What Are You Listening To?

[brianvds]

Oh Brian! Nothing wrong with bon-bons from time to time.

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Remember, I also love Rococo.

I would have re-watched 2001 far more than I do, if I didn't have to sit through an entire Strauss waltz every time.

My God, it's full of bon-bons.

 

[Hermes2020]

Oh Brian! Nothing wrong with bon-bons from time to time.

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Remember, I also love Rococo.

Be that as it may, I certainly wouldn't describe Rococo derrières as callipygian!

 

[stlukesguild]

I swear the first part of Federico Ibarra (from the collection of Mexican music I was listening to the other day) sounds incredibly close to the music from the beginning of Coppola’s Brahms Stoker’s Dracula.

 

[stlukesguild]

We are having some miserable weather here in Ohio: Temperatures in the 90s with high humidity thanks to the nearness of Lake Erie. Much of the lake has currently reached temperatures in the 80s:

I’ve been listening to Mexican & Latin-American music… which somehow seems suited to the weather.

 

[stlukesguild]

I’ve moved to Impressionist/Classical music for piano by Fauré… another favorite.

 

[brianvds]

We are having some miserable weather here in Ohio: Temperatures in the 90s with high humidity thanks to the nearness of Lake Erie. Much of the lake has currently reached temperatures in the 80s:

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I’ve been listening to Mexican & Latin-American music… which somehow seems suited to the weather.

With me it tends to work the opposite way: when the summer heat hit us here I listen to Sibelius and such. And in winter, I prefer "warm" music.

 

[stlukesguild]

Be that as it may, I certainly wouldn't describe Rococo derrières as callipygian!

That is certainly true. Courbet & Rubens were more fond of the Callipygian.

Or Queen & Sir Mix-a-Lot

 

[Mississippi Hippie]

Jazz compilations Acid Jazz and Funky Jazz. Need better CDs but my stack is small.

 

[Artyczar]

Chaka Khan. That band is so funky!

 

[Mississippi Hippie]

Chaka Khan going to listen

 

[Jade]

London Grammar

 

[stlukesguild]

The Blanton-Webster Band was arguably Duke Ellingtons greatest group. The works from this 3… or is it 4 CD set dates from the early 1940s.

 

[Jade]

The Doors. A nice blast from the past.. I used to listen to them when I was a teen.

 

[stlukesguild]

The work that shook up the classical music world to the same extent as this shook up the world of painting:

 

[Hermes2020]

How I would love to go back in a time machine and attend that first performance in 1913. Writing that reminds me of Woody Allen's movie Midnight in Paris, which has a similar theme.

 

[stlukesguild]

Now that I have access to my CD collection I’m listening to a number of recordings I haven’t heard in years.

 

[stlukesguild]

I’ve spent the last 2 months assembling a ton of furniture for our new home… including 6 72” tall book shelves to house most of my library that I want easy access to (there are still some 17 white file boxes filled with books is storage). I also have about 2/3rds of my CDs now on shelves and I’m again pulling out discs I haven’t seen or heard in years… including this marvelous performance of Brahms chamber works… trios… by Arthur Rubinstein, Henryk Szeryng, and Pierre Fournier… what a line up!

 

[Rikard]

Currently I'm listening to Pavarotti on loud volume. My daughter is not loving it. But I reckon she'll get her revenge when she reaches her teens

 

[stlukesguild]

Famously, The Rolling Stones posted “This Record Must Be Played Loud” on the LP cover of Let it Bleed. I would say the same is true of many works of classical music. Not all… or even a majority of Classical music is for relaxation. Certainly not a lot of opera.

 

[stlukesguild]

One of the first works of Classical music that I fell in love with… along with Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos and Handle’s Water Music… was Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 1: “Winter Dreams”.