What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Karl Henning]

When jokes go bad . . . .

[Florestan]

A joke gone wrong.   

Don't worry, I have since long learned how to read you the right way. 

[Sadko]

My smiley must have looked strange here, I thought the "telephone" line was about the sound of my muffled piano recording.

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[Liszt/Grimwood]

I don't like this recording, I find the instrument really unpleasant, like a bar piano, but also the interpretation I find lacking a line that makes the pieces coherent and meaningful to me. I'm not sure I can stand listening to the whole two CDs.

[SonicMan46]

My wife talking on the phone...

LOL! 

My wife is also talking to me, but fortunately I have headphones on! 

[Florestan]

Gentlemen, I'm afraid you've all had it wrong. I was indeed listening to my wife talking on the phone --- only not to me.  She was talking to her female cousin as I was typing. 

[mahler10th]

She was talking to her female cousin as I was typing. 

Is that who she told you I was?   

Thread Duty:
Tchaikovsky - Francesca di Rimini - Pletnev - Russian National Orchestra

[Sadko]

Rachmaninov

Vespers op. 37

USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir
Valeri Polyansky

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[Sadko]

Gentlemen, I'm afraid you've all had it wrong.

Isn't that funny, one can drop some line out of context and several people will attach meanings to it and different lines of conversation are starting. 

[mc ukrneal]

LOL! 

My wife is also talking to me, but fortunately I have headphones on! 

Now that's funny! Scots John - you paying attention here?!?!?!

[Florestan]

Is that who she told you I was?   

Next time your home catches fire don't even think about me sending you any Rangstrom... 

(sorry, couldn't resist... may your home never again be on fire... Romanian humor can be even drier than Scottish... if I offended you in any way please forgive me...  0:) )

[Florestan]

Isn't that funny, one can drop some line out of context and several people will attach meanings to it and different lines of conversation are starting. 

Isn't it how GMG started? 

[Karl Henning]

JS Bach
Concerto nach Italiænischen Gusto, BWV 971
Gustav Leonhardt

[DavidRoss]

Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé, Boulez/BP



At my wife's behest. Not one of my favorite works; a bit languid and gauzy for my tastes. When I'm in the mood to enjoy it, it puts me to sleep. When I'm not in the mood, it makes me so antsy I'm tempted to go outside and fire up the lawn mower.

[Florestan]

When I'm in the mood to enjoy it, it puts me to sleep. When I'm not in the mood, it makes me so antsy I'm tempted to go outside and fire up the lawn mower.

Naughty, naughty 

[DavidRoss]

Naughty, naughty 

At least it's not Pelléas et Mélisande.   

[Florestan]

At least it's not Pelléas et Mélisande. 

(*chortie*)

[Marc]

Unbelievable, but until now I saw no one purchasing this box, which contains devastatingly beautiful performances. Bohm is not that often recorded,, and when Simone Stella, a hugely gifted musician, is putting all his knowledge into it, you get what I listen to now, a perfect marriage. The first two CD'S are dedicated to the Harpsichord, and CD 3 & 4 on Organ. I am listening to CD 3 played on a Francesco Zanin organ build in 2006, Padova. Words fail to describe beauty, the music says it all. It has me transported as no other musician does in this way. He gives you a sense of time, being enclosed for the duration of the CD, in the world that represents Bohm.
8 partitas an extensive series of variations in twelve parts, ( Ach wie nichtig, ach wie fluchtig) and ( Freu dich sehr, o, meine Seele, are stunning. Fine sound too. Recommended with some urgency.

Recommended without urgency .... but if one feels tempted .... Stef Tuinstra playing Böhm:



http://www.documuziekproductie.nl/website/cds/b%C3%B6
(Dutch website)

[SonicMan46]

Another new arrival from 'across the pond' - 

Bach, CPE - Keyboard Sonatas, Wq48/49 w/ Pieter-Jan Belder on harpsichord or clavichord - 3 disc set - recent review from Fanfare attached -   

[Que]

Q

[mahler10th]

Next time your home catches fire don't even think about me sending you any Rangstrom... 

(sorry, couldn't resist... may your home never again be on fire... Romanian humor can be even drier than Scottish... if I offended you in any way please forgive me...  0:) )

Fine.  Well then...the next time my home goes up in flames I will simply call your wife again and ask her to send me some replacement Rangstrom CD's instead.  Now where did I put these matches?

*LOL*   

Thread Duty:
Rautavaara - Angels and Visitations - Segerstam - HPO

Now that's funny! Scots John - you paying attention here?!?!?!

Yes.  It's just as well he had his earphones on when his wife was talking to him, as I'd suggested she tell him about what has been going on between us.