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?
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by Diccus62
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Posted on: 03 June 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by sjust
The Scofield CD inspired me to re-listen
what a master piece.
cheers
Stefan
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana
A cd i do feel to suggest.
Good as the last and, i'm sure, good as the first which is on its way from US.
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by Tam
Currently listening to Miles Davis and Miles in the Sky (spurred to listen to some of this group's work by Ian Carr's radio 3 programme this afternoon).
regards, Tam
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by Guido Fawkes
The remastered versions of Scott, Scott 2, Scott 3 and Scott 4 are HDCDs BTW.
Scott 3 is very good, but Scott 4 better, Climate of the Hunter even better. Tilt even better still and The Drift is his best - some folks just get better the older they get.
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by Guido Fawkes
Velvet Underground & Nico, Natty Dread, Strictly Commercial and Transformer - some good stuff on the list tonight.
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by Tam
quote:
Originally posted by ROTF:
Velvet Underground & Nico..... some good stuff on the list tonight.
Indeed. It's been ages since I listened to that. Tomorrow morning perhaps!
regards, Tam
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by Tam
In an effort to recapture last night's magic.
regards, Tam
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana
quote:
Originally posted by ROTF:
Velvet Underground & Nico, Natty Dread, Strictly Commercial and Transformer - some good stuff on the list tonight.
Sometimes nostalgia comes strong..............
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by u5227470736789439
Nutcracker Suite of Tchaikowsky. BBC SO under Malcomb Sargent live in 1967 at a Prom. Just the right blend of live tension and amazingly poised playing! Great fun. Next up some Sibelius I think!
Fredrik
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by matt podniesinski
James Brown-Say It Live And Loud-Live In Dallas 08.26.68
Getting down with my bad self.
Matt
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by u5227470736789439
Not Sibelius, in the nd, but Haydn's grand Emperor Quartet, opus 76 No. 3, followed Mozart's Serenatta Notturna, and soon the Piano Concerto No 14 in E Flat
[Haydn: Pro Arte Quartet on Testament, and Mozart: Adolf Busch and familly and friends, with son in law Rudolf Serkin on Piano! On Pearl Gemm.] All fantastic! Fredrik
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by matt podniesinski
Thin Lizzy-Alive and Dangerous
I don't know why, but I need a Phil Lynott and the lads fix now and then.
Matt
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by Wolf
You go Fredrik, I bet those were some hot sounds. too hot here in LA tonight to do agressive music listening. I cool whiskey on ice is in hand.
Posted on: 03 June 2006 by u5227470736789439
Dear Glenn,
There is too much going on here for real comfort, and sleep has not yet come.
I shall try a good long quiet thing. Goldbergs I think, and try to concentrate myself to sleep.
Like counting sheep (in the imagination) this sometimes works.
It will be the old Helmut Walcha reading, as it always draws me into the other world...
The weather is already too warm for me here too. Fred
Posted on: 04 June 2006 by Alan Paterson
Unkle - psyence fiction.
Posted on: 04 June 2006 by Guido Fawkes
Posted on: 04 June 2006 by Ian G.
Beethoven Piano Sonatas 8,14,15,& 24, (Pathetique,Moonlight & Pastoral) Wilhelm Kempff. Beautiful. It is no surprise the Moonlight Sonata is so well known - it is deeply involving.
My copy is on DG vinyl so there is no picture to post - which is a shame as it has a lovely illustration on the front.
Posted on: 04 June 2006 by Tam
Dear Ian,
Is that the mono readings from the 50s or the later 60s stereo?
regards, Tam
Posted on: 04 June 2006 by Ian G.
quote:
Originally posted by Tam:
Dear Ian,
Is that the mono readings from the 50s or the later 60s stereo?
regards, Tam
Stereo from 1965. I've never heard the older ones.
cheers
Ian
Posted on: 04 June 2006 by Ian G.
Dreamy evocative vocals - wonderful.
Posted on: 04 June 2006 by Tam
quote:
Originally posted by IanGtoo:
Stereo from 1965. I've never heard the older ones.
I've never heard those, but I am told the 50s mono ones are the superior (they are certainly wonderful listening). I do have both his mono and stereo concertos, and the earlier are much the better.
Amazon currently has them crazily cheap:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000012XC/qid.../202-4872896-7221433regards, Tam
Posted on: 04 June 2006 by Ian G.
quote:
Having only this year bought the Kovacevich 6 CD set of Beethoven piano readings I'm still working my way through them - maybe Kempff for another year ! My classical 'getting to know' list is bulging with recent purchases at the moment. Not least the Grumiaux/Bach violin sonatas and partitas which is a whole new world for me.
Ian
(Listening to Films for Radio by Over the Rhine to get the thread back on track)
