A Lark Ascending

Me too. Enjoyed that Buddy Rich track (even though officially I don't care for Buddy Rich!). The Jim Mullen was nice too.

If he's anything like Elliott Carter, he's only just begun!

There are also countless recordings of Britten playing his own music (lots of Tippett too). Not to mention Stravinsky.

I think it just might be! Though there's a prize for anyone who can find a connection. Sorry!

There are also countless recordings of Britten playing his own music (lots of Tippett too). Not to mention Stravinsky.

There's a tribute to both Carter and Henze in about 25 minutes on BBC Radio 3: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nt0y0 Available to stream for 7 days after if you can connect to the BBC iPlayer. Also a Carter interview and tribute later tonight: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nt0zk

Elgar was fascinated by the new recording medium.

No hillsides with a welcome in the East Midlands.

I've been in the same job (leaving aside internal promotion) in the same place for 35 years at the end of next month. Apart from part time school and student jobs, never had any other. Having spent the first 18 years of my life being moved all too frequently from one R.A.F. posting to another (at 3 years old I was flying Spitfires), I took the first chance to stay in one place. Just a pity it was the East Midlands!

You don't have to search the internet. Lots of exciting games of Classical Connoisseur Top Trumps in the classical threads here. [Hint: 'Schnabel' is usually a game winner]

That explains 'the tone', 'the touch'!

You'll never be centre stage in a Ewan MacColl song?

You've discovered agriculture?

I must have it! Now!

I would only touch a box of Schnabel interpretations of Bealtes, T-Rex and Motörhead.

I never thought Herbie's torso was all that hairy: Maybe the dice hanging from the rear view mirror (that might just be a British eccentricity).

Well that's a long standing marketing trick too. Build in a minor defect, just enough to unsettle purchaser, so that they'll buy the next 'upgrade'. £270 to spare? http://www.spincds.com/coming-soon/the-complete-early-years-15cd-7-vinyl-box-set And for £110! http://www.spincds.com/box-sets/the-slider-40th-anniversary-box-set-2cds-1xdvd-1x180gram-vinyl-lp-3-x-7-singles-48-page-casebound-book The horror! The horror!

And another: http://www.inquisitr.com/345431/impressive-beatles-vinyl-box-set-coming-this-november/ Just in case you get withdrawal symptons I'd imagine the mono box will be 6 months down the line.

I see Herbie Mann is about to reappear!

I know what you mean, but I can think of one instance where my son and I applauded out of sheer excitement that a song we thought would never get played live was being played live: Metallica's "The Call of Ktulu." (I know it's not jazz, hang with me a second) I mean, we went apeshit!!! And then after the introduction, they started playing "The Unforgiven." THAT'S when everyone else in the crowd went nuts. My son and I, however, went to the concession stand.... No problem with a spontaneous response like that. It's the ritual that irritates. I'm not good on rituals. Must be the lapsed Catholic in me.

Oh, I think that's been done on more than a few occasions.

Great line-up. I love Nikki Iles - I strongly recommend her trio albums. I recall seeing Dave Green at my first 'real' jazz concert back in '76 with Stan Tracey. The Karen Sharp album is good too:

I've never known it better than it is now. If you are not restricted to particular formats, you can get far more legally than I ever remember. Some of it you can get in a few minutes without leaving the house. I know leaving the house to go a-hunting was a vital part of the pleasure for some, and I loved it at the time. But there's no way I'd want to go back. I listen to more music now than I did back in the days when a great chunk of Saturday vanished into driving to a city with record shops - at lest 30-45 minutes away - and then wandering around the shops. I actually can't do the record shop thing now - I suspect because the chances of finding anything attractive are so slim that I can't be bothered looking. I was in Cambridge last Monday and managed about 3 minutes in Fopp. A bit longer in the dedicated classical shop (Heffers) but even there everything could be bought more cheaply via download. I still like book shops, though.

That moment in a concert when the bass player (it is usually the bass player) starts clapping his hands over his head with the clear implication that you have to join in. Especially painful amongst British audiences who generally do not have rhythm (they should really ask us to waggle our upper lips).

That is true. Most of the Miles Davis CBS LPs I have from back then were Italian imports - not cheap either ! Other than that it was mainly 2LP reissue compilations in the UK. As for Coltrane - other than the mid-70s Impulse reissue series here in the UK with 'Africa Brass' and 'Coltrane', the Impulses were tricky to get and most of my LPs ('Sun Ship' for example) were acquired at Zweitausendeins vinyl store in Munich ! I ordered 'A Love Supreme' and 'Africa Brass' from my local record shop in Mansfield in early 1978 and it took nearly a month for them to come through. Thick cardboard sleeves, chunky vinyl. On the other hand, that might have just been Mansfield - getting things through Sherwood Forest avoiding the footpads was something of a struggle back then.