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What are you listening to? Part III
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Who wants to live forever is my favourite track from my favourite band.
The Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie.
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One of my all time favourite tracks, as well.
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One of my all time favourite tracks, as well.
I do, too. I can usually work and listen to Handel at the same time, as with a lot of other Baroque composers' concerti, once I have heard the works on an album a few times.
That's not always the case for me with some later periods of music. I start thinking about unusual modulations or departures from established forms or just wondering "how the hell they did that?") and all of a sudden I'm not working any more.
Today I'm listening again to some cello works of Dutilleux, Ravel, Debussy, Messiaen, Saint-Saëns, played by German cellist Leonard Elschenbroich. The album is Siècle ("Century", referring to the fact the music spans the time of the Franco Prussian war all the way to 1970). Elschenbroich performs with pianist Alexei Grynyuk and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Wilson and by Stefan Blunier.
The Messiaen on this CD is very beautiful but just a fragment from his Quartet for the End of Time, the fifth movement, a gorgeous duet for cello and piano, "Praise for the Eternity of Jesus" marked in the score as infiniment lent, extatique ("infinitely slow, ecstatic".
I'm not very fond of how Elschenbroich and his conductors messed with tempos in parts of the Saint-Saëns and the front end of the Debussy. However, I was into the album for the Dutilleux concerto, "Tout un monde lointain" (a whole distant world), of which I like to collect performances, and really liked this one, so the rest got more or less of a pass from me. Still this is one album that I don't try to listen to and work at the same time, it always seizes my attention.
I suspect that it was The Beatles 1967-1970.
My brother and I had both of those pairs of album sets, (1962-66, and 1967-70),a joint investment before we graduated to the purchase of the actual albums that The Beatles had produced and recorded and released.
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Agree completely about being able to listen to Baroque music while doing other stuff.
Looks like a fascinating album, but the Handel one you posted earlier would also be very much to my taste.
Excellent collection of tunes but the songs are not in that specific order. Past Masters Vol. 2 is the one. But it doesn't matter what order great songs are in....great songs are great songs
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I wasn't sure if you didn't know and wanted to know or if it was a test or quiz......now I see it was a test
In either case, damn fine music.
Queen greatest hits 2. All the classics but especially Who wants to live forever. My favourite as mentioned above.
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Pianist Leon Fleisher performing Brahms Piano Concerto 1 and Beethoven 2, Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell.
I grew up during the very long tenure of Szell with the Cleveland (1946-70) and I am still partial to a lot of the Sony recordings he did across those years. These recordings were done back in 1959 and 1961. Szell "played" the Cleveland as if it were some multi-featured and mythical instrument completely under his control. There are myriad anecdotes about his exacting ways (many in Donald Rosenberg's book about that storied orchestra) and they all sound like it has been much more fun for us to listen to the results than for the orchestra's members to have rehearsed under him. Still they were proud of what they had become under his direction, an ensemble with the precision of a chamber group. His successor joked once that whenever he got a great performance out of the Cleveland, Szell got another splendid review in the press...
I grew up during the very long tenure of Szell with the Cleveland (1946-70) and I am still partial to a lot of the Sony recordings he did across those years. These recordings were done back in 1959 and 1961. Szell "played" the Cleveland as if it were some multi-featured and mythical instrument completely under his control. There are myriad anecdotes about his exacting ways (many in Donald Rosenberg's book about that storied orchestra) and they all sound like it has been much more fun for us to listen to the results than for the orchestra's members to have rehearsed under him. Still they were proud of what they had become under his direction, an ensemble with the precision of a chamber group. His successor joked once that whenever he got a great performance out of the Cleveland, Szell got another splendid review in the press...
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