What are you listening to?

[DaveF]

Hi Jared, yes both from Dublin. One Southsider, one Northsider(the good part). :-)

Dave is from the North side of Dublin, Jared.....his comments are pure propagana, however!!!

the good part of the northside is what I was getting at Fergus. ;-)))

[Seán]

Hi Jared, yes both from Dublin. One Southsider, one Northsider(the good part). :-)

Dave is from the North side of Dublin, Jared.....his comments are pure propagana, however!!!

the good part of the northside is what I was getting at Fergus. ;-)))

of Budapest? I've been led to believe that you are a Magyar!

[DaveF]

Dave is from the North side of Dublin, Jared.....his comments are pure propagana, however!!!

the good part of the northside is what I was getting at Fergus. ;-)))

of Budapest? I've been led to believe that you are a Magyar!

have Magyar family connections but I was refering above to where I'm living now.

[DaveF]

BWV 525, 526 & 529

[Jared]

well, I spent the afternoon cleaning the youth hostel toilets to the strains of:



Symphonies 2,3,4 & 5..

followed by lots of Bax, Arnold Symphonies 5 & 6 and now:



Concerti 1-6 (which, by the looks of things, should please one or two people on this forum...;-)) )

[fergus]

How are you finding that set so far Dave....tough going or, given that you have much more organ music listening behind you than I have is it more straightforward than you might have thought?

[fergus]

Concerti 1-6 (which, by the looks of things, should please one or two people on this forum...;-)) )

I have that music on the Harmonia Mundi label performed by Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini. How did you find the Pinnock version, Jared?

[fergus]

Rugby took priority this week-end but in between the three matches I squeezed in my old friend, Christophe Rousset playing the music of Rameau on the harpsichord....

[DaveF]

How are you finding that set so far Dave....tough going or, given that you have much more organ music listening behind you than I have is it more straightforward than you might have thought?

I'm enjoying it so far Fergus. It's not tough going at all and I'm looking forward to getting more familiar with the works and seeking out alternative recordings in time. Oddly enough I find piano works more 'difficult' to like. Not sure why, I'd expect that to be the opposite with most people.

[fergus]

.... Oddly enough I find piano works more 'difficult' to like. Not sure why, I'd expect that to be the opposite with most people.

Actually, I am with you on that one Dave, to a large degree....piano music, especially solo piano music, has always been way down on my list for some reason also. The obvious exceptions are the piano concertos of both Mozart and Beethoven and even there my first purchase of the Mozart concertos was played on fortepiano. I have a number of sets of the LvB concertos but my next purchase in that direction will also be played on fortepiano.