The Classical Chat Thread

[EigenUser]

James, what is that chord from in your avatar?

[RJR]

One time I was going for a walk somewhere and got bored and occupied my brain by mentally composing a brass quintet that was just a 15-minute mashup of all the big Bruckner fanfares. It was a hell of a lot of fun.

You should have written it all down when you got home.

[Sergeant Rock]

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Excellent article and a great list, Jens. When I saw the title of your article, I did a quick mental check, pondering which recordings I'd include. We had a near mind meld: the Munich Bruckner 3, Berlin Bruckner 8, Ravel operas, Porgy and Bess, Respighi, the Vienna Sibelius, Mahler 4. I'd also include the Cleveland Romeo and Juliet and weird Le Sacre, the Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony.

Sarge

[North Star]

I'd also include the Cleveland Romeo and Juliet

Yes!

[Ken B]

Excellent article and a great list, Jens. When I saw the title of your article, I did a quick mental check, pondering which recordings I'd include. We had a near mind meld: the Munich Bruckner 3, Berlin Bruckner 8, Ravel operas, Porgy and Bess, Respighi, the Vienna Sibelius, Mahler 4. I'd also include the Cleveland Romeo and Juliet and weird Le Sacre, the Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony.

Sarge

Weird Rites are good! Karajan's is very weird but I think it's great.

[jlaurson]

Excellent article and a great list, Jens. When I saw the title of your article, I did a quick mental check, pondering which recordings I'd include. We had a near mind meld: the Munich Bruckner 3, Berlin Bruckner 8, Ravel operas, Porgy and Bess, Respighi, the Vienna Sibelius, Mahler 4. I'd also include the Cleveland Romeo and Juliet and weird Le Sacre, the Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony.

Sarge

Thanks very much... and am glad that once again we show alignment of what we thing is "good beyond subjectivity".
Sortof has the effect, true or not, of confirming one's good taste. 




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[RJR]

I'll let you know when I've completed my project to fit the complete works of Bruckner on one standard CD.

Try VQF. You might just succeed.

http://www.coolutils.com/Formats/VQF

[jlaurson]

The 10 Best Classical Recordings Of 2014 (Reissues)

It's fair to say to say that such "Best-Of" lists are inherently daft if one clings too literally to the idea of "Best." Still, I have been making "Best of the Year" lists for classical music since 2004, when working at Tower Records gave me a splendid oversight (occasionally insight) of the new releases and of the re-releases that hit the classical music market. Since then, I've kept...

The 10 Best Classical Recordings Of 2014 (New Releases)

All year one wonders what 10 recordings really deserve to be included in such a list, and wonders if any potential inclusions might not be a stretch. Then, in the last few weeks, suddenly a slew of recordings, late discoveries that might have been lying about for months or weeks, force themselves upon the ears and one could easily extend the list to 20. On the ionarts website I just cheated by creating an "Almost List." Here I will ostentatiously lament

[Todd]

Perusing the web, I found a recently launched blog run by Rob Cowan (http://robccowan.wordpress.com/).  It is open to comment, and Jed Distler makes frequent appearances.  Don't know if this has been covered before.

[Brian]

Okay, maybe everybody else already knew this and I'm a dum-dum, but did you realize that the celebrated baroque lutenist Jakob Lindberg, and the trombonist, composer, and conductor Christian Lindberg, are brothers??

[North Star]

Okay, maybe everybody else already knew this and I'm a dum-dum, but did you realize that the celebrated baroque lutenist Jakob Lindberg, and the trombonist, composer, and conductor Christian Lindberg, are brothers??

And did you know that Magnus Lindberg is their uncle? j/k

[Florestan]

And did you know that Magnus Lindberg is their uncle? j/k

And did you know that Oskar Lindberg is not their uncle, but Niels Lindberg´s?

[Henk]

From time to time I must say this:

I don't understand anything about why people listen to late-romantic stuff. In my opinion it's a disease. Why not listen to the more interesting classical music. Why spoil time with late-romantic?? I really don't get it. Maybe it's addictive or something?

I feel blessed about this. And I avoid listening to it, because maybe it infects me as well. I don't think so, but what if I try too hard? A real danger.

[Karl Henning]

I don't understand anything about why people listen to late-romantic stuff.

Because it's beautiful, chiefly.

[North Star]

Because it's beautiful, chiefly.

The thought crossed my mind, too, as I was listening to Ein deutsches Requiem last night. 

[Henk]

Karl: That's the same as to say: "because I dig it."

[Karl Henning]

And what is wrong with that, exactly?

[North Star]

That's the same as to say: "because I dig it."

You're digging yourself in a hole with your question, Henk. 

[Karl Henning]

Remember what the man said:

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.