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

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:
What color is your new Lamborghini going to be? Don't tell me you are going to get a Japanese car, just like the rest of us.

heheheheheh
Haim!
You wont believe me but japanese cars are the cheapest and the best fitted here in the country of cars.
Fiat is far too pricey and small.
I'll get a Ford Fusion.
Not too big and not too small.
A 1.400 cc diesel engine that will let me save more money for records!
The seller is a friend of my father so i've got a good price.
Anyway i hope it's not raining inside just like in the old Renault!

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I just returned The Blue Mountain to the library. Thanks for recommending this wonderful masterpiece.I am going to buy my own copy and reread it again. Hopefully, my wife who runs a couple of book reading groups will use it too.
It is funny, Gian. I called some friends from the old coountry, raving about The Blue Mountain, and they claimed that they never heard of it. I found out that the original title in Hebrew is "Russian Novel" which for some reasons was changed during the translation to English.

It really is a good book.
My house is half covered with books.
My bedside table is.
But that's one of those books you can't forget and take out often.
There's so much trash in the bookshops..........
Please drop me a line here: monofonico at libero dot it.
I'll pass you some titles i did enjoy much!

Ciao!
Gianluigi

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses on 180g vinyl & sounding great



Peter

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Dear Rubio,

Do you know Wes Anderson's other films - both The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic have brilliant soundtracks too (as well as being great films - in my view, at least). That said, the Vietnam play in the finale of Rushmore takes some beating for sheer insanity.


regards, Tam

I have seen both those movies, and especially I like The Aquatic Life of these two. Both films have excellent soundtracks for sure. Watching movies is also a favourite activity of mine together with listening to music; even if I spend much more time on the latter.

I haven't delved much into opera yet. At least I love Carmen (by Abbado) for it's wonderful tunes. I have a few Mozart operas I haven't listened to yet; Magic Flute (Bohm) and Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mackerras). I guess these should be quite easy to get into.

Now, I just finished listening to Richard Hawley's "Lowedges". I definately think Cole's Corner is his best album. Last time I was in Sheffield we were the only guests except for him and his friends in a pub that probably was a favourite of him.

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Originally posted by SteveGa:


Nightmares On Wax - Smokers Delight

Definately one of my all time faves from the mid nineties.

Madredeus / Antologia / EMI

Steely Dan - The Royal Scam

Dinah Washington - After Hours With Miss D

Good morning my friends!
A very good morning all!
Right at 8 this morning mist left the place to september sun.
Did work the morning out and varnish is dryin' on wooden windows' frames.
Roast is melting flavours with potatos in the oven and red wine leaves its autumn taste in my dry mouth!

What a good mood to listen to this!
Hope you all are ok as well!

Fantastic music for the sunday morning .

Then an excellent perfomance of Beethoven's symphony no. 4 by Carlos Kleiber. This is really from the top drawer .

Dear Rubio,

You're going to start costing me a lot of money!
[big grin]

regards, Tam

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Good morning my friends!
A very good morning all!
Right at 8 this morning mist left the place to september sun.
Did work the morning out and varnish is dryin' on wooden windows' frames.
Roast is melting flavours with potatos in the oven and red wine leaves its autumn taste in my dry mouth!

What a good mood to listen to this!
Hope you all are ok as well!

Good morning Gian,

Here is my morning Handel-miniscule. He is so much more known for his grand strctures, but I, on the other hand, am known for my preferences of smaller scales (1400cc and less). Manze & Eggar are doing a commendable job on the violin and harpsichord.

We have a serious debate outside between sun, clouds and wind, but it is much better than the heavy rains of yesterday.

Regards,

Haim

Dear Tam,

I keep going back and replaying the magical 'Abime des oiseaux', the third movement for solo clarinet in Messiaen's Quartet for end of time.

'The instrument is exploited to its utmost limits, requiring an extremely slow tempo that severly tries the instrumentalist's breath control. As a result of this study of the various parameters and the enchancing of the sound potentials of an instrument-sometimes taking it as far as a virtual transfiguration-Messiaen paved the way for an entire dimension of future musical experimentation.'

Well said.

Regards,

Haim

Sinatra At The Sands

Annie Haslam

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:
but I, on the other hand, am known for my preferences of smaller scales (1400cc and less). Manze & Eggar are doing a commendable job on the violin and harpsichord.

Dear Haim!
Smaller scales and better control!

Our records' shop in town has this hidden corner with all those Brilliant Classics records.
Sometimes cheap means very good.
I've found so many good printings at a very resonable price.
The "music eater paradise"!

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We have a serious debate outside between sun, clouds and wind, but it is much better than the heavy rains of yesterday.

We are having the sweetest autumn ever.
It could be summer except for the 10° in the morning.
I'm still working here quite a lot and sunny days help the varnish job on wood.
Btw i do expect a very hard winter like the last one.
Last year we spent more than 5 months at -5°/-10° costant.
Not very far from the usual temperature, but i feel something is changing in the overall seasons set.
The old car did not have the heating working so i think i can face winter more positively!


Buona serata!
Gianluigi

Some cracking good days here too recently Gianluigi, apart from the tail end of Hurricane Gordon that is!

One of these days MUST be the last great days before autumn sets in. Until then:



Peter

Grateful Dead: American Beauty

Earlier, Carlos Kleiber's Tristan and Isolde (thanks for the recommendation Graham - thread on this and Kleiber snr's Figaro to follow).

Then Mackerras with the OAE in Schubert's 9th symphony. Runnicles and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (and soloists including Christine Brewer) in Mozart's Requiem, Levin edition (not quite so fine as the Mackerras/SCO issue). Followed by the various fillers on the Testament issue of the original wind version of Handel's firework music, conducted by Mackerras (anyone not familiar with the disc really ought to check it out - you don't know the firework music until you've heard this).

And now I may squeeze in the Quartet for the end of time before I go to bed.


regards, Tam

Julia Fordham: Porcelain
Her voice sounds soothing after a long day at work.

ELP - Brain Salad Surgery

ELP - Tarkus