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

Last post by Brian - Today at 05:28:01 PM

Speaking of which, I think my wine bottle is properly chilled now, time to fetch it 

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

Last post by Symphonic Addict - Today at 05:27:30 PM

I haven't been able to tear myself away from von Weber's Flute Trio, since I heard it last week. As neither a regular listener of the Classical Era, nor chamber music, I have surprised myself here.

I've only heard the Kremerata, but will branch out after a while.
VS

Interesting. I don't remember this work well (in fact, I don't remember if I've ever listened to it).

BTW, do you know his Clarinet Quintet? Most people seem to listen to ones by Brahms and Mozart most of the time, but this is quite fun and inspired too.

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

Last post by Symphonic Addict - Today at 05:24:18 PM

This recommendation worked, listening now! I think I'm going to enjoy the Fountains of Liquor and Procession of the Gluttons 

Certainly that music sort of invites to some 'good' excesses!

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The Diner / Re: Last Movie You Watched

Last post by SimonNZ - Today at 05:04:06 PM

Photographer Richard Billingham's first feature film. A recreation of his childhood in a Midlands council estate with parents who had given up years ago and become totally apathetic and wanted nothing more from life, or family, than drinking and smoking the days away. Thatcher-era squalor captured in granular detail.

Brilliant and quite unlike anything else.

[Nicholson]

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The Diner / Re: Last Movie You Watched

Last post by SimonNZ - Today at 04:49:52 PM

My memory of it is close to Todd's. Nicholson, Beatty, and Keaton all play themselves.

I did like the witness interviews, but I can understand why they seem out of place.

Interesting you both say that, because my memory of Reds is that its the one time Nicholson dialed it back, wasn't just being his usual self. Last time I saw it I thought it his best work, largely for that reason.

[initial 200pp are dreadfully tedious.]

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The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...

Last post by SimonNZ - Today at 04:43:25 PM

Proust. Swann's Way. Journey through À la recherche du temps perdu, finally started.

I appreciate that this is a huge, descriptive work, so I'm buckled up for the entire ride. Having said that, the initial 200pp are dreadfully tedious.

Ah, but this means you're about to start the "Swann In Love" section...

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The Diner / Re: Non-Classical Music Listen...

Last post by SimonNZ - Today at 04:22:28 PM

I was a big fan of Real World releases 20 or so years ago. Didn't listen for years, and now it sounds fresh again

Yeah, me too. Passion and Passion Sources were two of my most loved and played albums in my late teens. I probably had their first ten years of releases complete.


Now:

Never payed much attention to this song before, but heard and amazing live version in a shop the other day and since have been trying to find which it was.

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The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...

Last post by foxandpeng - Today at 04:11:48 PM

Proust. Swann's Way. Journey through À la recherche du temps perdu, finally started.

I appreciate that this is a huge, descriptive work, so I'm buckled up for the entire ride. Having said that, the initial 200pp are dreadfully tedious.

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The Diner / Re: Non-Classical Music Listen...

Last post by foxandpeng - Today at 04:06:14 PM

"1914" is the name of the death metal band from Lviv, Ukraine.

Decent. Also a Drudkh and Hate Forest fan, amongst others.

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The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...

Last post by SimonNZ - Today at 04:06:10 PM

Interesting. How do you rate that?

I have an instant attraction to anything Cambridge put into their Canto series.


TD: Finished:



and starting straight in to the next in Kynaston's sequence (his latest):