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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Chopin Recordings
Last post by Mandryka - Today at 09:48:09 PM
Amusing comments from Lim in the booklet

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/32/000169823.pdf
#2
Scelsi: Riti: I Funerali Di Alessandro Magno

#3
Quote from: DavidW on Today at 02:57:12 PMThe absolute best:


Maybe, but I wouldn't recommend it as the first, let alone the only, choice to people with no special interest in Tchaikovsky, a category to which Poju obviously belongs. Besides, it's incomplete, and Winter Dreams and Manfred are unmissable. IMO Poju's best option is this:



Complete symphonies including Manfred, all the important overtures, two ballet suites, the charming string serenade and PC1 with Andrei Gavrilov. Solid, no-nonsense performances in excellent sound. One could really not wish more, who is not particularly a fan of Tchaikovsky.



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The Diner / Re: What game are you playing?
Last post by LKB - Today at 08:04:02 PM
I've stepped away from Diablo 4 for a few days ( or perhaps a few weeks... ), since Diablo 3 is into Season 31.

D3 is still a hoot. Some of the NPC dialogue is better than anything my coworkers ever come up with, and the game still look's good enough to not leave me wishing for better visuals.

Say what you like about Blizzard ( and I have certainly said enough that's been negative over the last couple years ), but I've used very few products which have given me as much value as D3 has over the years.

#5

Contents;
H 649/Wq 174 in C major
H 651/Wq 176 in D major
H 652/Wq 177 in e minor
H 657/Wq 182/1 in G major
H 659/Wq 182/3 in C major
H 660/Wq 182/4 in A major
H 661/Wqb182/5 in b minor
#6
This must be the longest violin sonata ever written (unless Feldman had wrote something like Violin and Piano): 58:36 min.

It does have its longueurs, but there are moments where it sounds more focused and/or with memorable material, e.g. the 2nd movement (fantastic music there) and part of the 4th movement.

#7
I meant part of the celebration in a broader sense, not necessarily related to what you posted.
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Composer Discussion / Re: Boris Tishchenko (1939 - 2...
Last post by Roy Bland - Today at 06:17:05 PM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on Today at 05:35:23 PMThis new recording must be part of the celebration of his anniversary I guess:


it doesn't seems same item
https://bomba-piter.ru/shop/product/tishchenko-boris-beg-vremeni-iuliia-kuchina-patrichelli-anton-lubchenko


"... Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko wrote the vocal cycle "The Running of Time" in 2003, in his last decade - this is one of his later masterpieces. And all the more symbolic is this appeal to the work of Anna Akhmatova, the love for which he carried throughout his life: back in 1966 year, the composer wrote the famous "Requiem" based on its text.
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The Diner / Re: What game are you playing?
Last post by hopefullytrusting - Today at 05:57:53 PM
YouTube has finally pushed me over the edge, and I need to start healing my brain (attention span, critical thinking, thinking outside the box, etc.), so I've begun slow videogaming by going back to a classic point-and-click, Phantasmagoria, and playing it one chapter a day, at most, and making sure I struggle through the puzzles before using their hint system (had to use it once because of a mechanic the have didn't make clear, lol, but became obvious after the fact).

Taking this practice to my movie and tv watching as well - no more binging - 1 episode at a time, at most, per day.

I'm already starting to feel a little better. :-)
#10
My St George's Day listening so far:

The Lark Ascending
Robert Simpson SQ12 and String Quintet 1

I think I'll go Elizabethan/Jacobean this afternoon with Byrd and Dowland.