awkwardbydesign
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I just watched a programme about Nigel Kennedy playing The Four Seasons, so now I will be playing the Academy of St Martin's with Neville Marriner version.
The classical what are you listening to now ? thread.
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I really like that version with the ASMF under Marriner, and Alan Loveday. Interestingly, my wife bought that recording on vinyl... yes, vinyl... about 37 years ago. AAMOF, it's the only vinyl record that my wife has purchased since 1982, when we first met...
Even though the Four Seasons is ultra hackneyed, it still gets played from time to time around here. Enjoy!
awkwardbydesign
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It's the LP (yes, LP) that got me into classical music. I have 5 different versions of The 4 Seasons, and it's still my favourite. Somewhat distant and austere, but that is part of its charm, particularly Winter.
awkwardbydesign
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Arvo Part. I just looked him up, and he is still alive.
I insisted on going to Ravenna a few years ago to hear a performance of his music in the Basilica. Fortunately there was a Sardinian vocal group singing there too, so we were both happy.
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Shostakovich - String Quartet No 2 and Piano Quintet - Takacs Quartet with Hamelin (Hyperion)
Dancer_not
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Vaughan Williams - Sea Symphony
MDR/Howard Arman
MDR/Howard Arman
gingermrkettle
Deep vein trombonist
R3 playing the Prom with Andrew Davis doing Tippett's 4th Symphony.
Mr J
pfm Member
Philip Glass Solo Piano, (vinyl) 2014 release. Lovely music, and a good quality pressing.
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Philip Glass: Solo Piano
Solo Piano is an album of piano music composed and performed by Philip Glass. It was produced by Kurt Munkacsi. The title of five of the seven tracks, "Metamorphosis", refers to and was inspired by the 1915 novella The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. While all pieces were written in 1988, some...
Mr J
pfm Member
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
BBC SO, Andrew Davis, 2022 Warner Clasics, vinyl reissue of the 1991 release.
This is a work that I don't remember hearing previously, but recently it's cropped up several times on Radio 3 and it slowly sunk in. A quietly compelling piece.
BBC SO, Andrew Davis, 2022 Warner Clasics, vinyl reissue of the 1991 release.
This is a work that I don't remember hearing previously, but recently it's cropped up several times on Radio 3 and it slowly sunk in. A quietly compelling piece.