Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

The Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s was not a barrel of laughs and he was persecuted for years. I think he and Galina got out in the 70s.

 

Listening to this wonderful disc:

Veni Creator — Duruflé: Complete Organ Music. Hans Fagius, BIS.

 

The 25 euros price tag of the Pierre Monteux Complete Decca Recordings box on Amazon Germany was probably too good to be true - no price is mentioned now and the box is "temporarily unavailable". Some other Amazon sites still list October 25 as the release date. My order hasn't been cancelled (yet) by Amazon Germany, so here's hoping...

 

The same here and thanks for the heads up. I placed my pre-order on Amazon Germany and received the confirmation. So far so good as I also have not received any cancellation. Looks like it was another case of mispricing on Amazon ...

 

Haven't heard Fantastique in a while and never this version. Streaming on Amazon Music. Thanks.

 

On the TT...

 

Don't want any more snow until December

Here a few more photos I took...

Alhambra, Granada

 

On the TT...

 

After seeing those pictures I just had to spin this.

 

Some Moorish architecture in Spain?

 

The digital evil twin is in the following big box ...



There is also a distant evil twin

 

Now playing CD1 from the following twofer, a recent acquisition for a first listen ...



I have owned the Handel keyboard Suites I for years. But it is better late than never getting Suites II.

 

Lots of it. Simply amazing.

 

Great!

 

On the TT...

 

Now playing the following CD from my Debussy collection ...

 

Listened to Sezai Kocabıyık play Vaughan Williams' Oboe Concerto for A Minor live last night, now listening to James MacMillan play the same thing on Spotify


Immensely enjoying both

 

For the past hour I've been listening to the Haydn String Quartets, Op.20. No. 3 is playing at this moment.
Juilliard Quartet.
Columbia Masterworks / 3-LP box set / white label demo / 1979



Back of box showing other Juilliard Quartet albums available at the time:

 

I am streaming music this morning while still away on vacation. I have put together a playlist of all the albums of music available as conducted by Alexander Gauk, the Soviet era conductor. I have made another list for Golovanov, another favorite.

 

I have a small box set of recordings by Entremont. Some excellent performances. I saw him a few years ago conducting a Viennese Orchestra at a concert at Mechanics Hall in Worcester.

 

I thought of the Spanish Moors when I saw the photos too but I though the term Moorish went out with the Elizabethans. Evidently not.


The Tears of the Muses Elizabethan Lute Music Kristian Buhl-Mortensen (2013, UC)

A reissue, really. New cover (and most probably, best flattering likeness of Old Bess). Competent renderings, almost deliberately straightforward. Streaming on most platforms.

 

Islamic rule of the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal) began in 711 and ended when the Christian Reconquista was completed in 1492.
Reconquista - Wikipedia

 

Primephonic.

 

Primephonic.