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This morning: Handel - Suites For Keyboard
Keith Jarrett ECM I love Jarrett's playing of these pieces, very rhythm and flow beautifully. I'm a great fan of Jarrett's jazz, but he's also turned out to be an excellent classical pianist. Nice recording as well.
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Bach, C P E: Hamburg Symphonies
This disc is on heavy rotation...
Bach, C P E: Hamburg Symphonies (6) for Strings, Wq. 182 (H567-662) The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock Lively baroque music expertly played by Pinnock and his crack period orchestra. As I had mentioned before, Gramophone recommended this disc as part of its May 2014 CPE Bach cover story. They say "Pinnock and his band live dangerously in the 18th century's weirdest, most outre symphonies. Thrilling stuff." Yes, good stuff. The recording is excellent. |
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Still exploring classical but I just listened to this and rather enjoyed it
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A great place to explore--those performances are hard to beat!
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This guy can play Stokowski's transcriptions as well as old Maestro Stokowski himself - or at least almost as well - but since most of you don't think Stokowski's transcriptions, and most assuredly, not this conductor, are worthy of purist classical thought and attention, you will probably never know just how much fun they are to listen to . . . .
But, as most of you already know, I am a common as dirt, totally unrefined, red-neck, good ole southern boy, who likes almost all things classical from Readers Digest level on up, so listen to it, I will. (And Love It, I also will !) And, I am listening to . . . THE STOKOWSKI SOUND - Transcriptions for Orchestra by Leopold Stokowski Cincinnati Pops Orchestra - Erich Kunzel, Conductor A Telarc CD, recorded in 1990 And, the very best thing about this CD is the fact that you can currently buy it on Amazon for 1˘ U.S. - That is one penny, one single cent - and it is worth every single one of them. .
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AND, Worthy of note . . . We have just passed 14,000 posts in this thread.
Many thanks to all of you who have made it so informative and so much fun!
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This was post # 7 in this thread.
I just pulled it out and I'm playing it again . . . It is really good! Quote:
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very cool.
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This morning:
Mendelssohn & Beethoven Violin Concertos Joshua Bell violin Camerata Salzburg, Sir Roger Norrington I haven't listened to this in a few years and I guess I've been spoiled by some of the great recordings I've been listening to lately. The overall tone of this is ok, but dynamics seem compressed. And while Bell's playing is technically fine, this recording just doesn't really draw me in. This is the only version I have of this beautiful Mendelssohn concerto, I need to explore other recordings.
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