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

quote:

Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
An update can be so................thrilling!

Hope you're wife's not reading, but.....................go for a new player!!!!!!!

Gianluigi,

I live in a culture where people around me tend to upgrade everything in their lives, from wives to houses to dentures, at least twice a year.

Not my cup of tea. I get attached to things and enjoy them for a long time. This is why I kept my LP 12 since 1978, my wife since 1983, my tractor since 1988 and so forth.

My 3.5 is only six years old and with a new transport I hope to enjoy it for a long time.

Regards,

Haim

Angela Hewitt's second volume of Bach keyboard concertos (containing nos 2-6, BWV 1053-1057). Interestingly she uses a harpsichord as continuo. I am most curious now to hear the first disc, which contains the 5th Brandenburg (as they have never sounded right to me on the piano). With the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

regards, Tam

quote:

Originally posted by HR:
My 3.5 is only six years old and with a new transport I hope to enjoy it for a long time.

Yes.
I know what you mean.
Maybe one day we'll have a cup of coffee together.
Maybe it will never happen, but it's a very good wish i make to myself.


Ciao!
Gianluigi

quote:

Originally posted by Tam:


Angela Hewitt's second volume of Bach keyboard concertos (containing nos 2-6, BWV 1053-1057). Interestingly she uses a harpsichord as continuo. I am most curious now to hear the first disc, which contains the 5th Brandenburg (as they have never sounded right to me on the piano). With the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

regards, Tam

Tam,

I have a lot of Hewitt's Bachs. My favourite one is Klavier Book II. I did not like her keyboard concertos Vol 1 at all. I don't know if it is the tempo she is playing it with or perhaps I am just too used to Gould performing those concertos.

Regards,

Haim

quote:

Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:


Yes.
I know what you mean.
Maybe one day we'll have a cup of coffee together.
Maybe it will never happen, but it's a very good wish i make to myself.


Ciao!
Gianluigi

Gianluigi,

I prepare very good coffee. Regular or Turkish. You are invited any time.

Haim

Modern Institute
Excellent swimmer
Expanding Records

quote:

Originally posted by HR:
Regular or Turkish.

Good to be here.

Dear Haim,

Thanks for that. This is my first Hewitt Bach disc. To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of Gould's playing.

I have heard similarly fine things about her Well Tempered elsewhere, though given I already have two piano sets, I'm not in a mad rush to pick up another. But I may at some point...

regards, Tam

oooooo where do i start...

Kate Bush - Aerial. Disc Two.

I loathed it when I first heard it and it sat unplayed after that for some time but I'm glad I gave it another try. Perfect chilling out music. Great sound quality too, this is on CD, I know there were some doubts about the LP version.

The ST from 'Truth about cats and dogs'

This afternoon while doing the Times crossword and moseying about the domicile:

Paul Westerberg-14 Songs
Aberfeldy-Forever Young

Matt

quote:

Originally posted by kuma:

muuuuuch better.

Oh, Yes !

rare moment of musical agreement, kuma ! let's keep this little precious moment and put it into the treasure box

Stefan

Earlier:

and


Then (thanks, Sloop...)

Now (thanks Gianluigi, but no need to remind me anyway...)



Everything comes to me with myriads of musical and sound information, I'm enjoying like a pig in shit (is that an expression you use in English ?)

cheers
Stefan
PS: Haim, great recommendations from you, today ! Thanks for that.

quote:

Originally posted by sjust:


Then (thanks, Sloop...)



.

Well I can't take much credit, I would not have known about it but for Fred.


SJB

quote:

rare moment of musical agreement, kuma !

Indeed Stefan!

Now back to my *regular* programming.

Playing the theme from the "Love Boat'.
Yes. I have bad taste.
But better than having no taste.

regards, Tam

Dear Tam,

I expected Miss Alsopp would be working with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchetra on that! Is it fine? I hope so.

Had a whole evening of Haydn symphonies 93, 94, 97, 101, 102 and 103, with breaks for some real grumbling on the Emigration thread!

Fredrik

quote:

Originally posted by sjust:
cheers
Stefan
PS: Haim, great recommendations from you, today ! Thanks for that.

Stefan,

Recently I felt like getting a Gismonti and I had a very hard time deciding which one to get. ZigZag? Danca Dos Escravos? Amazona? Academia De Dancas?
I finally went with Duas Vozes. Did I make a good choice? I have not received it yet.
I already have his Musica De Sobrevivencia and his In Montreal.

Best regards,

Haim

Dear Fredrik,

Sadly not (she has been wonderful when I've heard her with the Bournemouth), but the LPO play rather well.

In my view (and, mind, there are only two discs out so far) it ranks as the best digital cycle I've heard. The fillers are especially fine.

Out of interest whose Haydn? The Davis cycle arrived the other day (though I'm holding off as I only just got done with the Jochum - I wouldn't normally buy two such similar things so close together but bother turned up at around the same time for absurdly low prices).

regards, Tam

Fredrik and Tam

I'm an old fogey, I know, but I've never heard late Haydn symphonies played with more brio than in Beecham's '56/'57 RPO sessions on EMI.

Graham

Dear Tam, and Graham,

The forces I listened to were Concertgebeouw/ Davis, and RPO/ Beecham.

Both have their good points!

I want to investigate Jochum in this music as well.

Fredrik

quote:

Originally posted by kuma:

quote:

rare moment of musical agreement, kuma !

Indeed Stefan!

Now back to my *regular* programming.

Playing the theme from the "Love Boat'.
Yes. I have bad taste.
But better than having no taste.

Hey, wait a minute, kuma. Not at all do I find you have bad taste ! Very "streamlined" and consequent. That's why Tom Waits catches my attention in one of your threads. Our musical preferences must have diverged not TOO long ago. With much of the stuff you name I think "yeah, could have been the route I'd have been taken, too"...

Come on, play some Earth/Wind/Fire on me, will you ?


Stefan

quote:

Originally posted by graham55:
I'm an old fogey, I know, but I've never heard late Haydn symphonies played with more brio than in Beecham's '56/'57 RPO sessions on EMI.

I suspect Beecham is next on my list, as regards Haydn. However, I think the next gaps I want to plug in my collection (especially in light of some of the discoveries I've made lately) are in the baroque period.

Currently listening to Miles Davis and Bitches Brew:



regards, Tam

quote:

Originally posted by HR:

quote:

Originally posted by sjust:
cheers
Stefan
PS: Haim, great recommendations from you, today ! Thanks for that.

Stefan,

Recently I felt like getting a Gismonti and I had a very hard time deciding which one to get. ZigZag? Danca Dos Escravos? Amazona? Academia De Dancas?
I finally went with Duas Vozes. Did I make a good choice? I have not received it yet.
I already have his Musica De Sobrevivencia and his In Montreal.

Best regards,

Haim

In Montreal is special (although technically not always on the "right side"...), because of that very special encounter with Haden. My favorites - probably are "Solo" and "Sol do meio dia"

cheers
Stefan