Tuesday, March 02, 2010
2-4-Tuesday
Today we're listening to something a little different, so bear with me. The music Pop listened to while I was growing up has had a big impact on the kinds of music I listen to today. There was always a lot of classical music in the house (especially in St. Louis with 99.1 KFOU, Classic 99). So today we get a 2-4 featuring a 'classic' performance and a jazz variation on Vivaldi's first movement from The Four Seasons (Spring I. Allegro); the vote is up to you:
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I like the jazz version, but I can't imagine anything beating classical Vivaldi.
And on another musical note--
Pop rarely gives me gift suggestions, but he mentioned today that the only recording of Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony he owns is divided onto two separate discs. (It's a two-disc set that includes the 4th, 5th, and 6th symphonies. The first part of the 5th is on one disc, but you have to switch discs at a particularly moving section to hear the end.) If anyone can locate a great recording of the 5th alone, let me know. Thanks.
but that's the way to listen to music. You should listen to half of a piece (or album) and then flip it --- it's tradition!
Right!?? Flip the orchestra in the middle of a performance? That's the real tradition on which the design of LPs was based.
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