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

Last post by AnotherSpin - Today at 11:47:04 AM

Op. 106

[Your "point" is silly]

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Composer Discussion / Re: Mozart

Last post by Florestan - Today at 11:43:41 AM

And the audience came to the concert in horse and buggy, which we also do not replicate.  Your "point" is silly. 

To you, and only because you missed it entirely.

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

Last post by 71 dB - Today at 11:42:37 AM

Kudos if you enjoy what you hear. However, first you post this, asking for recommendations...

...and then you're being rudely dismissive, in multiple posts, when people are trying to help you and recommendations are given to you.

(How does the adage go? No good deed goes unpunished.) 

Jurowski is not my own idea. It was recommended to me.

[under-rehearsed and semi-professional]

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Composer Discussion / Re: Mozart

Last post by San Antone - Today at 11:41:18 AM

Looks like we're going in circles, my friend. Allow me to clarify my position once and for all.

@Spotted Horses said:

In response to that, I pointed out the well-documented, incontrovertible fact that most ensembles during the Classical Era, that is between roughly 1750 and 1830, were under-rehearsed and semi-professional, therefore they sounded under-rehearsed and semi-professional, ie completely and utterly unlike a HIP ensemble of today, which is comprised of over-rehearsed professionals, oftenly doubling as scholars --- ie, exactly and precisely what the Classical Era musicians were not.

I cannot and will not make my position any clearer than that.

And the audience came to the concert in horse and buggy, which we also do not replicate.  Your "point" is silly. 

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Pieces that have blown you...

Last post by Florestan - Today at 11:40:01 AM

Both performance-wise and sonic-wise this series is excellent. I can't get enough of it.

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

Last post by Mapman - Today at 11:35:56 AM

Huber: Symphony #1 (Tellsinfonie)

An attractive Romantic symphony. The 2nd movement reminded me a bit of Brahms. It's not as immediately memorable as his 2nd, but I still enjoyed listening to it.

[A-M-E-N-!!!]

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

Last post by Florestan - Today at 11:35:42 AM

I love everything Tchaikovsky wrote, in pretty much any performance.

A-M-E-N-!!!

Actually, this is valid for all my favorite composers --- my favorite performance of any of their works is the one I'm currently listening to.

It'll be a cold day in hell long before I do any A/B/C comparison.

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Musical depictions of the ...

Last post by pjme - Today at 11:26:03 AM

Maybe just "water" will do?

Remus Platen is a strange, quite distrustful  guy (?) with a huge collection

Norbert Rosseau's H2O could do with a new recording...but he studied with Respighi.

https://youtu.be/IGynWKJy8xo?si=jJZSAlFguHjkl4to

[I might be tempted to make such a comment, but then I come across people who love those recordings]

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Composer Discussion / Re: Mozart

Last post by Florestan - Today at 11:22:37 AM

I tend to think of the Trevor Pinnock recordings of baroque and classical orchestral music as having an excessively strict "sewing machine" articulation and I might be tempted to make such a comment, but then I come across people who love those recordings.

So what? If we were to refrain from making any negative comment about anything for fear that someone somewhere might like it and therefore feel offended by our comment, then we'd better shut down GMG altogether, nay, refrain from commenting on anything at all.

[George Lloyd (1913-1998).Disc 4.Symphony No. 5 in B-flat (1947-8).Recorded: Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, 1989. Symphony No. 6 (1956.Recorded:Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester 1988.BBC Philharmonic.]

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

Last post by foxandpeng - Today at 11:19:41 AM

George Lloyd (1913-1998).

Disc 4.

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat (1947-8).
Recorded: Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, 1989.

Symphony No. 6 (1956.
Recorded:Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester 1988.

BBC Philharmonic.

An ongoing pleasure, in music, performance and sound. The second movement of the 6th Symphony is absolutely devastating in its tonal beauty.

Couldn't agree more 🙂