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Post by jandl100 on Oct 23, 2023 8:19:26 GMT
Ravel and Shostakovich. A surprisingly effective pairing.
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 22, 2023 21:02:57 GMT
Perfection - music,performance and recording.
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 22, 2023 15:05:00 GMT
Sadly, my genuine enthusiasm for going to what has always been a most enjoyable event is constrained by the thought of a 9 hour round car drive.
To those more favourably positioned a visit is strongly recommended! A very friendly atmosphere and interesting systems to enjoy and ,sometimes, marvel at.
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 22, 2023 9:23:59 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 12, 2023 10:49:57 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 12, 2023 10:19:02 GMT
I moved the above talk about Langgaard here as more appropriate. Then again, it might have tweaked the interest of non-classical bods to have a listen. Probably not.
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 12, 2023 10:04:20 GMT
... Yes, I think I've been a bit hard on dear old Rued Langgaard's symphonies. Listening this morning to symphonies 2,6 & 14, I enjoyed 6 & 14 quite a lot! Still, my original post had the desirable effect of checking them out again. 12 more to go.
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 12, 2023 4:33:35 GMT
Langgaard 1st symphony. It's very good, way better than the further 15 that followed imo. He got a bit weird. Could you recommend a recording please Jerry? Segerstam on Chandos is good, too. Although, to be fair, if you like #1 his other symphonies are also worth a listen!
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 8, 2023 9:29:20 GMT
Very recently released, this is an amazing Goldberg Variations by Vikingur Olafsson.
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 6, 2023 19:25:49 GMT
The Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto with Tamas Vasary really is very fine.
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 6, 2023 9:35:43 GMT
Langgaard 1st symphony. It's very good, way better than the further 15 that followed imo. He got a bit weird. I'm following the spirit of the thread, rather than the precise definition.
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 5, 2023 7:56:19 GMT
Climate change due to a comet impact on Syria 12,800 years ago may have kick started the human population resorting to agriculture rather than their previous hunter gatherer lifestyle. phys.org/news/2023-10-prehistoric-cosmic-airburst-advent-agriculture.html"In this general region, there was a change from more humid conditions that were forested and with diverse sources of food for hunter-gatherers, to drier, cooler conditions when they could no longer subsist only as hunter-gatherers," said Earth scientist James Kennett, a professor emeritus of UC Santa Barbara . The settlement at Abu Hureyra is famous among archaeologists for its evidence of the earliest known transition from foraging to farming. "The villagers started to cultivate barley, wheat and legumes," he noted. "This is what the evidence clearly shows."
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 5, 2023 7:39:20 GMT
Any volunteers for October? 2 and a bit responders for September. Maybe classical album choice has just died a natural death? I'm listening to a beautiful unusual piece by a not very well known composer that I'd be happy to share atm.
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 3, 2023 7:41:55 GMT
Enjoying this.
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 2, 2023 14:10:36 GMT
It was really bothering me while I was listening to the album, she reminded me of another female singer, but I couldn't think who.
It suddenly came to me this morning.... my subconscious must have been fretting away at it for days... Emmylou Harris, of all people! Something about how the lyrics were set and phrased.
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 30, 2023 5:52:13 GMT
Listening to the Lust for Life album on Spotify, quite a few tracks missing, but my favourite of those available is Change. Change is a bit more upbeat, lyrically and musically .... Maybe her therapy sessions are working. .... and I love the piano accompaniment. Definitely similar style to Ethel Caine. White Mustang. Yes, it's OK. My main thought is that she shouldn't have been so shallow as to be impressed by the guy's car.
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 30, 2023 5:19:34 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 29, 2023 12:21:51 GMT
You like loud rock though J, but this is too much for you? Very true. I love loud rock and metal. But I just find the first mentioned Seven(Suns album annoyingly and pointlessly frenetic. I'll try the new album.
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 29, 2023 10:24:55 GMT
Any quieter bits?
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 29, 2023 8:20:56 GMT
Why are they surprised that it hasn't slowed down? What would slow it? The same thing that makes it glow. It's a shock wave caused by expanding material from the supernova ramming into the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). The ISM is a hard vacuum by our standards. But even a few atoms per cubic metre add up over cubic lightyears!
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