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: 22 December 2007 by RichardM

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by Haim Ronen

Works of Liszt drawn from Book II of 'Les Anees Pelerinage' which contains pieces inspired by Italian landscape, poems and work of art.

Played on the piano by Jon Nakamatsu.

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by u5227470736789524

Michael Stanley
"Eighteen Down" > "The Ground"

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by bishopla

Houses Of The Holy

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by bishopla

Up Next...

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by u5227470736789524

Lea Krueger

"my heart wrecks havoc on the rules and regulations in my head, I switch addictions to f*ck it up"

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by Guido Fawkes

One of best live albums ever - ambitious, overblown and quite superb with the amazing Mr Emerson.

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by Haim Ronen

Dino Saluzzi, bandoneon
Anja Lechner, violoncello

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by u5227470736789439

Just put on the D Minor Concerto of old JS Bach played by Rudolf Scheidegger [harpsichord] with the Linde Consort recorded live on 18th. September 1985 in the Queen Elisabeth Hall.

This live recording still trumps any other recorded performance of it, which I have come across!

The BBC somehow managed a completely clear balance between the soloist and strings without getting too close to the keyboard. Lessons could be well learned by people trying to record this music from this broadcast, but most of all the performance is simply glorious!

After that the same forces performed the C Major Suite, with real swing.

Good night, peeps, ATB from George

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by u5227470736789439

PS: I note with real pleasure that BBC Legends have issued [noted in the December Gramophone Magasine] the lunchtime concert from the same year, where Tatianna Nichlaeve played the Goldberg Variations, in what I recall was a spell binding reading. I recorded that as well, and loaned the tape to someone who said they had lost it. So that will have to come, will it not! Probably the only time I have been convinced by a reformance on a piano rather than a harpsichord. She made a commercial recording on Hyperion which was perfectly played, but without the swing of the concert.

ATB from George

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by Haim Ronen

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by kuma

Bought this CD like a year ago.
Finally listening to it.

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by patk

Neil Young - Decade

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by kuma

EBTG: Like the deserts miss the rain

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by smiglass

I had hoped my 400th post would be about my new CD555 but it has yet to arrive. Must be a SLOW boat across the Atlantic!

Anyway, I wanted to post this in anticipation of the RTF reunion next year. Love this new recording from Stanley Clarke. I think it is his best in a while and it makes me very optimistic about the reunion:

Posted on: 22 December 2007 by bishopla

Posted on: 23 December 2007 by Guido Fawkes

Keith Emerson - The Christmas Album

troika, variations on “o little town of bethlehem”, we three kings, snowman’s land, aria from bach’s Christmas Oratorio, captain starship’s christmas, i saw three ships, petites litanies de jesus, it came upon a midnight clear, silent night (with the london community gospel choir)

Will he get his knighthood in the honours list this year?

Posted on: 23 December 2007 by bishopla