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What are you listening to? Part III
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Thanks for this. Somehow I missed it earlier in the day. I really enjoyed that.
No worries at all.
A few months ago I started to get the hint that I was getting old when I was in my administrative assistants office looking outside at the birds fluttering about and remarked how I enjoy watching them. She, being only 5 years younger than I, remarked that bird watching is for old people! D'Oh!
Lots of great artists and genres listed there; many of which I also enjoy.
As for the fight, you're going to have to pick something a bit more divisive I think!
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Now I just searched Apple Music for 'Imagine' and played the song since I had just mentioned it above. It has been a while since I last heard it and it was probably on TV/radio or a Youtube video somewhere. But when I just heard it, it sounded awful. There was a tremendous amount of hiss and the whole song sounded muddy through and through. I don't know what's up with that. I'd have figured it would have been recorded with better quality or remastered at some point. It really sounded like a horribly recorded cassette tape that had seen better days.
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Coincidentally, today they officially announced new releases of this album. The most ambitious is the set containing two Blu-rays (featuring a new stereo mix, a new 5.1 surround mix and the long out of print “quad” mix) and four CDs of vocal-only mixes, mixes stripped of Spector’s orchestrations, instrumental mixes, outtakes, rough mixes, etc. also on the two Blu-rays are the complete contents of those bonus discs (all in hi-res). The set also includes a 120 page book.
Details here: http://imaginejohnyoko.com/
Besides that, of course, is a separate release of the promo film of the album’s making (both the shorter version “Gimme Some Truth” and the original “Imagine” that’s a bit longer). Not to mention a 320 page book also available for a reasonable price. The 400+ page version for considerably more and the princely 400+ page version with
’s autograph Now, back into the dark I slink, content with ordering the box set for now. Gotta save up for Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” box set of vault material as well as the “White Album’s” 50th anniversary set. Everything old is new again, if only for a moment.
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That was the acoustic version and it was quite amazing.
Matt Monro - On Days Like These (from The Italian Job (1969) soundtrack)
Sunny, lazy Sunday afternoon listening...
Sunny, lazy Sunday afternoon listening...
On a whim, I decided to arrange my iTunes library by purchase date and created a new playlist from the songs I bought a decade ago.
It's worth trying out to see what kind of memories it stirs.
Glenn Gould (unfortunately); it comes from one of the earliest CDs I had bought (back in the late 80s), - a compilation of piano classics - and - while it is not my favourite version of the piece, it is perfectly pleasant, and is was what was available at the time.
However, I am open to recommendations re other interpretations.
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Oh, nothing wrong with Mr Gould. He is a thoroughly enjoyable idiosyncratic performer. Though, he did talk too much… or at least given the opportunity to spout off far too frequently. Not all s gold dust handed down from lofty Parnassus — no matter what CBS thought and I think as with most artists it would be better if they kept schtum and just let their music speak.
Re Beethoven Sonatas —my favourites:
Wilhelm Kempff — old school, very Teutonic — very noble — Beethoven as God.
Ronald Brautigam — modern — plays on reconstructed or restored Fortepiano (not Pianoforte) — Beethoven the humanist — and oh my word, the stress and strain as those fortepianos are put to the test and pushed to their limits.
All wonderful.
Oh, nothing wrong with Mr Gould. He is a thoroughly enjoyable idiosyncratic performer. Though, he did talk too much… or at least given the opportunity to spout off far too frequently. Not all s gold dust handed down from lofty Parnassus — no matter what CBS thought and I think as with most artists it would be better if they kept schtum and just let their music speak.
Re Beethoven Sonatas —my favourites:
Wilhelm Kempff — old school, very Teutonic — very noble — Beethoven as God.
Ronald Brautigam — modern — plays on reconstructed or restored Fortepiano (not Pianoforte) — Beethoven the humanist — and oh my word, the stress and strain as those fortepianos are put to the test and pushed to their limits.
All wonderful.
Agreed.
Yes, I am not at all that keen on the muttering, it detracts from one's enjoyment of piece - let the music speak for itself, agreed - and this muttering has long struck me as somewhat self-indulgent; mind you, in those years, I had a LP of Glenn Gould, as well.
Ah, Wilhelm Kempff, yes, absolutely: This I could connect with.
The thing about the Moonlight Sonata is that it is a deceptively easy piece to play - a friend of mine from undergrad days, now a maths lecturer, one of those skinny, intense, gifted boys, used to play it for me in his flat while we both drank coffee - and therefore, technique and interpretation matter that bit more when you are listening to it.
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Another vote for Wilhelm Kempff.Oh, nothing wrong with Mr Gould. He is a thoroughly enjoyable idiosyncratic performer. Though, he did talk too much… or at least given the opportunity to spout off far too frequently. Not all s gold dust handed down from lofty Parnassus — no matter what CBS thought and I think as with most artists it would be better if they kept schtum and just let their music speak.
Re Beethoven Sonatas —my favourites:
Wilhelm Kempff — old school, very Teutonic — very noble — Beethoven as God.
Ronald Brautigam — modern — plays on reconstructed or restored Fortepiano (not Pianoforte) — Beethoven the humanist — and oh my word, the stress and strain as those fortepianos are put to the test and pushed to their limits.
All wonderful.
Slavonic Dances (Series 1) Nos 1, 4, 7 and No 8, and (Series 2), Nos 1, 2, and 7 by Antonin Dvořák.
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