What are you listening to now?

[Beef Oven]

Beethoven: Symphony No 6

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan

(Live recording from the Royal Festival Hall, London, May 16 1972 - 40 years ago this very night).

I vividly remember listening to this live on R3 that night. Any boarders there?

I have this recording - it's excellent!

How interesting that it was 40 years ago to this very night!

For that reason I think I'll give it a spin!

[Beef Oven]

No problem. The Rubbra is on a typically fine Lawrence Power Hyperion disc of viola music, but the Walton has received most of the attention. See link below although you may of course get it cheaper elsewhere.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Hyperion/CDA67587

I have a tasmin little performance on confer - coupled wiyth his viola concerto

[Beef Oven]

Alex was scary. What is at least as scary is that I am now a good bit older than he was when he left us!

He really was a hero to me. Still makes me sad to think of him passing on.

Listening to RVW "Job"......... Handley /RLPO just now....on my new MP3 player . Hurrah !!

he was only in his forties i think?

what mp3 player did you get?

[Pianorak]

R3 live: Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy, Op 56. Mark Elder conducting the Halle Orchestra.

[teamsaint]

he was only in his forties i think?

what mp3 player did you get?

day before his 47th birthday.

MP 3 a cheapie I am afraid !! sandisk....8gb...will do very nicely for listening around Teamsaint Towers to the stuff that Mrs TS is less keen on, and will help the gardening go with a swing.(at least have some decent headphones which helps!)
Never done gardening accompanied by Maconchy or DSCH before, but that is about to change.......

Now listening to Schumann Kreisleriana.....Grimaud.
No idea what this is like, bought it on a whim.

[Beef Oven]

day before his 47th birthday.

MP 3 a cheapie I am afraid !! sandisk....8gb...will do very nicely for listening around Teamsaint Towers to the stuff that Mrs TS is less keen on, and will help the gardening go with a swing.(at least have some decent headphones which helps!)
Never done gardening accompanied by Maconchy or DSCH before, but that is about to change.......

Now listening to Schumann Kreisleriana.....Grimaud.
No idea what this is like, bought it on a whim.

8gb? Enough to get Celibidache's performance of the flight of the bumble bee on it!

[teamsaint]

8gb? Enough to get Celibidache's performance of the flight of the bumble bee on it!

it is expandable with a SD card to 32GB, I think.
Its purely functional, as said for the gardening/putting bins out/hoovering type application.

One day I will get a proper thing,(ipod classic?) and the time to do it justice...till then its spend the hard earned on CDs. No point having a company car if you can't cover the passenger seats with Beethoven , Britten and Beefheart discs !!

[Beef Oven]

it is expandable with a SD card to 32GB, I think.
Its purely functional, as said for the gardening/putting bins out/hoovering type application.

One day I will get a proper thing,(ipod classic?) and the time to do it justice...till then its spend the hard earned on CDs. No point having a company car if you can't cover the passenger seats with Beethoven , Britten and Beefheart discs !!

and the odd Boney M Remastered & Expanded CD

[Beef Oven]

Strauss, Ein Heldenleben. Karajan, BPO. Live RFH.

[teamsaint]

and the odd Boney M Remastered & Expanded CD

I think you are confusing me with Cloughie !!