What are you listening to now?

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

And for Meryl Streep, she was in tune with something divine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dX2Ufms04M

"She's in 'tune' with something Divine," Meryl?

- She's the 'tuning fork' for all things Divine.  Ha.  Ha.   Ha.  Ha.

Great video. <Kiss.> Merci.

[aligreto]

Onslow: String Quintet Op. 19....

[Todd]

More big boned Chopin from the big box.

[SimonNZ]

Christ...part of the reason I came to this forum from TC was to get away from the Greg and Blair (or "MacFearsome", or whatever you're calling yourself now) mutual appreciation society and all the Callas zealotry. Guys: must it really start up again here? You know the reaction it generated at TC...

(sorry everyone else for bringing the negativity again, but I've seen where this road goes)

playing now:



Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský's Laudetur Jesus Christus - Hipocondria Ensemble, Societas Incognitorum

[Sergeant Rock]

Rachmaninoff The Isle of the Dead, Ashkenazy conduring the Concertgebouw




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

(sorry everyone else for bringing the negativity again, but I've seen where this road goes)

Pray tell, where does it go?    Greg Mitchell (under a different name) has been an obvious Callas fan(atic), posting insightful and interesting thoughts on his favorite singer, for at least nine years here. So far there have been no negative consequences. I don't know what happened at TC but here we're usually more civilized and open-minded    I cannot understand why a couple of Callas champions would make you leave a group. Care to explain? (Personally, in the great Tebaldi vs Callas debate, I side with the pretty voice  ...but I certainly respect Callas' artistry.)

Sarge

[Mandryka]

Heinrich Isaac's Virgo Prudentissima mass, performed by Munich Cathedral Choir, accompanied by some brass. This is quite unlike any music I have heard before, and quite unlike Isaac's music in Choralis Constantinus, because it's so free. The performances are energetic and clear; the brass only increases the feeling of grandeur, which seems not a bad thing. On the basis of the music here, I would say that Isaac was an exceptional composer well worth getting to know.

[SimonNZ]

Pray tell, where does it go?    Greg Mitchell (under a different name) has been an obvious Callas fan(atic), posting insightful and interesting thoughts on his favorite singer, for at least nine years here. So far there have been no negative consequences. I don't know what happened at TC but here we're usually more civilized and open-minded    I cannot understand why a couple of Callas champions would make you leave a group. Care to explain? (Personally, in the great Tebaldi vs Callas debate, I side with the pretty voice  ...but I certainly respect Callas' artistry.)

Sarge

Answered by PM, Sarge.


playing now:



Barsanti Concerti Grossi - Banchetto Musicale

[aligreto]

Dvorak: Slavonic Dances....

[Sergeant Rock]

Answered by PM, Sarge.

Got it. Thanks.

Sarge

[Todd]

The second volume of the Carnegie recital.  A bold, big Third Sonata paired with a healthy selection of surprisingly nuanced Mazurkas.

[Mookalafalas]

Rachmaninoff The Isle of the Dead, Ashkenazy conduring the Concertgebouw


Sarge

Hi, Sarge, Nice to see you back .  I was afraid you were MIA.

TD.
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[Mirror Image]

Rachmaninoff The Isle of the Dead, Ashkenazy conduring the Concertgebouw




Sarge

Wonder work, wonderful performance. Cheers, Sarge!

[SimonNZ]

Dzhabrail Haupa's Symphony No.3 "Crying Over Water" - Michail Golikov, cond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnsPA7ylzOg

[listener]

Kurt WEILL: Der Kuhhandel  (Arms and the Cow)
Vienna Volksoper production on DVD
An arms dealer, simple country couple, 'Ruritania' and Kurt Weill - the combo sounds predictable to someone who went through the art films period with a bunch of lefties for whom a foreclosed mortgage and evil landowner were de rigeur for Significance.
Listening to a cd version at least spared you the effect of a close-up view of singers projecting in a stage performance.
It's not objectionable and a lot of people will like this, I'm just too old now and this is too familiar.

[Wanderer]

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[The new erato]

Kurt WEILL: Der Kuhhandel  (Arms and the Cow)
Vienna Volksoper production on DVD
An arms dealer, simple country couple, 'Ruritania' and Kurt Weill - the combo sounds predictable to someone who went through the art films period with a bunch of lefties for whom a foreclosed mortgage and evil landowner were de rigeur for Significance.
Listening to a cd version at least spared you the effect of a close-up view of singers projecting in a stage performance.
It's not objectionable and a lot of people will like this, I'm just too old now and this is too familiar.

And the music? 

[Florestan]

CD 2 Hummel, Dussek, Onslow

[king ubu]

first spin, sounds wonderful:

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[Tsaraslondon]

Pray tell, where does it go?    Greg Mitchell (under a different name) has been an obvious Callas fan(atic), posting insightful and interesting thoughts on his favorite singer, for at least nine years here. So far there have been no negative consequences. I don't know what happened at TC but here we're usually more civilized and open-minded    I cannot understand why a couple of Callas champions would make you leave a group. Care to explain? (Personally, in the great Tebaldi vs Callas debate, I side with the pretty voice  ...but I certainly respect Callas' artistry.)

Sarge

Thanks, Sarge. My thoughts exactly.

Incidentally, though I obviously side with the Callas drama, I have a lot of admiration for Tebaldi. There aren't many (any?) voices like hers around today, and, in Verdi at least, they are sorely missed.