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

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Originally posted by IanGtoo:
* no flames about mp3 players please - an essential item for the traveller, a good tune is a good tune.

Couldn't agree more - mine will be accompanying me as when I fly south next weekend.

Glad you liked the 331.

regards, Tam

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Originally posted by Tam:
I haven't heard it, but I'm rather fond of 'The Very Big Carla Bley Band', 'Big Band Theory' is not bad either.

regards,
Tam

Excellent, Tam.

Moving over to a long time classic of mine:



cheers
Stefan

[annoyed smiley]

I'm going to have to get my credit card out soon (though not the one on which I discovered fraud on my statement this morning, which has now been stopped [even more annoyed smiled]).

regards, Tam

p.s. Currently listening to Forty, a limited edition CD of a concert Thomas Dolby gave for his (surprise, surprise) 40th birthday a couple of years back. Hence no picture.

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Originally posted by SteveGa:
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner

Steve

What do you reckon to it. I was tempted. Saw him on Jools Holland and thought he was good.

Diccus

Bach Violin Sonatas - Grumiaux - Philips Duo.

To my ears these pieces keep getting better and better the more often I play them.

One minute it is tears and the next it is air-violin...... ok not really!

But anyway great stuff.

ian

bathing in music
Stefan

Inspired by the 2120 Blues Corner Thread - Muddy Waters, Hard Again.

The Vinyl version of course.

Regards, Larry

Leif Ove Andsnes: Grieg Lyric Pieces
Playing Grieg's Steinway Model B

A nice change of pace from earlier Michelangeli's Ravel Piano Concerto.

Home Alone, kickin it up a notch!

Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 4
Stokowski conducting.

Good Night

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What do you reckon to it. I was tempted. Saw him on Jools Holland and thought he was good.
Diccus

Diccus, pretty good. I heard him on South by Southwest and I'm not quite sure why it has not happened for him. Every album is better than the last one.
Possibly the music is a little "old-fashioned". Sir Jimmy Young described his voice as “a cross between Andy Williams and Percy Sledge” and the old Roy Orbison similarities are there as well. As long as you know you are buying ballads not heavy metal I'd buy it. £7.00 from Amazon.
Steve

The Zutons - Who Killed the Zutons

Sibelius symph. nr 2 - Barbirolli/Halle
to be followed by Beethoven 'Eroica' symph Boehm/VPO to warm the lp12 up for the rest of the day.

Ian

Dear Ian,

That Sibeius is rather a wonderful.

I was given that very record for my twelveth birthday in 1973, on a full priced HMV LP for the fantastically high price of £2.15!

The whole set is just as fine!

Fredrik

CD Review on Radio 3 (I think I'm being remarkably restrained by not having taken the plunge into Haitink's Beethoven cycle but instead biding my time for it to be an even cheaper box set). David Zinman is currently making a mess of the Beethoven violin concerto (forget the soloist), too brisk, too little passion (nothing against Rohn/Furtwangler).

Up next, Jonathan Swain builds a library on Brahms four.

Fredrik, I know you like that Sibelius - it was you who recommended that set to me.

Having been recently bowled over by the Sonatas for violin from Bach/Grumiaux and for piano from Mozart/Uchida I'm scouring the net for the Beethoven sonatas from Grumiaux/Haskil which sounds like a hot pairing. Can't find it anywhere but some dodgey s/h vinyl so I guess it is deleted for now. Shame.

Oh and to get back on thread I'm enjoying

right now.

Ian

Dear Ian

Those lovely Beethoven Violin Sonata readings from Grumiaux and Haskil will return, and have been issued several times on CD since I bought my set on first CD release. These were definately better on CD than my old LPs, which were very narrow and dull sounding, even if the musicianship shone through anyway fro me. So it is worth picking them up whem they re-apear. They are a benchmark.

Send me an email if you like, as I have an idea.

Fredrik