What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Some say Domus+Marwood make Fauré sound like Brahms here. Not that sounding like Brahms as such is a bad thing (I enjoy Brahms' chamber music quite a lot), but I'm not sure I want to hear Brahms when I'm listening to Fauré. If I want chamber music that sound like Brahms I have Brahms' chamber music for that, but sometimes I actually want music that sounds like Fauré. 

Have you actually listened to the Domus recording?

[Madiel]

Some say Domus+Marwood make Fauré sound like Brahms here. Not that sounding like Brahms as such is a bad thing (I enjoy Brahms' chamber music quite a lot), but I'm not sure I want to hear Brahms when I'm listening to Fauré. If I want chamber music that sound like Brahms I have Brahms' chamber music for that, but sometimes I actually want music that sounds like Fauré. 

1. Oh God. I am not having THAT conversation with anyone ever again.

2. And if LED lighting has been so common for 12 years (which is just utterly wrong), you would have thought by now that someone would have figured out that inducing migraines in sufferers is not the way to go and the technology to limit this needs to be completely standard. Or maybe the lighting industry just doesn't give a fuck. The greenwashing is the important thing, the illness is someone else's problem.

[Karl Henning]

I did try the Langgaard string quartets a few months ago (that is who we're talking about, yes?) and was very impressed. I put them on the shopping list.

Yes.

[Madiel]

Complete coincidence as to what work was next on a list drawn up months ago.

Faure: Piano Quintet No.2

[Madiel]

Have you actually listened to the Domus recording?

Has he actually listened to Faure might be the first question.

[Florestan]

Has he actually listened to Faure might be the first question.

[Madiel]

Having said I'm not having that conversation again, I'd like to point out that Aaron Copland called Faure the French equivalent of Brahms in 1924. Blaming Domus for this is an absurdity.

[71 dB]

Einar Englund - Piano Quintet (his diploma work at the Sibelius Academy, 1941)

1. Oh God. I am not having THAT conversation with anyone ever again.

2. And if LED lighting has been so common for 12 years (which is just utterly wrong), you would have thought by now that someone would have figured out that inducing migraines in sufferers is not the way to go and the technology to limit this needs to be completely standard. Or maybe the lighting industry just doesn't give a fuck. The greenwashing is the important thing, the illness is someone else's problem.

1. It's not my fault you have had this conversation too many times. I have never had it.

2. Oh, I see. You have experienced dimmed LEDs. I agree, those flicker like hell and don't make much sense. I never use dimmed LEDs. 100 % on or off for me. I don't remember exactly when LED lighting became commonplace. About a decade ago anyway. My pet peeve with LED lamps is they promise 15.000 hours and then stop working after about 3.000-5.000 hours... ...that's certainly an area of improvement.

[Florestan]

Having said I'm not having that conversation again, I'd like to point out that Aaron Copland called Faure the French equivalent of Brahms in 1924. Blaming Domus for this is an absurdity.

It's even more absurd when the blame is based on hearsay ("Some say").

Personally I pay no attention whatever when X is said to be "the French/Russsian/Papuan Brahms".  Such comparisons are meaningless to me and insulting to X.

[Madiel]

1. It's not my fault you have had this conversation too many times. I have never had it.

If you've never had a conversation linking Faure and Brahms, how the blazes do you know that anyone says Domus make Faure sound like Brahms? Did it come to you in a dream?

Goodnight. I was in a cranky mood as it was. Time to go.

[Todd]

Disc 10, concertos by Richard Flury and Max Bruch.  The Flury is new to me.  His music was opulent and lush and old-fashioned the day the ink dried, and Kulenkampff does it proud.  The Bruch is nice enough, of course.

[Mahlerian]

Dvorak: Symphony 9 in E minor "From the New World"
London Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Tennstedt

[Mirror Image]

And for international enquiries?

For international enquiries, you will need to call 1-887-2329 (ext. 1200). Here you can ask to speak with the head of the international task force division, Mr. Cesar Sinfonia-Addicta.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I'm too busy listening to Schnittke so my secretary is dealing with these calls. Alternatively they go straight to answer-phone 'Your call is very important to us - you are held in a queue - you are number one hundred and fifty seven'.

I've been on hold now for almost TWO HOURS!  What is going on there?!  Oh, cr*p!  I was just disconnected and I was the next in line!   

PD

[André]

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, op.40. Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra

What a killer, absolutely underrated conductor Ormandy was. I had all but totally written him off from prejudice after seeing so many dismiss his legacy until I actually gave his music a chance. Now, my respect for him grows with each recording I hear, and the Philadelphia Orchestra under his reign has become one of my favorite American orchestras. This is a great performance of the Heldenleben. I may even prefer it over Reiner/Chicago.

One of my very favourite conductors. Prompted by your post I looked up and found this set, just issued (2020):



So I purchased it, of course 

[vandermolen]

I've been on hold now for almost TWO HOURS!  What is going on there?!  Oh, cr*p!  I was just disconnected and I was the next in line!   

PD

OT

From 'No-Reply @ vandermolen.com'

Madam - you could always use our very helpful and efficient unmonitored 'online customer service form'

[vandermolen]

Back on topic.

Have been listening to this several times today. What a lovely CD. I think a lot of this overlaps with a new Naxos release but I am very content with this one. I enjoyed it all, although 'Chant Funebre' is my favourite - a deeply moving work:

[Mahlerian]

I've been on hold now for almost TWO HOURS!  What is going on there?!  Oh, cr*p!  I was just disconnected and I was the next in line!   

PD

Not to mention that the hold music is an elevator arrangement of the finale of Shostakovich's Fifth. Whose idea was that?

[Florestan]

This place is going straight to hell.    

(100 points bonus for anyone who identifies whom I have paraphrased here.  )

[Florestan]

Vol. 1, Disc 1

All symphonies on this disc are excellent but the highlight is the Trio of the 5th, with a delicious, unforgettable one-minute dialogue between horn and oboe over a muted strings accompaniment. A far cry from Langgaard's full fanfares blasting forte fortissimo for half an hour --- and all for the better and tastier.