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Rachmaninoff: Etude-Tableau Op. 33 no. 7. Nikolai Lugansky. One of the ones I'm [trying to] do for Steinway Hall. Without wanting to bring down any curse on myself, this rendition would be right at home on the crackpot thread...
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"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set"
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« Reply #2896 on: 18:07:45, 24-05-2008 » |
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Miles Davis: On the Corner (just to check I still agree with all my ranting about it being Miles' finest moment)
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« Reply #2897 on: 20:52:47, 24-05-2008 » |
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Piano Qts, - G minor, Op25(Brahms): Ax, Stern, Yo Yo Ma.
Piano Quintet, Op57, (Shostakovich). The Nash Ensmebl
Sonata for violin and piano(Franck): Kyung Wha Chung(violin), Radu Lupu(piano)
Sonata for violin and piano; Sonata for flute, viola and harp(Debussy)
Introduction and Allegro(Ravel).
Kyung Wha Chung,Radu Lupu, Osian Ellis, The Melos Ensemble.
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« Reply #2898 on: 23:13:59, 24-05-2008 » |
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Paul Rutherford - Solo in Berlin 1975
Not often that you hear someone playing trombone and piano at the same time.
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« Reply #2899 on: 19:17:43, 25-05-2008 » |
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Something to lighten the atmosphere on a thunderous looking evening:  Happy memories of watching their broadcast from last year's Proms!  |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #2900 on: 20:52:20, 25-05-2008 » |
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My daughter recently moved out and one of the larger rooms in the house became a spare room. My wife soon set up her exercise bike and the ironing board as permanent features (both for ME to use I should add). Pleasantly surprised to see that my daughter left her midi-hifi in there (her partner clearly has something better) so I have a good opportunity of grabbing time to myself in this room listening to music, even if I have to do my bit of ironing too  So I've had an hour up there ironing, with a randomly selected never-played charity shop album, a Philips album of Jessye Norman from the late 1980's. These sampler albums playing a wide selection of an artiste's repertoire make me listen to music I otherwise would not, bringing discoveries to my ears to be enjoyed or not. I've heard Jessye many times before, powerful voice of a woman, and enjoyed the Mozart on offer on this album, but then listened in awe for the first time ever to: R Strauss: Zueignung Op 10 No1 Es gibt ein Reich Fruhling Schlechtes Wetter |
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« Reply #2901 on: 21:42:45, 25-05-2008 » |
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Charles Groves conducts RVW Hugh the Drover with Robert Tear.
I love this work.
Is the later Hyperion with, I think, Bonaventura Bottone, any good?
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #2902 on: 21:53:07, 25-05-2008 » |
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I've heard Jessye many times before, powerful voice of a woman, and enjoyed the Mozart on offer on this album, but then listened in awe for the first time ever to:
R Strauss:
Es gibt ein Reich
Some magnificent stuff here, John - Zueignung is a real belter of a performance, if it's the one with the Leipzig Gewandhaus and Masur. I heard Jessye Norman sing Ariadne at Covent Garden in the mid-1980s (Colin Davis in the pit, IIRC) and her performance of Es gibt ein Reich is one of the most remarkable pieces of singing I have ever heard - that huge voice and phenomenal breath control allowing her to build a stunning, vast crescendo through the aria, without any loss of quality or strain. The sort of singing that just makes one's jaw drop in sheer astonishment. |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #2903 on: 22:11:39, 25-05-2008 » |
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Yes, pw, it's Liepzig/Masur for first three of those pieces, jaw-dropping for sure.
I was less keen on the Berlioz/Schubert/Satie pieces but I will give a listen to the lighter album as it includes Kern/Gershwin/Porter/Rodgers/Hart numbers
I have a vinyl boxed set Marriage of Figaro featuring Jessye Norman (BBCSO/Davis) so that will get an airing soon too.
John
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« Reply #2904 on: 06:58:48, 26-05-2008 » |
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Now Spinning, a disc the mere possession of which confers upon the owner an undeniable aura of erudition and exquisite discernment and taste. Oh, you wanted to know the name of it? I am only happy to oblige:  |
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« Reply #2905 on: 09:26:45, 26-05-2008 » |
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a disc the mere possession of which confers upon the owner an undeniable aura of erudition and exquisite discernment and taste. turf, you been watching Frasier again? |
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« Reply #2906 on: 09:27:28, 26-05-2008 » |
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Prompted by yesterdays Suk thread, I am going to listen to the Asrael Symphony later on...
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Best regards,
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #2907 on: 12:08:11, 26-05-2008 » |
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Miles Davis: On the Corner (just to check I still agree with all my ranting about it being Miles' finest moment)
(which I do)
Reckon that'll go down like a lead balloon on this thread....as you know us jass bods now putting our heads around the door....bring it on in.... I've got that Panthalassa....Reconstruction & Mix Translation by Bill Laswell on....Which I enjoy. On the Corner was the first Miles I bought for its FUNK....more stripped down than Live Evil....sparser soloing....more intent about what they were trying to create which must have a great deal to do with the producer.... |
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« Reply #2908 on: 12:18:44, 26-05-2008 » |
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Lead balloon? Not so, JB! I've spun that quite few times since Richard started ranting about it. Remarkable stuff, and almost too much personality to b e comfortable. I love music that's this sure of what it 'is'.
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« Reply #2909 on: 15:43:52, 26-05-2008 » |
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I wasn't tempted by the varied playlist R3 offered as Ao3, 2.00pm Big Noises from Down Under So at a brief opportunity this afternoon I randomly selected a vinyl disc (hence half a cover scan) from the charity box. Not disappointed with  Late 19thC French music for largish wind band. Short but informative notes on the LP jacket explained the Ars gallica activity from that time. The order of the tracks is not as listed in that cover, above. I enjoyed the first two pieces by Gounod and Gouvy; I'm not a music student but I couldn't hear much development of the genre of wind music since Mozart/Beethoven in those, but they are beautifully written works, great playing from all instruments. The latest piece (1898), by d'Indy was a different work altogether, impressionism, tone-painting sort of thing and that prompted closer more interested listening. Worth committing this LP to CD. It's a 'quadraphonic' recording. I could have tried to see if there's any benefit gained from employing the hi-fi speakers plus the PC speakers together which I sometimes do in this room for all-round effect While placing that LP on the turntable I had that thought, when I'm playing from my vinyl collection - that I'm the only person in the world listening to this record! Anyone else think like that sometimes? John |
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