Russell Ball
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Music is my passion, i play 3 to 5 discs every day, and i post my most treasurable musical experience in my blog every day. I'm a real musical magpie, well a musical octopus! [that's where Octo_Russ comes from], i listen to Classical, Rock, Jazz, Country, Folk, Blues, Electronic etc. I own lots of compact discs, and i love finding and collecting, mainly on Ebay. I'm very interested not just in the music on a disc, but the visuals on the booklet, a compact disc is a package, the art /photography enhances a disc immensely. I love finding a treasured disc, and then falling in love with it by playing, listening, hearing, thinking, solving, understanding, and finally loving it. My Blog is about me putting the sounds i hear into feelings and words, and has already helped me to appreciate what i hear by verbalizing it into words. |
| Interests | Music, Food, People, Spirituality, Reading, Walking, Internet, Blogging, Writing, Ebay, Mormon, LDS |
| Favorite Music | Alfred Brendel, Louis Lortie, Murray Perahia, Itzhak Perlman, Victoria Soames, Schubert, Chopin, Beethoven, Bantock, Jackson Browne, Van Der Graaf Generator, Manic Street Preachers, Keith Jarrett, Eric Alexander, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bach, Brahms, John Hiatt, Dvorak, Ernie Watts, Joshua Bell, Saint-Seans, The Muffs, Michael Collins, Jean Michel Jarre, Mozart, Goran Sollscher, Albert Beger, Wessell Anderson, Runrig, David Murray, Nicholas Payton, John Mellencamp, Natalie Merchant, Ireland, Vaughan Williams, Delius, Finzi, Prokofiev, Branford Marsalis, Shostakovich, Mahler, Bruce Springsteen, Bax, Rush, Rachmaninov, Rolling Stones, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Shawn Colvin, Mark Turner, Kenny Garrett, Britten, The Black Crowes, Madonna, Rodrigo, Joshua Redman, Faure, Rossini, Elton John, Midori, Liszt, Lalo, Sarah Chang, Gervase De Peyer, Joni Mitchell, Sting, Nic Jones, Lucinda Williams, Vernon Handley, Zubin Mehta, Andras Schiff, Livia Rev, Jorge Federico Osorio, Andrew Litton, James Levine, Neville Marriner, Claudio Abbado, Eric Parkin, Piers Lane, Takako Nishizaki, Charles Dutoit, Herbert Von Karajan, Christoph Von Dohnanyi, Mitsuko Uchida, Jeffrey Tate, Emanuel Ax, Bryden Thomson, Dmitri Alexeev, Nigel Kennedy, Wilhelm Kempff, Richard Hickox, Alexander Toradze, Valery Gergiev, Margaret Fingerhut, Carlos Bonell, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Eugene Jochum, Maurizio Pollini, Pascal Roge, Michael Halasz, Neeme Jarvi, Cyprien Katsaris, Daniel Barenboim, Chee Yun, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Boris Berezovsky, Jorge Bolet, Lindsay String Quartet, Mary Black, Leila Josefowicz, Hilary Hahn, Haydn, Riccardo Chailly, Carlene Carter, Stephen Kovacevich, Sibelius, McCoy Tyner, The Jam, Raphael Wallfisch, Loreena McKennitt, Lorin Maazel, Jackie McLean, Pamela Frank, Johnny Griffin, Susan Milan, Francois Pollet, Bryn Terfel, Helene Grimaud, Gerhard Oppitz, Maxim Vengerov, Mark Whitfield, Robert Mazurek, Christian Tetzlaff, Olli Mustonen, Alkan, Billy Joel, Beate Berthold, Elgar, Yehudi Menuhin, Glazunov, Stephen Coombs, Led Zeppelin, Smetana, Donald Harrison, Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Chris Isaak, Dire Straits |