Some Awesome Indian roasted and salted Cashews from Goa, and a couple of extra strong beers to wash them down on a sat evening (now) and listening to Russell Watson's Volare, Alanis Morissette, and all my fav Pearl Jam slow numbers. They are showing a reality show on Indian Television where handicapped children compete. and its a friggin competition so someone loses. Man - how sick will they get !!! :mad:
Baroque music - primarily any recording by Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert I've been able to get my hands on. Vivaldi's 7 Concerti, Four Seasons, Bach's Italian Concerto, Violin Concertos, Handel's Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music and Messiah. I love Pinnock's Baroque recordings on the Archiv label.
I never appreciated live music on CDs and DVDs until I got some really good headphones. But, I agree their music really reminds me of growing up...and not growing up. Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains are also two bands I grew up on and was pretty sad when I started hearing them all on Classic Rock stations :mad: I thought, "I'm not even 30 yet, WTF!" I definitely check out the DVD next time at Best Buy.
For me, it is the works of Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel, as performed by Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert - multiple albums. I'm currently working my way through Handel's Messiah.
This is not classical music in the sense of opera, but classical music dance for me! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3LC57ZS_Jw&feature=related Warning: Do not try to resist the temptation to start dancing!
Some more Outlaw Country An excellent concernt from 1978 by one of countries greatest... http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=18121332
Been listening to my old Iron Maiden CDs. Killers, Number of the Beast and Live After Death. Great music and Maiden always had the coolest album covers. I have the picture of Eddie from the cover of 'A Real Live One' tattooed on my arm. Pete
Still working my way through them. Unfortunately, since it is a library CD, it is fairly scratched up, so in some cases I don't have an entire movement (as is the case for the 3rd movement of the 3rd concerto). I also got Trevor Pinnock's recording of the concertos, along with the orchestral suites. I like the crisper sound of Pinnock's recording, but I think I slightly prefer the slower tempo Harnoncourt takes at times. Pinnock does seem at times to rush things. But the sound quality of the Archiv recording with Pinnock is wonderful. I have noticed, though, that the sharp sound can be a bit distracting when it comes to solo harpsichord pieces. I have Pinnock performing Bach's Italian Concerto on Harpsichord, and it almost has too metallic of a sound to it. Normally I prefer harpsichord where it was originally used, but here I might prefer piano. Incidentally, I have picked up a few other pieces that I love - Grieg's 1st Peer Gynt suite performed by Karajan, 3 more of Schubert's Lieder (Death and the Maiden, Der Erlkoenig, and the Wanderer) by Moore and Fischer-Dieskau, and last night I got Dvorak's Cello Concerto performed by Rostropovich and Karajan. Of all the Dvorak music I have been sampling lately, that one caught my attention the most. I listened to it for the first time all the way through this morning. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have been reading the NPR guide to building a classical CD collection, and got some good ideas from it. However, the recordings recommended in it don't always match a lot of the other resources I have used to help me pick music. The author also seems to heavily favor Bernstein's performances, but I have read often that Bernstein played works the way he thought they should be played, not necessarily the way the composer wanted them to be played. I don't know what to think of that, so I have stayed away from his recordings thus far. I also picked up Schonberg's Lives of the Great Composers for some educational reading. I really am getting hooked on classical.
Right now I am listening to Gould playing Bach's Goldberg Variations (the '80's recording). I also have been listening to Dvorak's Cello Concerto by Rostropovich and von Karajan, as well as von Karajan conducting Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No. 1.
