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Happy Birthday Beethoven!
245 years old today.
Some of LvB's choons will be playing here today.
But yesterday ....
2nd and 9th symphonies, on an LP I bought yesterday
Quite promising, I shall return to it.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2c3HJfUuud4DL2h5sQoiBU
Gosh.
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He's looking quite well. Probably took a selfie, eh?Originally Posted by jandl100
245 years old today.
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Spinning one of my favourite Christmas confections. A mostly quiet affair, with Jessye and a variety of choirs with minimal accompaniment. Beautifully recorded, so it's a double treat to bring it out. One track, with mixed choir 'Puer natus in Bethlehem' has a kind of chant-like feeling and expands thrillingly at the climaxes. (I do like religious music for an old heathen!)
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As anticipated, some Ludwig van B, the birthday boy.
A few Waldstein piano sonatas were sampled before I settled for the one in this set ...
https://open.spotify.com/album/31PBpCtfmRDgqTVqCZfr4C
... and played quite a few more sonatas from it, too. It really is very fine.
And then ...
https://open.spotify.com/album/3YHyEYNwtBD41ZBpHlqZBF
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Mainly LPs yesterday as I start to sort out some in prep for my Cancer Research UK sale at Scalford16.
PCs 2, 5 and the septet from this set ...
Some fine playing from a very young Monica Huggett! ....
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I love this because it has much more of the score than other recordings, and Kiri Te Kanawa's performance as Eliza is charming. Better than Nixon/Hepburn on the movie soundtrack, not as good as Julie Andrews on the London cast recording. Plus Warren Mitchell and Jeremy Irons are also excellent.
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Great soundtracks all of them. I pulled the film out to watch a couple of days ago
I love this because it has much more of the score than other recordings, and Kiri Te Kanawa's performance as Eliza is charming. Better than Nixon/Hepburn on the movie soundtrack, not as good as Julie Andrews on the London cast recording. Plus Warren Mitchell and Jeremy Irons are also excellent.
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https://open.spotify.com/album/46AVOtZXDGPO0VmrunKaTN
My favourite harpsichordist - I just love his playing.
https://open.spotify.com/album/30jRU0vpXWCyYPNHpqIEzB
The 7th.
I still struggle a bit with this piece - but after 40 years I'm really getting somewhere now!
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Currently, listening to this set ...
https://open.spotify.com/album/2ZZeTboaLVrHqvyTAFUeS0
Good old Spotify, I just started it on PC11 and it's been playing its way through from there for the last 2 hours or so. Ahhhh, bliss.
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