What are you listening to?

[bombasticDarren]

Bruckner - Symphony No.9 (Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker, EMI)

[jaybee]

slowly, ever so slowly, starting to grow on me.... losing some of its air of Jeeves & Wooster.....

[Jared]

RVW: Symphony No.9
BBC Symph/ Andrew Davis
Live Proms 2008.

[jaybee]

Christian Thielemann is hard to watch....

he could have been an übermensch poster boy....

[bombasticDarren]

RVW: Symphony No.9
BBC Symph/ Andrew Davis
Live Proms 2008.

That's a concert I attended and remember fondly. It was an all Vaughan Williams night with the Tallis Fantasia, Job and Serenade to Music. A reasonably perfect evening :)

[bombasticDarren]

Ravel - Rapsodie espagnole, Alborada del gracioso & Don Quichotte a Dulcinee (Stephen Roberts/Yan Pascal Tortelier, Ulster Orchestra, Chandos)

[Jared]

RVW: Symphony No.9
BBC Symph/ Andrew Davis
Live Proms 2008.

That's a concert I attended and remember fondly. It was an all Vaughan Williams night with the Tallis Fantasia, Job and Serenade to Music. A reasonably perfect evening :)

Good for you, Darren! When I posted it, I wondered whether you had attended... ;-)

[markof]

Delighted with this record (quboz 24/48 download)
Purchased based on recommendation in this forum - many thanks.

[fergus]

I only have one version of Mascagni’s Cavalieria Rusticana and it is an old vinyl version so instead of posting the usual image I thought that I would do something a little different and post a short video to display it....




It is a Philips recording of Met. Performance and features the voices of Margaret Harshaw, Mildred Miller, Richard Tucker, Frank Guarrera and Themla Votipka. I do not recognise any of these names but the performance is a good one of this lovely work. Unfortunately there is no year anywhere to date the performance.
I thought that the wire spring binding was interesting.
One detail in relation to the layout that bothers me slightly, and I have it repeated on other vinyl mini sets is that LP one contains sides one and four and LP two contains sides two and three instead of running it straight through. I wonder why they sometimes laid them out like that?

That recording must date back to the early 50´s.
Do you really don´t remember why LP´s had that distribution? Boy, Fergus, am I THAT old? LOL.
You may remember that in the 60´s some record players had a devise (a long stick) that dropped a second LP in order to let you hear sides 1 and 2 continuously. Of course this thing didn´t last long because the records usually got damaged when one dropped over the other. By the 70´s this thing was already extinct. Oh boy, I miss the 60´s...but not EVERYTHING about them :-)

As far as I remember my friend I am actually older than you and now that you have mentioned it I do remember the spindle but I never made the connection in my own mind with the running order. Due to age I am claiming senility LOL!!!

[fergus]

Delighted with this record (quboz 24/48 download)
Purchased based on recommendation in this forum - many thanks.

Well done! That seems to be a good recommendation all right; I will eventually buy it too.