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?
quote:Originally posted by Purplepleaser:
http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ct...;-1;-1;-1&sku=926201
Lee
Again.
Wonderful.
Doggy seems to enjoy it!
Happy wild bunch here!
Wonderful.
Doggy seems to enjoy it!
Happy wild bunch here!
The third of Jazz Alley's Miles at 80 programs featuring his electric period.
followed by
Peacock / Towner - Oracle
SJB
followed by
Peacock / Towner - Oracle
SJB
I guess I feel guilty. I am going downstairs to get the LP and start the concerto.
Haim
quote:Originally posted by Sloop John B:
followed by
Peacock / Towner - Oracle
SJB
How is it, John?
Heldenleben from Jansons and the Concertgebouw.
regards, Tam
p.s. Kevin (kevj), on the off chance you're reading this, I spotted that he's just redone Mahler 6 with the Concertgebouw on their own label.....
quote:Originally posted by HR:quote:Originally posted by Sloop John B:
followed by
Peacock / Towner - Oracle
SJB
How is it, John?
Hi Haim,
I intend to give it one or two more listens and report back.
Initial feelings are that this will be my favoutite so far from all the albums I've listened to from the "Jazz " thread - and that is high praise.
Regards
John
SJB
Don Ellis with Electric Bath. Am I the only one who's crazy about this wonderful album? (Incidentally, Amazon have it for just £6 - bargain.)
regards, Tam
For the second time:
Johannes Brahms / Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat Major, Op.83 / Maurizio Pollini, Piano * Claudio Abbado, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / DG LP
I know this concerto by heart. It has been my mother's favourite and I listened to it hundreds of times, always with Richter. Today I enjoyed Pollini's gentler play more. I played the Allegro appassionato (second movement) couple of extra times.
Regards,
Haim
Hamza El Din, Egyptian-born oud player and composer, dies at age 76
Berkeley, May. 26 (AP): Hamza El Din, a musician and composer who helped popularize ancient traditional songs from North Africa, has died. He was 76.
El Din died Monday at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, said hospital spokeswoman Carolyn Kemp. His wife, Nadra, told The New York Times the cause of death was complications after surgery.
A cosmopolitan musician who taught ethnomusicology, El Din played a six-string lute known as an oud, which he accompanied with his reedy voice.
El Din's songs reflected extensive research into the traditions of Nubia, an ancient North African kingdom on the upper Nile River.
He was born in 1929 in Egypt, in what had been the territory of ancient Nubia. After El Din's hometown of Toshka was flooded following the building of a dam in the 1960s, he became determined to preserve the culture of that region.
El Din studied music at Ibrahim Shafiq's Institute of Music and at the King Fouad Institute for Middle Eastern Music. He also traveled by donkey through villages in Egypt, where he collected Nubian songs.
El Din performed at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964 and recorded two albums for the folk label Vanguard in 1964 and 1965.
Mickey Hart, a drummer with the rock band the Grateful Dead, helped produce another album, ``Eclipse.'' El Din helped arrange a now historic Grateful Dead performance at the Great Pyramids in Egypt in 1978.
He toured regularly, performing quietly intense solo concerts, and appeared at major festivals throughout the world. He performed dressed in white and wore a white turban.
He taught at Ohio University, the University of Washington and the University of Texas.
He played with ensembles including the Kronos Quartet. He lived on and off in the San Francisco Bay area.
A great musician with a charming personality. I saw him perform in Chicago two years ago. He seemed to enjoy us as much as we did his music.
Haim
Berkeley, May. 26 (AP): Hamza El Din, a musician and composer who helped popularize ancient traditional songs from North Africa, has died. He was 76.
El Din died Monday at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, said hospital spokeswoman Carolyn Kemp. His wife, Nadra, told The New York Times the cause of death was complications after surgery.
A cosmopolitan musician who taught ethnomusicology, El Din played a six-string lute known as an oud, which he accompanied with his reedy voice.
El Din's songs reflected extensive research into the traditions of Nubia, an ancient North African kingdom on the upper Nile River.
He was born in 1929 in Egypt, in what had been the territory of ancient Nubia. After El Din's hometown of Toshka was flooded following the building of a dam in the 1960s, he became determined to preserve the culture of that region.
El Din studied music at Ibrahim Shafiq's Institute of Music and at the King Fouad Institute for Middle Eastern Music. He also traveled by donkey through villages in Egypt, where he collected Nubian songs.
El Din performed at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964 and recorded two albums for the folk label Vanguard in 1964 and 1965.
Mickey Hart, a drummer with the rock band the Grateful Dead, helped produce another album, ``Eclipse.'' El Din helped arrange a now historic Grateful Dead performance at the Great Pyramids in Egypt in 1978.
He toured regularly, performing quietly intense solo concerts, and appeared at major festivals throughout the world. He performed dressed in white and wore a white turban.
He taught at Ohio University, the University of Washington and the University of Texas.
He played with ensembles including the Kronos Quartet. He lived on and off in the San Francisco Bay area.
A great musician with a charming personality. I saw him perform in Chicago two years ago. He seemed to enjoy us as much as we did his music.
Haim
Matti Caspi / Another World
And another language. It is after mid-night.
Leila Tov,
Haim
And another language. It is after mid-night.
Leila Tov,
Haim
A friend brought this CD to our party today.
New find in Japan for him.
A total nostalgia for me.
It's always interesting that younger ppl. discovering the music I used to listen to when I was younger.
The music is ageless and have no language barrier. It's cool.
This afternoon, I've been listening to Mike Tippett's King Priam played by London Sinfonietta conducted by David Atherton followed by Scott Walker Climate of Hunter.
Oscar Peterson - Exclusively for my friends. Totally engaging, low key jazz piano trio at its best
"This is not a cornhusk doll, dipped in blood in the moonlight...like what happen in America."
Currently torturing the downstairs neighbors with:
Scott Walker - The Drift (2006)
Currently torturing the downstairs neighbors with:
Scott Walker - The Drift (2006)
after the great
it's now (2nd try, still not convinced...)
It's a bad day, anyway.....
Stefan
it's now (2nd try, still not convinced...)
It's a bad day, anyway.....
Stefan
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000C4A22K/qid.../202-8143846-5436660
The Bravery-The Bravery
Hot Chip-Coming On Strong
Deep Dish-George Is On
Recloose-Hiatus On The Horizon
Vikter Duplaix-Singles(prelude to the future)
Should keep me going through the night shift.
Lee