What are you listening to right now? (VOL I)
Posted by: Tam on 06 June 2005
Anyway, to kick things off, I'm currently, and probably for most of the rest of this week, listening to Radio 3's Beethoven Experience. They're doing one of the piano concertos at the moment and (number 2 with Glenn Gould). Anyway, the experience thing probably needs its own thread, but, even on this cheapo radio it's proving fairly enjoyable.
So, what are you listening to right now?
So, what are you listening to right now?
Haydn Quertets opus 77. Mosaiques Quartet in a performance in the old style if you like! But it sounds as accute as anything, and not the least constrained by its HIP credentials.
Old friends, revisited after too long. In fact I feel a month of Haydn Quartets coming on. It must be the optimism and warmth of Spring in the air. I am lucky to have over a hundred performances of Haydn quartets on CD! So I guess that after Bach they might reasonably be viewed as my favourite group of pieces. Tatrai (on Hungaraton) are also great, and so were the pre 1939 efforts of the Pro Arte Quartete from Belgium.
There is a lovely tale of these, who where contracted by HMV to record the seventy odd then known pieces! {And including a few that have since been shown as not by Haydn].
Onnoe, the leader, sat down in Abbey Road at the desk and exchanged glances with his cohorts with a worried look!
"One we have not played!" Ooh La La.
"Shush!"
They rehearsed it for an hour and then recorded it. The record remains a classic, but which one of the twenty something they recorded it is, I do not know, though could find out. But this String Quartet was accustomed to very fast work, and modern music, so knowing Haydn's style so very well may reduce the gasp at a seeming miracle! Certainly all their playing is fresh as the dawn. They also recorded Schubert's Trout with Schnabel (wonderful) and Schubert's Quintet in C with Pini I think, but have never tracked this down.
Fredrik
Old friends, revisited after too long. In fact I feel a month of Haydn Quartets coming on. It must be the optimism and warmth of Spring in the air. I am lucky to have over a hundred performances of Haydn quartets on CD! So I guess that after Bach they might reasonably be viewed as my favourite group of pieces. Tatrai (on Hungaraton) are also great, and so were the pre 1939 efforts of the Pro Arte Quartete from Belgium.
There is a lovely tale of these, who where contracted by HMV to record the seventy odd then known pieces! {And including a few that have since been shown as not by Haydn].
Onnoe, the leader, sat down in Abbey Road at the desk and exchanged glances with his cohorts with a worried look!
"One we have not played!" Ooh La La.
"Shush!"They rehearsed it for an hour and then recorded it. The record remains a classic, but which one of the twenty something they recorded it is, I do not know, though could find out. But this String Quartet was accustomed to very fast work, and modern music, so knowing Haydn's style so very well may reduce the gasp at a seeming miracle! Certainly all their playing is fresh as the dawn. They also recorded Schubert's Trout with Schnabel (wonderful) and Schubert's Quintet in C with Pini I think, but have never tracked this down.
Fredrik
Splendid 
Oops
Speedo be getting FUNKY NOW!
On vinyl !
On a Pioneer DD turntable.
Look ma! a 45 rpm record!
quote:Originally posted by kuma:quote:Originally posted by jasons:
Kuma - do you have Tosca's "Suzuki"?
Yesssssss.
p.s. A surprise on the Dheli 9. One side is 45 rpm and the other is 33.3 rpm. ( I really need to fit a Lingo soon.)
Either that or buy the cd
quote:Originally posted by jasons:quote:Originally posted by kuma:quote:Originally posted by jasons:
Kuma - do you have Tosca's "Suzuki"?
Yesssssss.
p.s. A surprise on the Dheli 9. One side is 45 rpm and the other is 33.3 rpm. ( I really need to fit a Lingo soon.
Either that or buy the cd
See above.
Spinning 45s.
Dear Rubio,
You are a genius! What a lovely coupling too. One serious and the other genial!
Thanks from Fredrik
You are a genius! What a lovely coupling too. One serious and the other genial!
Thanks from Fredrik
Moving Hearts - First Album. Excellent rocking trad folkfest
Arrived this morning.
Andras Schiff - Yuuko Shiokawa
Franz Schubert - Fantasie C dur fur Klavier.
Andras Schiff - Yuuko Shiokawa
Franz Schubert - Fantasie C dur fur Klavier.
quote:Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Arrived this morning.
Andras Schiff - Yuuko Shiokawa
Franz Schubert - Fantasie C dur fur Klavier.
Lucky you! I used to have it but lent the CD to someone and never got it back! It's a marvel, I think I'm going to have to get me a new one!
Hope you enjoy it...
EW
ummmm how do i get pictures on here????
quote:Originally posted by Earwicker:
Lucky you! I used to have it but lent the CD to someone and never got it back! It's a marvel, I think I'm going to have to get me a new one!
Hope you enjoy it...
EW
Dear EW!
I've learned to lent CDs and books only to trusted people who, in my case, are only two and live under the same roof.
Very nice performance btw!
Cheers
Gianluigi
Ain't it nice sometimes to have the house to yourself
Jasons - find the album on amazon, copy the URL of the image, then open a reply to this thread and paste the image URL into the image box (second from right box above where you type into)
voila.
Ian
Cheers Ian!
Here goes:
Here goes:
Prince - Sign 'o the Times.
A supposed classic which I'm giving another chance. Could never see what the fuss was about apart from a few good tracks.
[Edit 25 mins later - I still can't see it - and life is too short for the wrong CD.]
