The Classical Chat Thread

[Brahmsian]

As of now - the Top 10 Most Posted Composer Threads (unlocked) are:

1 - Havergal Brian
2 - Mahler Mania, Rebooted
3 - Vaughan Williams's Veranda
4 - Bruckner's Abbey
5 - The Carter Corner
6 - Haydn's Haus
7 - Elgar's Hillside
8 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
9 - The Snowshoed Sibelius
10 - Stockhausen's Spaceship

As of now, the Top 10 Most Viewed Composer Threads (unlocked) are:


1 - Bruckner's Abbey
2 - Mahler Mania, Rebooted
3 - Vaughan Williams's Veranda
4 - The Carter Corner
5 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
6 - Havergal Brian
7 - Haydn's Haus
8 - Prokofiev's Paddy Wagon
9 - The Snowshoed Sibelius
10 - Scandinavian and Finnish Composers

[DavidW]

What about the Luchesi thread?

[Brahmsian]

What about the Luchesi thread?

Not sure?   

Hey, did you order or check into Tchaik's Orchestral Suites yet?  I'm dying to know your thoughts!

[DavidW]

Not sure?   

Hey, did you order or check into Tchaik's Orchestral Suites yet?  I'm dying to know your thoughts!

I've been into RVW's Sea Symphony so much it slipped my mind!  Soon though!!

[Lethevich]

I've been into RVW's Sea Symphony so much it slipped my mind!

Now there's something you don't read every day. Thanks, it made me smile

[karlhenning]

Very cool, Davey!

[jlaurson]

Notes from the 2011 Salzburg Festival ( 19 )

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra • Great Beethoven, Great Bullshit


http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2011/09/notes-from-2011-salzburg-festival-19.html

[jlaurson]

Notes from the 2011 Salzburg Festival ( 20 )

Vienna Philharmonic • Lang Lang, Liszt, and Jansons


http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2011/09/notes-from-2011-salzburg-festival-20.html

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Heart of a Soldier: Interview with Thomas Hampson

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2011/09/heart-of-soldier-interview-with-thomas.html

[Mn Dave]

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/state-of-the-arts/archive/2011/09/minnesota-orchestra-names-erin-keefe-as-concertmaster.shtml

[Lethevich]

(click)

I thought it was nice that they didn't pick the usual suspect, either composer or piece.

[Brian]

(click)

I thought it was nice that they didn't pick the usual suspect, either composer or piece.

Video was cool, mostly stuck around to see who the cellist was, though. That image, though. That's my new No 1 All Time Favorite Thing Ever. Also avatar.

[Lethevich]

Check track 15

I believe it's supposed to be "birches"

[jlaurson]

Check track 15

I believe it's supposed to be "birches"

Excellent! Sounds like the kind of young bitrches I wouldn't mind. Civilized and calm, well behaved and refined. But naked.



Listen What the Cat Dragged In: Music by Naji Hakim
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2011/10/listen-what-cat-dragged-in-music-by.html
(With audio samples)

N. Hakim, Set Me As A Seal Upon Your Heart Chamber & Organ Music N.Hakim et al. Signum Classics

N. Hakim, Hakim plays Hakim Organ Music N.Hakim et al. Signum Classics

[Brahmsian]

Any particular music one would listen to perhaps, on Remembrance Day?

[Karl Henning]

Any particular music one would listen to perhaps, on Remembrance Day?

Berlioz, Symphonie funèbre et triomphale

[Brahmsian]

Berlioz, Symphonie funèbre et triomphale

Good one.  I do have a recording of said work. 

[chasmaniac]

Any particular music one would listen to perhaps, on Remembrance Day?

Maybe it's obvious, but how about that symphony #3 by Vaughan Williams? Came after the First Last War and has a "My God, what have we we done?" feel to it.

[Lethevich]

[Jared]

Maybe it's obvious, but how about that symphony #3 by Vaughan Williams? Came after the First Last War and has a "My God, what have we we done?" feel to it.

complete with 'Last Post' trumpet... a superb work.

Last night, I was privileged to watch Derek Jarman's silent film to Benjamin Britten's War Requiem... very powerful images..

[Karl Henning]

I can't bring myself to take part in the Roussel thread . . . too put off by the whiney thread title.