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Classical YouTube Video Library / Re: Beethoven + God - Op. 27 N...
Last post by foxandpeng - Today at 01:14:25 AM
Quote from: Florestan on Today at 12:07:44 AMThis Pratchett guy hasn't read his Karl Barth attentively, if at all.  ;D

I know very few people who have read their Karl Barth attentively... myself included. Barth makes my head spin. Dense, complex, mega-sentences, difficult syntax... I have been collecting second hand volumes of his Church Dogmatics for years, and am only missing a couple of the set now - but given the choice of Barth or Pratchett?

Hm.
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by vandermolen - Today at 01:14:13 AM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on April 30, 2024, 02:15:09 PMDohnányi: Symphony No. 2 in E major

Do
I really like that CD Cesar - especially the moving Bach quotation.
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by vandermolen - Today at 01:10:48 AM
Quote from: classicalgeek on April 30, 2024, 11:43:36 PMA little late-night listening:

Charles Tournemire
Symphony no. 6
Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege
various choirs
Pierre Bartholomee
(on Spotify)



What a fascinating - and beautiful - piece! Expertly orchestrated for huge forces (with particular skill in scoring for woodwinds.) It ends in a blaze of glory with resplendent brass, pealing bells, organ and choir doing their thing... I need to listen to more Tournemire!
Count me in as a Tournemire fan. I like the epic No.7 as well as No.3 'Moscow'.
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by vandermolen - Today at 01:09:06 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 30, 2024, 12:37:33 PMBLISS: Miracle in the Gorbals / Discourse for Orchestra.



One of my favourite Bliss releases!
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by vandermolen - Today at 01:07:51 AM
Quote from: classicalgeek on April 30, 2024, 05:53:49 PMTchaikovsky
Symphony no. 6
Leningrad Philharmonic
Yevgeny Mravinsky
(on CD)



Until watching Hurwitz's video today, I wasn't aware there were two versions of Tchaikovsky 5 and 6, and that the one I have is not the legendary stereo set, but the earlier mono set. Still a historically valuable recording to have, and while it's not my first choice, I still enjoyed it.
A fabulous set!
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by vandermolen - Today at 01:06:37 AM
Quote from: Linz on April 30, 2024, 12:25:19 PMBruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Robert Haas, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
Best version IMO
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Classical YouTube Video Library / Re: Beethoven + God - Op. 27 N...
Last post by Florestan - Today at 12:30:30 AM
The one contemporary composer who has a direct phone line to God is certainly Alma Deutscher, whose anagram in English is Cathedral Muse and in French Charmes d'autel. It can't be a mere coincidence, I reckon.
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Pieces that have blown you...
Last post by Toni Bernet - Today at 12:21:38 AM
I wonder if there are any other music lovers besides me who enjoy Andreas Romberg's violin concertos? The recording with the sensationally exciting violinist Chouchane Siranossian in particular could inspire many a friend of classical music with enthusiasm for this forgotten composer of North German classical music.
For more on Andreas Romberg's Violin Concerto in G minor, see also:
https://unbekannte-violinkonzerte.jimdofree.com/klassik/romberg/
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by Harry - Today at 12:21:06 AM
Quote from: Que on April 30, 2024, 11:00:29 PMI fully agree... In fact, it couldn't even hold my attention for a single session and halfway I switched to Frescobaldi:



Fiori Musicali: Messa degli Apostoli.

That was a very good idea, I did the same actually :o
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Classical YouTube Video Library / Re: Beethoven + God - Op. 27 N...
Last post by Florestan - Today at 12:07:44 AM
Quote from: Luke on April 30, 2024, 12:42:36 PMAccording to Terry Pratchett's Good Omens:


This Pratchett guy hasn't read his Karl Barth attentively, if at all.  ;D
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