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Hello everone,Had a chance to listen to Haydn's Military Symphony, with Zürichs Tonhalle Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Hogwood.I found the performance quite interesting, but then I never heard this sypmphony in full before.Any...

I have Sumday and Shootenanny and I like them both A LOT and I was awonderin if any of you lot who :1) Agree that they are very very good.and2) Have their other albums.Could advise me which one (1) album to get next from each of their back-catalogues....

I've been having a somewhat tongue in cheek debate with a friend in the USA and another one in France regarding the song "Please Remember Me" by Tim McGraw.It's a favourite ballad of the 3 of us in 3 different countries and when Tim sings...

During my seventy sixth listen to Ryan Adams "Love is hell" this weekend I noticed the lyric in the beetlejuice inspired song "This house is not for sale" :Do you remember when we even bought this thingI danced you across the wooden floor and you...

The first part of this article is quite disheartening. Perhaps the independents will pick up where EMI leaves off? http://search.ft.com/search/ar...talSearch&state=Form "The universe is change, life is opinion." Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

HiWe're running a special offer on CDs bought from The Naim Label during December.Buy any two full price discs, and get a third for five pounds, including VAT. This represents a saving of £7.98. You can take advantage of this deal as many times...

I recently managed to compile a catalogue of my music collection, and realised how much time I'd been spending on post WW2 repertoire, mainly string quartets and piano music, the latter the subject of this thread. These are the pieces that I think are...

Hi allQuite a group of us enjoyed fredrik fiske's postings on classical music, mono vs stereo and recollections as a proffessional bass player, together with interesting discussions on the listening experience.Then all went silent !!Well recently I...

Hi allYou may recall fredrik fiske who penned many interesting postings on subjects such as classical music and various recording techniques, mono vs stereo sound and his recollections as a professional bass player.Then silence, no more postingsWell I...

Good to see that this is now available on ECM - is anyone who has heard it able to comment on the performance / recording?

Anyone into Muse?If so which albums are worth getting for when my ears stop ringing I had a last-minute opportunity to see them live at Wembley last night, and although Wembley is a totally crap venue for getting into a band who's music you're...

Hi All,for any PG fans out there, I noticed an interview with Peter Gabriel in a magazine over the summer in which he referred to a re-master program for the CD's produced from his early recorded-for-LP material - in which IIRC he claimed had suceeded...

I have just heard Blackwater by them and never thought I'd be asking, but its a great track, which LP should I buy. (not any of the religious stuff though thanks).

10 years yesterday (4th Dec) that Frank produced his last piece of tuneless feedback.Got to say I was expecting something from Garyi on the subject, or maybe he's seen the light and got into some real music

What are some albums where the recording is exceptionally good? I'm not looking for albums where the songs are spectacular, but rather the way the music and the instruments sound on the album. It can be any genre of music, from classical to jazz, from...

She's on again tonight to help the BBC celebrate it's all new 1 hour TOTP on Beeb 1 @ 7.GEOFF

Went to the Anvil Basingstoke last night to see the above (took along with firstborn, very impressed. The support was John Foxx who ran through an excellent selection of his stuff.At the interval decided to invest... and found he has a new album out...

just read some interesting reviews of her new stuff, does anyone know of her and whats it like?

If I like this, what else might I like? Ditto for Prefuse 73.

ok,it was a while ago but I did find an intersting site for cds which were both excellent in price and more importantly selection, trouble is I only visited once and i have forgoten what it was called .............Any suggestions.... polite ones that...

PeepsAn acquaintance of mine, a musick biz accountant with too much time on his hands, has been compiling a list of the world's biggest bands for the period 1965 to 1999.Dunno how accurate it is, but the list is compiled according to the following...

I saw Eric Bibb at The Swan Theatre, High Wycombe on 30.11.03. I arrived a couple of minutes late, so missed the introduction of the support act, who I enjoyed. Anyone know who they were? They said at one point that they had an album out and that...

Thought I'd start a thread where the mystifyed among us can ask dumb questions about missing musicians and stuff.I'll kick it off with WHT Nick McCabe, guitar player with the Verve and one of the finest exponents of da axe I've heard. Listening to A...

HelloAnyone know if any UK dates have been announced for the 'werk in 2004?*i know, i know, you should have been there at the shepherds bush empire back in '81 etc etc*