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Quote from: Herman on Today at 06:14:14 PMI wasn't even aware of these things, the deletions and bans. I don't read the comment section to his videos much, since they tend to consist of the usual adulatory and / or emotional tributes that are usual on youtube. I guess he wants it this way. This guy is even sicker than I thought.
what I meant with vehemence etc is the tone of his videos; the screaming anger at musicians who do not do it his way. This is why I rarely watch his stuff.


Agreed. 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. Recently there was a video on 10 underperformed symphonic works (several of which BTW I have encountered in live performance myself). But because conductors supposedly do not perform some of the music Hurwitz wants them to, these conductors are "lazy," only programming the tried and true. Of course much of the point about live performance is moot, since most of us get most of our music from recordings and a concert attended by maybe a few thousand people in a city most of us can't get to hardly matters at all. But that doesn't prevent Hurwitz from waxing apoplectic about these "lazy" conductors.
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The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...
Last post by hopefullytrusting - Today at 08:19:53 PM
Have a cache of pulp arriving soon:

Crichton: Congo
Cussler: Spartan Gold
McDermott: The Hunt for Atlantis
McDevitt: Ancient Shores & Polaris
Preston/Child: The Relic
Reilly: Seven Deadly Wonders
Rollins: Excavation
Stevenson: Treasure Island
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GMG News / Re: Missing Members
Last post by Florestan - Today at 08:09:04 PM
Quote from: Maestro267 on Today at 10:46:20 AMI was kinda hoping the new forum software would make threads easier to ignore by having them not show up at all.

Have you read my previous reply to you?

#4463

If you do what I advise you to do, you'll never again see that thread.
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The Diner / Re: The Key of Imagination
Last post by Karl Henning - Today at 07:44:30 PM
In large part thanks to Gladys Cooper owning the central role, Richard Matheson's "Night Call" is one of my favorite shows of the series. 
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Listening to both discs of this new arrival

Besides the five concertos (K 207/211/216/218/219), it includes the Rondo in C K 373 and the Adagio in E K 261.
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The Diner / Re: Last Movie You Watched
Last post by Karl Henning - Today at 07:07:17 PM
Quote from: Karl Henning on March 24, 2024, 07:09:13 PMIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Since I do not dislike Crystal Skull and indeed like quite a bit of it, let me say that I like the last movie even better. In fact, I'm very pleasantly surprised at how good a job they made of it. They had me wondering for a bit if they really would leave Indy back with Archimedes, and that question was settled in a completely satisfactory manner. Mads Mikkelsen made an excellent Nazi villain. And I saw Antonio Banderas' name in the credits, but I'm not sure I know which character he played, which of course is the best compliment one can pay an actor.
The five-part making-of featurette suite is a delight, too.
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Well I can't leave it like this, it could explode overnight.  I'll temporarily lock the thread and kill the post above me.  Let's not get into politics in a music thread, thank you. $:)
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Bach: BWV 547, 706, 565, 734
Anthony Newman

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Purchases Today
Last post by DavidW - Today at 06:36:49 PM
Quote from: T. D. on Today at 05:46:40 PMFor me, a combination of wanting a keyboard recording of BWV 1080 (currently have only an oddball but interesting Italian string quartet release I can't locate right now) plus expanding my collection of harpsichord recordings. $30 is a lot, but after a winter of scrubbing endless planned concerts due to bad weather I have an accumulated entertainment budget.  ;)

I preferred to roll the dice rather than spend endless time hairsplitting over reviews. Did enough comparative online listening to figure I can't go far wrong. And I'll likely survey a variety of harpsichordists rather than going for a big box. Though I did spring for Hantai's 6-CD Scarlatti set.

If you haven't yet, try Leonhardt in anything Bach.  For me he has the magic touch!

Like you I also like Hantai's Scarlatti (and Handel).