What are you listening to?

[Jared]

as previously mentioned, my listening at present is concentrating around the Britten 100, and here's my early contribution to said celebrations...

[fergus]

[DaveF]

first piece of music I've sat down to listen to in nearly 2 months.



Highly recommended recording of the 6th and 9th symphonies.

[DaveF]

Was tempted to go this in the NCH last night but that dreadful organ they have put me off. A shame really.

[fergus]

[Jose Echenique]

That´s very early Gardiner Fergus. I also have the original ERATO LP.

[DaveF]

There was a good programme about Beethoven's 2nd Symphony on Sky Arts 2 last night. Think they are doing the rest of them too.

[Jared]

There was a good programme about Beethoven's 2nd Symphony on Sky Arts 2 last night. Think they are doing the rest of them too.

the very first boxset I owned, Dave.... must get it out again this year.... ;-)

[Jared]

That´s very early Gardiner Fergus. I also have the original ERATO LP.

that is one recording I've long been menaing to add to my collection, Gents... it's one of the key gaps in my Purcell repertoire.

[Jose Echenique]

Félicien David [1810-1876] was perhaps France´s first "exotic" composer, that is, the first of those XIX Century composers who composed of exotic places in the Orient, Africa or South America, that produced works such as Delibes´Lakmé, Laló´s Namouna or Saint-Saëns´Samson et Delilah and the Egyptian Piano Concerto.
He seems to have been a most accomplished composer, but so far only his chamber works have been recorded. Let´s hope that his operas and orchestral music get noticed by the likes of Gardiner or Minkowski.