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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: New Releases
Last post by Todd - Today at 04:18:52 AM


Pletnev doing Rach live?  Yeah, should be good.



A little nepotism never hurt no one.

















I'll take bizarre pairings for $1000, Ken.
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Quote from: Que on March 27, 2024, 11:47:28 PMMorning listening:



Easter is early this year!
Trying to make a modest dent in my collection of music for the Holy Week.

Gosh, this is beautiful! Thanks for posting.
Made me realise I do most of my Renaissance listening with smaller ensembles these days, but when a choir and music are as good as this the results are astoundingly lovely.
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: David Hurwitz
Last post by Herman - Today at 04:10:51 AM
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on March 28, 2024, 08:36:53 PMAgreed. There was a scathing review of Klaus Mäkelä's Sibelius cycle, but when one listens to the recordings one finds that Mäkelä's versions hardly have the faults Hurwitz ascribes to them. My main problem is Mäkelä is the difficulty in finding those Finnish diacritics to spell his last name.

Mäkelä  -  like this? I haven't listened to KM's Sibelius recordings (yet) but from the online responses it's pretty clear to me that a conductor so young, slim and apparently liked by the orchestras he's working with, breeds huge resentment in boomers, who generally like their conductors old, barely able to reach the podium on foot or, even better, dead already and to be found in 100 CD boxsets as big as a baby's coffin.

A lot has changed since the 60s and 70s. Back then orchestras used to consist entirely of late middle-aged men (except of course for the harp and maybe one flute) and conductors were no spring chickens either. Maturity bred musical vision. Nowadays the best orchestras (look at Berlin PO) are stocked with young, sometimes very young musicians. At least half of them are female, not out of some equal opportunity thing, but because more girls persist and succeed in their musical education. Orchestral playing is largely a physical activity and you don't get any better over 55.

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Heinrich Schütz - Johannes Passion (Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier)

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Szymanovski - Stabat Mater

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Morning all,

Schubert - Piano Quintet "The Trout"
Kodaly Qt and Jeno Jando

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actually the bit I really noticed was not loud at all but a fairly quiet string passage around 4'20" where the artefacts are most noticeable. Otherwise, it seems largely OK in fact.
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: David Hurwitz
Last post by 71 dB - Today at 02:31:18 AM
Quote from: Herman on March 28, 2024, 10:43:57 AMUnfortunately I disagree.

There is nothing unfortunate about it. I don't care if you disagree. You shouldn't care either. Nothing in your or my life hinges on this. I have learned to care about only things that matter: The size of my electricity bill etc.

I have zero reasons to defend David Hurwitz. I have let people here know what I think about him, but certainly won't debate it. IT DOESN'T MATTER!!