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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Que - Today at 03:46:31 AM

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Classical YouTube Video Library / Re: Beethoven + God - Op. 27 N...

Last post by foxandpeng - Today at 03:00:46 AM

Oh, I was referring to this book only:



whose final lines read:

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

Probably a more fruitful book, in many ways

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Classical YouTube Video Library / Re: Beethoven + God - Op. 27 N...

Last post by Florestan - Today at 02:33:46 AM

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.

Oh, I was referring to this book only:



whose final lines read:

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

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Classical YouTube Video Library / Re: Beethoven + God - Op. 27 N...

Last post by foxandpeng - Today at 01:14:25 AM

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

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.

[Dohnányi: Symphony No. 2 in E major]

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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

Dohnányi: Symphony No. 2 in E major

Do

I really like that CD Cesar - especially the moving Bach quotation.

[Charles TournemireSymphony no. 6Orchestre Philharmonique de Liegevarious choirsPierre Bartholomee]

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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

A 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

BLISS: Miracle in the Gorbals / Discourse for Orchestra.

One of my favourite Bliss releases!

[TchaikovskySymphony no. 6Leningrad PhilharmonicYevgeny Mravinsky]

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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

Tchaikovsky
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!

[Bruckner]

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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

Bruckner 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.