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?
So, what are you listening to right now?
Vinyl infection.
quote:Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:quote:Originally posted by Graham Russell:
Is Tracey's new album growing on you yet?
Hi there Graham!
Yes.
The first listen was the curiosity.
The second i did expect more.
The third it's ok.
It's a classic EBTG record with their own ambient sound.
And yes, i still love her voice!
I'm giving it another spin to see if it's improving
Brahms' First Symphony, in C Minor.
Sir Adrian Boult.
Though his reputation seems now to reside in his championing of English music, and particularly Vaughan Williams and Elgar, he was one of the half dozen greatest conductors of the Twentieth Century. I would contend that his music making in the great symphonic works was more significant even than his efforts in English music.
I prefer this old 1954 set done with the LPO at a time when the very survival of the orchestra was in doubt financially, to any other. There is natural tension in this music, which hovers on the tragic, and yet in these Boult readings it also exalts in a very poweful way. Boult, like Klemperer, had a very long Indian Summer of a career, and yet I have always though he was more compelling in his sixties and seventies than his eighties and nineties!
Good night to you all, from Fredrik
Sir Adrian Boult.
Though his reputation seems now to reside in his championing of English music, and particularly Vaughan Williams and Elgar, he was one of the half dozen greatest conductors of the Twentieth Century. I would contend that his music making in the great symphonic works was more significant even than his efforts in English music.
I prefer this old 1954 set done with the LPO at a time when the very survival of the orchestra was in doubt financially, to any other. There is natural tension in this music, which hovers on the tragic, and yet in these Boult readings it also exalts in a very poweful way. Boult, like Klemperer, had a very long Indian Summer of a career, and yet I have always though he was more compelling in his sixties and seventies than his eighties and nineties!
Good night to you all, from Fredrik
SJB
In the car tonight.
Haim
Evans: Spring Leaves
Ramsey Lewis: Dance of Soul
Getz/Gilberto: A last record playing for the night
Checking out the panorama...
Bach Fantasy and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 537.
Helmut Walcha. Marvelous. When listening to this I could not imagine it going any other way.
ATB from Fredrik
Helmut Walcha. Marvelous. When listening to this I could not imagine it going any other way.
ATB from Fredrik
Another blast from the past
Decent remastering job
Arty kinda day continues...
