What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Another very successful Christmas CD from 2016. I simply love this one, so much that I have played it over and over again.

[Roasted Swan]

, it was one of those releases that was on permanent order when I worked in MDC, London at various periods in the late 80s and early 90s.

I was thinking just yesterday about how there are no specialist music shops left in London - MDC was a regular stop off en route from Charing Cross to whichever show I was playing on at much the same time you would have been working there..... many a bargain snapped up!

[Karl Henning]

Victoria: Motet 'O magnum mysterium'; Missa 'O magnum mysterium' - Choir of Westminster Cathedral directed by David Hill

The motet is the first piece ever I sang in a chorus, in high school, back when. I suppose it's a piece one couldn't have a chorus in a public school sing these days.

[Tsaraslondon]

I was thinking just yesterday about how there are no specialist music shops left in London - MDC was a regular stop off en route from Charing Cross to whichever show I was playing on at much the same time you would have been working there..... many a bargain snapped up!

I miss record shops. There were quite a few specialist shops in London and, even when I worked at MDC, I would find it hard to pass one without popping in.

[Que]

Music for Christmas by Johann Kuhnau, Bach's predecessor in Leipzig:

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Very colourful and dramatic music - wonderful! 

Hat tip Harry

Q

[Traverso]

The Nutcracker

[Traverso]

I miss record shops. There were quite a few specialist shops in London and, even when I worked at MDC, I would find it hard to pass one without popping in.

This is what we call progress ,I miss the shops too

[Harry]

Music for Christmas by Johann Kuhnau, Bach's predecessor in Leipzig:

[asin]B075LCVR51[/asin]
Very colourful and dramatic music - wonderful! 

Hat tip Harry

Q

That gives me great pleasure Que, that you actually like it.!

[Tsaraslondon]

This is what we call progress ,I miss the shops too

I think downloads have changed for ever the way we experience and listen to music, and not just classical music. I was watching a documentary about the Beatles the other day and it occurred to me that an album like Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band would be inconceivable now. I don't think young people today even buy albums anymore, just the odd track. I wonder if this has an effect on classical music listening too. Do some people just buy one movement from a symphony, rather than the whole thing?

[San Antone]

I think downloads have changed for ever the way we experience and listen to music, and not just classical music. I was watching a documentary about the Beatles the other day and it occurred to me that an album like Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band would be inconceivable now. I don't think young people today even buy albums anymore, just the odd track. I wonder if this has an effect on classical music listening too. Do some people just buy one movement from a symphony, rather than the whole thing?

I think you are overstating the case.  Before LPs and "concept" albums there were 45s and before that 78s, both of which only presented two songs.  Now there is the option to download one or more songs from an album, as conceived by the artist.  Artists still present "concept" albums and I would assume they are bought entirely.  I doubt any serious classical music fan buys individual movements.

I grew up in a smallish town and never had access to a decent record shop, except for popular music.  I remember subscribing to the Schwann catalog and ordering albums.  I love today's online universe of downloads and streaming, not only is nearly everything ever recorded available but it is available immediately, with a click of my mouse - no waiting for delivery.  While I have bought thousands of CDs, and LPs before that, I don't think I ever fetishized the physical product and was only really interested in hearing the music it contained.  Now that things have advanced beyond physical products, I am happy.  YMMV   

TD

[steve ridgway]

Do some people just buy one movement from a symphony, rather than the whole thing?

You mean like Vivaldi's Season and Holst's Planet?

[steve ridgway]

Birtwistle - The Fields of Sorrow.

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[San Antone]

[ChopinBroccoli]

You mean like Vivaldi's Season and Holst's Planet?

[steve ridgway]

Actually I'm familiar with three non-classical versions of "Mars" (although none of them are called that), but not a single one of any of the other planets. It must mean something.

[Mandryka]

There's a strophic song in the middle of this which lasts 10 minutes. It is musically simple as far as I can see, and repetitive obviously. It is sung a cappella by Catherine King, all by herself. Can she carry off such a heroic endeavour? Or is it just boring?

[San Antone]

[Karl Henning]

I think you are overstating the case.  Before LPs and "concept" albums there were 45s and before that 78s, both of which only presented two songs.  Now there is the option to download one or more songs from an album, as conceived by the artist.  Artists still present "concept" albums and I would assume they are bought entirely.  I doubt any serious classical music fan buys individual movements.

I grew up in a smallish town and never had access to a decent record shop, except for popular music.  I remember subscribing to the Schwann catalog and ordering albums.  I love today's online universe of downloads and streaming, not only is nearly everything ever recorded available but it is available immediately, with a click of my mouse - no waiting for delivery.  While I have bought thousands of CDs, and LPs before that, I don't think I ever fetishized the physical product and was only really interested in hearing the music it contained.  Now that things have advanced beyond physical products, I am happy.  YMMV   

TD

I'm with you.

[Karl Henning]

TD: The Finzi Cello Concerto

[Mirror Image]

Britten
String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 25
The Britten Quartet