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

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Originally posted by IanGtoo:
Nope, Adrian I'll check it out, thanks.
(Dunno if you're an Ex-pat from these parts but it may cheer you up to hear it is snowing here right now! Oh Joy - not )

Ian

Ian,

I am from further south in West Sussex. In a way I miss some of those cold days, country pubs with log fires, sunday roast watching the football and all that good stuff.

Today we have been 85F. A day for aircon or the swimming pool.

Cheers

Faure / Overtures for piano & cello / Opus 111

Peter Bruns, cello
Roglit Ishay. piano

Recorded in Paris in 1998.

Songs for swinging lovers - Frank Sinatra. It's amazing the extra bass that has appeared after giving this a wash with the old Okki Nokki.



Coming up Miles Davis "Porgy & Bess"

Nicolo Paganini / 24 Caprices for solo violin, Op. 1 / Sony

really enjoying James Cotton, thanks Haim!

Last night was a vinyl night with the rain and cold weather in LA. Yes it does rain here,once ina while, unlike the oft quoted song by America.
The River Springsteen
Can't buy a Thrill Steely Dan
Me, Myself, I Joan Armatrading
JT James Taylor
Graceland Paul Simon
Hissing of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell

today it's the opera show, but I'll probably not listen to much, just doing chores. After I accomplish much I'll put on something really wild if it rains again.

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Originally posted by Huwge:
really enjoying James Cotton, thanks Haim!

Huw,

I am glad you are. The same here. Cotton was in my car this week and his music meshed perfectly with the weaving, fast moving traffic. It takes me about 45 minutes to drive from the train station to home, enough time to listen to any CD (I start in the morning and finish it on the way back).

Regards,

Haim

Lindisfarne Live (The Definitive Edition) just a bit fun.

Howard

Saint Matthew Passion.

Part The First has just ended, so time for a glass of wine and a smoke before Prt The second occupies the rst of my evening. I love this music with every fibre of my body. It is such a wonderful realisation of humanity and humanity's failings.

Leonhardt on DHM, as it happens, though I have Jaques, and Furtwangler as well, and I suppose each comes out about once a year.

All the best from Fredrik

In preparation for seeing the lady live tomorrow night

Ian

Dear Fredrik,

I've been reappraising this work somewhat of late - I only knew it from my set of Gardiner conducting the Matthew, John, the Christmas Oratorio and the B minor mass (the latter being the only work in the set I really warmed to - but given the price I paid for them I can't really complain). However, I have recently inherited the Schreier and Richter versions (though have only listened to the former so far) and found I enjoyed it far more than I remembered.

Currently listening to Dausgaard and the Danish Radio symphony orchestra doing Mozart's 39th symphony (courtesy of their Mozart downloads). Earlier it was Brendel/Mackerras/SCO doing Mozart's 22nd and 27th piano concerti (Amazon finaly having sent a replacement CD ).

regards, Tam

I'm after a new St Matthew Passion - I've got Gardiner and McCreesh - what I'd really like is one with Schreier as the Evangelist... any recommendations? (I'm a big Schreier fan, and I heard him in this role a few years ago in London with Andras Schiff conductiong; his performance still rings in my ears to this day.)

EW

David Gilmour on BBC radio 2. At 21:30 I'm hoping I can then watch it on the Radio 2 web site.

Dave

Dear EW,

Ventured only as a thought, and a heartfelt one: Easily the grandest, most subtle recording I know is the Leonhardt set on DHM. It has everything except the (inappropriate?) weight of the VPO under Furtwangler at the crtical orchestral moments. Personally I thought Gardiner missed the point of the text, though it has a beauty as a performance, almost just as sound. But one cannot perform this without a consideration of the words being the music's cause rather than the other way around. I am half way though Part Two - more wine etc.

As for Schreier, I am not quite the admirer of him that others are - well it takes alsorts! Eric Green (Evangelist) for Jacques is the moste sensitive to the words, in English, (Elgar/Atkins edition, but very correct as to modern thinking on the graces in the music and so on, and more accurate in this respect than either Leonhardt or Gardiner, amazing though that may sound), but Jacques' conducting is slow, like Klemperer, though somehow more driven in momentum, and satisfying once one settles to the pace.

Consider the Leonhardt set, though. No doubt it is still very expensive.

All the best from Fredrik

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Consider the Leonhardt set

Thanks, Fredrik, I'll check it out!

EW

An excellent Bach recorded in 1998. Just arrived from the UK this afternoon.

Earwicker, thank you again.

Haim

Hi Haim,

Great isn't it! Shame she isn't more widely known. As I say, I hope the long-promised Goldbergs materialise soon.

EW

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Originally posted by Earwicker:

Thanks, Fredrik, I'll check it out!

EW

PAX? Fredrik

Bach: Mass B Minor, Freiburger Barockorchester, Thomas Hengelbrock

Btw, a radio announcer here in Germany made this slip of the tongue:
Sie hören jetzt ( you can hear now ) die H-Mell Mosse, äh, die H-Moss Melle, äh, die H-Moll Messe von Johann Sebaldrian Bach ( Baldrian = valerian ). I think, he was very nervous !

Best wishes

Manfred

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Originally posted by Earwicker:
Hi Haim,

Great isn't it! Shame she isn't more widely known. As I say, I hope the long-promised Goldbergs materialise soon.

EW

Earwicker,

Let me know when it is out.
Talking about waiting for materialisation; one of the best piano albums I have is Ginastera played by Delgado, and I have been waiting for Vol 2. over five years now. It was taped together with Vol 1 in L.A. but there is one track that has to be rerecorded and for some reason the pianists who resides in L.A. and Todd (the owner of MA) who lives in Tokyo are taking their sweet time to finish the job.
Here it is:

http://www.marecordings.com/main/product_info.php?cPath=30&products_id=64

Regards,

Haim

Eight Sacred Arias by Bach and Handel. Ferrier/ Boult/ LPO. On Decca.

Fredrik

Mozart piano concerti 23&27, Curzon/Szell and the VPO.

regards, Tam

(after seeing Brokeback Mountain for the second time, this time in German...)

Dave Alvin-King Of California
X-Live at the Whiskey A-Gogo