What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Frank Bridge: String Sextet (as played by the Raphael Ensemble)

I don't really have a memory of previous listens, so going in with fresh ears (albeit tired ones today)

[hopefullytrusting]

I think you'd find it more bonkers if we didn't change the steering wheel AND the road at the same time.

In America when I was trying to be a passenger I kept heading to the driver's side.

Well, it also didn't help that our driver, from our perspective, was a maniac. He has some sort of alarm on his car that would beep if he went over like 65 kilometers or something, and it was constantly beeping, lol.

Taking corners the wrong way felt so wrong, lol.

[vandermolen]

I've been searching for this one on CD for years. The long wait was ended this morning when the postman popped this through my letterbox.

It's good, it's very good. Easily top five good! 😊

The Planets peformed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves.

An underrated conductor. His Frank Bridge LP/CD for EMI was the best Bridge disc known to me, likewise with Morning Heroes and the Colour Symphony by Bliss.

[Madiel]

Well, it also didn't help that our driver, from our perspective, was a maniac. He has some sort of alarm on his car that would beep if he went over like 65 kilometers or something, and it was constantly beeping, lol.

Taking corners the wrong way felt so wrong, lol.

Also if you were right in the centre of Melbourne you might have experienced the hook turns around the tram lines, where you drive into the middle of the intersection and then stop there. Which can scare people from other parts of Australia, never mind foreigners.

[Traverso]

Bach

[Roasted Swan]

Disc three.

Great set!!

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

Beethoven
String Quartet No.10 in E-flat major, Op.74 'Harp'
Quartetto Italiano

[DavidW]

cd 3

[Brian]

Well, it also didn't help that our driver, from our perspective, was a maniac. He has some sort of alarm on his car that would beep if he went over like 65 kilometers or something, and it was constantly beeping, lol.

Taking corners the wrong way felt so wrong, lol.

Last year I drove around England and Wales for 10 days on holiday. The steering wheel on the wrong side was a really good reminder so I never drove on the wrong side of the road...but what they don't tell you about the UK is the roads are crazy narrow! I think we were in a Ford Fiesta and I kept hitting the curb, whacking tree branches, etc. Every time a truck lorry came the other direction, I would flinch and steer off the road almost. My poor gal was yelling so much, I had to ask her to close her eyes. 

[Papy Oli]

Beethoven
String Quartet No.10 in E-flat major, Op.74 'Harp'

Now by the Takacs Qt.

[foxandpeng]

Xiaogang Ye
Winter
Winter I
Starry Sky
Xiaogang Ye
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
BIS

Huh. This is pretty good. I wanted to hear Winter I, but ended up listening to Starry Sky as well - I don't do voices and pianos, but there was no induced vomiting... decent tunes. Worth exploring more, I think.

Goes to show that my prejudices don't count for much.

[Papy Oli]

Last year I drove around England and Wales for 10 days on holiday. The steering wheel on the wrong side was a really good reminder so I never drove on the wrong side of the road...but what they don't tell you about the UK is the roads are crazy narrow! I think we were in a Ford Fiesta and I kept hitting the curb, whacking tree branches, etc. Every time a truck lorry came the other direction, I would flinch and steer off the road almost. My poor gal was yelling so much, I had to ask her to close her eyes. 

  

I am probably more Brit than French now as I have more often gone on the left in France than I have on the right in England (only once for the latter in a village centre road)    It doesn't matter where the steering wheel is. French supermarkets car park are the worst for me as I have a few times drifted so very naturally to the left upon leaving my parking spot. 

 

[Papy Oli]

I don't do voices and pianos, but there was no induced vomiting... decent tunes. Worth exploring more, I think.

Goes to show that my prejudices don't count for much.

Chipping away at the musical blocks. Good times!

[Papy Oli]

Mozart
Sonata for Violin and Piano in B flat major KV 378
Grumiaux / Haskil

[DaveF]

I've been searching for this one on CD for years. The long wait was ended this morning when the postman popped this through my letterbox.

It's good, it's very good. Easily top five good! 😊

The Planets peformed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves.

I wonder if it would be a good idea to start a "CDs wanted" thread (if one doesn't exist already), since I have that disc, albeit with a different cover, and would have been happy to send it to you - I, like a few others here, am gradually getting rid of all my physical discs, which I don't even have the means of playing any more other than on my PC, and moving solely to rips and downloads, both backed up in multiple locations.  (Even more annoyingly, I can't now find it, so it may well have gone to a charity shop some time ago.  Hope the wait for yours was worth it.)

[Todd]

[Spotted Horses]

Martinu, String Quartet No 6, Stamitz Quartet.

I've been listening to a bunch of 20th century string quartets this year, and Martini's works in this genre are certainly unique. It is remarkable the extent to which this work is built from figuration and ostinatos that paint harmonic shifts.

[Brian]

Xiaogang Ye
Winter
Winter I
Starry Sky
Xiaogang Ye
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
BIS

Huh. This is pretty good. I wanted to hear Winter I, but ended up listening to Starry Sky as well - I don't do voices and pianos, but there was no induced vomiting... decent tunes. Worth exploring more, I think.

Goes to show that my prejudices don't count for much.

This composer has a new Naxos album released last week!

[Harry]

Joseph Mayseder (1789–1863)
Chamber Music Vol.1.
See back cover for details.


Very pleasant music, well performed and recorded. Not top tier, but there is enough quality to enjoy. The music comes in on easy terms, and simply needs to be enjoyed, which is no effort at all. There are already 6 volumes, so the Austrians believe in the effort, and so do I. I sit back and enjoy, as simple as that.

[Bachtoven]

To begin, the sound is state-of-the-art--it's extremely realistic and has a nearly holographic sound stage (the R-2R technology in my DAC is supposed to help achieve that effect), then there's the fantastic playing and excellent music. 24/88 download.