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

Is everyone else watching the telly tonight ??

Anyhow I'm onto Beethoven's 5th C. Kleiber's famous recording. It bounces me along every time and gets me smiling.

ian

Dear Ian,

Great disc (though I'm also rather fond of the driving energy Solti brings - and Davis is special too).

The Bohm Mozart arrived today so I shall be giving that a spin shortly (currently giving Karajan in Beethoven's first another go - early 60s recording with the BPO).

regards, Tam

Picked this up on sale a few weeks ago. Still exploring it.
Ian

Years ago this sounded great - now I'm not sure. It's not bad, at times it is rather good, sometimes verg good indeed, OK - an excellent blast from the past. Grinderswitch's Macon Tracks

Especially this track

Indirect NAIM sound.
Sitting in the dark on the screened porched. Kurtag's music is coming through an open window, getting a good mix with the crickets and frogs in the back yard.
I am alone for the night but I don't care. The music is good and the dog is strtched next to my feet.

Gian, I hope you weathered the storm and came out in one piece. My wife has a spare hair dryer, so let me know if you need one.

Good night,

Haim

Arguably the finest version of any Honegger works ever put on record.

Larry

Daphnis and Cloe [Debussy]: BBC Prom with the Philharmonia under Boutl! Concert recording from the mid-sixties, where everything makes me wish I had been there and old enough to appreciate it.

It would have been unforgetable - for sure.

It seems to me that Boult's contribution to English music performance was tremendous, but served to undermine the possibility of the gramophone recording industry and music critics placing enough importance on the fact that he was one of the greatest musician conductors of the Twentieth Century. [I still struggle to spell century - Sorry Adam! It has become e nervous tick for me, just like the bend by the Bank House Golf Club, where I put a car through the hedge once and always still take the bend too slowly now... Daily it has to be said...].

Fredrik

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Originally posted by bishopla:

[Lithurgique Symphony of Honegger under Karajan]

Arguably the finest version of any Honegger works ever put on record.

Larry

I played that once, and almost likeld it after some difficult rehearsals. On the same programmme was the Nobelissima Visione of Hindemith, which I adored.

Fredrik

Mozart:Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.23 in A Major.

Inspired from an eailer thread.

Somtimes I have a hard time deciding what to listen to, another advantage of subscribing to this forum.

Cheers,

Larry

Saw him last year. He was good!

Rachmaninov Concerto No. 2 and liszt Concerto No. 1

Both on vinyl.

Dear Kuma,

Daphnis, on two continents! Great minds think alike, so where does that leave us? - You, a great mind and me a simpleton? Don't overlook Monteaux, also on Decca, as something very special in this music...

Boult and Furtwangler offer equal insights, but I would think that the complete music with choir, under Monteaux is indeed special.

Dutroit is an artist I am fairly sure I have not yet encountereed. But then I am out of date

Fred

PS: for all that I was impossibly tired this [yesterday] morning - the zzzzds have not claimed me, yet. Perhaps this will be my early end. Unable to sleep when I should, I can succomb to a final sleep...

Fredrik,

Indeed what a coincident!

Detoit's performance was one of the most exhilarating live concert I have attended.

I was glued to the seat for the duration.
The orchestra was definately *on* that nite.

I didn't know any of his background. It was a nice surprise since normally I thought that French performers/conductors are too reserved and refined for my taste.

Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed the Fish?

Started the day (at 5am) with


and couldn't stop, so it had to be



What a fabulous morning...

cheers
Stefan

First listen - Trance like and beautiful



Diccus

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Originally posted by bishopla:


Mozart:Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.23 in A Major.

Inspired from an eailer thread.

I assume that's my fault then - since I won't shut up about that recording. Buy it now, people. [smiley]

Seriously though, with Giulini and the orchestra of La Scala it really is quite something. You'd never know Horowitz was in his 80s at the time.

regards, Tam

p.s. Currently listening to CD Review on Radio 3 - I recommend forum members tune in at around 10 to catch a little of Mozart's arrangement of the Messiah

JT - New Moon Shine

One of his best.

Superbi, The Beautiful South.

Beethoven symphony nr 3, from the Boehm/VPO set - some familarisation before the Mackerras performance at the festival.

Ian

A few of the many played so far today



Cannot get enough of this and looking forward to seeing him in November



Atmospheric electronic jazz from Australia



Superb guitar trio



A really beautiful CD on ACT recorded outside at Salzau at 5am in the morning. You can hear the birds singing away.

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Originally posted by IanGtoo:
Beethoven symphony nr 3, from the Boehm/VPO set - some familarisation before the Mackerras performance at the festival.

Ian

I'm sure you've said before, but which ones are you going to.

I'd also thoroughly recommend Donald Runnicles two concerts.

regards, Tam

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Originally posted by Tam:
I'm sure you've said before, but which ones are you going to.
regards, Tam

nr 3 on the 15th and nr 6 on the 22nd.

Seats D22 and Z19 respectively if you want to say hello!

I'll check out the Runnicles recommendations
Ian

Are those seat numbers in the grand circle or are you elsewhere?

Actuall - Z will have to be in the stalls, and way back under the overhang so you may get slightly poor sound back there.

regards, Tam

both stalls - it was the best I could do when booking a single ticket online. How is the sound upstairs - I've always been downstairs?

Ian

One of the best jazz CD releases of 2006.

Beautiful Kenny Wheeler trumpet with two guitars and double bass. Superb