What are you listening 2 now?

[DavidW]

I read that this set is problematic, but not the 5th symphony. Vanksa knocks it out of the park, and exceptional sonics add to the treat. In particular, the soundstage is deep and layered, and the dynamic contrast is wild.

[DavidUK]

A less sympathetic ear might demean the "typical Mennin gestures," perhaps, but the excellence of the result is all the argument needed.

And so:

The 5th is my favourite symphony by my favourite American composer.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Takashi Asahina

[VonStupp]

FJ Haydn
Cello Concerto 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1
Cello Concerto 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2

Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
AoSMitF - Iona Brown

Still a beautiful performance.
VS

[andolink]

Listnening to an old favorite - -

[DavidUK]

Yosifov 4th symphony.

[Mandryka]

The thoughts of what has been and what may come.

There's a strange quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet -- I'm not really sure what it means, like pretty well everything Hamlet says it seems deep but when you read it closely you realise it's slippery

We defy augury. There is a
special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be
now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The
readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves
knows aught, what is 't to leave betimes? Let be.


Anyway, once, when I was waiting for the results of a biopsy on a mole, I found those lines somehow comforting.  In the event it was nothing to worry about.

[prémont]

There's a strange quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet -- I'm not really sure what it means, like pretty well everything Hamlet says it seems deep but when you read it closely you realise it's slippery

We defy augury. There is a
special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be
now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The
readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves
knows aught, what is 't to leave betimes? Let be.


Anyway, once, when I was waiting for the results of a biopsy on a mole, I found those lines somehow comforting.  In the event it was nothing to worry about.

I suppose Hamlet expresses his fatalistic attitude: We might as well accept our life and rest in it, so to speak, because it is what it is, and the things that must happen will happen, no matter what we do.

I can add that during the course of my illness, it has been a great help to me to leave it all to fate.

[nakulanb]

Bruckner - symphony 7 - Karajan/VP

[nakulanb]

Shosty - Symphony 5 - Bernstein/NYP

[nakulanb]

I suppose Hamlet expresses his fatalistic attitude: We might as well accept our life and rest in it, so to speak, because it is what it is, and the things that must happen will happen, no matter what we do.

I can add that during the course of my illness, it has been a great help to me to leave it all to fate.

That is at the very argument of determinism in philosophy.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

That is at the very argument of determinism in philosophy.

Stoic. 

[Traverso]

Stoic. 

que sera sera... Vanity Vanity, it is all Vanity...

[brewski]

Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (Ingo Metzmacher / WDR Sinfonieorchester, live recording from Sep. 27, 2025 in Cologne). After a friend heard the piece last month with the Kansas City Symphony and conductor Matthias Pintscher, I found this version uploaded four days ago, and it's quite fine.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Pictures and Petrushka.

[JBS]

More of Buchbinder's Beethoven

CD 5
Sonata 15 in D Major Op 28 "Pastorale"
Sonata 19 in g minor Op 49/1
Sonata 20 in G Major Op 49/2
Sonata 21 in C Major Op 53 "Waldstein"
Sonata 22 in F Major Op 54

[AnotherSpin]

There's a strange quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet -- I'm not really sure what it means, like pretty well everything Hamlet says it seems deep but when you read it closely you realise it's slippery

We defy augury. There is a
special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be
now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The
readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves
knows aught, what is 't to leave betimes? Let be.


Anyway, once, when I was waiting for the results of a biopsy on a mole, I found those lines somehow comforting.  In the event it was nothing to worry about.

Hamlet's words carry a very clear meaning. "Let be" expresses pure acceptance that dissolves all duality in unity. There is no one who departs and no one who remains, only Being itself.

Readiness means stepping back from the transient, separate I and accepting death as a simple transformation within the eternal play of Lila.

Something like this: an inner clarity that arises when one no longer argues with what is but meets it openly, without fear, as part of the natural unfolding of existence.

[AnotherSpin]

Adding my condolences. It's a bit incredible to me that you are able to find time to be here in the first place, given what you're going through, but I hope being here provides some distraction and sustenance. Wishing you peace and comfort, wherever you can find it.

Thank you.

[Que]

https://www.ficta.cat/en/cd/499-mille-regretz-cd-cristobal-de-morales.html

[AnotherSpin]

https://www.ficta.cat/en/cd/499-mille-regretz-cd-cristobal-de-morales.html

I was just going to listen to the Messe Mille Regretz performed by Concert de les Arts / Victor Alonso :-)