One should always bear in mind with such things that perhaps one might not be the target demographic and perhaps the real target demographic doesn't have a problem with the brick-wall factor as long as the Versace stays in ready supply... 

Anyway. Masterpieces. It took me a while to discover the Prokofiev 2nd piano concerto. No idea why that should have been. Perhaps the nature of the melodic content is something I wasn't ready for when I first set ears on it. Any thoughts? Or any other masterpieces lately discovered?

(I mean, we may as well talk about that here as anywhere else...)

Cripes, am I or what?

Since the other one has just reached the topic of head-on collision perhaps that's not inappropriate.

Or, indeed, kicking your ... .  Anyway.  I don't keep up with the classical tabloids, so wouldn't know too much which who's currently doing whom and, indeed, what brands they are wearing while they are doing it, nor if they manage to get through it without suddenly loosing their balance and falling down in some suitably seductive position several times so as to qualify for himbo/whatever status.

Just listening to the Prok. Piano concert #2 now; haven't heard it before. Props for bringing it to my attention. (that's something people say, right?).

I was speaking to some Americans recently, and they were, like, "What time is it?", and I was, like "It's half-eight", and they were, like "Does that mean seven thirty or eight thirty?", and I was, like, "That's pretty weird; I thought only Germans did that".

Well, not being able to resist, IRF, I can report that she is a jolly nice looking chap. You know, the trouble is when you get to my age ....... you can only think of these, er, jolly nice looking chaps as other people's daughters and start thinking 'For goodness sake put some proper clothes on. And don't imagine you're going out looking like that!'.

As for Mr Kavakos, he's doing pretty well isn't he? Last time I saw him it was a packed out hall and a very modish and expensive looking suit. I can't report that I actually experienced involuntary netball myself but if he lost the moustache, you never know.....

He's indeed doing well as far as I can tell George, but the new CDs seem to be coming from people called Skride and Jansen and Chang and Fischer and Vengerov and Carmignola. All of whom are fine players and some of whom are brilliant players of course. But would I rather hear him than them in the big concertos? Of course I would. Nets or no nets.

Erm, which definition of himbo?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=himbo

#5 is completely beyond me.

I quite like Kavakos - his Sibelius a few years ago was something else - but he can occasionally get a bit scratchy, and sometimes just seems like he is going through the motions.  Vengerov is a different kettle of fish and I like him for different reasons - but he sometimes just seems too flashy.  Best of all are the old masters like Oistrakh and Milstein.  I can't think who today is like them......  'Best Girls' don't really come to mind

Tommo

Thank you GG.  What little I have heard of him was very good indeed.  Can't even remember what it was, and I haven't heard enough to make a judgement about whether he continues / develops / matches the Oistrakh-Milstein legacy - but I'll go and get some recordings.

Ta

Tommo