Spinning Today (Classical version)

[dantheman91]

Maria Callas - Diva! The Ultimate Collection
CD
1996 EMI

[jandl100]

The morning yesterday was spent in de-Scalfording mode. Emptying car, reconstituting the hifi, taking excess charity sale stuff to charity shop, donating the £take.
.... Getting hugs from the lovely charity shop manageress .... hey, it's a difficult job but someone's got to do it.

Then back home and time to relax and listen to a favourite recording ...

Ann Murray - Handel - it doesn't get better than this.

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Uvsl6AtoiDQL50kyg4hBw

I must get round to watching / listening to Ann Murray's magnificently delightful Xerxes opera on DVD again.

And then off exploring again.
These are damn fine and will be re-investigated today ...

https://open.spotify.com/album/0biGYcfMyLu5ItFqvYCxbk

[jandl100]

All on LP to help run in my new cartridge ....


https://open.spotify.com/album/0vc4o3qLrCAc0P4Te970X2

And, fascinatingly, some choral works by Serge R ...

Here's the Spring Cantata on Spot - https://open.spotify.com/album/5ovdRFYYhgqTwVVzIah7KW

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[m10]

New to me, and a very promising start I must say. Sound is thrillingly expansive on SACD.

[jandl100]

This was immediately appealing and very enjoyable.
I'm not usually drawn to ballet suites, but these are just good orchestral music.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1nFuEaMTGQe56L9mhFhkiu

Blown away by the 1st work on this recording.
Cimbalom "concerto" in 7 movements. Loved it - and what a fascinating sound.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2xay5qlozJb5tQLpiYSC0N

And a couple of hours of Zelenka sonatas from this album

https://open.spotify.com/album/0dQF6ur3jpKOF98PWx8LjM
Late evening bliss.

[m10]

Vinyl

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[jandl100]

^ Weird - we must have been listeng to the Tchaik concerto at about the same time, Malcolm!

More LPs! ...


I do like Zukerman's playing - one of the best, imo.


Gilels in superb form, Oistrakh being Oistrakh (I am not a fan!).

[jandl100]

This is very good, mostly, in a populist ClassicFM kind of way.
A Requiem by Robin Gibb, of Bee Gees fame, and his son RJ.
Really quite affecting. Although personally I can live without the later tracks with solo vocal . The orchestral and choral music is great, though.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2ifK6cdKYh7Isy5uK4gc4S
Massively negative and patronising review by some pompous twat from the BBC on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Titanic-Requ.../dp/B0070BG10U

That was a bit gooey. Good but gooey. So I needed to cleanse my musical pallette with .... Arne Nordheim .... avant-gardey type music, weird stuff but I quite liked it.


Which led me on to his violin concerto. I quite liked that, too.

https://open.spotify.com/album/21Qm38SMSXLpmiNeecllgJ
https://open.spotify.com/album/3x9nyw6vm5TfUwaJVqcTER

And finally that led me on to that thorny old chestnut, the Berg Violin Concerto ..... This has not been well received at Jerry Towers in the past.
I thought I'd give it another go, this time with my fave violinist of the moment Pinchas Zukerman. Conducted by Pierre Boulez.

https://open.spotify.com/album/0VmWRE5EnQW4hD0vw20M2q
Hey, I quite liked it!