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#1
These lute recordings you mention @spooky  - the Kapsberger and Richter's with Mezangeau etc - are both recorded at quite realistic levels, from the audience. It's quite a shock, and makes you see how artificial most lute recordings are. Similar phenomenon with clavichord.

I was really enjoying D'Orfeo last night, can't get enough of it at the moment- both the harp and the lute!

By the way, I just found another Kapsberger recording which sounds pretty nice I think, by Carlos Oramas

https://open.spotify.com/album/0ZLOHVEg711rXkUlYOgU6S?highlight=spotify:track:1UKY1EsdK1KvV9vqulpDs7
#2
The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...
Last post by Crudblud - Today at 01:12:12 AM
Zola - Au Bonheur des Dames ("The Ladies' Paradise", trans. Nelson, Oxford Classics)

Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Peter Smith - Introduction to Formal Logic (university "fun" :-\)
#3
Quote from: lordlance on March 25, 2024, 09:17:39 AMAny recommendations for Bruckner 4 and 6 specifically from neglected/under-the-radar conductors?
Volkmar Andreae although I only know the 4th on Orfeo, there was later a whole? cycle published from radio or live recordings. Historical sound (1950s), though. It's a fast and passionate approach that has mostly vanished from Bruckner interpretation in the last 60 years.
#4
Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: New Releases
Last post by Que - Today at 12:27:33 AM
I never expected to see another release by Fra Bernardo again, they must still be afloat:

 

Release date in Germany: 5th of April.
#5
Quote from: steve ridgway on March 27, 2024, 10:36:41 PMStravinsky: The Rite Of Spring



I said before - I like this Rite - quite cool and objective but also clean and precise in a sinewy atheltic kind of way.  Not as brutal as some performances but still rather fine I think.  Check out Skrowaczewski's Ravel on Vox in Minnesota for more excellent performances....
#6
The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...
Last post by Florestan - March 27, 2024, 11:59:57 PM


The amount of bullshit contained in this book regarding historical and contemporary Spain would certainly make @ritter 's brain explode. I wonder whether the authors have ever seen a map of Spain, let alone read anything at all about its history. Dan Brown's level, maybe even below.  ;D
#7
And what better to follow than Henry Cowell: Who Wrote This Fiendish 'Rite Of Spring'? from Three Anti-Modernist Songs? :laugh:



Lyrics by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, from the Boston Herald, February 1924, collected in Slonimsky's book Music Since 1900.

Who wrote this fiendish "Rite of Spring"?
What right had he to write the thing?
Against our helpless ears to fling
Its crash, clash, cling, clang, bing, bang bing?
 
And then to call it "Rite of SPRING,"
The season when on joyous wing
The birds melodious carols sing
And harmony's in every thing!
 
He who could write the "Rite of Spring,"
If I be right by right should swing!




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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by Que - March 27, 2024, 11:47:28 PM
Morning listening:



Easter is early this year!
Trying to make a modest dent in my collection of music for the Holy Week.
#9
Stravinsky: The Rite Of Spring

#10
Composing and Performing / Re: What are you playing?
Last post by qurasjovan - March 27, 2024, 10:14:50 PM
This one of the funnest pieces to play, I hope you like interpretation of it. 😊