Quote from: Papy Oli on April 17, 2024, 06:03:24 AMMore of a documentary but what a watch:
FREE SOLO (2018)
"From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi ("MERU") and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film's FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world's most famous rock ... the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park ... without a rope.
Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold's climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death."
If, like me you struggle at the top of a three step-ladder, this will be a harrowing and mesmerizing watch in equal measures. Our watch was strewn with "Hell Nooooos...." , just way more sweary The climber's relationships with his girlfriend, the filming crew and fellow climbers while training and preparing this feat add an incredible layer to this documentary.
A great petrified recommendation
Quote from: Spotted Horses on Today at 04:22:44 AMAnd now she is doing it all a second time, creating the dilemma, "which version is better?"! I find no clear answer.
Her Faure disc is also great!
Quote from: krummholz on April 28, 2024, 07:11:27 AMYes, that's another reason I didn't make any huge effort to take anything with me: it was my first total eclipse, and I just wanted mostly to take it all in, including the twilit ambiance on the ground and the 360º sunset effect.
BTW I can see assuming that the naked-eye prominences were solar flares - there were plenty of prominences visible elsewhere on the Sun's limb through the Sun and H-alpha filters, but they were NOT visible during totality because (evidently) they didn't reach up to the altitude of the ones you photographed. The fact that this one extended well above the Moon does support the idea that they might have been solar flares. But they didn't reach high into the corona, and their strong H-alpha coloring (the pinkish color is from the H-alpha emission line of hydrogen) suggests that they were lower altitude, less violent prominences (though they might have been surge prominences).
Your photo shows something I didn't notice during the eclipse: the corona appears to be missing just to the left of the brightest prominence. A coronal hole, would be my guess - a window through which the solar wind streams out.
Quote from: pjme on Today at 12:44:25 AMThank you for this special additional information. Do you prefer the original version from 1851 (4 movements / dedication to Liszt) or is it the version in seven movements (additions from 1863 and 1880) that is more important? What are the main shortcomings of the existing recorded versions? What would be an "ideal" recording?
I found this interesting text (1994) at the site of the American Symphony Orchestra , written by Carol Reynards:
https://americansymphony.org/concert-notes/symphony-no-2-in-c-major-op-42-ocean/
I'm listening to Ghedini's Marinaresca e baccanale - a very memorable and original "seapiece"!
Quote from: DavidW on Today at 03:38:54 AMWell that won't happen, unless it is from a Stockhausen fiend that is mocking you for listening to Bach!
Quote from: aukhawk on Today at 01:17:24 AMMessiaen: Le Loriot; Yvonne Loriod (1st recording)
Note that the words Loriot and Loriod in French sound much the same, since the final consonant is not sounded. And this music, which must have been in Messiaen's mind for over 10 years since he first encountered the young pianist, is probably as much about the person as it is about the bird.
The bird itself is pictured on the original LP cover image (below). Now picture the scene at the premiere performance of the complete Catalogue in 1959, which Loriod/Loriot performed entirely from memory as was her habit - seated at the piano wearing a yellow gown with black sleeves ...
Messiaen, Catalogue d'Oiseaux, Loriod, Vega
Quote from: DavidW on Today at 03:44:25 AMThat opened the door for solo keyboard Bach for me. Even when I had eliminated my cd collection thinking I would stream only... I actually still kept that box set! I also have her in the chamber music, Art of the Fugue and some arrangements. All exquisite!
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