Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

For whatever inexplicable reason this is one of my favourite pieces of music. I have the Naxos disc and the recording by the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra on Catalyst. Although the Naxos recording is wonderful - and by far the better value - the Catalyst shades it. A better, deeper sounding recording. I also prefer the other pieces on the disc (String Quartet No. 4 and Symphony No.5 over the (Bruckner lite) 3rd and more modernist piano concerto 1 on the Naxos disc, unfair prejudice on my part. Think your taste and knowledge of classical music far broader than my own but get the other recording if you see it.

Only the Naxos disc is easily available. Royal Scottish National Orchestra (probably sic)have done a few of these Rautavaara recordings for Naxos. Can recommend the Symphony No.7.

please let me know what you find as I only know a couple of his film things.

Grails - Black Tar Prophecies 4,5 & 6
Not really gotten under my skin. On initial listens it's all a bit Radio 2.
Mind you, i've yet to fully absorb Deep Politics, which I know some HHer's rate highly. For Me, Burning Of Impurities is the one to beat, this don't come close.

Will do - but it will probably have to wait for a little while! I've been exploring writings on music and landscape which is what led me to Canctus Arcticus (not landscape as such but nature of course) - Takemitsu has some water related pieces which is what I was interested in hearing e.g. Riverrun.
So following up your other post about exploring classical music I've found I'm doing it through nature and landscape (with some critical views provided by Schonberg's Lives of the Great Composers).

Rory Gallagher - Calling Card, Deuce, Irish Tour 74, Top Priority. I really do not like Blues Rock, despite the amount of it that I seem to mention on these threads. For me The Groundhogs were the only band that made something consistently interesting out of this music. So Rory Gallagher is a bit of a problem for me because these are firmly blues rock and confirm all my prejudices about clichés etc and they are also excellent. Ferocious in places. There is a point where the execution is so great that the music transcends its own limitations.
These are all new to me as I would not knowingly seek out this kind of music. There is a vet at work who is a fellow music obsessive. We pass cd’s to each other to our mutual incomprehension, I can live without Accept and he appears unmoved by Motorpsycho or Smoke Fairies. But he hit the spot with these. Excellent. Any recommendations warmly received.