The Classical Chat Thread

[jlaurson]

Notes from the 2013 Schubertiade ( 2 ) • Prégardien Père et Fils

A Father & Son Duo of Tenors



http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/09/notes-from-2013-schubertiade-2.html

[jlaurson]

>NOTES FROM THE 2013 SCHUBERTIADE ( 3 ) • BELCEA QUARTET & THOMAS QUASTHOFF

A Father & Son Duo of Tenors



http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/09/notes-from-2013-schubertiade-3-belcea.html

Reciting poems like a High School valedictorian at his commencement speech...



>NOTES FROM THE 2013 SCHUBERTIADE ( 4 ) • BELCEA QUARTET & TILL FELLNER

A Father & Son Duo of Tenors



http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/09/notes-from-2013-schubertiade-4-belcea.html

The Belcea Quartet makes a wonderful Trio...




>NOTES FROM THE 2013 SCHUBERTIADE ( 5 ) • DIANA DAMRAU & XAVIER DE MAISTRE

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.



http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/09/notes-from-2013-schubertiade-5-diana.html

The harp remains the singularly most tedious instrument, all the same...




>NOTES FROM THE 2013 SCHUBERTIADE ( 6 ) • LEMONY BOSTRIDGE & LASCIVIOUS RÖSCHMANN

St. Anthony and his Funny Fishes



http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/09/notes-from-2013-schubertiade-5-diana.html

With a face that looks like a lemon, squeezed against its will...

[jlaurson]

>NOTES FROM THE 2013 SCHUBERTIADE ( 6 ) • LEMONY BOSTRIDGE & LASCIVIOUS RÖSCHMANN

St. Anthony and his Funny Fishes



http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/09/notes-from-2013-schubertiade-6-lemony.html

With a face that looks like a lemon, squeezed against its will... [link corrected]



>NOTES FROM THE 2013 SCHUBERTIADE ( 7 ) • HAGEN QUARTETT I

Of Serious and Harp-playing Beethoven Cows



http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/09/notes-from-2013-schubertiade-7-hagen.html

As hard as it is to trade the countryside, the sun, and the smell of grass and herbs  (essential experiences for anyone attending the Schubertiade) in for a concert hall, it has to be done: Duty calls...

[Karl Henning]

I like my Bach Cantatas red in tooth and claw.

(That's a joke, son.)

[Sergeant Rock]

>NOTES FROM THE 2013 SCHUBERTIADE ( 7 ) • HAGEN QUARTETT I

Link doesn't work, Jens.

Sarge

[jlaurson]

Link doesn't work, Jens.
Sarge

One too many "l". Fixed now.



>Notes from the 2013 Schubertiade ( 8 ) • Andreas Scholl & Tamar Halperin

A Silver Voice in a Golden Age of Countertenors



http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/09/notes-from-2013-schubertiade-8-andreas.html

It can't be easy...to know he's now... been passed and surpassed by a new purpose-built crop of countertenors that have raised the bar again, leaving Scholl behind, a bygone great.



>Notes from the 2013 Schubertiade ( 9 ) • Angelika Kirchschlager & Philharmonia Schrammeln

Darling Salzburg-Earnestness



http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/09/notes-from-2013-schubertiade-9-angelika.html

Those dances set the mood for when Angelika Kirchschlager waltzed on stage, strutting a Dirndl as befits her Salzburg-native self and the occasion...

[Karl Henning]

In case you didn't realize that Orff was a 20^th-c. composer.

[TheGSMoeller]

BBC Music Magazine just tweeted...

@MusicMagazine: Osmo Vänskä resigns from Minnesota Symph Orch: 'It is a very sad day for me', he says in his statement

[North Star]

Will be very interesting to see what Vänskä will do. Perhaps more Aho with the Lahti...

[jlaurson]

Will be very interesting to see what Vänskä will do. Perhaps more Aho with the Lahti...

Think LONDON!  http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/10/osmo-vanska-quits-minnesota.html

[North Star]

Think LONDON!  http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/10/osmo-vanska-quits-minnesota.html

Would be cool, with Oramo & Salonen already there.

[Opus106]

Would be cool, with Oramo & Salonen already there.

Little Finland, London.

[mahler10th]

Will be very interesting to see what Vänskä will do. Perhaps more Aho with the Lahti...

What do you think of his Aho cycle with the Lahti?  It is bloody brilliant!   

[North Star]

What do you think of his Aho cycle with the Lahti?  It is bloody brilliant!   

I think I should save a good deal of money and get the recordings! I have heard some from Spotify and Youtube, and 'bloody brilliant' is a good way to put it.
(Disclaimer: I do not mean that absolutely everyone should listen to Aho's music, nor do I suggest that it belongs to the pantheon of the absolutely greatest and Beethoven should move aside)

[Karl Henning]

My eye tends to simplify the subject header as Yearlong Noise Festival.

[North Star]

Halloween theme: Top 11 Scared Works

[Brahmsian]

Halloween theme: Top 11 Scared Works

Good one!  We should do that starting now, since we are in October! 

[jochanaan]

Good one!  We should do that starting now, since we are in October! 

Luciano Berio: Sequenza for Oboe. -- At least it's scary to play!

[Brian]

GUESSING GAME: what is this a Google Street View of and why is it in the Classical Chat Thread?

[TheGSMoeller]

I love Amazon.com's honesty...