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Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 4:15 pm
by Jared
This is one I first listened to 4 years ago, very early on in my CM listening days, and as I remembered saying to Fergus is something I struggled a bit with, primarily because the musical language was so unfamiliar. As a consequence I have left it on the shelf all this time with a view to giving it another go a few years down the line, when my understanding had matured a little...

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well, now is the time...

Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:55 pm
by fergus
Jared wrote:This is one I first listened to 4 years ago, very early on in my CM listening days, and as I remembered saying to Fergus is something I struggled a bit with, primarily because the musical language was so unfamiliar. As a consequence I have left it on the shelf all this time with a view to giving it another go a few years down the line, when my understanding had matured a little...

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well, now is the time...

Let us know how you get on second time around Jared.

Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:57 pm
by fergus
On vinyl, two very different versions of the same work....

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....followed by....


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Beethoven wrote the Piano Trio arrangement of his Second Symphony in order to create greater accessibility to his work and, therefore greater sales too.

Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:19 pm
by Jared
fergus wrote: Let us know how you get on second time around Jared.
yes, it's amazing how your tastes mature and how you become acclimatised to a soundworld in time... no problems this time round, although it is undoubtedly still more challenging in certain solo passages...

Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:20 pm
by Jared
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great to be able to return to this work through a slightly different interpretation...

Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:29 pm
by fergus
Jared wrote:
fergus wrote: Let us know how you get on second time around Jared.
yes, it's amazing how your tastes mature and how you become acclimatised to a soundworld in time... no problems this time round, although it is undoubtedly still more challenging in certain solo passages...
Familiarity Breeds Content!!!

Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:03 pm
by fergus
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Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 11:32 am
by fergus
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Superb, beautiful playing from Sarah Francis in this delightful music.

Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:04 pm
by fergus
Currently listening to....


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Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:08 pm
by Jared
^^ I really am going to have to plough into my Rameau disks before long.. :-)

in the meantime, third (and final for the moment) to:

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