So what's your 4 current fave listens???

[Pat D]

It's been a somewhat strange couple of weeks in many respects, not the least with listening. We bought a number of LPs, tapes, and a CD from the local library in a fund raising program, so I have in fact listened to a variety of things. But to pick current favorites? That's a problem. Well, I have played these more than once or twice lately:

Beethoven, Symphony no. 6. Ansermet on London (LP), Leibowitz on Chesky, Boult on BBC. Right now I need to listen to some nice, bucolic music.

Peter, Paul, and Mary, Greatest Hits.

Diana Krall, Love Scenes. One can argue about how great an artist she forever, but I like to listen to her, very relaxing, and this is my favorite of her CDs.

Mozart, Symphony no. 41 (Jupiter). Leibowitz, Colin Davis, Pinnock, Hogwood, Pablo Casals.

I have been listening to a number of recordings of Beethoven's 5th Symphony because of that "favorite symphony" thread because everyone likes it. I like it well enough but it will never be my "favorite" symphony, even limited to Beethoven's symphonies. So, I've tried Karajan, Leibowitz, Carlos Kleiber (who just died July 13), Ansermet, Rodzinski, The Hanover Band (on Nimbus), and Pierre Boulez (the only one I really didn't like, though my brother always loved it).

[Resident Loser]

of a Vienna Strauss New Years concert, which I had also seen on the teevee, was conducted by Carlos Kleiber...I'm sorry to hear of his passing...an odd bit of business at the podium, but he seemed to really enjoy it all...my wife and I have watched the ensuing editions every year since...

My current faves are "Gone Just Like A Train" by Bill Frizell, a Jazz Heritage recording of Lionel Hampton, the name of which escapes me at the moment, "Church In The Wildwood" on Cumberland Records and my all time fave zone-out piece "Canyon Trilogy" by R. Carlos Nakai...

jimHJJ(...and just about anything from Lyle Lovett...)