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pcolbeck · « **Reply #1425 on:** 10 October, 2010, 01:24:41 am »

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 second movement. Comparing different versions on YouTube before I buy one. Currently loving Helene Grimaud.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #1426 on:** 10 October, 2010, 01:59:49 am »

Ruddy hell. If you like Bach give this a listen. I tend towards the Canadians (Gould and Hewitt) but just ran across this version of the D minor concerto by Maria Yudina on YouTube. Bloody hell its amazing. Rubbish sound quality and not sure when it's from but still.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/nb61-isWowA&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/nb61-isWowA&rel=1</a>

pcolbeck · « **Reply #1427 on:** 10 October, 2010, 02:07:35 am »

Oh hell she does an outstanding Goldberg Variations too. This is getting expensive.
Don't you just love it when something in mono with crackles is still so good that it doesn't matter.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #1428 on:** 10 October, 2010, 02:32:24 am »

Oops a Bach jag and now it's 2:30am. I blame Rosalyn Tureck.

jogler · « **Reply #1429 on:** 10 October, 2010, 08:10:40 am »

Aled Jones on Radio 2.
It's my weekly dose of "mmmm,is there or is there not a God?"

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1430 on:** 10 October, 2010, 10:53:09 am »

Quote from: pcolbeck on 10 October, 2010, 01:59:49 am

Ruddy hell. If you like Bach give this a listen. I tend towards the Canadians (Gould and Hewitt) but just ran across this version of the D minor concerto by Maria Yudina on YouTube. Bloody hell its amazing. Rubbish sound quality and not sure when it's from but still.

Quote from: wiki

Yudina has the distinction of being Joseph Stalin's favorite pianist. One night, Stalin heard a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 on the radio performed by Yudina and asked for a copy. It was a live broadcast so officials woke up Yudina, drove her to a recording studio where a small orchestra had quickly been assembled, and made her record the concerto in the middle of the night, a single copy was pressed from the matrix and then presented to Stalin (the matrix has survived and the recording has been available on CD). It is said that he broke out in tears after hearing only the first notes of Yudina's playing. Despite the recognition from Stalin the pianist remained an uncompromising critic of the Stalinist regime with unprecedented impunity. She was awarded the Stalin Prize and donated its monetary portion to the Orthodox Church for "perpetual prayers for Stalin's sins". She died in Moscow in 1970.

Bloody hell!

Thanks, Phil. Good listening. Did you see the bit in Wiki where some have said that her style influenced Glenn Gould?

PaulF · « **Reply #1431 on:** 10 October, 2010, 11:29:25 am »

Sea shanties on a cd that I bought from nudists in York yesterday.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #1432 on:** 10 October, 2010, 12:03:00 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 10 October, 2010, 10:53:09 am

Thanks, Phil. Good listening. Did you see the bit in Wiki where some have said that her style influenced Glenn Gould?

I did. You can tell why.

Pat

DrMekon · « **Reply #1433 on:** 10 October, 2010, 01:27:14 pm »

The Smiths - a random mix via slimserver. For some reason, I find The Smiths enormously comforting when cleaning or doing DIY.

I was looking for a job and then I found a job...

Deano · « **Reply #1434 on:** 10 October, 2010, 08:10:34 pm »

I'm transferring CDs to my computer (I've only had it three years) - and the latest find from the depths of the attic is Free Peace Sweet by Dodgy.

OK, it has an unbelievably awful pun for a title, they're obviously taking themselves a bit too seriously in some of the lyrics and themes of the album, and overall it's dated, cheesy, generic indie with added pomposity, but there are still a couple of songs which are excellent, and the album has a lovely warmth about it - excellent harmonies and chiming guitars fighting with the drums for a bit of space in the mix.

I'm hoping to find Dodgy's Homegrown in the heap, which I remember being a much better album.

Chris S · « **Reply #1435 on:** 11 October, 2010, 11:37:53 am »

Badly Drawn Boy - It's what I'm thinking Part 1: Photographing Snowflakes.

It's

PaulF · « **Reply #1436 on:** 11 October, 2010, 11:50:29 am »

Quote from: PaulF on 10 October, 2010, 11:29:25 am

Sea shanties on a cd that I bought from nudists in York yesterday.

I've just seen what the iPhone's predictive text does to 'buskers'

jogler · « **Reply #1437 on:** 11 October, 2010, 03:07:49 pm »

Nirvana

tiermat · « **Reply #1438 on:** 11 October, 2010, 03:22:35 pm »

On the TV is MTv Classics, 90s classic mixtape, which is currently showing the Spice Girls

but in the car I have the new Kings Of Leon cd, V. V. V. Good!!!!!!!!!!!

Deano · « **Reply #1439 on:** 11 October, 2010, 07:18:21 pm »

Quote from: PaulF on 11 October, 2010, 11:50:29 am

Quote from: PaulF on 10 October, 2010, 11:29:25 am
Sea shanties on a cd that I bought from nudists in York yesterday.

I've just seen what the iPhone's predictive text does to 'buskers'

I saw that, and didn't think anything of it. York's a fairly cosmopolitan place

PaulF · « **Reply #1440 on:** 11 October, 2010, 07:26:24 pm »

Well it was quite warm

jogler · « **Reply #1441 on:** 11 October, 2010, 07:51:16 pm »

George Thorogood & The Destroyers

Chris S · « **Reply #1442 on:** 12 October, 2010, 03:26:38 pm »

The Orb - Metallic Spheres (feat David Gilmour).

Mmm... grooooovy man. Anyone got a spliff I can ponce?

Quisling · « **Reply #1443 on:** 12 October, 2010, 11:22:46 pm »

YouTube
- Four Tet- This Unfolds

YouTube
- The Horrors - 'Who Can Say'

onb · « **Reply #1444 on:** 13 October, 2010, 01:10:21 pm »

Hedonism.

nicknack · « **Reply #1445 on:** 13 October, 2010, 02:53:11 pm »

Some new cds.

Hugh Hopper - The Gift of Purpose
Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen - For the Ghosts Within
Members of Morphine with Jeremy Lyons - The Ever Expanding Elastic Waste Band
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon (40th Anniversary Series)
King Crimson - Islands (40th Anniversary Series)

All thoroughly excellent.

Dinamo · « **Reply #1446 on:** 13 October, 2010, 08:48:19 pm »

Quote from: Chris S on 12 October, 2010, 03:26:38 pm

The Orb - Metallic Spheres (feat David Gilmour).

Mmm... grooooovy man. Anyone got a spliff I can ponce?

........and me !

Deano · « **Reply #1447 on:** 13 October, 2010, 08:50:01 pm »

Quote from: onb on 13 October, 2010, 01:10:21 pm

Hedonism.

Daughters having a party again?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1448 on:** 14 October, 2010, 12:52:32 am »

A bit of Praetorius followed by some Susato.

kyuss · « **Reply #1449 on:** 17 October, 2010, 06:00:42 am »

Ministry - ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ

"...all of a sudden I found myself in love with the world, so there was only one thing I could do - was ding a ding dang my dangalong linglong"