The Classical Chat Thread

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Diary of a trip with a Viennese HIP Band to Japan



Beethoven visits Japan: On Tour with the Vienna Academy Orchestra (Part 1)


http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2017/04/beethoven-visits-japan-on-tour-with.html

Beethoven visits Japan: On Tour with the Vienna Academy Orchestra (Part 2)

[Cato]

A local music school called the Chamber Music Connection here in central Ohio has 3 string quartets going to the Saint Paul String Quartet Competition: only 6 total are competing!

See:

http://cmconnection.org/send-off-concert-to-st-paul-string-quartet-competition/

An example of their skills:

https://www.youtube.com/v/5KaZ364M-Xo

[Brian]

NOW HOLD ON A MINUTE DID YOU GUYS KNOW CELLIST JAN VOGLER IS RECORDING AN ALBUM WITH BILL MURRAY??!?!?!

http://www.avclub.com/article/bill-murray-working-classical-album-254081

[SurprisedByBeauty]

NOW HOLD ON A MINUTE DID YOU GUYS KNOW CELLIST JAN VOGLER IS RECORDING AN ALBUM WITH BILL MURRAY??!?!?!

http://www.avclub.com/article/bill-murray-working-classical-album-254081

Doesn't make him a better cellist, unfortunately.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Diary of a trip with a Viennese HIP Band to Japan



Beethoven visits Japan: On Tour with the Vienna Academy Orchestra (Part 3)


http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2017/04/beethoven-visits-japan-on-tour-with_21.html

[Brian]

Got to complete a rite of passage last night! Stopped by a recording session for an upcoming classical album, and blew a take by making a sound. After that I was silent 

[Sergeant Rock]

Got to complete a rite of passage last night! Stopped by a recording session for an upcoming classical album, and blew a take by making a sound. After that I was silent 

Maybe they'll use that take anyway...and you will achieve immortality 

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Some kind of immortal . . . .

[Brian]

Maybe they'll use that take anyway...and you will achieve immortality 

Sarge

Nope, they stopped immediately and told me to go sit way back in the back. 

[Karl Henning]

Did they glower at you?

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Classical CD Of The Week: The Second Coming Of Celibidache
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/2017/04/23/classical-cd-of-the-week-the-second-coming-of-celibidache/

[Brian]

Did they glower at you?

All was forgiven pretty quickly. The air conditioner came on halfway through the next take and ended up spoiling the whole rest of the night. I'm told that for day 2 of the session, they unplugged the whole AC system.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Beethoven visits Japan: On Tour with the Vienna Academy Orchestra (Part 4)


Beethoven visits Japan: On Tour with the Vienna Academy Orchestra (Part 5)


Beethoven visits Japan: On Tour with the Vienna Academy Orchestra (Part 6)


Beethoven visits Japan: On Tour with the Vienna Academy Orchestra (Part 7)

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Latest on Forbes about one of my favorite composers:


Classical CD Of The Week: Rued Langgaard, A Danish Lark

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/2017/05/11/classical-cd-of-the-week-rued-langgaard-a-danish-lark/#5d447da5addf

[Karl Henning]

Sometimes, you just can't wedge a joke into the conversation.

Bach might have been really great, if only he had written more melodically.

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[SurprisedByBeauty]

In a way, this is the least necessary list for the GMG Classical Music Forum members, who have swallowed the bait -- and the line, and the sinker -- long ago.
But I would be interested in what others think are the best 'grabbers' in classical music to get either the non-existent average listener or every listener hooked.

How To Build A Top Quality Classical Music Library: The Second $100

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/2017/06/02/how-to-build-a-top-quality-classical-music-library-the-second-100/

Back in February of 2013, George Pieler and I wrote a column here on Forbes.com
("Two Cents About Classical Music For $100") on some of the market- and technology-
changes that affect this sneakily growing, more-important-than-you-think niche in
21st century entertainment: classical music. We followed this up with an actual list,
"How To Build A Top Quality Classical Music Library For $100" – which refers back
to a 2011 post on Tyler Cowen's "Marginal Revolution". Here's the sequel.

The complete list on Amazon on CDs – and as mp3s/streaming.

[Todd]

I don't know if this was covered in another thread (a search turned up nothing), but the Pacifica Quartet is churning half the ensemble.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

I don't know if this was covered in another thread (a search turned up nothing), but the Pacifica Quartet is churning half the ensemble.

Teaching appointments are great reasons to leave, though it's sad to see them go, all the same. First heard them at the Freer Gallery a loooong time ago (2005, to be precise), and tried to catch them wherever possible, wherever necessary since.

But more disheartening is the fact that even string quartets now issue cookie-cutter press releases that could just as well have come from the Kansas City Chief cutting Jeremy Maclin or politician getting a divorce.

[Brian]

Mirror Image hasn't posted about classical music in a week. Shocking!

[SurprisedByBeauty]

We all know who's the fastest mouse of all Mexico. But whose is the Fastest B-Minor Mass On Record?
Review @forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/2017/06/27/review-the-fastest-b-minor-mass-on-record/#52ba47292b2e ...