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Richard G said:
Box set of discs of Segovia, each in an original LP cover facsimile.
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My dad was a lover of of classical guitar and took me to see Segovia in Wellington when I was about ten I think. The guitar has been my favourite instrument since that moment .. can't play one to save myself though. 😂
 
this is a better version of 'Rockaria', although a 'back up' male singer is doing some lyrics which i'm not too crazy about,
in the past few years, 'live' Rockaria was like this, i need to go to old ones to hear Jeff's sole vocal performance...

'Rockaria' Live 2023, Jeff Lynne, ELO
 
I have a disk of Sitkovetsky playing the Beethoven violin concerto. I don’t like it one bit. The LP I have from the 70s, a reissue with a modern image on the record sleeve, is the Wolfgang Schneiderhan recording from 1955 with the BPO under Eugen Jochum.

I read in the last few days that the wonder of Beethoven’s writing is that every note is somehow inevitable. This recording lives up to that. And of all the cadenzas, Schneiderhan’s own is the most exciting and compelling, and original, with a small part for the timpani. I listened to it this afternoon on the iPad thanks to the Classical app.
 
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Keith said:
My dad was a lover of of classical guitar and took me to see Segovia in Wellington when I was about ten I think. The guitar has been my favourite instrument since that moment .. can't play one to save myself though. 😂
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Lucky boy. I heard John Williams, his pupil and successor, as a teenager in Melbourne. A music documentary film maker who died earlier this year, Christopher Nupen, came to London in the sixties from South Africa to study law. He was more interested in other things. Sadly his documentary on Segovia was conceived too late and the result was not good. But Nupen loved the guitar and, new to London, in Piccadilly he saw an advertisement for guitar lessons, so he bounded up the stairs, opened the door and spoke with Len Williams. “I’m in London for four years: could you teach me the guitar.” Williams looked him up and down and said “I get blokes running up those stairs and asking if I can teach them the guitar in two weeks: you’re on.”
 
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