What are you listening 2 now?

[hopefullytrusting]

Yes, an impressive recording. I bought it as a download from Presto, but two variations (XV and XXIX) were missing. Unfortunately, Presto couldn't provide them from the label, which was quite frustrating. Nonetheless, I received a refund.

Yes, that sounds very annoying.

I got the disc directly from the performer, who is beyond lovely, but I am going to purchase it again on Amazon, so I have a digital copy - far easier for me to listen to then pulling out my old disc player, lol.

[Mandryka]

I would question their sanity.

The whole thing here, the beast and the man and the Christ, and then the way the discussion embraces sex and madness, it's really interesting -- I need to get my Foucault head on.

[vandermolen]

November Woods is quite appropriate.  Any idea as to why Boult changed the key?

K

Wasn't aware that he had done so!

[Kalevala]

November Woods is quite appropriate.  Any idea as to why Boult changed the key?

K

@vandermolen Looks like there was a typo and that I also misread what you had typed.  So, Lloyd-Jones changed the key?

K

[Roasted Swan]

November Woods is quite appropriate.  Any idea as to why Boult changed the key?

K

To clarify - "lower key" here as Vandermolen means it refers to the interpretative style of the performance.  So bascially Boult is not as dynamic/emotional as other versions - arguably he brings out the compositional structure of the work more at the expense of the pictorialism of the music.

Certainly Boult does not change the key signature of the work......

[Traverso]

Bach



 

[Kalevala]

To clarify - "lower key" here as Vandermolen means it refers to the interpretative style of the performance.  So bascially Boult is not as dynamic/emotional as other versions - arguably he brings out the compositional structure of the work more at the expense of the pictorialism of the music.

Certainly Boult does not change the key signature of the work......

Got ya!  Misinterpreted at my end...yet again.    Sigh...And thank you for the clarification.

K

[Kalevala]

Relisten to Martinu's Concerto for Violin and Piano. I've heard many concertos, symphonies, string quartets, other chamber works, short operas... but this might be it. My favorite Martinu work. I'll have to keep listening.

I did find it on youtube (the whole album)....am quite enjoying it. It's uploaded by Supraphon.

K

[vandermolen]

@vandermolen Looks like there was a typo and that I also misread what you had typed.  So, Lloyd-Jones changed the key?

K

Not sure K

[Harry]

ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678–1741)
Music for Lute and Mandolin.
PAUL O'DETTE baroque lute (Martin Bowers, 1980) soprano lute mandolin (Nico van der Waals, 1979, after Venere).
THE PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS, directed by ROY GOODMAN & PETER HOLMAN
Pitch A = 415Hz Temperament Vallotti, prepared by Peter Holman.
Recorded: December 1984.

[Kalevala]

Not sure K

See a couple of posts above; my goof!

K

[vandermolen]

Sibelius: Lemminkainen Suite (Sarasate, Toronto SO)
Finlandia CD
A very atmospheric performance and I like the coupling.

[vandermolen]

See a couple of posts above; my goof!

K

[AnotherSpin]

If I have to take into account what I can say or not these days, I should stop communicating. In my time Babe did not have a negative connotation, which you or others might think. This mentality puts people a nozzle on.
I do object against this admonition.

We have arrived. Now, when we say any - I emphasize, any - word, we must be careful, because there will always be someone who will understand and interpret it in the most unexpected or strange way. After all, each person conditioned in its different way and the possibilities are endless. The times when one could speak openly without fear of the 'cancel police' are over. It's all over now, baby (oops, sorry) blue.

[Harry]

We have arrived. Now, when we say any - I emphasize, any - word, we must be careful, because there will always be someone who will understand and interpret it in the most unexpected or strange way. After all, each person conditioned in its different way and the possibilities are endless. The times when one could speak openly without fear of the 'cancel police' are over. It's all over now, baby (oops, sorry) blue.

Thank you for those words, that's how I feel and think. I will stop communicating or reacting to posts, and will just post what I have listen too. After all my years on GMG the days are over that I will spontaneously post what I feel or think about music or art. To be curtailed in such a disrespectful way by someone whom I do not even know, or have communicated with was deeply offending. Cancel police indeed.

[ritter]

OK guys, rationalise it whichever way you want, but "babe" is (in the 21st century) a derogatory, misogynist term. It has nothing to do with cancel culture, but with the minimum respect and courtesy we can demand in a forum like this one. This is an open classical music forum, not a locker room where the "old boys" can speak without restrictions

We wouldn't dream of using the K-word, the N-word, or a term like "dago" (I spell that one out because it would apply to someone like me), so let us not use the B-word either. Thanks!

[Harry]

OK guys, rationalise it whichever way you want, but "babe" is (in the 21st century) a derogatory, misogynist term. It has nothing to do with cancel culture, but with the minimum respect and courtesy we can demand in a forum like this one. This is an open classical music forum, not a locker room where the "old boys" can speak without restrictions

We wouldn't dream of using the K-word, the N-word, or a term like "dago" (I spell that one out because it would apply to someone like me), so let us not use the B-word either. Thanks!

In your universe maybe, but in my universe, non of my female friends would think this way when I call them babe.

[hopefullytrusting]

OK guys, rationalise it whichever way you want, but "babe" is (in the 21st century) a derogatory, misogynist term. It has nothing to do with cancel culture, but with the minimum respect and courtesy we can demand in a forum like this one. This is an open classical music forum, not a locker room where the "old boys" can speak without restrictions

We wouldn't dream of using the K-word, the N-word, or a term like "dago" (I spell that one out because it would apply to someone like me), so let us not use the B-word either. Thanks!

*salute*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vJE5pVMNWE

[AnotherSpin]

In India, many spiritual leaders sooner or later stopped using words and became silent. Some for several years, some permanently, like Meher Baba, whom Pete Townshend considered his guru. This silence is called mauna. Naturally, the explanation was that the highest spiritual truths cannot be expressed in words or understood by the mind. However, it seems to me there was a simpler reason too — sometimes one just gets too tired with human stupidity.

[Harry]

In India, many spiritual leaders sooner or later stopped using words and became silent. Some for several years, some permanently, like Meher Baba, whom Pete Townshend considered his guru. This silence is called mauna. Naturally, the explanation was that the highest spiritual truths cannot be expressed in words or understood by the mind. However, it seems to me there was a simpler reason too — sometimes one just gets too tired with human stupidity.

That is my thought at this moment. Mauna indeed.