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

More Mozart. I bought this box set of the complete Mozart symphonies performed by Mackerras yesterday. I have just listened to symphony no. 34, 35 and 36, because I'm going to a performance of no. 34 and Bruckner no. 5 on Thursday with Oslo Philharmonic and Blomstedt. I cannot imagine a better Mozart symphony set than Mackerras'. At least if you prefer your Mozart tight and exciting. I think Mackerras style suits Mozart's music perfectly!

Dear Rubio,

Very glad to see you enjoying the set. The early works in there are a particular treat and put the lie to the notion that below number 30 or so there's not much botheriing with.


regards, Tam

Green River = Creedence Clearwater Revival

IMO, the best rock outfit ever to emerge from the USA. Green River on 45 r.p.m remaster sounds as good as ever. I think the 45 r.p.m os a bit of a gimmick, but when music is this good who cares?

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Originally posted by Tam:
Dear Rubio,

Very glad to see you enjoying the set. The early works in there are a particular treat and put the lie to the notion that below number 30 or so there's not much botheriing with.


regards, Tam

Dear Tam,

Yes, I picked up this recommendation here . I tend to like Mackerras in almost everything he has done, and so he is the greatest living conductor to me. Particularly his Mozart symphonies are for me preferable to performances by other conductors I have heard. This probalby has a lot to do with me liking this music performed in a exciting way. I haven't heard a lot Mozart's earlier symphonies yet, but no. 25 has been a favourite of mine since I heard it in the "Amadeus" movie. I have it already with Marriner, but I'm really looking forward to compare it with Mackerras.

Now just finished listening to some latin music, Aterciopelados "Caribe Atomico". Good stuff.

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Originally posted by Rubio:
Yes, I picked up this recommendation here . I tend to like Mackerras in almost everything he has done, and so he is the greatest living conductor to me.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

[big grin]


regards, Tam

p.s. since you mentioned Mozart piano concertos earlier, you might like to try the Brendel/Mackerras/SCO discs - there are four in all 9&25, 22&27, 20&24 and my personal favourite 12&17.

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Peter

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No play it twice - brilliant album! (Big picture though

Steve

Jackie Leven - Fairytales for Hardmen

The King - Gravelands

"The ghost Elvis Presley is alive and well in the guise of James Brown (not that James Brown of course!), a Belfast postman who has redubbed himself "The King." Elvis was known for taking other's songs and making them his and making them hits, but people have long wondered what song he would have tackled if he were alive today. In Gravelands we get the Elvis treatment on such classics as Jimmy Hendrix's "Voodoo Child," Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry," AC/DC's "Whole Lotta Rosie," and Motown/Stax standards "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and "Dock Of The Bay." Have a listen to The King take on Nirvana's "Come As You Are" here."

The Fratellis - Costello Music

Scott Walker - Sings Jacques Brel (again).

Now



Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits

David Gilmour On An Island



Peter

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Great record.

Great noisy pop: Killers - "Smile Like You Mean It". CD single.

my new Cd's
-Tomasz Stanko "Lontano" (ecm 1980)
-Metheny/Mehldau (nonesuch 7559-79964-2)

Thanks to the forum I have found another great album. Fell in love with it with one listen.

Regards,

Larry

Prince - Purple Rain