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The Diner / Re: The AFL / Aussie Rules Thr...

Last post by Papy Oli - Today at 03:02:43 AM

Having a good evening @Holden ?

HT Suns 71 - 38 Cats

Sigh.

Might change back my avatar....

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Books on Classical Music :...

Last post by Cato - Today at 03:02:36 AM

Has anyone seen this recent book as a physical copy? Published by Cambridge in the last few years and expensive - listed on Amazon as over 500 pages - MY INTEREST are the illustrations which I cannot determine from Amazon or the Cambridge website - in my mind a book of this type would require a LOT of great pics - can anyone help me decide on a purchase (now $36 paperback on Amazon but if I had $20 credit then a BUY!).  Thanks - Dave

I found this for you: it seems to have at least c. 100 photographs taken by the author "unless otherwise noted" according to the List of Figures:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Stringed_Keyboard_Instrumen/60pgEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Books on Classical Music :...

Last post by Mookalafalas - Today at 02:10:02 AM

@Mookalafalas curious about two of the conductor memoirs you have read recently and how they handle more "dramatic"/sordid sides of things. Does Schwarz discuss his ejection from Seattle and the bitterness there? And does Brusilow discuss the unceremonious end of the Dallas Symphony on his watch? My understanding is that the orchestra brought him over from Philly as a bright young future star, but the orchestra went into the ground, donations dried up, and half a season was cancelled for lack of cash. The DSO then went into "dark ages" until being rescued by some super rich locals and Eduardo Mata. I'm curious if this is yet another incident where Brusilow says he is the good guy done wrong...

  Sorry, Brian, I just saw this. It's been a while since I read them...I don't think Schwarz mentioned any unpleasantness in Seattle. The second half of the book is how he built it up from rubble, and got a huge beautiful hall built. He did say his NEW MUSIC choices were sometimes unpopular. I vaguely remember wondering why he was moving on--if it was age or what.  And Brusilow never acknowledged any personal failings, whatsoever. I recall his "creatively" getting popular music recording contracts, to give the orchestra extra money. And he talked a lot about how Ormandy vengefully threatened to have any soloist who played with Dallas blackballed from the classical world, and scared them all away--except for Van Cliburn, who continued to play for him. I think he also talked about a music critic who had it in for him, although that comes up in a lot of the bios, and I could be mixing them up.
 

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Film (movie) Music

Last post by Irons - Today at 01:42:34 AM

Does not sound like Lennox Berkeley but I like it.

https://landofllostcontent.blogspot.com/2024/05/lennox-berkeley-film-music-for-hotel.html

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Composer Discussion / Re: CPE Bach (Carl Philipp Ema...

Last post by Mandryka - Today at 01:29:25 AM

I listened to a piano recording (by Dejan Lazic) of the fascinatingly bizarre miniature "La Böhmer" and it reminded me of an even more manic, eccentric Scarlatti. Does anyone have any favorite modern piano or pianoforte CPE keyboard collections? I have the recent Marc-Andre Hamelin two-disc set but cannot remember the contents immediately, and of course the Pletnev DG recital is notorious.

Just started listening to the YouTube video above of the harpsichord-piano concerto and can't stop. The dialogue and timbral variety is so engrossing!

I can let you have a transfer of Nina Milkina's LP is you want. She understood the manic eccentric Scarlatti side of the music. She made a Scarlatti recording too.  Milkina was a pupil of Leon Conus, Tobias Matthay, and Harold Craxton.



If you're open to tangent pianos check Lubimov's ECM - his recording Der Bote on modern piano too.

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

Last post by AnotherSpin - May 15, 2024, 09:57:30 PM

Op. 106

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

Last post by Pohjolas Daughter - May 15, 2024, 08:20:59 PM

Just started watching this one -- and yes, it's a hard one to watch.

[Dutilleux: Piano Sonata]

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

Last post by Spotted Horses - May 15, 2024, 07:24:11 PM

Dutilleux: Piano Sonata

Phenomenal work. As far as 20th-century piano sonatas go, this runs to the fore IMO.

...and Queffelec is a major talent.

[Dutilleux: Piano Sonata]

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

Last post by Symphonic Addict - May 15, 2024, 07:08:51 PM

Dutilleux: Piano Sonata

Phenomenal work. As far as 20th-century piano sonatas go, this runs to the fore IMO.

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

Last post by JBS - May 15, 2024, 07:05:25 PM

I am afraid you are the only one dear Jeffrey,   

Not at all, not at all!
TD
First listen to Mme Farrenc. Composer I am most reminded of at the moment (which happens to be the Scherzo of the Third Symphony) is Mendelssohn.