What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Opus106]

I think he should change his avatar to Bach with sunglasses. 

Didn't James mention something about moving to Minnesota? 

Phew... false alarm.

Of course.

Investigation closed.


Is Webern' music new to you, Dave? How do you like his stuff? I adore the Bach transcription, but beyond that, I haven't explored.

[MN Dave]

Is Webern' music new to you, Dave? How do you like his stuff? I adore the Bach transcription, but beyond that, I haven't explored.

Yes, pretty new. I will get back to you on how I like it.

[Conor71]

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major, Op. 127

[bhodges]

I made a slightly less-horrible cover for the aforementioned Bridge CD of Babbitt pieces:

That is way better; actually I like it a lot.  You may have another career around the bend.

--Bruce

[Keemun]

[Valentin]

[George]

How does he do with those? 

[Valentin]

How does he do with those?

I think it's an impressive and pretty exciting performance. Inexpensive too if I remember correctly.

[Harry]

I think for 1,99 euro's this is a pretty good deal, especially when you consider its musical excellence.

[Cato]

Today my Latin I students heard "Jupiter" and "Saturn" from Gustav Holst's The Planets.  (Colin Davis with the London Symphony Orchestra.)

As soon as the stately middle section of "Jupiter" began playing, the 7th Graders began gasping with delight: "Shrek!"

It seems the cartoon uses the music for a sequence in the story of Shrek, the Ogre.

But as it kept playing, I noticed one of my brightest students looking very serious.  He says to me later: "That really is very spine-tingling music!  I don't know what it was, but I actually felt a chill go down my back."

So in spite of associations with questionable cartoons, Holst's music can still frigorify the neurons.   0:)

[jlaurson]

Good as this is, I must say that I was *very* pleased when I finally splurged and got the DG Box set, instead addition.



Truly complete Webern,
including the works without opus.

Including only works with op.-numbers is pretty limiting in Webern, and unnecessarily junks some of the juicy early stuff.

[Brian]

[jlaurson]

I made a slightly less-horrible cover for the aforementioned Bridge CD of Babbitt pieces:

Very nice, indeed.

I've made a cover for a live recording of a sing-along Winterreise in the style of ECM  (which I can't find now) and just now a juxtaposition of six selected Preludes & Fugues for an aunt (a German one, hence the spelling) where I juxtapose Bach (Nikolayeva) with Shostakovich (Jarrett, of course).

[Franco]

Interesting cover art by you both. 

I just purchased a large size flatbed scanner to import the cover art from many of the LPs I'm digitizing and their art is hard to find on the Internet (or sometimes includes malware in the images).  I am still learning how to do simple things with the images, but I also have hundreds of cassette tapes, with no cover art. 

Last night I grabbed the two tapes of the Makropulos Case and scanned the actual cassette insert with my handwritten scrawl - and was pleased with using that, in its combo low/hi-tech manifestation.  But will soon tire of that and want to do something more imaginative with the covers.

What graphics editing software do you recommend?

[Benji]

Today my Latin I students heard "Jupiter" and "Saturn" from Gustav Holst's The Planets.  (Colin Davis with the London Symphony Orchestra.)

As soon as the stately middle section of "Jupiter" began playing, the 7th Graders began gasping with delight: "Shrek!"

It seems the cartoon uses the music for a sequence in the story of Shrek, the Ogre.

But as it kept playing, I noticed one of my brightest students looking very serious.  He says to me later: "That really is very spine-tingling music!  I don't know what it was, but I actually felt a chill go down my back."

So in spite of associations with questionable cartoons, Holst's music can still frigorify the neurons.   0:)

The Planets was my first introduction to 'proper' classical music (it was, strictly-speaking, John William's Star Wars music, but that argument is so last week  ). Anyhow, the boy has a bright and rewarding future ahead of him, i'm so envious!

p.s. I wouldn't call Shrek a cartoon. It is a computer-generated animated feature film. And it's bloody good IMHO. 

[karlhenning]

animation = cartoon (at least in the US)

And Cato may well feel that the adjective questionable does not necessarily rule out bloody good ; )

[Brian]

Interesting cover art by you both. 

I just purchased a large size flatbed scanner to import the cover art from many of the LPs I'm digitizing and their art is hard to find on the Internet (or sometimes includes malware in the images).  I am still learning how to do simple things with the images, but I also have hundreds of cassette tapes, with no cover art. 

Last night I grabbed the two tapes of the Makropulos Case and scanned the actual cassette insert with my handwritten scrawl - and was pleased with using that, in its combo low/hi-tech manifestation.  But will soon tire of that and want to do something more imaginative with the covers.

What graphics editing software do you recommend?

It's not freeware, I'll tell you that. I use Microsoft Paint, but only to make joke covers like this one. Not very professional-looking!

[Benji]

animation = cartoon (at least in the US)

And Cato may well feel that the adjective questionable does not necessarily rule out bloody good ; )

Ah, ok! That didn't translate across the pond. Like my asking for a biscuit in NYC and receiving a scone...

[The new erato]

I'm slowly picking my way through this set:



and an extremely fine set of performances of mostly very fine, and unknown, works it is. Today, disc 15, the Rebelo. Doesn't mean I've heard all, I pick at random.

[George]

It's not freeware, I'll tell you that. I use Microsoft Paint, but only to make joke covers like this one. Not very professional-looking!

Awesome!!!