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#21

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

Last post by AnotherSpin - Today at 12:41:22 AM

Yungchen Lhamo - Tibet, Tibet

#22

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

Last post by prémont - Today at 12:32:47 AM

Yes, very often the counters are to blame for rejecting a recording, Visse is a case in point.....horrible!

My first association is a Danish expression "ja, til visse" which means something like "yes indeed".

[The Day of the Jackal]

#23

The Diner / Re: Last Movie You Watched

Last post by 71 dB - Today at 12:27:11 AM

The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann, 1973)

Surprisingly good movie! The runtime is about 140 minutes, but the movie feels shorter than that.

[Everyday Non-sense:]

#24

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What concerts are you look...

Last post by ultralinear - Today at 12:08:33 AM

Tonight, a show devised by Patricia Kopatchinskaja which she has titled Everyday Non-sense:

A concert-theatre experience created by the trailblazing violinist transforms the stage into a living room, animated by works by Mozart, Ligeti and Cage.

Mieko Shiomi  Falling Event
Tomas Schmit  Sanitas No.151
Dick Higgins Danger Music Number Seventeen
George Brecht Symphony No.3
Mozart  Ein musikalischer Spaß (A Musical Joke) K.522
Kurtág  Hommage à Tchaikovsky from Játékok, Bk.1
Cage Living Room Music
PatKop from Ghiribizzi (Whims)
      Für Reto ... wo? (For Reto ... where?)
      Sonnerie (Ringing)
      Friede sei mit Euch (Peace be with you)
      Skizzenhaft (Sketchy)
Françaix Mouvement de valse (4th movement) from Octet
Ligeti Fanfare for car horns from Le Grand Macabre
Ligeti Mysteries of the Macabre

Aurora Orchestra
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin, director

The reminder email contains the warning:

Please be aware that loud percussion is used during this performance.

Excellent.

#25

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

Last post by 71 dB - Today at 12:07:56 AM

I am a 2020s hater. I hate what the World has become. This is the first decade in my life when I feel I don't belong to this reality at all (I have always felt I'm living on the wrong planet because of my personality/neurotype, but before this decade I felt I can connect to the World at least in some ways). I have almost nothing to offer the World and vice versa. Almost all the stuff that is good in the World is stuff that existed before. Sunshine on my face still feel nice. Pop music from 2010-12 sounds still cool. Recently I say the movie "Day of the Jackal" from 1973 and it was surprisingly good! This decade don't get credit for those things.

In order to cope with the misery of 2020s I have been listening to certain type of music from 1990-92 that feel nostalgic. I have been buying that kind of music online on CD. This has helped a lot. I now understand why older people live in the past. I was born in 1971. The World has become too "modern" for me. I am not against advancements in technology, but so much good has been destroyed as a side effect. Artificial Intelligent is cool, but the cost will be insane: a lot of people will be unemployed living in poverty while the profits go to ultra rich people. We are losing humanity. We are losing so much. Somehow we are creating a World were most people do nothing but struggle to survive instead of technology creating us ALL a paradise. So, that's why I rather live in the past while acknowledging only the best things of today. So, I listen to music such as this (a side project of Saint Etienne from 1991):

For me it is totally irrelevant if this kind of music is objectively bad or crap for somebody else. This music means surprisingly much to me.

#26

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Purchases Today

Last post by akebergv - Today at 12:02:39 AM

That is a wonderful box set, you should enjoy it!

I have now received the Real Chopin box, and after listening to its first two Cds I am not sorry for my purchase. The first disc is an outlier, a historical recording from 1948 with Raoul Koczalski playing on Chopin's own 1847 Pleyel, but it's not only the piano that's the connection back to Chopin: Koczalski's teacher was in turn Chopin's student. The booklet makes a strong case for this being an example of a style of playing now largely lost, if also heard in the Chopin recordings by Alfred Cortot. Each of the remaining recordings are modern, played by a different pianist on either a Pleyel or an Erard piano from the mid 19th Century. The one I just listened to was the Mazurkas played by the well-know Chopin pianist Fou Ts'ong on a 1849 Erard, and I really liked what I heard: rather wistful but not the least cranky.

#27

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

Last post by Maestro267 - April 23, 2024, 11:59:02 PM

George Lloyd Symphony No. 9, especially the grim slow movement.

#28

Composer Discussion / Re: Haydn's Haus

Last post by Jo498 - April 23, 2024, 11:44:54 PM

Would it be too much to ask to get back to Haydn? Or in any case carry on this completely off-topic stuff elsewhere?

[Orff: Carmina Burana]

#29

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Purchases Today

Last post by Peter Power Pop - April 23, 2024, 11:34:22 PM

Orff: Carmina Burana (London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / André Previn)

Orff: Carmina Burana (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus / Marin Alsop)

#30

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

Last post by Harry - April 23, 2024, 11:27:26 PM

The main drawback of this otherwise great recording is the participation of counter tenor Dominique Visse, who stains this record with his horrible voice.

Yes, very often the counters are to blame for rejecting a recording, Visse is a case in point.....horrible!