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?
Posted on: 05 July 2007 by Mike Smiff
The art of Pepe Romero disc 2
Posted on: 05 July 2007 by Haim Ronen
Jay Jay at sunset on the screened porch.
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Cyrene
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Chalshus
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Chris Kelly
Howlin' Wolf London Sessions, the Deluxe reissue. This sounded utterly awesome, like being in Olympic studios as it was recorded. I think my new electronics and speakers are beginning to really sing together.
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by BigH47
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I think my new electronics and speakers are beginning to really sing together.
Bloody well ought too!
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by SteveGa
John Martyn - Bless The Weather
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by SteveGa
June Tabor and The Oyster Band - Freedom and Rain
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Chris Kelly
True Howard! But even this stuff needs time to bed in, as it were! But it is good!
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Chalshus
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Huwge
Peter Tosh - Mama Africa
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by BigH47
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But even this stuff needs time to bed in, as it were! But it is good!
I agree (green smilie).
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Huwge
The Mekons - Rock'n'Roll
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by sjust
Came in today, first listen, second track. I feel reminded one of those cinema piano players that played with the silent movies.
Will change, I suppose...
Stefan
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Gianluigi Mazzorana
Pluramon - Pick up canyon
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Gianluigi Mazzorana
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Sloop John B
an unusual place for me to start the weekend.
SJBPosted on: 06 July 2007 by Diccus62
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Graham Russell
Time to relax after a stupid couple of weeks of school proms
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Sloop John B
I think I dipped my toes in a liitle to far with this one. Can't connect with it after several listenings.
no such problem with this
SJBPosted on: 06 July 2007 by u5227470736789439
Dear John,
There is no Messiaen that I have managed to get a grip on. I tried the Bartok Quartets and kept the records for twenty years, before realising it was pointless, as I was never going to get the music. Not the composers' problem, but not something to worry about either!
Good to see you probing the more modern classical music, which has me foxed all too often!
Earlier I listened to the Double Violin Concerto of Bach, but in an unusual and rare recording. Arnold Rose [Rosay] was the leader of the VPO from 1888 to 1938 and in 1927 made the recording with his daughter Alma [who was killed in Auschwitz], and a small orchestra styled the Rose chamber Orchestra, but in all probability a chosen few friends from the VPO. This will not appeal to the HIP fanatics, but is an object lesson in style in Bach for those ready to accept the spare use of vibrato and the slide [portamento], where the note change is achieved as a singer would change from one note to another in legato fashion, by keeping the tone going while the note is played with one finger changing position. This is never done in HIP style perormances, but was certainly part of Baroque practice, as we know from complaints that it was occasionally done badly in Bach's and Handel's time! Rose [father and daughter] do it rather nicely, perhaps not surprisingly.
It used to available in a rather hairy transfer on Biddulph Lab.
ATB from Fredrik
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by u5227470736789524
Sting
"Brand New Day"
(1999)
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Ian G.
Mozart clarinet concerto - Prinz/Bohm - delightfully keeping me from bed.
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by u5227470736789524
Dave Matthews Band
"The Central Park Concert"
(2003)
Posted on: 06 July 2007 by Ian G.
