What are you listening to?

[DaveF]

I recently "liked" a Facebook page of an organ builder in the US named Robert I Coulter, and as I was the 600th person to like their page, he very kindly sent me a CD:



It's really very good, the organ is incredibly versatile for a relatively small instrument, and I'm delighted to have a CD of a Rosales organ, having read so much about them. US organs seem to sound a little differently to European organs (or maybe it's more a question of the acoustics in which the organs play -- generally pretty dry in the smaller US churches) and this is notably less strident than many of my other recordings of similarly-sized instruments. Anyway, isn't facebook marvellous?!

Like.


(now send me on that CD)

[Diapason]

(now send me on that CD)

I LOL'ed!

Been wondering how you are these days, Dave. Are you still blissfully listening away?

[Seán]

I recently "liked" a Facebook page of an organ builder in the US named Robert I Coulter, and as I was the 600th person to like their page, he very kindly sent me a CD:



It's really very good, the organ is incredibly versatile for a relatively small instrument, and I'm delighted to have a CD of a Rosales organ, having read so much about them. US organs seem to sound a little differently to European organs (or maybe it's more a question of the acoustics in which the organs play -- generally pretty dry in the smaller US churches) and this is notably less strident than many of my other recordings of similarly-sized instruments. Anyway, isn't facebook marvellous?!

It can be! Well done Simon.

[bombasticDarren]

Enescu - Romanian Rhapsody No.1 & No.2 (Lawrence Foster, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Warner Apex)

[bombasticDarren]

Beethoven - Symphony No.5 (Karl Bohm, Wiener Philharmoniker, Deutsche Grammophon)

[bombasticDarren]

Shostakovich - Symphony No.12 The Year 1917 (Evgeny Mravinsky, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Erato)

[bombasticDarren]

Handel - Silete venti & Laudate pueri Dominum (Sylvia McNair/John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists, Philips)

[fergus]

First run through on this one....





This, to me, is a very dark work which is something that I had not expected for some reason but it is very dramatic and atmospheric nonetheless. I think that I could really grow to like this work quite a lot.

[Jose Echenique]

First run through on this one....





This, to me, is a very dark work which is something that I had not expected for some reason but it is very dramatic and atmospheric nonetheless. I think that I could really grow to like this work quite a lot.

Unfortunately that 1964 recording was already too late for the great Hans Hotter, surely the greatest Wotan of his generation (he suffered from asthma and by that time it had affected his voice). To hear him at his best you will have to go 10 years earlier to one of several live Bayreuth cycles.

[bombasticDarren]

Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto (Viktoria Mullova/John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Philips)