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

At about seven thiry this morning, at work, I produced a lovely Mozart concert on Orfeo from 1956, with Bruno Walter leading the VPO and Churus in the Reqiem, which was preceded by the "Little G Minor Symphony" which is called number twenty-five.

This after having the Karajan recording of the Requiem earlier in the week! We make exceptional ice-cream with Mozart on at full blast!

The Walter recording was much easier to listen too, because the recording is very direct, as a result of the minscule acoustic of the Old Festspielehaus in Salzburg. Tremendous, even "Rex Tremend...! I have never heard such fervent choral singing in Mozart as this, the soloists, Lisa della Casa, Ira Malanuik, Anto Dermota, and Ceasare Siepi are an amazing team, and the VPO is on top form for what must have been a memorable concert for those lucky enough to be there. This is my joint favourite recording of the Requiem, but I have another from Vienna with the Boys' Choir, the Gemtlemen of Saint Stephen's Cathedral and the VSO on RCA which is beautiful, and of almost unworldly musical quality, which is a less driven version, either tempo-wise or emotionally - more or less sublimated actually. They are both favourites, but for different days...

Happy at work today! Fredrik

Claude Debussy

Nocturnes, for female chorus & orchestra, L. 91 No 1, Nuages

Claudio Abbado

Steve Winwood - Arc Of The Diver

Squeeze - A Round and A Bout

Superb

Ryan

A CD of acoustic Bowie covers in Portuguese which I'm struggling to like.

Love and Money - Strange Kind of Love

Love and Money - Littedeath

Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live

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Originally posted by SteveGa:
Love and Money - Strange Kind of Love

Very good record Steve.

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Global Communications - 76:14
Boards Of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports

I can never remember the last couple of tracks on Airports - I'm usually asleep by then!

Let the weekend begin

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:

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Originally posted by SteveGa:
Love and Money - Strange Kind of Love

Very good record Steve.

Didn't really make a bad one Gian. And I also like the solo albums by James Grant, so I then put on:

James Grant - Holy Love

Now

Friends Again - Trapped and Unwrapped

Oopps - Trapped & Unwrapped won't play! So it will have to be

The Tree And The Bird And The Fish And The Bell--Glasgow Songs By Glasgow Artists

I'll be glad when SWMBO gets back from Scotland - I'm almost down to playing Hue & Cry!

cheers Stefan

Sorry, no album picture.....but i'm listening to Beethoven bagatelles......op.33,119,126 played by mr Brendel on Philips Digital Classics cd.

dennis

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins




Time to kick it up a notch!

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Originally posted by BigH47:
Thanks to the library service:-

The title cut of that disc is in memory of Dave Carter who lived in the Portland area with his musical and life partner Tracy Grammer. Dave was a terrific songwriter and MCC performed on Tracy's most recent album of all Dave Carter songs which John Jennings produced. If interested check www.tracygrammer.com

Jeff A

Another vote for the above mentioned Tracy Grammar album - excellent it is.

one for winding down...

Ornette!

Good description of the week.

Mamouth session! Beethoven 3, 5, and 7 from the Philharmonia led by Klemperer in the old Mono EMI [currently Great recordings of the Century] issues. I could not imagine listening to these three on the trot in any other performances!

Then Mendelsohnn's Octet from the Smetana and Janacek Quartets [on DG], which is the most spaceous and rhytmically spell binding performance imaginable, but also deeper and darker than usual in the slow movement, utterly a perpetuum mobile in the Scherzo, and for once comprehensively as significant in the Finale as the three preceding movements. Utterly phenomenal in other words. Mozart 40 from the VPO under Furtwangler [EMI 1947/8], which shows something very surprising. It is about as un-pulled about or weighty as you could imagine. Driven but not more driven more than the music seems to demand. It is fascinating to think how far Mozart had developed as a composer since the Little G Minor Symphony [VPO under Bruno Walter] we played at work this morning!

Now just about to set off on set off on the Vaughan Williams Wasps Overture and this will be followed by the Italian Symphony of Mendelsohnn, and Bruch G Minor Violin Concerto from a private recording done in Hereford Cathedral! I was playing on the first desk of double basses in only my third ever concert - an unfeasably long time ago!

Crikey I am going to be tired out tomorrow! But when the mood takes a person it is wise to sieze the moment!!Fredrik