What are you listening to?

[Jared]

1st spin, and you can already tell this is rather special... beautifully resonant, mid paced lieder with a rich tone, seemingly at one with the orchestra.. what a wonderful recording, and I haven't got to the 4 Last Songs yet (last on this disk)... I can see why it's a Gramophone 'benchmark' 3G recording...

Pepe, you're a 4LS connoisseur, what are your thoughts?

[Jared]

^^ really, really beautiful... has to be among the finest 4LS recorded.



I'm pleased to say that I've made a couple of very fine purchases recently... the Scarlatti is also very fine and performed to a very high standard by Alessandrini.

[Jared]

The English Suites 1-6.

[fergus]

... I personally don't like to denigrate any composer, partly because I'm not qualified enough to do so and partly because you will inevitably upset an enthusiast of that composer' music on the site. I think members are by now fully aware of where my enthusiasms lie and where they don't... but I will just say that I own only one CD with music by Ives (Central Park in the Dark) which wasn't really to my taste either...

I believe that one should not be afraid to say that one does not like a particular work or composer; however I also believe that it is important how one says or phrases such things. After all, one cannot possibly like everything that one hears....that is just not possible.

[fergus]

Continuing with Vanhal....





The music is not nearly as disconcerting as the eyes in that portrait!

[Jared]

[Seán]

I am currently listening to the beautiful Joyce DiDonota at the Proms.

I wish that they would put that stupid Derham creature out to pasture

[Jared]

^^ I'm sure the lovely Joyce is scintillating as usual... although I simply can't do the last night of the proms... it's the only concert which I find more toe-curling than the New Year's Day Strauss extravaganza...

... Land of Hope & Glory my arse...

... besides, Wawrinka & Djokovic are in a 5th set and Tokyo are battling it out with Istanbul to host the 2020 Olympics...

and these Tallis Scholars are singing an amazing Palestrina Mass... ;-)

[Seán]

^^ I'm sure the lovely Joyce is scintillating as usual... although I simply can't do the last night of the proms... it's the only concert which I find more toe-curling than the New Year's Day Strauss extravaganza...

ah, the New Year's Day Concert is much better.

... Land of Hope & Glory my arse...

... besides, Wawrinka & Djokovic are in a 5th set and Tokyo are battling it out with Istanbul to host the 2020 Olympics...

and these Tallis Scholars are singing an amazing Palestrina Mass... ;-)

She has just got a wonderful reaction and now I will turn it off. She looks like a lovely lady too.

[Jared]

She has just got a wonderful reaction and now I will turn it off. She looks like a lovely lady too.

who? Katie Derham?



these gems should round off a lovely day's listening for me...