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#1

GMG News / Re: Bug Report 2024

Last post by VonStupp - Today at 11:49:23 AM

On the other hand, what could an malicious actor want from this site? To gain unauthorized access to our preference for Bruckner symphonies?

Profiling lovers of Havergal Brian perhaps?
VS

#2

Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Beethoven piano sonata sho...

Last post by Florestan - Today at 11:36:31 AM

Yes, you are right
Yes, you are right. I have re-read the OP. However I didn't imagine this explanation, maybe because I don't see much purpose in ranking no.s 11 to 20. What's the next? Ranking no.s 21 to 30? One can go on ad libitum and the results wouldn't count for anyone.

It's just a vanity project.

BTW, Beethoven wrote more than one piano sonata —— the thread's title is inaccurate.

#3

Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Beethoven piano sonata sho...

Last post by prémont - Today at 11:33:07 AM

Yes, you are right

It is because he is trying to rank his personal #11-20, not his top 10, and the mono version is already in his top 10.

Yes, you are right. I have re-read the OP. However I didn't imagine this explanation, maybe because I don't see much purpose in ranking no.s 11 to 20. What's the next? Ranking no.s 21 to 30? One can go on ad libitum and the results wouldn't count for anyone.

[Víctor de Sabata]

#4

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

Last post by ritter - Today at 11:32:53 AM

Víctor de Sabata conducts the combined Rome and Turin EIAR (Italian Radio) Choruses and Orchestras, and vocal soloists Pia Tassinari, Ebe Stignani, Ferruccio Tagliavini and Ítalo Tajo in the Mozart Requiem. Recorded in Rome in 1941.

CD4 of this set:


Gloriously grand, Italianate and old-fashioned. 

#5

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

Last post by AnotherSpin - Today at 11:31:49 AM

Op. 106 (live rec. 1959, Germany)

#6

The Diner / Re: Pictures I like

Last post by VonStupp - Today at 11:23:56 AM

Thank you for that

I found out a little bit of information about the work (see link below).  Apparently, the composer had initially called it "Uncle Tom".  No idea as to why he had renamed it to "Uncle Teddy" when it was published.  https://www.rundel.de/en/article/uncle_teddy/MVSR2323

PD

Thank you for that; it was an interesting tidbit!
VS

[Bruckner]

#7

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

Last post by Linz - Today at 11:23:17 AM

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor,1890 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti

[Arnold SchönbergString Quartet No.2Schoenberg Quartet]

#8

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

Last post by Lisztianwagner - Today at 11:19:12 AM

Arnold Schönberg
String Quartet No.2

Schoenberg Quartet

#9

Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Beethoven piano sonata sho...

Last post by Brian - Today at 11:16:21 AM

For some unknown reason Todd used Backhaus' stereo recording for comparison. The earlier mono recording is generally more successful.

It is because he is trying to rank his personal #11-20, not his top 10, and the mono version is already in his top 10.

#10

GMG News / Re: Bug Report 2024

Last post by Spotted Horses - Today at 11:15:32 AM

Your first comment had also crossed my mind...wondering how much it might deter people.  We classical music lovers are a determined group however!   

Your second point is an interesting one.  Also, is there a way to block downloading of pages/topics/threads?  Would that be possible?  Just throwing out some ideas.

PD

I seem to remember on a different classical music site I would occasionally be told that I had to wait a few seconds before hitting like, or something similar.