Peter Friedman

K.309 & K.311

Mendelssohn - String Quartet Op.13 Franck - Violin Sonata - Perlman & Argerich

Dizzy Gillespie, Illinois Jacquet, Harold Land, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Cal Tjader, Cedar Walton, Eddie Gomez, Shelly Manne

Ha ha I will leave the enjoyment of Webern to you, while I will get my musical pleasure elsewhere.

Schubert - D.574 Haydn - Symphony No.97

I am referring to listening at home. I play nothing only jazz in the car. For some reason, I listen to an entire jazz CD in one sitting unless time intrudes and I have to stop. But with classical music, I most often just play one piece by a composer, and then a piece by another composer. An exception is when the pieces are all quite short (just a few minutes long), then I may listen to an entire CD by that composer. Chopin's Nocturnes would be a good example.

Reinecke - Piano Quartet Op.34 Smetana - Piano Trio Op.15

Grant plays tenor sax on 6 tracks and soprano sax on the other 2 tracks. On tenor his identifiable sound and style come through strongly. When he plays soprano his playing lacks those qualities, and he loses the personal qualities that make him one of my favorite living tenor saxophonists.

Over the years I have observed here that there seems to be two basic types of listening patterns to classical music recordings. Some most often tend to listen to an entire CD /LP. For example, if the recording has 3 Haydn String Quartets, or 2 Beethoven Symphonies, the person will play through the entire CD / LP. Others tend to pick and choose, and often do not play the entire recording at one time. For example, that person will play one of the Haydn String Quartets on the recording and then perhaps play one of the Beethoven symphonies. I usually (though there are exceptions) fall into the second group. I generally prefer to listen to a variety of classical music in one setting rather than listen to , for example, one Beethoven Symphony right after another. One approach is not better than another, just different. Any thoughts?