Edited by Pete Collier, Thursday, 21 Mar 2013, 13:15
Lyrics from “All my Life” by the Foo Fighters, and yes I do have some of the albums but don’t really listen to them any more, just the odd track perhaps. This one starts like this:
“All my life I've been searching for something - Something never comes never leads to nothing - Nothing satisfies but I'm getting close - Closer to the prize at the end of the rope -
All night long I dream of the day… etc”
Anyway, I’m referring to my latest TMA’s and iCMA’s and have indeed ‘done’ TMA05 and sent if off on Wed morning, cut-off day! So at least I can have a short break now and am looking forward to going into ‘London Town’ on Saturday afternoon to see ‘Hi Fi’ Richard. Pizza’s are in order that day along with a listen to some of the latest offerings on display in KJ West One…
As well as “All My Life” now going around in my head, last week I took the time to listen to a number of recordings of Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano concerto and a mighty fine piece it is too! Courtesy of the Naxos music library I was able to hear at least 6 different versions and picked out two that I might buy. The first one has a great soloist but not such a ‘together’ orchestra, and the other one I liked captured the sound of the orchestra well, but I’m not so keen on the soloist’s interpretation of this piece. The rest were either too slow, too fast or too 'intense'. Still, judging by the amount of recordings that are available, I may well find one that I will actually buy…
The two pianists I preferred are Artur Pizarro, and Bernd Glemser and the recording I have of Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto is performed by AP and it is Very good. Perhaps AP’s style doesn’t suit the Rachmaninov as well as it does the Beethoven - or maybe I like the Rachmaninov to be played in a certain way… or perhaps these combinations would be improved on a different day, with a different group of recording engineers?
Done, done, onto the next one…
Lyrics from “All my Life” by the Foo Fighters, and yes I do have some of the albums but don’t really listen to them any more, just the odd track perhaps. This one starts like this:
“All my life I've been searching for something -
Something never comes never leads to nothing -
Nothing satisfies but I'm getting close -
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope -
All night long I dream of the day… etc”
Anyway, I’m referring to my latest TMA’s and iCMA’s and have indeed ‘done’ TMA05 and sent if off on Wed morning, cut-off day! So at least I can have a short break now and am looking forward to going into ‘London Town’ on Saturday afternoon to see ‘Hi Fi’ Richard. Pizza’s are in order that day along with a listen to some of the latest offerings on display in KJ West One…
As well as “All My Life” now going around in my head, last week I took the time to listen to a number of recordings of Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano concerto and a mighty fine piece it is too! Courtesy of the Naxos music library I was able to hear at least 6 different versions and picked out two that I might buy. The first one has a great soloist but not such a ‘together’ orchestra, and the other one I liked captured the sound of the orchestra well, but I’m not so keen on the soloist’s interpretation of this piece. The rest were either too slow, too fast or too 'intense'. Still, judging by the amount of recordings that are available, I may well find one that I will actually buy…
The two pianists I preferred are Artur Pizarro, and Bernd Glemser and the recording I have of Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto is performed by AP and it is Very good. Perhaps AP’s style doesn’t suit the Rachmaninov as well as it does the Beethoven - or maybe I like the Rachmaninov to be played in a certain way… or perhaps these combinations would be improved on a different day, with a different group of recording engineers?