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

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Originally posted by erik scothron:
SWMBO - nagging....on and on and on and on.....help me somebody!

Here at your command !

Meanwhile listening (with greatest joy) to



cheers
Stefan

If only all remasters were this good - what a great job they've done to this classic 1973 album.

timeless classic

Particulalry like "The Work Song", a live recording on the bonus CD. Very well recorded too.

As this is the only Natalie Merchant CD I have, I would be interested to hear about other CD's worth having from this great song writer.

Mark

I love her Ophelia album. In fact , I personally think it is her best by quite some margin - others may disagree

Adrian

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Originally posted by Huwge:
When it's winter, what better to do than turn to the Russians - Peter Ilyich and Yevgeny

well if you MUST listen to Tchaikowsky, that's the one!

EW

DG are just about to release this (stereo) Mravinsky set on their Originals CD series. Do you suppose that the newer mastering will yield results?

I had really set my mind against buying new CDs until July, as an economy measure, but I may have to make an exception for these. I have the earlier (mono) set, on which Sanderling conducts the Fourth, with Mravinsky i/c of the Fifth and Sixth, but I feel an awful temptation coming on!

Graham

Another surprisingly good album - if you like that sort of thing - one of the better doom and gloom bands (with a sense of humnour)

Contains perhaps the best song about pharmacists ever recorded!

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Originally posted by graham55:
EW

DG are just about to release this (stereo) Mravinsky set on their Originals CD series. Do you suppose that the newer mastering will yield results?

I had really set my mind against buying new CDs until July, as an economy measure, but I may have to make an exception for these. I have the earlier (mono) set, on which Sanderling conducts the Fourth, with Mravinsky i/c of the Fifth and Sixth, but I feel an awful temptation coming on!

Graham

I don't know - I can't imagine they'll make it any worse.

If you want budget Tchaik symphonies, I have fond memories of Abbado's set with the Vienna Phil - a Tchaikowsky orchestra if ever there was one! I seem to recall they were budget priced when I bought them as a schoolboy about 15 years ago - I dare say they're still budget now if still available, and it's simply stunning... if you haven't yet outgrown Tchaikowsky!!

EW

Kiki Dee - Walk of faith.

Chris N

How does everyone manage to add piccies on this Forum? Unlike 'HiFi Corner', which invites us to 'Add Attachment', there is no such invitation on the 'Music Room' reply box - at least not for ME...

Perhaps it's frightened of what I'm listening to right now?!! - But it needn't be, it is but the gloriously uplifting sound of the Fender 'tatocastor of the great Rory Gallagher-the quintessential "Irish Tour '74" and '"I'm a million miles away" - which is where m'new CDS2 has taken me.

James

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Thanks Gianluigi! And thanks everybody for your patience - Hope this is it this time!

Shostakovich / 24 Preludes and Fugues for Piano Op 87 / Tatiana Nikolaeva, piano / Melodiya * the Russian label

Recorded in 1987.

"We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams,
...we are the movers and shakers of the world forever it seems" Quoted from, Renaissance The Mix collection - Sash and John Digweed.
Remastered 10th anniversary edition.

One for the groovers! (highly recommended)

JWM,

The icon second from right when you are posting brings up "image url" when clicked.

Simply add the url of the image you want to display.

I usually go to amazon.com, select the cd i'm listening to and copy it's image url.



"a million miles away" absolutely fantastic song.

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Originally posted by Stephen Tate:
"We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams,
...we are the movers and shakers of the world forever it seems" Quoted from, Renaissance The Mix collection - Sash and John Digweed.
Remastered 10th anniversary edition.

One for the groovers! (highly recommended)

hmm.. I must get that, then!

quote:

Originally posted by Stephen Tate:
"We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams,
...we are the movers and shakers of the world forever it seems" Quoted from, Renaissance The Mix collection - Sash and John Digweed.
Remastered 10th anniversary edition.

One for the groovers! (highly recommended)

Dear Stephen and Friends,

The words are those of the poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881), and the quotation is actually telescoped:

We are the music makes,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wondering by lone sea breakers,
And sitting by desolate stream:-
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams,
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world forever it seems.

There are nine further verses, and Elgar set them in 1912, as his opus 69!

Not that the piece exactly rocks or grooves! There was a funny story about Sir Adrian Boult, who was a firm lifelong advocate of Elgar's music and indeed all contemporay British music, within his firmly classical and broad repertoire. In the trombone part a phrase from La Marsielles is quoted by Elgar, and would normally be quite audible, but Boult felt it was somewhat in bad taste! At a rehearsal for the EMI recording, he asked the trombones to play down somewhat... to which the first player replied that it would never be heard. Boult replied that he did not think it much mattered. To which the trombomist responded that perhaps it was Elgar's little joke. Boult replied, "Quite, but not a very good one!" It is not audible in the recording at all!

All the best from Fredrik

Clavier Concerto in E of JS Bach. E Fischer and the Philharmonia. wrong instrument, but fantastic never-the-less!

All the best from Fredrik

PS: I saw the above quotation, and it made me smile a bit. Thanks!