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#91

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: David Hurwitz

Last post by Kalevala - November 25, 2025, 01:52:16 PM

That's more about promoting Capriccio records, entertaining though it is, especially when Joe complains that a CD on his own label is boring.  I wish more record labels did this kind of human promotion.

I thought that he also did things like comparing various recordings of works?

K

#92

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Purchases Today

Last post by Wanderer - November 25, 2025, 01:26:47 PM

#93

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Nostromo - November 25, 2025, 01:24:38 PM

Disc one. His music is hard to describe if you haven't heard it, so perhaps this review will help. https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2015/Mar/Haba_quartets_11001.htm His use of microtones does not result in especially dissonant music, but it just sounds "different."

[Felix Mendelssohn]

#94

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Linz - November 25, 2025, 01:03:03 PM

Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61
Philharmonia Orchestra; Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

#95

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: David Hurwitz

Last post by Daverz - November 25, 2025, 12:49:48 PM

What about @SurprisedByBeauty 's interviews/podcasts?  Or perhaps those are more on his website vs. on Youtube?

K

That's more about promoting Capriccio records, entertaining though it is, especially when Joe complains that a CD on his own label is boring.  I wish more record labels did this kind of human promotion.

#96

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: David Hurwitz

Last post by Kalevala - November 25, 2025, 12:40:37 PM

About 3% of physical media music sales and about 1% of streaming are devoted to classical music.  The dearth of review outlets reflects demand.

There are some sites which either include a classical music section or other ones devoted only to classical reviews out there.

K

[Anton Bruckner]

#97

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Linz - November 25, 2025, 12:01:53 PM

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
Berliner Philharmoniker, Joseph Keilberth

#98

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Spotted Horses - November 25, 2025, 11:52:46 AM

Returned to Honegger, Viola Sonata, Petrov and Manz.



A deeply satisfying work. The first movement alternates a mournful theme with a fast theme. The second movement opens with a dark mood and an ostinato melody. The mood brightens in the central section, then darkness begins to return. The finale leads to a beautiful apotheosis.

#99

The Diner / Re: Christianity vs Earth, the...

Last post by Opus131 - November 25, 2025, 11:50:15 AM

You're worried that if God is the ocean he can't also be the waves, because waves come and go and God must be permanent. But the ocean never actually comes and goes; it only looks that way when we stare at one wave and forget it's just the ocean moving. The wave never drags the ocean into being temporary; it's still 100 % ocean the whole time.

So when we say "the world is God," we're not dragging God down; we're just noticing there was never anything except God pretending to be waves for a bit. Take away the pretending and only the ocean is left, unchanged, untouched, and completely whole. That's it.

I would say the problem with this analogy is that size alone doesn't really reflect the disparity between God's trascendence and contingent reality.

A wave is smaller than an ocean but they are still essentially the same in essence. Such is not the case between God and creation.

If we look at Hinduism, there is formula which goes something like "Maya is nothing other than Atma, but Atma is not Maya". The contigent is nothing other than the principle on some level, but the principle cannot be identified with the contingent or effect.

It's the same in Orthodoxy with the essence/energies distinction. When we look at the world, we look at God in terms of his operations, not his essence. MAYBE you can argue visible reality is a kind of symbolic pointer or rapresentation of this essence (thus the sun sort of rapresent an aspect of the nature of God in a symbolic way), but that's as far as it goes. Creation may be an icon of God in some sense, but God's essence is still radically separate from anything that is finite nature. 

That's why i said panentheism is a more accurate description than pantheism.

#100

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Nostromo - November 25, 2025, 11:40:56 AM

For some reason, this is available as a DSD download, which is what I have, but only as a standard CD, not an SACD. Oh well, he's a great pianist and the sound is superb, too.