What are you listening to?

[Seán]

I have about thirty LPs: including recent purchases of Mahler & Stravinsky and very old purchases that I collected as second hand records about thirty years ago.

Interesting that....would you still buy an odd classical music vinyl LP?

Yes, if it is in good condition. I have the Szell/Cleveland M4 (WOW!) and a couple of M1's, etc. I bought most of the Mahler LPs in Berlin. There is no place here to buy classical vinyl LPs. My brother visits Brussels on occasion, vists the wonderful Record Collector and brings a bag of LPS home for me. In fact he arrived here on Sunday with a bag of (Count) Basie LPS: that's Jazz to you Fergus, they didn't have any classical records.

[fergus]

[Fergus, you could do worse than start here... after all, KB knew RS very well.. ;-))

An excellent suggestion, Jared....well done, mate!!

[Seán]

[Fergus, you could do worse than start here... after all, KB knew RS very well.. ;-))

An excellent suggestion, Jared....well done, mate!!

I thought that Strauss my elicit a positive response.

[fergus]

..... In fact he arrived here on Sunday with a bag of (Count) Basie LPS: that's Jazz to you Fergus....

Good to see you keeping up the "other" musical interest!!

[Seán]

..... In fact he arrived here on Sunday with a bag of (Count) Basie LPS: that's Jazz to you Fergus....

Good to see you keeping up the "other" musical interest!!

Oh of course I do, it's in my soul, it's part of what I am.

[Jared]

I also very much enjoy this:

[Seán]

Stravinsky
Le Sacre du Printemps
Philharmonia Orchestra
Igor Markevitich conducting
Recording: 1959

By way of contrast, on the TT:
Mozart
Symphony No. 40
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Böhm conducting

and now to bed................

[Seán]

Tonight I listened to the BBC R3 broadcast:

Beethoven - Symphony no.4 in Bb major op.60
Beethoven - Symphony no.7 in A op.92

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

It was very good indeed, I could have done without the John Suchet interlude but I can't grumble really.

[fergus]

.... I could have done without the John Suchet interlude but I can't grumble really.

I will not be buying the book either!!

[Seán]

I rarely listen to Mozart's music. This is simply gorgeous Sacred Music, I must return to it again soon, perhaps I should get the Harnoncourt recording?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
REQUIEM in D minor KV 626
Pamela Heuvelmans, soprano;
Barbera Werner, alto;
Robert Morvaj, tenor;
Thomas Pfeiffer, bass;
Chamber Choir of Europe
Süddeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Nicol Matt, conductor