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

It's a nice performance though, isn't it! Fredrik

PS: Talking has just started so I am being informed by the good announcer on the BBC!

Maybe I should try again?

Tam

You're an effing loon, my friend. I listened from 8am until around 12.40pm, which meant that I got to hear my favourite Ring passages (all of Rheingold and Act One of Walkuere). But I couldn't take much more, so I went off to the pub instead.

It really is very silly, and perhaps self-defeating, to play the whole thing in one day. It won't win converts done that way.

Graham

That is what I said about the Bach Christmas, but no one believed me! Fredrik

Tam

Any idea when I might catch Siegfried's funeral music?

And I will listen to twilight falling upon Valhalla.

How's Danny Boy doing at the helm? Alan Blyth in Gramophone thinks that it's the "modern Ring of choice".

(I've been listening to Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' for the last half hour or so, so am feeling pleasantly chilled.)

Graham

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Originally posted by graham55:
You're an effing loon, my friend.

I think you may have a point!

As to the funeral march, Act 3 is down to start at 10:35 (and they seem to have been running about 5 minutes slow so if you tune in at 11 you ought to get it).

As to Barenboim, I have to say I'm not totally convinced, he goes pretty slowly in places (which I'm not totally against, but I think you need to bring something special, a la Knappertsbusch or Furtwangler, and he doesn't quite). Also, I'm not totally convinced by some of the cast, though Graham Clark was a superb Loge (and Mime in Siegfried).

The only other modern ring I've heard is Haitink and while the orchestral playing on that is simply sublime (as is much of the singing) it is crippled by Eva Marton's painful voice, so if I was desperate to have a modern reading it would probably be Barenboim. That said, I don't think he brings much in sound over Bohm (I think the sound generally is nothing to write home about on this set, indeed, given when it was done, I think the Warner engineers should have done better).

regards, Tam

I am not so patient as I used to be. Just listened to the Six o'clock News on R4! Now about to listen to the Third Brandeberg, followed by a nice walk I think! Fredrik

Not one of Lizzy's best, but still one or two tracks worth the price of admission

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:

takes me back............

Richard and Linda Thompson - Hokey Pokey.

A little more lightweight than most of his/their albums but it has a nice feel to it, sometimes you don't need a classic album, just a nice collection of songs.

Well it's almost 30 minutes since the Rheinmaidens regained their gold and the whole sorry tale of power, corruption and evil gets back to where it began.

I am still reeling from the sheer luminescent power of the ending of Gotterdamerung. I want to ( but dare not) start it all over again. Even at Bayreuth, you never get such a concentrated shot of it!!

I am not sure anyone other than we Wagnerian addicts will have been won over by today, except that I have phoned/texted at least three other individuals who have been similarly engaged!!!

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Originally posted by jasons:

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:

takes me back............

Yes...
The Simply Vinly version is simply grand~!



Noriyuki Makihara: Love letter from the digital cow boy.

A bubble gum jap-pop from the 90s.
A polished high production value ( Bob Ludwig ) but the content is lighter than air.

Bach well tempered clavier Book Two, following on from book One over the holidays. Walcha.

Another world of concentrated musical genius presented so naturally and so characterfully by one giant sized musician. When I have discovered all the secrets of it, I'll let you know... if I live another 100 years, perhaps!

Fredrik

Was Mozart piano concertos (including 17 and 21) with Barenboim/BPO. Now, various Messiaen organ work with Jennifer Bate.

regards, Tam

Good music, Gianluigi. Amongst the sometimes "over hyped" CD's Sylvian did, this is one with high energy. IMHO.

Myself:

If there's somebody stepping into Albert Mangelsdorff's shoes, Nils Wogram is a candidate.Great example: "Herbie and Pierre" !

cheers
Stefan

There is something so effortless about Van's music. One of his many great albums.

Scribbled in Chalk - an outstanding CD and as good as Faultlines, IMO - sound fabulous through the new setup.

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Originally posted by ROTF:

Scribbled in Chalk - an outstanding CD and as good as Faultlines, IMO - sound fabulous through the new setup.

I knew there was a CD I meant to by after my hols but I couldn't remember which one .... now I do. ta.

Ian

Drive By Truckers-A Blessing and A Curse

Matt

Earlier - the DVD of Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra's Ramallah concert (mozart's sinfonia concertante k297b and Beethoven's 5th symphony). Now Barenboim playing book 1 of Bach's well tempered clavier.

regards, Tam

c

Joyosa / Enja

Markus Stockhausen, flugel horn
Ferenc Snetberger, guitar
Arild Andersen, bass
Patrice Heral, drums & percussion

Recorded in Budapest in 2003

John Hiatt-The Tiki Bar Is Open

Matt

last track: Dusty Springfield: I'd rather leave while I'm in love

Heard this the other week Kuma , very nice, on my wish list.