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Post by jandl100 on Apr 13, 2020 13:16:26 GMT
Probably not, I used to hate that piece. Not sure I feel strong enough to try it again quite yet.
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 13, 2020 13:59:03 GMT
Belshazzar's Feast, Jerry? OK - so you intrigued me. Quite enjoying it, actually!
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 13, 2020 14:03:25 GMT
Nice one Jerry.
I like it and have the much lauded Previn recording ...
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 13, 2020 14:08:34 GMT
Mind you, Rembrandt's wonderful painting is the best thing about it!
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 13, 2020 14:11:51 GMT
...* had enough of it after about 15 minutes, happily Crown Imperial follows it on the Naxos album. * if you can't beat them, join them
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Post by John on Apr 13, 2020 15:09:53 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 14, 2020 13:57:06 GMT
Electric Paganini for JohnThis dude is shockingly talented!
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 14, 2020 14:05:43 GMT
the cello suites for viola, it works well
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Post by MartinT on Apr 14, 2020 14:12:03 GMT
I read that as played by Kim Kardashian. Thank goodness not!
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 14, 2020 14:43:24 GMT
Unlikely - it requires talent.
Very beautiful sound on that recording - in fact, it's fairly amazing all round.
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 14, 2020 19:56:17 GMT
Genius
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Post by montesquieu on Apr 14, 2020 20:34:40 GMT
For anyone who missed it .. the Oxford Bach Soloists have been doing a wonderful 'in isolation' performance of the St John Passion. Even getting past the technology involved, it's really quite an emotional performance. Background to the project ...
Episode 1 was on Good Friday ...
Episode 2 was tonight (just finished) ...
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 14, 2020 20:35:36 GMT
Ah yes, the legend of 4 Seasons recordings ...
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 14, 2020 20:51:05 GMT
For anyone who missed it .. the Oxford Bach Soloists have been doing a wonderful 'in isolation' performance of the St John Passion. Even getting past the technology involved, it's really quite an emotional performance. There is so much excellent 'new' classical music online it is very difficult to keep up! It's also worth checking out the new Bach Collegium Japan recording of 'St Matthew' if you haven't come across it on Spoti or elsewhere.
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 15, 2020 0:13:33 GMT
The Divine Ms M playing in isolation. Lovely.
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 15, 2020 2:01:42 GMT
Thanks Tom, that StJP is amazing.
The sound quality, as well, is superb on headphones at least (at 3am!). Beautifully blended but each part distinct.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 15, 2020 9:03:43 GMT
The co-ordination is astonishing.
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 16, 2020 15:13:50 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 16, 2020 19:17:29 GMT
"What a descent into hell for Vsevolod Zaderatsky! It all started so well, in a solid bourgeois family of senior civil servants in Russia; after his studies in the Moscow Conservatoire with Taneyev and Ippolitov-Ivanov, he was taken on as a piano tutor to the Tsarevitch Alexey in 1915 and 1916. And we all know what happened in 1917... From then on, Zaderatsky would spend his life in prison, exile, Stalinist purges, and several stays in the worst gulags of the Soviet dictatorship. It was in this camp, Kolyma in North-Eastern Siberia (the "Land of the White Death"), where 30% of prisoners died in their first year, and virtually none survived their second, that Zaderatsky would write, without a piano and using whatever he could scavenge, his wonderful cycle of 24 preludes and fugues." open.qobuz.com/album/lam64k92vkwaa
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Post by MartinT on Apr 16, 2020 19:26:33 GMT
Gosh, what an achievement.
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