What are you listening to?

[Jose Echenique]

I had dinner 3 times with Claudio Arrau, how about that. And I heard him play 5 times the Emperor.
This was in 1976.

That is a lovely LP; I hope that the meals were as nice....I am sure that they were if you went back for more LOL!! Was he an interesting person to talk to Pepe?

He was an elegant but reserved, or rather detached person. What I remember very vividly about him is his "noisy" or nose...y intake of air while he was playing. He seemed to have allergies, but of course he didn´t, that was how he played.
I also remember he was very eager to see a play called "El Juego que todos Jugamos" by his countryman Alejandro Jodorowsky. This play was forbidden in Chile because it had nudity. My brother took him to see it, I couldn´t go because I was 15. :-(

[Jose Echenique]

My first recording of the year. It arrived just today.
Except for the Vivaldi and Fasch pieces, most of this music is recorded for the first time.
And it features master bassoonist Sergio Azzolini. Self recommended of course.

[Ciaran]

My first recording of the year. It arrived just today.
Except for the Vivaldi and Fasch pieces, most of this music is recorded for the first time.
And it features master bassoonist Sergio Azzolini. Self recommended of course.

That series is really excellent. I got their latest disc of Zelenka as a Christmas Present (most appropriate as it includes a Christmas Mass):



It also includes Zelenka's only surviving setting of Czech text, a delightful piece Chvalte Boha Silného. It's all early Zelenka as he left Prague and spent most of his career in Dresden.

I must get that one of yours, anything featuring Azzolini is worth having! But in fact I think I might collect the whole series: any I've got have been very rewarding, including obscure composers like Jiranek and Reichenauer (also featured on that disc, I see).

[fergus]

The last poignant strains of M9 have just faded away............

does it linger in the memory?

Oh yes!

[fergus]

I also remember he was very eager to see a play called "El Juego que todos Jugamos" by his countryman Alejandro Jodorowsky. This play was forbidden in Chile because it had nudity. My brother took him to see it, I couldn´t go because I was 15. :-(

Poor you LOL!!!

[Seán]

I also remember he was very eager to see a play called "El Juego que todos Jugamos" by his countryman Alejandro Jodorowsky. This play was forbidden in Chile because it had nudity. My brother took him to see it, I couldn´t go because I was 15. :-(

Poor you LOL!!!

Yep, that's rough!

[fergus]

[jaybee]

the bauld Maurizio is really growing on me....!

[bombasticDarren]

Schumann - Symphony No.1 Spring (Roy Goodman, The Hanover Band, RCA)

[fergus]

Schumann - Symphony No.1 Spring (Roy Goodman, The Hanover Band, RCA)

Gosh, I have not listened to that set in years!