What are you listening to? Part III

[arkitect]

What prompted this was the fact that I heard the second movement on radio this morning, and thought.....aaaaah. Not quite that I wanted to bawl my eyes out - obviously, the piece alone invites that - but that it also reminded me of my mother's early preferences in classical music.

Anyway, I told my brother that my mother used to love it.

Actually, it was the first piece by Beethoven that my mother introduced me to, when I was a child. And I played it - the LP referred to below - to death.

She told me that, initially, when she first came to appreciate classical music, that she had preferred the Seventh, but came to really love the Sixth, and saluted elements of the Fifth.

Her copy of the Seventh - I am holding it as I write, is a LP, mono recording, Music For Pleasure Ltd. Drury House, Russell Street, London WC2, by EMI (The Gramophone Co Ltd): Symphony No 7 in A Major - Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by William Steinberg.

This LP is at least half a century old.
[doublepost=1548700335][/doublepost]The version I am listening to (on my iTunes library) comes courtesy of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Riccardo Muti.

I must invest in a good quality turntable and listen to my mother's (and father's) music.......

I just listened to the Steinberg version (on Spotify).
There are some lovely whooping French Horns. In fact, the brass section is having a wonderful time!

Is it this one?

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I just listened to the Steinberg version (on Spotify).
There are some lovely whooping French Horns. In fact, the brass section is having a wonderful time!

Is it this one?

That is the very one.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

And now, in memory of my mother, who loved it, I am listening to the Sixth Symphony: Who else other than Ludwig van Beethoven has composed music that is solely referred to by its numeral (yes, there were nouns - the Eroica, but these mattered less than the numerals that defined these superb pieces of music) - and with an assumption that it will be immediately understood whose epic music is under discussion when you refer to "the Sixth", or "the Fifth", or "the Seventh" - or, 'the (magisterial) Ninth?"

Anyway, the Sixth Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No Five.

 

[mobilehaathi]

 

[bradl]

Pulled out the old school R&B list tonight. Specifically, this:

and this:

because of this.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/r-b-singer-songwriter-james-ingram-dies-at-66.2167544/

again, **** cancer.

BL.

 

[hawkeye_a]

Strawberry Alarm Clock....
Cool 60s/70s psychedelic rock

I'm Coming Home

Girl from the City

Incense and Peppermints

 

[AngerDanger]

Can't quite figure out why it's fun to listen to music on this thing:

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Can't quite figure out why it's fun to listen to music on this thing:

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Because it is.

Currently listening to Adiemus - Songs of Sanctuary.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

A few tracks form Allah-Las.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone.
[doublepost=1548897766][/doublepost]Followed by: The Jam: That's Entertainment; XTC: We're Only Making Plans For Nigel.

 

[hawkeye_a]

John Williamson - True Blue
Aussie folk tune i heard recently for the first time. @RootBeerMan, you might like.

Cheers

 

[Apple fanboy]

Cold play at work.
Then Snow Patrol this evening.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Cold play at work.
Then Snow Patrol this evening.

Can't fault Cold Play; must listen to them, myself.

 

[lobeyonekenobi]

Pulled out the old school R&B list tonight. Specifically, this:

and this:

because of this.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/r-b-singer-songwriter-james-ingram-dies-at-66.2167544/

again, **** cancer.

BL.

Ya Mo Be There, what a classic tune, RIP James Ingram.
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Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone.
[doublepost=1548897766][/doublepost]Followed by: The Jam: That's Entertainment; XTC: We're Only Making Plans For Nigel.

That's Entertainment is THE best Jam song, closely followed by Down In the Tube Station or The Butterfly Collector or Just Who Is The Five O'Clock Hero.

Listening to;

Metal - Gary Numan
I Confess - The Beat
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Ghetto Defendant/Straight To Hell - The Clash
Cities In Dust - Sioxsie and the Banshees
Simple Simon (You Gotta Regard) - Mantronix
U.R.A Fever - The Kills

 

[Apple fanboy]

Can't fault Cold Play; must listen to them, myself.

You’d probably like Snow Patrol as well.

 

[GenderAgnostic]

Dance To This - Troye Sivan ft. Ariana Grande

 

[hawkeye_a]

You’d probably like Snow Patrol as well.

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars came up on shuffle today! Sure does take me back.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars came up on shuffle today! Sure does take me back.

Probably my favourite.

 

[hawkeye_a]

Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

[doublepost=1549033047][/doublepost]Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory?
Gloomy, rainy day outside....feels like Oasis.

 

[Mefisto]

^That was quite the trip down memory lane. Thanks for that, I don't think I've heard Save Tonight since pretty much the year it came out. That year, though, it was heard plenty.

Been listening to some Puscifer lately. Funny how they seem to have a song for every occasion.

 

[mobilehaathi]

 

[Scepticalscribe]

What a gorgeous album cover.

 

[AppleDavid]

https://itunes.apple.com/si/album/no-woman/1093890670?i=1093890751

 

[Mefisto]

Some Röyksopp at the moment.