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

Last post by steve ridgway - Today at 10:01:05 PM

Scelsi: Canti Del Capricorno



You know it's avant-garde when the singer is credited for "voice" .

[Pärt: Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten]

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

Last post by steve ridgway - Today at 09:42:23 PM

Pärt: Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten



Pleasant enough and not too long .

[Amen!]

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Your favourite Tchaikovsky...

Last post by Cato - Today at 07:59:19 PM

Personally, I've always liked the Vn Cto.

Amen!  😇 

It's probably not the fashionable answer but nothing has come even remotely close to topping Litton/Bournemouth in the Tchaikovsky symphonies for me. Especially Manfred. It has a punch to it that completely blew me away when I first heard the symphony in 2007. No other recordings have hit the spot the way that one does.

Difficult as always, but let me try...

Manfred -6-5-1-3-4-2

Also, possible:  Manfred -6-5-1-Three-Way Tie 3/4/2   

I also like Pletnev in the Manfred. 

I first heard Manfred in a truncated mono recording by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony: it will knock your socks and shoes off, and maybe even curled your toenails!   

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

Last post by AnotherSpin - Today at 07:55:17 PM

Op. 106

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The Diner / Re: What TV series are you cur...

Last post by George - Today at 07:43:56 PM

Resident alien- season 3 - just started

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The Diner / Re: What TV series are you cur...

Last post by Karl Henning - Today at 07:39:08 PM

Episode 17 is one of my favorites, consisting of two stories.

There were several shows in the original series in which Death is a character. "Welcome to Winfield" may be the first such in the new series, although Griffin St-George tells us that he is only an agent, chasing down some open accounts left unresolved by his predecessor (who keeps hanging up on him.) I've given away that this is a comic episode, as it really ought to be, with Henry Gibson playing the Mayor of Winfield.

"Quarantine" is cerebral and futuristic, set in a post-apocalyptic Earth in which there are no longer machines, and mostly they aren't needed, as people have developed marvelous mental and emotional powers. An irony is, they un-freeze a chap from our era (300 years earlier), and heal him physically because something has turned up, and they need an old-school "mechanic."

Episode 18 begins with a bang: "Gramma," teleplay by Harlan Ellison, based on a Stephen King story. That tone continues with "Personal Demons," starring Martin Balsam. And, to conclude, the partly comic "Cold Reading."

[Dutilleux: Violin Concerto 'L'Arbre des songes']

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

Last post by Symphonic Addict - Today at 06:29:06 PM

Dutilleux: Violin Concerto 'L'Arbre des songes'

The way Dutilleux plays with the orchestra to conjure up provocative atmospheres is quite cool.

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Composer Discussion / Re: Lesser known Russian/Sovie...

Last post by Roy Bland - Today at 06:20:40 PM

On moldavian music

http://www.cnaa.md/files/theses/2016/23979/elena_mironenco_abstract.pdf

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The Diner / Re: Last Movie You Watched

Last post by Karl Henning - Today at 05:47:53 PM

The Two Towers. Yes, I'll continue through to the end of the trilogy even though I know that the gratuitous departures from Tolkien accelerate and grow more odious. One of the greatest offenses IMO is making Gandalf's healing of Théoden King into a cod exorcism as if Saruman had been a demon possessing him. Makes me want to throw something at the screen.

One line which distills how little the screenwriters understood the heart of Tolkien's book: Orlando Bloom's Legolas apologizing to Aragorn: "I was wrong to despair." Tolkien's Legolas does not despair. Separately, of the many objectionable departures from Tolkien's Middle Earth, Elrond's supposedly having an elven host to send in reinforcement of Helm's Deep is one of the grossest. The Two Towers is a tough watch, for me. It's reminding me why I discarded the DVDs I first bought.

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

Last post by JBS - Today at 05:34:59 PM

The second part of Haebler/Szeryng's Beethoven
Sonatas 6-10

Opus 30 No 1 in A major
Opus 30 No 2 in c minor
Opus 30 No 3 in G major
Opus 47 in A major "The Tolstoy Story Sonata"
Opus 96 in G major