What are you listening to?

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This is one I first listened to 4 years ago, very early on in my CM listening days, and as I remembered saying to Fergus is something I struggled a bit with, primarily because the musical language was so unfamiliar. As a consequence I have left it on the shelf all this time with a view to giving it another go a few years down the line, when my understanding had matured a little...

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well, now is the time...
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Jared wrote:This is one I first listened to 4 years ago, very early on in my CM listening days, and as I remembered saying to Fergus is something I struggled a bit with, primarily because the musical language was so unfamiliar. As a consequence I have left it on the shelf all this time with a view to giving it another go a few years down the line, when my understanding had matured a little...

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well, now is the time...

Let us know how you get on second time around Jared.
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On vinyl, two very different versions of the same work....

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....followed by....


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Beethoven wrote the Piano Trio arrangement of his Second Symphony in order to create greater accessibility to his work and, therefore greater sales too.
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fergus wrote: Let us know how you get on second time around Jared.
yes, it's amazing how your tastes mature and how you become acclimatised to a soundworld in time... no problems this time round, although it is undoubtedly still more challenging in certain solo passages...
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great to be able to return to this work through a slightly different interpretation...
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Jared wrote:
fergus wrote: Let us know how you get on second time around Jared.
yes, it's amazing how your tastes mature and how you become acclimatised to a soundworld in time... no problems this time round, although it is undoubtedly still more challenging in certain solo passages...
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Superb, beautiful playing from Sarah Francis in this delightful music.
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Currently listening to....


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^^ I really am going to have to plough into my Rameau disks before long.. :-)

in the meantime, third (and final for the moment) to:

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