Hi

[BobsterLobster]

I've been lurking for around a week, and thought it was time to take the plunge!
A little bit about me: I'm a music/festival photographer but I used to be a musician and studied classical piano to Masters level. I also play jazz/rock/metal electric guitar and used to play viola a lot in orchestras and chamber groups, but haven't played the horrible instrument now in years!
I'm an absolute Rachmaninov-phile, and could quite happily survive on a desert island with only Rachmaninov CDs. With classical music, I mainly listen to Piano, guitar and violin solo instrumental music, and tend to stay away from most pre-classical era music.
As I play so many different genres, I'm also a big fan of music which straddles different genres such as Jacques Loussier's music for example.
I really hope to get a lot out of this community, and also share my own experiences and recommendations if people are up for it! I have been lurking and wishing so much that I could have had this resource 20 years ago when I was a music student, furiously buying loads of CDs with only a couple of mediocre (IMO) buying guides to help. I've already discovered many CDs in the last week from this forum that I can't believe I've lived without, let alone never have heard of... for example- Moravec's Chopin Nocturnes, I can't believe I've never heard this version which is now definitive for me!
I'm from the UK, but have been living in various places around the world for the last few years including Thailand and Indonesia, and am currently living in Mexico City.

[bhodges]

Welcome, BobsterLobster! (Interesting name...are you a fan of musical crustaceans?  )

A Rachmaninov fan here, too. This Saturday, I'm hearing Garrick Ohlsson play the Third Piano Concerto with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra - haven't heard the piece live in many years.

Anyway, enjoy your time here.

--Bruce

[david johnson]

hi! 

[mc ukrneal]

Welcome! That is certainly a memorable name! You will find a number of us love Rahmaninov too, and we were just talking about him earlier today in the listening thread. Enjoy!

[madaboutmahler]

Welcome!

Absolutely love Rachmaninov as well - his symphonic dances would be in my list of favourite pieces of all time, the third piano concerto and 'Isle of the Dead' also. Great composer! Am expecting some great posts from you in the Rachmaninov thread soon then!

Daniel

p.s Hope you love Mahler as well

[Lisztianwagner]

Willkommen!
I'm an extreme admirer of Rachmaninov as well, what a genius he was; hope you will have fun here

Ilaria

[Hollywood]

Howdy there BobsterLobster! Greetings from Vienna, Austria. Welcome to the forum. 

[Karl Henning]

What are your thoughts on drawn butter?

[BobsterLobster]

What are your thoughts on drawn butter?

Huh?

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!

[bhodges]

Huh?

(Drawn - i.e., melted - butter is probably the most popular accompaniment to lobster - at least in the United States. Perhaps not so much in Mexico City!)

--Bruce

[BobsterLobster]

Ah, never heard of drawn butter before! We don't tend to have a lot of lobster in England... or in Mexico City at the moment!

[Jared]

Ah, never heard of drawn butter before! We don't tend to have a lot of lobster in England... or in Mexico City at the moment!

You need to come up to the Norfolk coast when you're back... take a trip up to the Wells Crab House.. 

[BobsterLobster]

You need to come up to the Norfolk coast when you're back... take a trip up to the Wells Crab House.. 

I did my teacher training in Norfolk... *shudders*. Perhaps one day I'll put those memories aside and return to Norfolk!

[Ataraxia]

Hello from the Land of 10,000 (+) Lakes.

[TheGSMoeller]

Hi there, great to meet you. 


<------don't be fooled, I'm not really a monkey.

[Opus106]

<------don't be fooled, I'm not really a monkey.

What! You mean to say that you were pretending to be a real cute one all this while?  To think I was ready to ship some bananas to you.

[coffee]

Yeah, man, welcome!

It sounds like you're having a great life - I'd like to live in Mexico City someday, and Indonesia, etc...

[knight66]

Welcome, I am sure you will inject plenty of interest to the forum. Don't be shy about linking us to some of your photos.

Mike

[North Star]

Welcome to the forum!
Rachmaninoff is great, from solo piano works to concertos, tone poems and symphonies.