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Sad newsShe had a wonderful voice. I for one will remember her for her wonderful colaborations on disc with Carlo Maria Giulini, especially in Figaro (where she quite wonderfully sang the Contessa) and Don Giovanni (where she sang Elvira). She was...
I have just purchased what was advertised as a 30th anniversary edition of DSOTM on CD. There is nothing to say so on the cover, although the cover is a different looking prism on a lighter blue background.The CD case spine is a yellow brick effect...
Mrs Sloop has just said to me "you know what you could do - ask on the forum for some Mozart recommendation"Dutifully here I am.I have scanned a few threads and really they are too complicated for us.Head bowed I confess I don't even know the...
No-one else, so I seem to have got in first. Unquestionably one of the great innovators (like Syd!). Side 1 of Da Capo is probably as good as Forever Changes, and more than half of Four Sail also brilliant. 'August' one of the great rock tracks ever....
Can anybody recommend a good CD recording of this please. ~This is my absolute favourite classical piece but have yet to obtain on CD. I have a CDX2 so if someone knows of an HDCD recording that would be even better!Thanks
Thiswas mentioned in another thread. Congrats to Verve to making their back catalog available again.However as soon as I dig into it the site complains about not seeing an InternetExplorer.I use a Squeezebox so I take it the iTunes option won't work...
The title says it all. I'm booked to go to pianist/Trio Tord Gustavsen (very pleased about that one) and 'Joyce', a Brazilian vocalist which is more of a punt into the unknown. Ian
HelloI like music from native american indians very interesting and beautiful.Especially Buffy Sainte Marie.I also think about John Trudell and Bill Miller.Does anybody knows other artists like them?regardsurs
I'm heading to Toronto for the weekend and was wondering if anyone knew of any good vinyl shops? Thank you in advance.John
AlbinoniTwo Oboe concertos Evelyn RothwellAdagio (Arr Giazotto) Private recording.BeatlesThe Beatles/ 1967-1970JS BachSix Paritias, Six French Suites, Six English Suites, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, French Overture and Italian Concerto, Goldberg...
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Very good pop,the last album
HelloI like all sorts of music, from jazz to rock, folck and so on.Slowly I have the CD's of my favorite bands replaced with the newer remastered versions. I experience sometimes that I really dislike some of the remastered CD's, like eg the Jethro...
In order to better set this thread in context, I shall lift a few posts from my thread on Schubert's 9th:quote:Interestingly, I heard him do Beethoven 9 at the Proms two years ago. There was a wonderful bit of Schoenburg (sp?) in the first half, much...
This is a question that has been bothering me greatly in recent weeks.Until recently my answer has always been a resounding "don't be silly, performance is what matters and if one has to listen on crackly copy of a 78 recording from the 30s then so be...
Dear Friends,I want to alert anyone half interested in the music of Elgar that the Proms issue of the BBC Music Magazine has a cover CD containing what is in my view the finest performance on records of Elgar's First Symphony - taken from the Proms...
The blues hardly ever gets covered in this forum so I thought it would be fun to discuss some classic blues albums/cd's. This is by no means intended to be a comprehensive list but rather some essential listening culled from my small collection of...
When I sold my record collection, replacing my faves with CDs, this was one of the records I sold. It belonged to wife, and was her favourite Joan album. She was not a happy bunny!It was very limited on CD, and a used import from the US costs over...
About six months or so ago (and now locked - plea to death ears: please can good threads not get closed in this manner, it is very silly), Fredrik wrote a wonderful thread on Schubert's great C major symphony. It struck me then that both the recording...
After seeing these two on Andrew Mars' Sunday morning show I did the 'buy-with-1-click' sin and this arrived last week. It is really great. Two mexican acoustic guitarists who play with virtuosity and real drive. They use their guitars as percussion...
A short while ago, Graham suggested that the last great conductor was Carlos Kleiber. Tempering descretion with valour I decided not to argue as to whether a certain conductor of Australian origin whose name I mention occasionally qualifies. However,...
For some reason, for many years, I never thought of Haydn as a great symphonist - a rather absurd thing to say given that he wrote so many of the things.My first Haydn symphonies were largely incidentaly purchases: I got 82 and 83 (the bear and the...
My friend Brian and I have had this going on for years now... What is the best opening lyric in a song...?So far, in my opinion, the nod goes to Elvis Costello...'One day you're going to have to face a cold, dark truthful mirror and it's going to tell...
I have recently discovered the Amazon market place. Doubtless there are many here who were already aware of it and making good use of it, but for those who aren't....I had been dimly aware of it, but paranoia always held me back. However, after the...
I will not, for the moment, recount how Mozart, came to do this. Only that the piece is, as one might expect, absolutely fascinating (and very enjoyable).The reason I mention it is that they're featuring it on Radio 3's CD review tomorrow (and the...