Hello (part 2) - don't write an intro whilst ill in bed!

[parsnip]

Top Tip - Don't write an introduction whilst in bed with Man Flu!

Hello (again)!

Like I put in my abrupt 1st go at an intro I'm relatively new to actually sitting down and enjoying 'classical' music.

Other music I like is instrumental stuff like Jesu, Red Sparrowes, Jakob, The Orb, Popol Vuh, Magyar Posse,  DestroyAllDreamers and Grails. Also like Godspeed!, High Dependency Unit, Can, Neu!/La Dusseldorf, PW Long, Girls Against Boys.

I have a huge collection of punk and garage stuff like Ramones, Wipers, Albini/Big Black/Rapeman/Shellac, Cramps, Govt Issue, Scientists, Mule, Fugazi, The Sonics, Pebbles sets/60s psyche/punk comps, early Black Flag, etc. I only seem to want to play this stuff these days after a few cheeky shandy's...

Oddly enough my current interest stems from going to see Joseph Wright's paintings at Derby Museum earlier this year, getting into Caspar David Friedrich and the Romantics and then checking out the 'soundtracks'!

This led me to asking a pal to borrow cds of Beethoven, Bruckner and Mahler. For some reason I preferred Klemperer's versions of these so this is what I bought but have been told to check out Gunther Wand's Complete Bruckner set. Tis only £17 on Amazon so may be a purchase after January's pay day.

I seem to prefer symphonies and enjoy Herbert Blomstedt's SFS Sibelius set a lot. Opera seems to merely get on my tits, as does really, really old music which somehow gives me the creeps a bit, although I really like the Klemperer's Wagner Orchestral Highlights set.

I tried watching the Wagner concert on BBC4 but apart from the nude lasses warbling it couldn't keep my attention.

The Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas by Faust and Melnikov is another fave.

Like I posted last time, I find Mahler's 7th an odd one, and would like to find a version I could actually sit through.

Just having some trawls through previous posts have helped whilst lying in bed With The Worst Cold Any One Has Ever Had In The History Of The Human Race Ever (or as my wife puts it, 'A Heavy Cold'), and already checking Amazon thanks to some of you folks' recommendations.

For Christmas we hope to get ourselves a new HiFi system to replace the mix n match Technics/Marantz ancient separates system I've built and added to since the mid-1990s. You can't alter the Bass or Treble anymore the Project record deck is now virtually silent unless you bang the amp up to 9. I'd really like a Denon DM39 with Q Acoustics Q2010i speakers, sounded so, so sweet together in the Superfi shop.

All the best, really enjoying this forum.
Paul

[Karl Henning]

The Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas by Faust and Melnikov is another fave.

Mm, that must be nice.

And welcome, Paul!

[bhodges]

Welcome, Paul, and hope this finds you feeling better. Much to enjoy here!

--Bruce

[Wanderer]

As you're enjoying Beethoven's violin sonatas, do investigate the cello sonatas as well. Welcome!

[Pat B]

the Project record deck is now virtually silent unless you bang the amp up to 9.

If it's from the '90s, I hope you have replaced the stylus! (Mine is overdue for that.)

Anyway, welcome to GMG. You have a good list of bands. I don't know all of them but I like the ones I know.

[mc ukrneal]

Welcome. My 'breakthrough' in Mahler 7 came with Kondrashin. He is a bit different. So you may want to consider him one of these days.

[TheGSMoeller]

Greetings and welcome!

I seem to prefer symphonies and enjoy Herbert Blomstedt's SFS Sibelius set a lot.

That is a fine set, good listening.

[Brahmsian]

Welcome to GMG, Parnip Paul! 

[Mirror Image]

Welcome aboard! Do try some Shostakovich, Schnittke, and K. A. Hartmann!

[parsnip]

Thank you for the warm welcomes!

More cds to check out on Amazon! Some of your recommendations are quite expensive to buy, but many thanks for the tips, I'll be sure to investigate on good old youtube. Hartmann seems a tad expensine on AmazonUK...

Last night I listened to Jon Leif's Geysir on Radio3 and it blew my mindtank to pieces- absolutely amazing. Definitely going to have to get that cd after Crassmess. Would any of you good folk recommend any other of his works or other composers that are in the same vein?

mc ukrneal's top tip re Mahler's 7th by Konradshin has gone into my Amazon wish list. I've also been told Tennstedt's Mahler box is the business, as is the £70 (!) cd of the 7th by Horenstein & NPO.

Pat B - stylus replacement- they never, ever have the right one in and it all of a sudden takes weeks to get it ordered!

I will no doubt bombard you all with questions, and cd recommendations after Christmas.

Thanks again for your welcome and I wish you all a pleasant and argument-free Christmas!

Love and respect from Paul

[Karl Henning]

Let the bombardment begin!

[North Star]

Welcome, Paul!

Perhaps you ought to try Stravinsky & Varèse.
http://www.youtube.com/v/8zXaEwWFbnA  http://www.youtube.com/v/aGFRwKQqbk4