Salvaging Stuff from Old GMG

[Opus106]

If you find threads in the old GMG, which is slated to go poof! in a few weeks' time, which you think are interesting and are worth our while, then please post the links here.

Old forum: http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/

[Brian]

Various odds and ends

Do you hear better when you are intoxicated?
Everyone's favorite string quartet performances
Joyce Hatto hoax discovery thread
HIP Haydn symphonies
Compositions by Saul D!
Hear other GMGers perform (broken links?)
CPO label recommendations
Listing of all posts by J. Scott Morrison

Originals of current threads
Karl Henning's HQ
Ottevanger's Omphaloskeptic Outpost
Todd's new music log

And since I collect Beethoven piano reviews
Todd on Paul Lewis
Todd on Angela Hewitt
Todd on Joyce "John O'Conor" Hatto
Todd marathons Emperor concertos
Rudolf Serkin discussion thread

[North Star]

Early 20th C. English Composers - Favorite Works?

[Karl Henning]

Various odds and ends

Thanks, Brian.

[Marc]

First set of very quick investigations, compiled in a rush .... remember, the old board is closing soon :

For those who think our thread 'Bach's organ works' is too short ....

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,13613.0.html

Mahler and a lot of Madness (also about Beethoven and a lot of Greatness - or not)

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,12401.0.html

For Herbie lovers (or haters?):

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,12072.0.html

Beethoven symphonies (one can not listen to/talk about/read about them enough):

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,12022.0.html

Because we should have more of these .... (thanks, Harry!)

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,11139.0.html

Bach and the harpsichord:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,6258.0.html

For having another go on your personality and musical skills :

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,13778.0.html

Emil Gilels plays Beethoven:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,11926.0.html

Todd reviewing Alfredo Perl's Beethoven:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,11926.0.html

Herman brought Chopin back to life :

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,38.0.html

Organ recommendations .... couldn't resist!

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,11359.0.html

G.F. Händel:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,2603.0.html

[Opus106]

Thank  you, Marc. And to Brian and Karlo, as well.

First set of very quick investigations, compiled in a rush .... remember, the old board is closing soon :

We can get an extension, can't we, since the board was down for so long?

[Brian]

Herman brought Chopin back to life :

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,38.0.html

The quoted Luke Ottevanger posts on page 1 of this are so illuminating on Chopin's mazurkas that I copied them into MS Word. Strong recommendation.

[North Star]

The quoted Luke Ottevanger posts on page 1 of this are so illuminating on Chopin's mazurkas that I copied them into MS Word. Strong recommendation.

Saved it myself, too, thanks, guys!
Will probably just search for more here:
http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2;sa=showPosts

[Opus106]

I guess we can relax -- for now -- with the news that old forum won't be going away soon.

[Brahmsian]

I guess we can relax -- for now -- with the news that old forum won't be going away soon.

I'd be relaxed, old forum or no old forum.  I never go visit it.  I'm sure I can't be the only one? 

[Marc]

I'd be relaxed, old forum or no old forum.  I never go visit it.  I'm sure I can't be the only one? 

Interesting contribution, thanks a lot.

Of course you're not the only one.

I myself don't even visit a huge load of threads on the new forum.
Imagine that.

It's rather funny though, that you bother to visit this particular one, and even post in it.

[Cato]

Originals of current threads
Karl Henning's HQ
Ottevanger's Omphaloskeptic Outpost
Todd's new music log

These are crucial for all sorts of reasons, mainly because the works discussed are of great interest and value!

[Brahmsian]

Interesting contribution, thanks a lot.

Of course you're not the only one.

I myself don't even visit a huge load of threads on the new forum.
Imagine that.

It's rather funny though, that you bother to visit this particular one, and even post in it.

  Touche!

[Marc]

  Touche!

And now, let us have a relaxed Easter, with or without old boreds.

[prémont]

Organ recommendations .... couldn't resist!

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,11359.0.html

Rereading this old thread I notice, that I in the very last post of the thread by mistake wrote Codex Faenza but meant Buxheimer Organbook .
It is true, that Codex Faenza contains some of the oldest keyboard arrangements, but the arrangements of the DuFay and Binchois works are contained in the Buxheimer Organbook.

[prémont]

http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,10723.0.html

[Bogey]

I am with Ray.  I play my wine philosophy here.  Too many new posts that come through to worry about the old ones that I have already been part of.  If a topic disappears, just ask the question again.  Folks here are friendly, so I never worry about topics that are rehashed.  Save Gurn's Haydn thread, I believe we can always recreate.  Plus with new members coming on all the time, it may be wise to so anyhow.  Just my take.

[Opus106]

I am with Ray.  I play my wine philosophy here.  Too many new posts that come through to worry about the old ones that I have already been part of. 

With all due respect, a large amount of posting that happens these days is that of album covers, which I'm hardly interested in and which, IMNSHO, hardly adds anything of true value*. (Okay, maybe I'm missing good posts in certain threads I don't follow... )

If a topic disappears, just ask the question again.  Folks here are friendly, so I never worry about topics that are rehashed.  [...] I believe we can always recreate.

Some of the lengthy discussions or debates that you can find in the old forum or even in the older threads of the new forum is hardly seen now. Not every thread can be answered with "Richter, Serkin and Schnabel".


To put you argument in a different way: why bother with music from 100 of years ago, when you have more than you can handle today?




*Seriously, the "it makes me go back a recording I haven't heard for a long time" card is overused.

[Bogey]

I guess I have just not found myself looking back.  There are a few threads I will re-read here (EMC, Chopin Recordings, etc.), but not on the old GMG.  Maybe if I did, I would benefit from it.  Like I said, just my take. 

If there is one thing that I do not care to read, however, is the posts that review a cd, but the review is just lifted from the web.  I am guilty of this as well and try to avoid it.  As far as posting album covers on the listening thread, you are correct in that they rarely lead to further discussion.  That is why I sometimes post my listening in a topical thread.  Probably should have put that last Benstein platter into his thread.

[Opus106]

Things you will miss if you don't visit the old forum: Gurn recommending recordings for Bach on harpsichord!