I had a Vision ? | Classical Music we are Listening to Now | And I wanted to Share it

NorthStar · May 20, 2015

Playing in the Now ::

* If wondering on how it sounds; marvelous - Click ^ on the above picture cover for some ? samples.

Bachtoven · May 22, 2015

This is my introduction to Stankovych's music, and boy do I like it! Picture a humorless, more angst-ridden Shostakovich with a dash of Schnittke here and there--but still tuneful! Very power stuff that deserves to be better known. Superb playing and sound.

Grimaud playing Ravel...'nuff said! Great sound, too.

NorthStar · May 22, 2015

Hi John, I'm so very happy to see you here...a Classical Music expert and great motivator...inspiration to benefit from.
...Capital "C" for quality Classical Music. ...And capital "M" for Best Music. ...With high-class taste and verve.

Bachtoven · May 22, 2015

Thank you very much, Bob. I hope this thread sees more activity than the others!

NorthStar · May 22, 2015

That is my intention John, and I know that with you and many more members here, including my very good friend Kate, who we all love classical music, it should succeed.

By the way, I listened mainly to classical music today, all day, and still, on the r.a.d.i.o.

What I love about music threads is to share and learn on new music recordings, and older ones too, and that it motivates me to get up and spin some of my ? selections, and buy new ones.
Music is good. ...And Classical is best.

Bachtoven · May 22, 2015

That's all I ever listen to--with the very occasional jazz or Hendrix disc tossed in for a change of pace!

astrotoy · May 22, 2015

Bachtoven said:
That's all I ever listen to--with the very occasional jazz or Hendrix disc tossed in for a change of pace!

One odd fact is that Jimi lived next door to George Friedrich Handel (displaced by a few hundred years).

It is on Brook Street, now the site of the Handel Museum. The white house on the left is where Hendricks lived. Handel's place is on the right. Our London timeshare is a few blocks away on the same street, on the other side of Grosvenor Square. So we get to acknowledge the spirits of both. So next time you play Jimi, you can follow or precede it with a couple of pieces by his next door neighbor. Sometimes the Handel Museum opens up the Hendricks apartments along with the Handel residence.

Larry

NorthStar · May 23, 2015

Cool.

Bachtoven · May 23, 2015

Another searingly intense performance by the PHQ. Fabulous sound. Oh how I wish they'd record a Bartok and a Shostakovich cycle--they would be frighteningly brutal--in the right places! (A Beethoven cycle would be nice, too.)

Bachtoven · May 23, 2015

A rather pricey bit of vinyl ($35), but it sounds great, and of course Richter's playing is nonpareil.

Bachtoven · May 23, 2015

More over-priced ($65 for the 2 LPs--a Speaker Corner remaster)) but beautifully played and recorded vinyl. I think I want to upgrade my turntable rig now!

Cascais · Jun 8, 2015

Just switched from Bitches Brew, Miles Davis, to Bartok, Piano Concerto No. 2, performed by Stephen Kovacevich with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Colin Davis. Eloquence CD. Davis to Bartok - not that much of a stretch.

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