What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

I mentioned the figure of £800, because that would buy your 18TB of server-quality mirrored storage. At 500KB an image, and allowing for my creaky maths, that should be enough for 72 billion images. For the 2403 members of this site, that's about 30 million images each. In other words, £800 was merely an example to show how cheap storage is these days and is definitely on the upper end of what would reasonably be useful for this site -and that's assuming that disk space is tight in the first place, which I doin't even know is true.

And no, you don't have a subscription but you thought it was fine to make critical remarks about those who use the site but won't 'care about keeping the site running'. You do precisely what you criticise others for doing, in other words. There's a word for that.

800 pounds is not cheap. Even for things I'm really keen on, a bit over $1,400 Australian dollars is not a casual expenditure, and I'm fairly well off.

That might well be less expensive than it once was, but it's not trivial.

[SonicMan46]

Monteverdi, Claudio - Sacred Music, V. 1 & 2 w/ Robert King and the Consort - first 2 volumes up today (own all 4) - Dave

 

[Peter Power Pop]

Last night's viewing:

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Koen Kessels) (Blu-ray)

[vandermolen]

Before bedtime -
Rubbra; Symphony No.10

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Benjamin Britten's
King Arthur Suite

Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Wonderful orchestration.

What's the King Arthur Suite like?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Scriabin Piano Works. Stanislav Neuhaus live.

[Todd]

[VonStupp]

Arthur Honegger
Empress of the Rocks Suite, H 60a
Phaedra, Incidental Music, H 61a
Prelude for The Tempest, H 48a
Nocturne, H 102
Monopartita, H 204
Pastorale d'été, H 31
Pacific 321, H 53
Rugby, H 67

USSR Ministry of Culture SO - Gennady Rozhdestvensky
(rec. 1976-1989)

Orchestral odds and ends from this set:
VS

[Symphonic Addict]

Toccata has made some very fine recordings, but this is not one of them I'm afraid, not to mention the performances themselves. I didn't feel the viola sonatas weren't well interpreted (ditto the Romanza for viola and piano), I'm sure they can sound better in the right hands. On the other hand, the Silhouettes for violin viola and piano and the Trio-Miniaturen (for the same forces) managed to captivate me much better. They saved the CD IMO.

[JBS]

Offenbach
Orpheus in the Underworld

From the Warner "Offenbach Collection".
The two recordings in this set are not duplications: this is the original 1858 2 act version (albeit in German translation); the other one which I listened to the other night is the expanded 4 act version of 1871 with an extra 50 minutes or so of music.

[Madiel]

Schumann: Dichterliebe



After listening to both versions I have... I think I kind of prefer the Heine Liederkreis to this Heine cycle. Just a little. I mean, sure, the start of Dichterliebe is utterly stunning and so are a couple of other songs, but in terms of consistency I think the shorter cycle might be my preference.

[vandermolen]

Now on to the second CD (Symphony No.5 and Dona Nobis Pacem conducted by VW). This was previously issued by Somm on a single CD but sound very good here in a new remastering and unlike the recording of the premiere (on this set) does not have missing sections:

[Madiel]

Mendelssohn

Anthems, op.79
String quartet no.6 in F minor, op.80
4 pieces for string quartet, op.81



All very enjoyable. For the quartet works, I had in the back of my mind somewhere that the Pacifica were highly regarded and they didn't disappoint.

[aukhawk]

Anyway, I don't want to sidetrack this thread any further.  Perhaps one of the mods could shift the relevant postings elsewhere?

The "I can't see your image" type of comment is so common on this and other similar fora, that it is actually helpful to have the discussion about 'why' here - tedious though it be.  It is valuable knowledge for many forum users and would be overlooked if moved to some other place.

I would comment that, browser software is subject to frequent updates.  It may very well be that in the course of such an update, the browser's 'security' settings get revised (made more 'secure') without the user being immediately aware.  Part of the security settings is of course the treatment of cross-linked images, especially those sourced from non-secure servers.  The user can dive into the browser settings to manually override this behaviour as they so wish, but it's not made easy or obvious because 'security'.

And - to be pedantic - if you can see an image in your browser, you have already downloaded it.  Your computer has downloaded every image and avatar that you see on this page.

Oh, what have I just listened to?
Honegger Symphony No.3 'Liturgique', conductor Mravinsky.
I can't seem to get enough of this desert-island symphony these days.  Mravinsky (1st listen) is rather speedy though, for my taste.

[pjme]

Arthur Honegger
Empress of the Rocks Suite, H 60a
Phaedra, Incidental Music, H 61a
Prelude for The Tempest, H 48a
Nocturne, H 102
Monopartita, H 204
Pastorale d'été, H 31
Pacific 321, H 53
Rugby, H 67

USSR Ministry of Culture SO - Gennady Rozhdestvensky
(rec. 1976-1989)

Orchestral odds and ends from this set:
V

Interesting!
I love the (eloquent & dark) Phèdre suite (orchestra + small female chorus) on this CD:

[VonStupp]

Interesting!
I love the (eloquent & dark) Phèdre suite (orchestra + small female chorus) on this CD:

It is the same performance/recording; Melodiya gathered up all of Rozhdestvensky's Honegger into a small set.

Most interesting is the live performance of the Empress of the Rocks Suite and Honegger's Nocturne, both works I did not know, but are a hoot.

VS

[pjme]

l'Impératrice aux rochers got a  recording on Timpani. But I haven't listened to it in ages. Possibly the performance isn't that good/exiting...? I'll check later.



I'll try to find that russian cd.

[Todd]

The Second from:



Much like Abravanel's other cycles, it is not up there with the very best, but so far it is really quite excellent with the Utahans playing their hearts out.

[Traverso]

C.P.E Bach


Magnificat

[Traverso]

John Sheppard