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Composer Discussion / Re: Gabriel Fauré (Faure)
Last post by Florestan - Today at 03:07:08 AM
Quote from: Mandryka on Today at 02:36:00 AM


I'm listening to Debargue playing Fauré's op 103 preludes, and I'm enjoying the lightness of touch, and the changing colours very much.

Very apt indeed, because said Fauré: And I always enjoy seeing sunlight play on the rocks, the water, the trees and plains. What variety of effects, what brilliance and what softness... I wish my music could show as much diversity.

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Composer Discussion / Re: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770...
Last post by Iota - Today at 03:04:02 AM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on May 04, 2024, 11:59:25 PMI don't see contradiction in turning to the same piece and reaching something higher every day.

I must say, nor do I. Performers/listeners turn to pieces of music again and again, constantly finding new things and fresh inspirations with each visit. It's a well-documented phenomenon.
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by Iota - Today at 02:52:13 AM


Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

As good as any I've heard. In combination with the unique bewitchment powers of the Prelude,  Denève's conducting takes us to a sensory stratosphere. Wondrous.
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Composer Discussion / Re: Gabriel Fauré (Faure)
Last post by Mandryka - Today at 02:36:00 AM



I'm listening to Debargue playing Fauré's op 103 preludes, and I'm enjoying the lightness of touch, and the changing colours very much.
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by Mandryka - Today at 02:17:43 AM
Quote from: Que on May 04, 2024, 10:00:56 PM

I probably shouldn't buy any discs any more, but occasionally I still do. And as it happens to fully grasp the concept behind this 2CD issue (with combined playing time and price of a single disc) you need the booklet with pictures of the landscapes in presentday Belgium and northern France, or the book by Van Nevel from 2018 in which he illustrates his theory that these physical landscapes influenced the mental landscapes of the composers who grew up and lived in it and by consequence their musical landscapes.

Breathtakingly beautiful performances of music by Johannes Symonis Hasprois, Antoine Busnois, Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin Desprez, Antoine de Févin, Jean Mouton, Nicolle des Celliers de Hesdin, Jean l'Héritier, Josquin Baston, Pierre de Manchicourt and Nicolas Gombert. Van Nevel is now in his late 70s but hasn't lost his magical touch. I wish he would a complete  Busnois recording or all the Desprez masses, but all his recent recordings are multiple composers recitals, often taken from concerts.. ..

The thing you miss is the photographic projections. In concert the whole thing was an impressive show - polished music making, for me over-polished (as always with van Nevel), but nevertheless stunningly beautiful. Quite instructive to hear too because the pieces were arranged chronologically, so you got a real feel for how musical fashions changed
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Composer Discussion / Re: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770...
Last post by Florestan - Today at 01:58:43 AM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on May 04, 2024, 11:59:25 PMI don't see contradiction in turning to the same piece and reaching something higher every day. One could say that constant skipping from one piece to another expresses a shallow sliding from one side to the other without allowing one to grasp the heights. Or the depths, if you wish :)

That's a pro domo sua pleading, what with your listening to 120 Hammerklaviers in the last two weeks.  :D
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by vandermolen - Today at 01:46:24 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on May 04, 2024, 02:31:21 PMWhat was the Glazunov work?

PD
Of the Kalevala - Kalevalasta - Ur Kalevla (Finnish Sketches)
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The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...
Last post by Mandryka - Today at 01:36:45 AM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on May 04, 2024, 12:46:40 AMWhat kind of animal is this, a "free thinker"? :D 



A free thinker is someone whose opinions are not by consensus or dogmatic assertions. It's an Enlightenment idea
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by Harry - Today at 01:27:08 AM
JOHANNES OCKEGHEM (c. 1420-1497)
COMPLETE SONGS, VOLUME 1.
Recorded September, 2018, Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
Blue Heron.
Megan Chartrand, Kim Leeds, Sophie Michaux, Martin Near, Margot Rood discantus, Owen McIntosh, Jason McStoots, Stefan Reed, Aaron Sheehan, Sumner Thompson, tenor & contratenor, Paul Guttry, David McFerrin bassus, Laura Jeppesen, Vielle, Scott Metcalfe Director, harp & vielle.

Every bit as good as Volume II.
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Interesting Lesser Known C...
Last post by Roasted Swan - Today at 01:14:27 AM
Not really "lesser known" but certainly a violinist who perhaps did not have the career his talent deserved.  Aaron Rosand's recordings tended to be on smaller labels with lesser orchestras but I have to say he remains one of my favourite players.  Perhaps not as consistent as some but phenomenal technique and when he was on fire a tremendous and compelling musician.

Here is a memoir he wrote nearly a decade ago about his fractured relationship with Isaac Stern.  A sad reflection on the all too human side of genius

https://slippedisc.com/2014/07/high-explosive-aaron-rosand-accuses-isaac-stern-of-sabotaging-his-career/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3YaAZEczqHSXHCI7W9Hs3U9znrcOQSwzMD_IXb3LKaP2Vnsw4UKtBm0DA_aem_ASqFsGF_Lv7xrKbMP-84dlMxF3l8z32pDTYai8wohqOqSJb4_53xQK7t1IwqCtUvqA21cTuAl_Yd7ZMMhEjdoCqh
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