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

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Originally posted by HR:


Begona Olavide / Saltero / MA Recordings M025A

Salterio virtuoso Begoña is most elegantly presented on her world debut recording, performed at La Monasterio de la Santa Espina, Valladolid, Spain. She performs numerous medieval works on 7 different psalteries, all of them beautifully handcrafted by her husband, world renowned lutier, Carlos Paniagua. Also participating are percussionist Pedro Estevan, J. C. de Mulder and Daniel Carranza collectively on vihuela, barroque guitar and thiorba. Medieval music which is exotic yet modern in feel.

Recorded in Spain in 1994

Sounds interesting to me. Is it still available?
Regards,

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Originally posted by pe-zulu:

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Originally posted by HR:

Begona Olavide / Saltero / MA Recordings M025A

Salterio virtuoso Begoña is most elegantly presented on her world debut recording, performed at La Monasterio de la Santa Espina, Valladolid, Spain. She performs numerous medieval works on 7 different psalteries, all of them beautifully handcrafted by her husband, world renowned lutier, Carlos Paniagua. Also participating are percussionist Pedro Estevan, J. C. de Mulder and Daniel Carranza collectively on vihuela, barroque guitar and thiorba. Medieval music which is exotic yet modern in feel.

Recorded in Spain in 1994

Sounds interesting to me. Is it still available?
Regards,

pe-zulu,

Yes.
They have a lot of great world music, and you can order directly from them:

marecordings.com

I highly recommend as well:

* The Splendur of Al-Andalus (spain)
* Sera Una Noche (Argentina)
* Buenos Aires Madrigals (Argentina/Italy)
* Luz Destino (Portugal)
* The Old Country (Macedonia)

Regards,

Haim

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Originally posted by sjust:
Gianluigi ? are you out there, somewhere ?

cheers
Stefan

Stefan

Did you read Gianluigi last thread here.

Roft,

What topic caused Gianluigi to leave us?

Regards,

Haim

Some very crackly BBC Transcription Services "Pop Spectacular" vinyl recordings of PFM live from 1975 and '76. I have not listened to these for years because of the state of the vinyl, but it takes me right back to the City Hall Newcastle for the "Chocolate Kings" tour as fourth or fifth year. Amazing how music can transport you.

Nic

Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp: Werner Tripp - flute, Hubert Jelinek - harp. VPO, Karl Munchinger. "A sort of perfection," is how I described this on the most recent CD aquired thread about half an hour ago. Yes this is music to calm the soul, and not bad considering that I am tearing my hair out waiting for an email. Rarely do I play forum and listen at the same time, but needs must. Fredrik

This one, only in vinyl. Sweet.
But on my cover, Sir Davis was just Davis.

Dear Christian!

I used to have that on LPs. Actually I had two sets, the first of which I wore out!

All the best from Fredrik

Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra: Strings & Things

A recent great find.

First thing in the morning, before coffee, before reading the paper.

Haim

Dear Christian & Fredrik,

Agreed, that's a very good Messiah (though it's the only proper one I have - my other is the arr. Mozart version, so I have no comparison).

Currently listening to Haydn 93, Jochum/LPO.

regards, Tam

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New today...

Quality mate, quality. Love the music to Sunworshipper until the talkie bit. Musclecars is class........ top cd. Crackin samples

Diccus

Dear Tam, and Christian,

May I put a word in for Trevor Pinnock's DG Archiv recording of Messiah, which I find even more satisfying than the old Davis set. It is still available,in a new issue in a slimline two CD set.

As for the 93rd, dear Tam it is a real favourite of mine. I bet Jochum does it really nicely though I have never listened to his reading of this symphony. I have with some of the other London symphonies (93 - 104), and they were splendid.

As for me I just listened to Fournier playing Dvorak's Cello Concert with Kubelik and the Philharmonia. [Testamant]. It is still my favourite perfomance of it. Like quicksilver! One day I went through the score with a cellist friend of mine, and we were startled by how the whole perfomance follows the score so precisely, even down to the smallest dynamic markings.

It manages all this and still sounds newly minted, like a discovery.

ATB from Fredrik

Just having a think about what to listen to after the GP qualifying... think a bit of Wolf is called for - maybe the Morike Lieder, Schreier and Engel.

Rolf Lislevand / Nouve musiche / ECM

Early baroque adapted and arranged by Rolf Lislevand.

'Someone once said that when music and words merge, poetry gives music a direction of meaning and music gives poetry a depth of understanding'

Dear Fredrik,

Amazon currently have the Jochum set insanely cheaply (just £15 for all five discs - it also includes a bonus disc of 88 and 98 with the BPO and 91 with the BRSO):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008RWRH/qid.../202-1093057-2401447

The 93 was good, the 94 even better and I'm very much enjoying the 103. So far, I have to say this set deserves very much its penguin guide rosette and is outstanding value for money.

regards, Tam

Dear Tam,

That looks very inviting to me, though I shall have to see if my record shop can get it.

Currently I am getting the rest of Solomon's Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle (3-5), and want to get Rachel Podger's records of the Bach Violin Partitas and Sonatas. Unfortunately these are expensive!

But another set of the London Symphonies would bring as much pleasure as either of these for me.

All the best from Fredrik

A trip down memory lane - Sir Ralph Richardson narrating Peter & the Wolf, with the LSO under Sargent. Talk about reeling back the years. Great stuff.

Image looks like one of Kuma's collection.

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Originally posted by Huwge:
A trip down memory lane - Sir Ralph Richardson narrating Peter & the Wolf, with the LSO under Sargent. Talk about reeling back the years. Great stuff.

Huwe,

That is a trip down memory lane, though mine would be the French version. The contemporary version should be: Peter & the Coyote since we have so many of these around here and they keep wandering into my backyard.

Haim

Haim - who narrates the French version? I have a version on LP with Peter Ustinov and also the Walt Disney version on a slab of vinyl that weighs as much as a quarter pounder.

Currently Sonny Rollins is telling tales of Alfie

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Huwge:
Haim - who narrates the French version? I have a version on LP with Peter Ustinov and also the Walt Disney version on a slab of vinyl that weighs as much as a quarter pounder.

Currently Sonny Rollins is telling tales of Alfie

Huwe,

Sorry Huwe, I don't know. Growing up we had a French Lp, I think it was a 78, that is long gone. I used to listen also to Peter being performed on the Israeli radio in Hebrew as well as in English and French. For some reason, the French one always sounded the most delicious. Must be something about French wolves..

Regards,

Haim

One, that doesn't get just oen or two listens. A great free flowing disc.

Stefan
PS: Gianluigi, if you're still "around" - sono triste che ti sei tolto dal forum. Se vuoi, scrivi me usando il Naim user name at online dot de

Gianluigi,

For you.

Haim

Haydn symphony no.82, the Bear. Bernstein/NYPO.

regards, Tam