.

Takes me back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd7cISZMgxw

Original Vinyl.

Graham.

Electric Six

On CD:-

Disc 1

Vivaldi's Hercules, played and sung very well by Fabio Biondi and his Europa Galante, and a dream cast. 

Cheers,

EJ

On the Original Black.

Tommy Bolin: The Definitive Teaser Collector's Edition

On CD.

Brand new.  3 disks are remasters of Teaser.  2 disks are tributes.

Mark

Cheers

Flettster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW6i1bOrHmg

Perfect "new-style" renaissance singing-technique.

Highly recommended.

Cheers

Flettster

I don't know why you are listening to it and

I don't know what it is - so I'm not going to find out whether I'd like to.

A little more information please.

On CD. 

Graham.

On Original Vinyl.

One of rock's most overlooked masterpieces. 'forever changes' sounds as fresh and innovative today as it did upon its original release in 1968. With atmospheric string and horn arrangements giving the work a conceptual underpinning, It explores mainstream America's penchant for paranoia ("The Red Telephone") and violence ("A House is Not a Motel") with songs that are as sonically subtle and lilting as they are lyrically blunt and harrowing. Add two gems by Love's secret weapon, second guitarist Bryan Maclean ("Alone Again Or" and "Old Man") and you've got one of the truly perfect albums in rock history. IMO

Graham.

Ode

Brad Mehldau | Format: Audio CD

On CD:-

Cat Power - Sun