Please indulge me; this is not a Classical Music album but I am placing it in here so that our friend Pepe will see it. I know that he would like to be here with us on this day!
What are you listening to?
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Just finished listening to this rather appropriate LP given that it is Bloom's Day....
Please indulge me; this is not a Classical Music album but I am placing it in here so that our friend Pepe will see it. I know that he would like to be here with us on this day!
Please indulge me; this is not a Classical Music album but I am placing it in here so that our friend Pepe will see it. I know that he would like to be here with us on this day!
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
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Jose Echenique
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Re: What are you listening to?
I definitely would dear Fergus.fergus wrote:Just finished listening to this rather appropriate LP given that it is Bloom's Day....
Please indulge me; this is not a Classical Music album but I am placing it in here so that our friend Pepe will see it. I know that he would like to be here with us on this day!
Pepe (still struggling with Finnegan´s Wake).
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I remember that LP! McDermott and Richey (the performers) came into the Joyce Tower one day (in the 80s?) and left us a copy. As the only one who could play LPs at the time, it came to me!fergus wrote:Just finished listening to this rather appropriate LP given that it is Bloom's Day....
Please indulge me; this is not a Classical Music album but I am placing it in here so that our friend Pepe will see it. I know that he would like to be here with us on this day!
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you were the ONLY one who could play an LP during the 80's?? was everyone else in Ireland still on wax cylinder?Ciaran wrote:
I remember that LP! McDermott and Richey (the performers) came into the Joyce Tower one day (in the 80s?) and left us a copy. As the only one who could play LPs at the time, it came to me!
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It was the 90s by the time it was decided that I should have it. At that point there was one other worker and he wasn't very interested in music!Jared wrote:you were the ONLY one who could play an LP during the 80's?? was everyone else in Ireland still on wax cylinder?Ciaran wrote:
I remember that LP! McDermott and Richey (the performers) came into the Joyce Tower one day (in the 80s?) and left us a copy. As the only one who could play LPs at the time, it came to me!
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Ciaran wrote:I remember that LP! McDermott and Richey (the performers) came into the Joyce Tower one day (in the 80s?) and left us a copy. As the only one who could play LPs at the time, it came to me!fergus wrote:Just finished listening to this rather appropriate LP given that it is Bloom's Day....
Please indulge me; this is not a Classical Music album but I am placing it in here so that our friend Pepe will see it. I know that he would like to be here with us on this day!
Thank you for that Ciaran. It is good to know the provenance of such things. I really enjoyed the LP yesterday. McDermott had a great voice!
I attach another photo of the back cover to show the charming dedication and signatures of the two performers mentioned above....
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
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I have just finished listening to this set....
....it has been a while since I last heard it.
Back in the day when I bought this set it was one of the most expensive items in my collection (still is). The price has come down considerably since then. It remains my favoured Mahler cycle and is by far the best thing of Abbado in my collection also.
....it has been a while since I last heard it.
Back in the day when I bought this set it was one of the most expensive items in my collection (still is). The price has come down considerably since then. It remains my favoured Mahler cycle and is by far the best thing of Abbado in my collection also.
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
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Another one for the list perhaps? I really shouldn't buy any more Mahler sets.fergus wrote:I have just finished listening to this set....
....it has been a while since I last heard it.
Back in the day when I bought this set it was one of the most expensive items in my collection (still is). The price has come down considerably since then. It remains my favoured Mahler cycle and is by far the best thing of Abbado in my collection also.
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Jose Echenique
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Re: What are you listening to?
You still have to get his Carmen, his Boris Godunov and all the Rossini and Verdi operas Fergus.fergus wrote:I have just finished listening to this set....
....it has been a while since I last heard it.
Back in the day when I bought this set it was one of the most expensive items in my collection (still is). The price has come down considerably since then. It remains my favoured Mahler cycle and is by far the best thing of Abbado in my collection also.
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These arrived yesterday: another Prokofiev 6, this time Mravinsky:
Very enjoyable, quite good stereo sound from 1960. After to listening to Building a Library on Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1 Op. 35 I thought Szymanowski would be a suitable subject for exploration:
Perversely I listened to the 2nd Concerto rather than the 1st I bought it for, and I thought it was gorgeous!
Very enjoyable, quite good stereo sound from 1960. After to listening to Building a Library on Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1 Op. 35 I thought Szymanowski would be a suitable subject for exploration:
Perversely I listened to the 2nd Concerto rather than the 1st I bought it for, and I thought it was gorgeous!