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

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Furtwangler was a genius accompanist

He certainly was, and not just as a conductor. Hear him accompany Elizabeth Scwarzkopf at the piano in the famous Wolf recital from Salzburg in 1953. Very idiosyncratic, but sympathetc and utterly inspired as always!

EW

Music for a Glass Bead Game

Arturo Delmonti, violin
Nathaniel Rosen, cello

Boyce, Symphony in B Flat, Elgar, Elegy, Mozart, Divertimento in ? (cannot remember which!), Barber, Adagio, Bach, Brandeberg Concerto in G (No3), Greig, Holberg Suite. A private recording of about my third from last concert, when I was again playing solely as an amateur. The band had twelve nice string players plus me on the bass!

I never cease to be amazed at how well these things come off, and I doubt if I could play half the notes now! Fredrik

I downloaded 15 versions of 'classical gas' for no other reason than I like it and wanted to see which was best - the winner was the Jose Feliciano - California Guitar version and worst (by a long way)was The Shadows closely followed by The Rolling Stones, both so dire I did not bother listening to them all the way through. Vanessa-Mae has a refreshingly different violin version.

Wolf, Italienisches Liederbuch, F-D, Schwarzkopf, Moore.

Gidon Kremer-Kremerata Baltica
Franz Schubert-String Quartet G major

Emmylou Harris-Spyboy

Easing into the day.

Baron Von Tollbooth and The Chrome Nun

I've just been listening to

Korn's version of Pink Floyds "Another Brick in the wall".

I found the singing much more emotional than the original. The original is far better musically, but singing lacks as much feeling.

Veronika

Fred Simon - Remember The River.

This is a very uplifting disc. I find something new each time I play it.

Nic

Earlier :-
Paul Simon - Graceland (V) followed by
Kinks - The Ultimate Collection wahat a lot of amazing songs. Wonderful.

Howard

Stan Getz and strings, in the midst of a movement to integrate jazz and classical music.

Borodin - the polovtsian dances - Russian Red Army Choir - music to fall alseep to.

I love the cut The Persistence of Memory

quote:

Originally posted by HR:


Stan Getz and strings, in the midst of a movement to integrate jazz and classical music.

An excellent disc Haim, your tastes are impeccable.

By contrast I am currently listening to Hail To The Thief - Radiohead

Regards

Nic

News Quiz! As usual, it's a chukle! Fredrik

New release on ECM from Anouar Brahem - excellent as always

quote:

Originally posted by nicnaim:
Stan Getz and strings, in the midst of a movement to integrate jazz and classical music.

An excellent disc Haim, your tastes are impeccable.

By contrast I am currently listening to Hail To The Thief - Radiohead

Regards

Nic[/QUOTE]

Nic, thank you.

I am a real ignorant, who is (are) Radiohead?

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Originally posted by Expat in Oz:


New release on ECM from Anouar Brahem - excellent as always

Adrian,

I heard Brahem play in the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art two years ago. He gave a magnificent performance of Cafe Astrakan.

This disc will be available here only in a week. I planning on getting it as well as 'Madar', where he plays with Jan Garbarek.

Regards,

Haim

Walton directing his Facade Suite with various things to follow including the Wise Virgins Ballet Suite, which is Bach' music as arranged by Walton for orchestra. (Disc Three from Walton Conducts Walton EMI nla). Walton is outrageously funny sometimes, and he was also a very remarkable perforrming musician as well.

He omce told an orchestra, "Oh I have got out [of the beat], so just ignore me. I am only an amateur!" Of course orchestras all over the world adored him for such a straight forward approach. It shows in both the gayety of the playing, the freedom of rhythm, and the remarkable precision of the work, which would never be possible with pure drilling of the discipline. Walton was not so good in the very early days: One of the finest clarinet players in Britain once asked him if he had been hit by an orchestral musician before. That was during a rehearsal for the facade in the 1920s, so one can imagine the atmosphere! He was so jazzy!

Fredrik