Some good ones there, Marco, and a great haul overall.
I'd love to hear the Rite of Spring, Widor's 10th, the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto in particular.
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Some good ones there, Marco, and a great haul overall.
I'd love to hear the Rite of Spring, Widor's 10th, the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto in particular.
:stalks: Did I hear someone yell,
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL !!!!!!!!!!!!
From my wife's collection... which has been absorbed in to my collection. ;)
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No worries... I'll bring those with me next time I come down :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Incidentally, the last ones to list from the lot I bought yesterday are a dozen 12-page magazines, plus 10" records from the mid to late 60s, of the world's 20 greatest composers and their music, shown here:
http://treesureisland.co.uk/acatalog...composers.html This type of thing:
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These are in virtually 'as new' condition, and quite wonderful things, beautifully illustrated and presented, and containing some of the most superbly recorded classical music I've ever heard, all on minty super-heavyweight vinyl! :cool:
Marco.
Recent listening Chez-J ...
Philip Glass - Satyagraha. An opera. A modern one, very much so! ;)
I have little patience with standard opera but this is fab and quite unusual. It's in Sanskrit, and the verses are adapted from the Bhagavad-Gita. :eyebrows:
Go on, have a listen to some of it ...
Hmm .. the YT embedding doesn't seem to be working. :scratch: Try this ...
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BAX - Tintagel (tone poem) & 7th Symphony on a Naxos CD. Tintagel is wonderful - a "La Mer"-ian seascape of great power. The symphony is a bit more problematic for me, and will require yet more listening, I think.
Fernando Sor - songs for voice & lute. Sung by the gorgeous Montserrat Figueras on an Astree CD. Yummy.
Ah, Philip Glass . . .
I do like Koyaanisqatsi: haven't got the t-shirt, but do have it on DVD-A, CD, LP and DVD video. The film that launched a thousand visual advertising cliches :lol:
Last night was a Malcolm Arnold night:
- The stunning Reference Recordings album of Arnold conducting his own overtures (HDTracks hi-res download)
- Tod Handley's Grand Grand Overture on Conifer, with virtuoso vacuum cleaners
- Concerto for Harmonica with Larry Adler on RCA (needledrop download)
If you like Philip Glass, do listen to the 1st Violin Concerto. It's mesmerising, and I was lucky enough to see it live last year and hear Glass speak before the performance.
Will do! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Sibelius 4 on London LP - perhaps the best sounding LP I own - WOW.
Then #5 on LSO Live cd.
I'm embarassed that I'm "discovering" Sibelius after decades of listening to music.
I only beat you by about 5 months. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by JJack