What Are You Listening To Now?

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[spionfox]

Rainbow - I Surrender
Showaddywaddy - Angel Eyes
Queen - Keep Yourself Alive
Specials - Monkey Man
E.L.O - Mr Blue Sky
Sensational Alex Harvey Band -Delilah
Sweet -Action
Smokie -If You Think You Know How To Love Me
Ray Stevens - Misty
Bay City Rollers - Give a little love

You are a spion wannabe AICMFP :icon_bigg

 

[spionfox]

Tge most recently listened to ones are at the top.

Is there anything you can do about that Jeff? It's always bugged me :icon_sad:

 

[spionfox]

I guess you enjoyed Symphonie fantastique

To be honest, I don't think the SSR conducted version is all that good according to those that know. I listened via Spotify. The version I should have gone for, according to some, is Sir Colin Davis conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra.

What is your opinion Hector?

 

[Motown Fox]

You are a spion wannabe AICMFP :icon_bigg

I was listening to Radio Sheffield last night, as I do some weeks, and they have a show playing only 70's and 80's music with Phil Butler between 10 and 1 in the morning.
The 10 tracks listed were exactly as they were played last night. I put them down one by one and half way through I thought this is beginning to look like a list of Spion's.

 

[Hector]

To be honest, I don't think the SSR conducted version is all that good according to those that know. I listened via Spotify. The version I should have gone for, according to some, is Sir Colin Davis conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra.

What is your opinion Hector?

I entirely agree. Although I haven't heard Simon Rattle's version, Sir Colin (sadly recently deceased) was widely regarded as the foremost interpreter of Berlioz (notoriously challenging for conductors), in fact he'd made a life's work of it. Most of my Berlioz collection (including SF) is conducted by him, although I'd put in a good word for the excellent recording of the "Harold in Italy" Symphony (another great work), by Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, with Pinchas Zuckerman on solo viola.

Ten years ago I was privileged to attend a concert in the Barbican, to celebrate the centenary of Berlioz' birth, at which Sir Colin (then aged 75) conducted both Harold in Italy and Symphonie fantastique. Spelldinding performances both, and one of the most memorable concerts I've ever been to.

Incidentally, I've just arrived in Melbourne for a six-month sabbatical, and one of the first things I did, on Monday, was attend a concert of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performed Mahler's 5th Symphony, conducted by Simone Young, a female person representing a gender seldom found among orchestral conductors. She did a great job.

 

[Hector]

Sorry, that should have been bicentenary of Berlioz' birth (1803).

Ten years ago I was privileged to attend a concert in the Barbican, to celebrate the centenary of Berlioz' birth, at which Sir Colin (then aged 75) conducted both Harold in Italy and Symphonie fantastique. Spelldinding performances both, and one of the most memorable concerts I've ever been to.

 

[spionfox]

I entirely agree. Although I haven't heard Simon Rattle's version, Sir Colin (sadly recently deceased) was widely regarded as the foremost interpreter of Berlioz (notoriously challenging for conductors), in fact he'd made a life's work of it. Most of my Berlioz collection (including SF) is conducted by him, although I'd put in a good word for the excellent recording of the "Harold in Italy" Symphony (another great work), by Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, with Pinchas Zuckerman on solo viola.

Ten years ago I was privileged to attend a concert in the Barbican, to celebrate the centenary of Berlioz' birth, at which Sir Colin (then aged 75) conducted both Harold in Italy and Symphonie fantastique. Spelldinding performances both, and one of the most memorable concerts I've ever been to.

Incidentally, I've just arrived in Melbourne for a six-month sabbatical, and one of the first things I did, on Monday, was attend a concert of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performed Mahler's 5th Symphony, conducted by Simone Young, a female person representing a gender seldom found among orchestral conductors. She did a great job.

Thank you Hector.

I do believe that perhaps this thread has gone upmarket and we will all be the better because of it.













Now then, where's my "Glam Rock 1 Hit Wonders" CD?

 

[spionfox]

I was listening to Radio Sheffield last night, as I do some weeks, and they have a show playing only 70's and 80's music with Phil Butler between 10 and 1 in the morning.
The 10 tracks listed were exactly as they were played last night. I put them down one by one and half way through I thought this is beginning to look like a list of Spion's.

Cheeky bugger

 

[spionfox]

Lou Reed - I Wanna Be Black
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Lou Reed - Dirt
Lou Reed - Gimmie Some Good Times
Caro Emerald - Excuse My French
Katy Perry - Who Am I Living For?
Scouting for Girls - Make This One Last
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
Leona Lewis - Homeless
Duffy - Delayed Devotion