What are you listening to? (VOL VI)

On vinyl

Edna Stern, piano

Vinyl

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Originally posted by MilesSmiles:


Disc 6 Mendelssohn & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerti (with Isaac Stern)

Disc 3 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2, Vocalise

On Friday night on BBC4, Paul Lewis performed Beethoven Piano Concertos 1 and 4 live from the Proms. It was a truly stunning, elegant and beautiful performance. I really like what this guy does. It is on the iplayer for the next few days and well worth watching. He plays Piano Concerto no 2 this Thursday again to be broadcast on BBC4. I personally think that he is one of the best pianists I have seen.

So rotating non stop on the iphone, in the car and on the main system is this lovely boxset.

This music is like liquid nitrogen flowing through every pipe in my system, KILLA!






Dean...

Downside Up..



Low...

IanM

Now my system is sounding right again, playing some vinyl.

At 45rpm..



And back to 33rpm..

On the black stuff...

Mitsuko Uchida, piano

My first Angela Hewitt disc, a performance I always return to.

Another fine version of Kodály's cello music - one for you Haim, if you don't already have it.

Very Sunday...

The last two of Schumann's violin sonatas are supposedly not amongst his best works - plenty of good reading on the possible reasons for this on the web - but I'm not so sure anymore after listening to this early recording by Isabelle Faust and Silke Avenhaus.

I purchased this disc in anticipation of and to compare with the new recording by Ilya Gringolts.

EJ

And just cause I'm having a very chilled day..

Anna Coddington "Duchess" ep