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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Purchases Today
Last post by Mapman - Today at 05:22:36 PMMy friends just gave me a pile of CDs, mostly organ music. It includes most of this box. Do the organ-lovers here like the performances in it?
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by foxandpeng - Today at 04:12:32 PMPēteris Vasks
Violin Concerto 2 'In Evening Light'
Munchener Kammerorchester
Sergej Bolkhovets
Vasks moves me emotionally, I'm not ashamed to admit. His music speaks of another world and a greater hope.
Bravo, Mr V.
Violin Concerto 2 'In Evening Light'
Munchener Kammerorchester
Sergej Bolkhovets
Vasks moves me emotionally, I'm not ashamed to admit. His music speaks of another world and a greater hope.
Bravo, Mr V.
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The Diner / Re: What game are you playing?
Last post by hopefullytrusting - Today at 03:58:56 PMRecall, a post ago - how happy I was - how content, and that is because I forgot I was playing a game made by Sierra On-line, perhaps the most notorious studio when it came to making games - they were famous for quantity over quality, but enough preamble. Let me tell you what they did.
As soon as you reach the final chase circuit of Phantasmagoria, it overwrites, yes overwrites, your save file - locking you into that circuit, which means if you missed an item prior to entering the circuit, as I did, you literally cannot win. Not only can you not win, you can't quick escape - you have to hard close the game, as they disabled the skip function as well.
I've gained the character quality of long-suffering.
As soon as you reach the final chase circuit of Phantasmagoria, it overwrites, yes overwrites, your save file - locking you into that circuit, which means if you missed an item prior to entering the circuit, as I did, you literally cannot win. Not only can you not win, you can't quick escape - you have to hard close the game, as they disabled the skip function as well.
I've gained the character quality of long-suffering.
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Composer Discussion / Re: Mozart
Last post by prémont - Today at 03:30:18 PMQuote from: Spotted Horses on Today at 06:38:49 AMI tend to think of the Trevor Pinnock recordings of baroque and classical orchestral music as having an excessively strict "sewing machine" articulation and I might be tempted to make such a comment,
This is true to some extent - Pinnock's agogics are very subtle, and maybe we notice it partly because we nowadays are accustomed to more flexible playing. However, when compared to Karl Richter's interpretations of Bach, Pinnock's approach is indeed more flexible, contrasting somewhat with Richter's genuine sewing-machine style
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Composer Discussion / Re: Mozart
Last post by prémont - Today at 03:18:14 PMQuote from: Florestan on Today at 11:14:36 AMLooks like we're going in circles, my friend. Allow me to clarify my position once and for all.
In response to that, I pointed out the well-documented, incontrovertible fact that most ensembles during the Classical Era, that is between roughly 1750 and 1830, were under-rehearsed and semi-professional, therefore they sounded under-rehearsed and semi-professional, ie completely and utterly unlike a HIP ensemble of today, which is comprised of over-rehearsed professionals, oftenly doubling as scholars --- ie, exactly and precisely what the Classical Era musicians were not.
I cannot and will not make my position any clearer than that.
Circles or not, I don't know. The issue is that you haven't understood the irrelevance of the professional level (or lack thereof) of Classical musicians to today's HIP musician. It appears you believe that HIP aims for exact replication, which is not the case. Such a belief would suggest that if, for example, a corno player made several mistakes during the premiere of a work, we would need to replicate those errors 1 to 1 today to achieve a truly historically informed performance, which is, of course, an absurd perspective.
I cannot and will not make my critique of your position any clearer than that.
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The Diner / Re: What TV series are you cur...
Last post by DavidW - Today at 03:09:30 PMQuote from: Karl Henning on Today at 02:47:16 PMI don't remember the laws of robotics figuring in the books. But, when I read them, there were only three (books, that is.) and now I vaguely wonder if he went on to write more.
Despite me reading them in middle school I still remember. Daneel Olivaw (who was in the robot novels) at the end of that series gained the powers of telepathy from another robot, and those two created the zeroth law of robotics that superseded the three.
"A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."
He set himself up to guide the galactic empire, and secretly ruled it for thousands of years in the emperor's shadow. All was revealed in Foundation and Earth.
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The Diner / Re: What TV series are you cur...
Last post by Karl Henning - Today at 02:47:16 PMQuote from: DavidW on April 24, 2024, 09:35:30 AMThere is only one thing which is the violation of the three laws of robotics. I do know that the last robot in the books adhered to the zeroth law which allowed him to do that, but that has not been addressed in the show.I don't remember the laws of robotics figuring in the books. But, when I read them, there were only three (books, that is.) and now I vaguely wonder if he went on to write more.
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by Karl Henning - Today at 02:43:26 PMQuote from: classicalgeek on April 25, 2024, 01:35:41 PMOne of my favorite Shostakovich cycles, and the Ninth was superb. A little disappointed in the Tenth, though... it felt a bit... underpowered?Agreed that it is a good but not outstanding Tenth.