At the moment l'm watching a programme recorded from Sky Arts. David Gray's White Ladder album. Isn't it amazing how the words come back to you ? I played it to death on my car's CD player.
Ask me who is my favourite composer and I might name a different one each day. But the composers I have found myself constantly returning too, at various stages in my life and in various circumstances are Bach, Schubert and Mahler. Bach’s St Matthews Passion, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Schubert‘s String Quintet and Winterreise are works I couldn’t live without. Sometimes I feel like I’m inhabiting these works as I would a very familiar house.
Reading all this has made me realise I hardly actively listen to recorded music these days, though it's not a conscious decision. I love music but I like silence too, when I can get it. I often return to Buena Vista Social Club too, @Fire. Most recently I've listened to some Stevie Wonder, Amy Winehouse and Fleet Foxes, but they're just the latest random selection. I see quite a lot of live music (and listen to quite a lot of practice!), so the repertoire choices are made for me. My daughter played the Eroica last week, @Buttercupdays - the first time I'd heard it played live and my first visit to the Cadogan Hall (her first time playing there too). That was a great night 🙂.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Very eclectic tastes in this house from choral, Early Music, baroque and later right through jazz, blues, bluegrass, rock, reggae and right through to very current stuff. I used to sing in choirs and with a band and I worked at a music venue, son works as a sound engineer/tour manager etc and DD’s lovely hub is a DJ.
Someone we’ve discovered recently is Hollie Cook … https://holliecook.com/music … escapist music for when the world is too serious a place.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
For me it's 90% 'classical' - from Bach to Vaughan Williams, but as a teenager of the 70's I still love my Pink Floyd, Genesis and the like - and from my childhood I have fond memories of Matt Monro, Jim Reeves, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole etc. I have an SD card in my player with about 2000 tracks from the 1500ish CD's I own. That plays random tracks all day, every day, for years I never get bored with it.
The winner of last year's Chopin Competition with his superb performance of Chopin's Sonata No2 - the poor lad is blinded by sweat by the end of the 1st movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C3bpoFfLJs Which also contains Chopin's famous Funeral March
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Hmm, my musical tastes are rather more "low-brow" than most of you. Plus I'm very lazy about it and generally just stick the radio on, tuned to Planet Rock
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
There is no such thing as low or high brow music. It is what you like and what moves you to happiness or tears. I am a fan of folk music, almost all of it. Incidentally, does any of you go to Cambridge Folk Festival? I have been going for years, I wish we had something similar here and I mean quality.
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Isn't it amazing how the words come back to you ? I played it to death on my car's CD player.
Jazz - Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior
Electronic - Ashra - New Age Of Earth
- Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Prog Rock - Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness
- Camel - Moonmadness
The latter album is where my stage-name came from
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have an SD card in my player with about 2000 tracks from the 1500ish CD's I own. That plays random tracks all day, every day, for years
3 of my faves-
The amazing Alfred Brendel with the best performance of Schubert's impromptu Op 90 No 3 D 899-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lMUCMY8Pjc
Chopin's Piano Concerto No1 that won Rafal the first prize at the 2005 Chopin Competition. I never tire of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6p27nP8eAU&t=697s
The winner of last year's Chopin Competition with his superb performance of Chopin's Sonata No2 - the poor lad is blinded by sweat by the end of the 1st movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C3bpoFfLJs
Which also contains Chopin's famous Funeral March
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
There is no such thing as low or high brow music. It is what you like and what moves you to happiness or tears. I am a fan of folk music, almost all of it.
Incidentally, does any of you go to Cambridge Folk Festival? I have been going for years, I wish we had something similar here and I mean quality.
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