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Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 6:19 pm
by fergus
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!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 12:33 am
by Jose Echenique
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!
I definitely would dear Fergus.
Pepe (still struggling with Finnegan´s Wake).
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:48 am
by Ciaran
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!
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!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 1:30 pm
by Jared
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!
you were the ONLY one who could play an LP during the 80's?? was everyone else in Ireland still on wax cylinder?
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 2:57 pm
by Ciaran
Jared wrote: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!
you were the ONLY one who could play an LP during the 80's?? was everyone else in Ireland still on wax cylinder?
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!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:49 pm
by fergus
Ciaran wrote: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!
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!
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....
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 11:18 pm
by fergus
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.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 11:29 pm
by Seán
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.
Another one for the list perhaps? I really shouldn't buy any more Mahler sets.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:47 pm
by Jose Echenique
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.
You still have to get his Carmen, his Boris Godunov and all the Rossini and Verdi operas Fergus.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:40 am
by Ciaran
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!