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Jacques Loussier: Impressions on Chopin's Nocturne

La Sultanne, Preludes & Concerts Royaux

Regards,

Haim

Talking Heads : More songs about buildings and food.


SJB

Richard Goode, Mozart Piano Work

Gian,

That could look like a scene of a dream...

Regards,

Haim

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:


Richard Goode, Mozart Piano Work

Gian,

That could look like a scene of a dream...

Regards,

Haim

Oh yes Haim!
I think i could sit on that chair for hours with my legs crossed and i perfect quietness.
An hall like that is anything but empty.

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:


Richard Goode, Mozart Piano Work

Gian,

That could look like a scene of a dream...

Regards,

Haim

Dear Haim,

I must confess, I've never got on at all with Goode. He's been a frequent visitor to the Edinburgh festival in recent years and I've honestly struggled to understand why they kept having him back. He gave a reading of the Brahms first concerto last year that had a lot of wrong notes and a piano that I am convinced had not been tuned properly. There is also something about his playing - I find he mumbles the notes.

regards, Tam

"Very hip stuff -- and an excellent collection of funky jazz tunes with an Indian twist! The source of the material ranges from American easy instrumental albums of the 60s to European fusion records of the 70s to even rarer albums of more exotic origin -- and the album's batch of 14 tracks is really well selected to cover a wide historical base, yet still maintain a very coherent groove!"

quote:

Originally posted by ROTF:
Ripping Yarns was a wonderful series - can't understand why the beeb don't repeat it instead of showing the same shows over and over.

ROFT = BBC4 17th April 21:00 - 21:30 Tomkinson's Schooldays.

Steve

The Dixie Chicks - Home, on vinyl - newly serviced t'table and new phono dug deep to extract more detail than I knew existed



Peter

An old (1962!!) lp which I took a punt on pfm and have found amazing - Yehudi Menuhin and the Bath Festival Chamber Orchestra Concerti Grossi No's. 7, 8, 9 & 11, Op. 6. The image below looks nothing like the album cover but having made the search I thought, why not?!



Peter

quote:

Originally posted by Graham Russell:

Great band, unpretentious punk pop at it's very best.



SJB

Tonight:

Made Loud to be played LOUD!

Larry

Mass In B Minor, JS Bach. George Enescu's estimable reecording made live in Broadcasting House, London in 1951. I described this a few weeks ago as being possibly my favourite recording of the great work. But there was something odd I could not put my finger on.

The Chorus, "Ossana in Excelsis" comes between the Chorus, "Santus," and the tenor Aria, "Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini." It is then supposed to return, dacapo, before the Alto aria, "Agnus Dei." It has been cut to allow for two unrelated sacred Arias by Bach, sung beautifully by Kathleen Ferrier from commercial discs, to be added at the end. The total time of the disc is so close to 80 minutes that the cut becomes as inevitable, as it is terrible!

Today I restored to its rightful place the repeat, and deleted the two extra arias! Who could listen to anything immediately after the Mass in any case? This saves breaking the silent spell to turn off the machine before it rolls into something irrelevant.

How satisfying to restore a glorious performance of Bach's wonderful music in its rightful emotional, liturgic, and correct form! So the repeat is literally a repeat of the same recording, which surely would not have been the case in the original broadcast of the recording, but this proceedure has been used in both the DG set with Richter and the DHM set under Leonhardt, where one take is clearly the basis for the two tracks as issued!

Now the ending feels right. Glorious.

Kindest regards form Fredrik

PS: Link

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Originally posted by bishopla:


Made Loud to be played LOUD!

Larry

Then why's it called Ssssh

A very good album from your impressive collection.