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Post by jandl100 on Sept 21, 2015 11:19:31 GMT
Enjoy sax? Then try this   Which led me on to this ...  Accessible, tuneful, enjoyable. |
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Post by Slinger on Sept 21, 2015 17:03:51 GMT
Funnily enough, yesterday I listened to this...
(His Saxophone Quartet I don't like quite so much.)
And then this album....
You can't beat a bit of sax and violins.
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 22, 2015 14:19:22 GMT
This is marvelous music ...  ... even the horn sonata, and I am not usually a fan of french horn music. |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 22, 2015 17:03:11 GMT
Philip Glass - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3, Bournemouth SO, Alsop, Naxos Wow, this is brilliant. Symphony No. 3 is especially of his sound-world and the 3rd movement gave me a surprise: so much of the wonderful 1st Violin Concerto is in there, with all the looping motifs and key changes of the latter. Thanks, Jerry! So it led naturally to... Philip Glass - Violin Concerto No. 1, McDuffie, Eschenbach, Houston SO, Telarc One of my all-time favourite violin concertos and very finely recorded by Telarc. I've been lucky enough to hear it performed live by Gidon Kremer with Glass in the wings, giving a short speech afterwards.
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 23, 2015 6:02:12 GMT
I fancied a listen to some early Beethoven piano sonatas but couldn't decide on the pianist, so I tried a few samples ....     To my surprise, it was the Jando I stayed with. He has a lightness of touch and a carefree sense of impetuous power that makes the music the fun I think it should be, and that seems to elude the others to a greater or lesser extent. Whodathunkit? Not me. |
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Post by Slinger on Sept 23, 2015 22:19:05 GMT
The Four Seasons - Vivaldi (Red Priest)
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 24, 2015 6:01:28 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 24, 2015 6:12:52 GMT
...Perhaps I just need a remote connection to Paul's system so I can hear whatever he plays!  I think some of my Symphonic Metal and Space Rock might change your mind. After that Red Priest shenanigans, some of your classical choices continue to intrigue me, Paul. Go on then - share some links to a selection of your Symphonic Metal and Space Rock. |
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 24, 2015 6:54:37 GMT
.... and on to ....  Great fun, but I can only take so much recorder playing at a time, methinks. |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 24, 2015 10:11:44 GMT
The Red Priest is certainly . . . different!
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Post by Slinger on Sept 24, 2015 19:14:04 GMT
I think some of my Symphonic Metal and Space Rock might change your mind. After that Red Priest shenanigans, some of your classical choices continue to intrigue me, Paul. Go on then - share some links to a selection of your Symphonic Metal and Space Rock. I really don't want to drag this thread off topic, but if you search for "Dan Mumm" on YouTube you'll get an idea of one type of Symphonic Metal. Next look up "Nightwish Greatest Hits" for another. I've actually got "Metal" split up between Folk Metal, Gothic Metal, Heavy Metal, Melodic Metal, Progressive Metal, and Symphonic Metal in JRiver so it goes a lot deeper than just Symphonic as elements of each can bleed (and I use the word advisedly) into one another. Space rock? Look up "Hawkwind." |
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Post by Slinger on Sept 24, 2015 19:21:43 GMT
Classical Duo (Music for Cello & Guitar - Boris Andrianov and Dmitri Illarionov
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 25, 2015 5:40:07 GMT
Thanks Paul -- I'll investigate your suggestions and post impressions in the appropriate (non-classical) thread. |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 25, 2015 5:59:19 GMT
Space rock? Look up "Hawkwind." You could categorise it as Psychedelic, which puts them in with early Pink Floyd, just as appropriate. I know, even more off-topic! |
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 25, 2015 6:13:11 GMT
After that Red Priest shenanigans, some of your classical choices continue to intrigue me, Paul. Go on then - share some links to a selection of your Symphonic Metal and Space Rock. I really don't want to drag this thread off topic, but if you search for "Dan Mumm" on YouTube you'll get an idea of one type of Symphonic Metal. Next look up "Nightwish Greatest Hits" for another. I've actually got "Metal" split up between Folk Metal, Gothic Metal, Heavy Metal, Melodic Metal, Progressive Metal, and Symphonic Metal in JRiver so it goes a lot deeper than just Symphonic as elements of each can bleed (and I use the word advisedly) into one another. Space rock? Look up "Hawkwind." .... Dan Mumm - No Illusions  Track subtitles .... Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Rameau, Beethoven .... hey, this is classical!! And great fun and highly enjoyable it is, too. .... Hawkwind, however, I can probably manage not to hear ever again with complete equanimity! |
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Post by Slinger on Sept 25, 2015 23:10:56 GMT
Charles Villiers Stanford - Symphony No. 3 "Irish"
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 26, 2015 5:21:46 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 27, 2015 7:15:41 GMT
More Jando ...  Listened to Pictures. A very percussive interpretation, quite striking in its way. Shame there wasn't a bit more weight to the piano sound. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-2780566-1300724858.jpeg.jpg) -- ah, lovely. One of my favourite recordings. |
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Post by Slinger on Sept 27, 2015 9:48:03 GMT
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford - Cello Concerto in D minor. (Gemma Rosefield / BBC Scottish S.O. / Andrew Manze)
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Post by Slinger on Sept 27, 2015 15:01:13 GMT
Arvo Pärt - Passio (The Hilliard Ensemble)
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Amazing.
- listened to the whole symphony cycle 
