gelid
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Post by gelid on Mar 11, 2023 6:00:46 GMT
Here's what's on right now: Mozart: Four Flute QuartetsSoloists of the Berlin Philharmonic
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 11, 2023 8:40:16 GMT
Excellent!
Not being the greatest Mozart aficionado, I didn't even know he had composed these works.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 11, 2023 11:53:28 GMT
I used to use a cookery book stand for my record covers. Is that something similar?
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 11, 2023 19:54:25 GMT
You can hear in just the first few minutes of this recent Andris Nelsons live recording of Shosta 4 with the Boston Symphony that it's going to be an entirely more satisfying affair than the BSO performance at the Lighthouse, Poole.
The rhythms are so much more taut and clipped, adding the required tension and sense of darkness and doom that you need. No flab here! The brass projects with that much more power and menace whilst the woodwind and string solos are more engaging and lyrical. When the playing is more restrained I'm getting a better sense of how sinister the music can be, especially from the strings. But that first huge climax in the First Movement is utterly terrifying! Most importantly, the narrative of the music starts to make sense here.
The Funeral March of the final movement so beautifully observed, the woodwind so haunting. The musical evaporation and stasis of the codas, darkly prophetic, and very moving indeed. I wonder what warning we can heed from this today?
I really like this recording which is no surprise as the 10th in this cycle is a regular reference for me.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 11, 2023 19:56:55 GMT
I'll give this one a listen, Jules.
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gelid
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Post by gelid on Mar 12, 2023 18:32:33 GMT
I used to use a cookery book stand for my record covers. Is that something similar? No, it is a stand specifically made for this purpose, gifted to me at Christmas.  Currently playing: Frédéric Chopin: NotturnoEliane Rodrigues, Piano |
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 12, 2023 21:37:43 GMT
"Music is such a gift, it keeps you young"
- Eliane Rodrigues, Pianist magazine, September 2018
Doesn't appear to be doing her any harm at 63!
She was a child prodigy, her first recital was aged 5 and first performed with an orchestra at 6! Difficult to comprehend how this happens ...
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 14, 2023 12:41:28 GMT
I don't think I will ever tire of Schubert's "Standchen."
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 16, 2023 11:23:13 GMT
Stunning performance of Scriabin's Piano Sonata No 5 from Maria Lettberg.
This has everything I want from a Scriabin recital, a true reference with a heady and intoxicating mix of power, delicacy and dynamics, revelling in a swirling vortex of emotions; a portal to another world.
People joke about Scriabin's following of theosophy which is all fine, but from a personal perspective there's no other composer I know that has quite such a
profoundly transcendental effect on me.
Over to you.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 16, 2023 12:19:11 GMT
He's just not a composer I know at all well.
I need to play some more.
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 16, 2023 14:05:24 GMT
I love Def Leppard but the big question here is WHY do rock bands feel the need to do this?
"Animal" with the RPO. Once is enough.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 16, 2023 17:23:51 GMT
I generally dislike crossover music.
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gelid
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Post by gelid on Mar 18, 2023 6:14:05 GMT
Maria Callas, soprano. (1962, 2014)
Louise - Gustave Charpentier (1900) Act 3: "Depuis le jour où je me suis donnée"
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 18, 2023 10:43:51 GMT
A classic recording!
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Post by MartinT on Mar 18, 2023 20:42:31 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 19, 2023 0:58:27 GMT
I think he ended up doing five Mahler 3's!
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 19, 2023 19:51:27 GMT
This had me in tears.
A rare and beautiful talent.
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 23, 2023 15:01:59 GMT
Borodin 2 - a quintessentially Russian symphony.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 23, 2023 19:46:13 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Apr 10, 2023 10:58:53 GMT
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