Interesting choices there. Verdi's "La Traviata" is excellent.
Here's what I most recently ordered and have yet to listen to:
Here's what I most recently ordered and have yet to listen to:



Re your last sentence, me too. I used to love pop, metal, rock, and country too. I still like a lot of it. My next concerts are Deep Purple and a Pink Floyd tribute band. I hasten to add, followed by Sleeping Beauty and Romeo & Juliet.I wish I knew how to use the internet properly. But don't have a scanner at home and wouldn't know how to post pictures of anything on the net anyway.
Anyway, one CD which I listened to in Virgin Megastores in Leeds which will definitely be on my shopping list in the new year is by Szymanowski - some piano music of his. Rather good. He is very underrated.
I spent more time listening to pop music but hey I'm sure I'll be forgiven![]()
That is exactly what happened to me. I never had really regular tastes for music and listened to the occasional piano music but old American folk aka mountain music and bluegrass were my thing. I was really into that style, i even bought/learned the banjo and joined a band. I still play in the band and enjoy it but i listen to almost exclusively classical now. Other music just sortove seems boring.It's just that when you really do get the "classical" bug it can take over, sometimes completely.
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"clavecin" is the French word for harpsichord, so they're synonyms. A clavichord is a smaller harpsichord ... and it doesn't have a very interesting sound.Bach - Cello suites - Fournier
Bach - English suites 2,4 and 6 - Gustav Leonhardt on the clavecin (is that a clavichord?) [I was looking for Gould or Perahia, but lucky me, the CDs were all HIP. ]
Mendelssohn - Piano Concertos - Perahia, ASMF, Marriner
Scuhbert - Fantasy in C 'Wanderer', Piano sonata No.21, D.959 - Perahia
Scuhbert - Symphonies 8 and 9 - NYPO, Bernstein [This has been a 'to-buy or not-to-buy' CD for a long time]
I should've realised... the liner notes is completely in French."clavecin" is the French word for harpsichord, so they're synonyms. A clavichord is a smaller harpsichord ... and it doesn't have a very interesting sound.![]()
These are not works often associated with Mendelssohn, but they are very nice. No.2 is my favourite.Congrats of your great purchases! I actually have never heard Mendelssohn's piano concerti.