Who are You Going to See?

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Stephen Hough solo. The programme is as follows:

 

• Debussy: Clair de Lune
• Debussy: Images Book II
• Chopin: Sonata no. 2 (Funeral March)
• Debussy: La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune (Preludes Bk II)
• Debussy: Images Book I
• Beethoven: Sonata in F minor op. 57 (Appassionata)

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On 5/23/2018 at 5:41 PM, Musicophile said:

Just bought tickets for Julia Fischer with Herbert Blomstedt and the Zurich Tonhalle orchestra for end of June for an amazing combo of Mendelssohn’s violin concerto and Mahler 1st. 

 

Blomstedt just turned 90 apparently. Impressive that he’s still working. 

 

Listening to this right now:

 

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35 minutes ago, Musicophile said:

I’ve never heard his Brückner but heard good things about it. 

 

One of my top three favourites, up there with Tintner's (Naxos) and Matacic's (Supraphon).

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Yesterday we took our kids to their first gig. It was a family-friendly fair and festival in the park, but just in case we took earplugs for everybody. The music was blaring away from all the different stages, and the resulting cacophony was absolutely ridiculous.

It was the first I wore earplugs and I'm glad I did.

Close to us were a couple of morons with their parents and a week old infant, no ear protection in sight. How idiotic can people get.

 

I hadn't listened to James since the late nineties and only saw them once live in '93. They played a lot of the old hits and I'd say they're still worth seeing and listening to, even with low-pass filters.

Their new stuff was mostly political anti-Trump stuff.

Sound was OK in quality, and the other noise-sources had been closed when the band hit the stage. It was a nice for a family outing, I guess...