Just Wondering

Have you ever had to 'work' a phone list, i.e. making calls to people?

Do you have a funny recording on your answering machine?

Do you like to plan things out in detail or are you spontaneous?

Good Night

Squarepusher

A couple of classic drum n bass flavas.

Squarepusher - Theme From Ernest Borgnine

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Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things (Full Album)

1 Squarepusher Theme
2 Tundra
3 The Swifty
4 Dimotane Co
5 Smedleys Melody
6 Windscale 2
7 North Circular
8 Goodnight Jade
9 Theme From Ernest Borgnine
10 U.F.O.'s Over Leytonstone
11 Kodack
12 Future Gibbon

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Good Morning

Tuesday Thoughts

I had to calamitously recover my hard plastic garden seat from the boisterous wind last night and it being swept away over the car park to flip knows where. It is now in the alcove between my flat and the next flat along the corridor.

Yep, it is very windy and with a high possibility of precipitation at some point during the day. I need to get some food shopping and replenish my shower gel.

I have realized that I have two recordings of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto no.1 - both superb, one by Maxim Vengerov with the LSO under Rostropovich and the other by Lydia Mordovitch with the Scottish National Orchestra under Neeme Jarvi. Both stunning performances and to me reference recordings.



Sometimes as Mr. Hurwitz says "..sometimes you cannot have only one version."

Shostakovich Violin Concerto !

I was proselytizing over the two versions of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto this morning. I am currently listening to the Mordkovich version. It is less keenly romantic and slightly faster but the passacaglia section of the third movement still gets to me. I think Vengerov swings it, just.

Anyway, here is another recording that was done live -

Shostakovich: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in A minor

00:40 I. Nocturne: Moderato
13:29 II. Scherzo: Allegro non troppo
19:36 III. Passacaglia: Andante
28:58 Cadenza
34:07 IV. Burlesca: Allegro con brio

Hilary Hahn, violin - Berliner Philarmoniker
Mariss Jansons, Conductor
Shostakovich: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in A minor

Recorded live at the Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 26 November 2000

Oh, and here is Vengerov for comparison -

I Nocturne, Moderato
II Scherzo
III Passacaglia
IV Burleske, Allegro con brio.
WDR Sinfonieorchester, Cologne. Con.: Semyon Bychkov.
1996


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Ahem!

Just Wondering

How many of you have paid LJ accounts?

For those of you who do, do you ever visit Friends of Friends?

Are you able to easily navigate through the various communities here or is it really hard to connect with like-minded folks?

Celeste

For the last twelve weeks on Saturdays at around 6.30 in the morning BBC Radio 3 had been doing a special one-hour show called Downtime Symphony with Celeste. This was a mixture of classical of course and her soulful choices, into a lovely morning mix. Now we have somebody else and it is not the same, oh well.

Celeste was born in Culver USA but when  her family moved from Dagnenham in East London to Saltdean on the outskirts of Brighton, it was that village where I lived for many years - and blow me down, I remember seeing her as she was one of the few black kids in the area with a lovely huge afro, in fact, the only black teenager there. This would have been from around 2011 when L and I lived in Saltdean and she would have been 17. In fact, she worked at the local charity shop in the village where I hunted for vinyl,   CDs, and DVDs.



Celeste's local  Saltdean charity shop where she worked at age 17 and we lived in Banning Vale just  near there.


Anyway, here is Celeste -

Celeste - Stop This Flame

Celeste - Not Your Muse

Downtime Symphony
Radio 3 with Celeste
An hour of wind-down music to help you press pause and reset your mind. With chilled sounds of orchestral, jazz, ambient and lo-fi beats to power your downtime.

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