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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Your favourite Tchaikovsky...
Last post by AnotherSpin - Today at 10:11:37 PMQuote from: Florestan on Today at 04:25:15 AMOh, I wasn't talking about conductors, but about people who complain about Tchaikovsky being schmaltzy and melodramatic.
Re-listened to the 4th yesterday, in parts, couldn't do it completely. Particularly repulsive are all these "folk" songs and motifs, as Во поле березка стояла. Mother Russia, the stench of gutalin and manure, ruddy, pimply, sweaty девки, short and crooked drunken мужики with sparse beards, vodka flowing straight from the samovar.
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Your favourite Tchaikovsky...
Last post by Wanderer - Today at 10:06:59 PMI see that I'd voted for Symphony No.1 in the poll (who are the other three voters? 
). It is still the Tchaikovsky symphony I cherish the most - his most balletic, and without the soul-crushing dourness of later works.
Of the last three symphonies, I used to like the 4th the best, but it's the Currentzis 6 I return to the most nowadays; he manages to convey the hurricane of a tormented, desperate soul (which I assume is what Tchaikovsky would've wanted) and not make it sound like a histrionic tantrum, which is what usually turns out in modern performances.
). It is still the Tchaikovsky symphony I cherish the most - his most balletic, and without the soul-crushing dourness of later works.Of the last three symphonies, I used to like the 4th the best, but it's the Currentzis 6 I return to the most nowadays; he manages to convey the hurricane of a tormented, desperate soul (which I assume is what Tchaikovsky would've wanted) and not make it sound like a histrionic tantrum, which is what usually turns out in modern performances.
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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Chopin Recordings
Last post by Mandryka - Today at 09:48:09 PM #4
General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by steve ridgway - Today at 09:24:02 PMScelsi: Riti: I Funerali Di Alessandro Magno
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Your favourite Tchaikovsky...
Last post by Florestan - Today at 08:34:27 PMQuote from: DavidW on Today at 02:57:12 PMThe absolute best:
Maybe, but I wouldn't recommend it as the first, let alone the only, choice to people with no special interest in Tchaikovsky, a category to which Poju obviously belongs. Besides, it's incomplete, and Winter Dreams and Manfred are unmissable. IMO Poju's best option is this:
Complete symphonies including Manfred, all the important overtures, two ballet suites, the charming string serenade and PC1 with Andrei Gavrilov. Solid, no-nonsense performances in excellent sound. One could really not wish more, who is not particularly a fan of Tchaikovsky.
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The Diner / Re: What game are you playing?
Last post by LKB - Today at 08:04:02 PMI've stepped away from Diablo 4 for a few days ( or perhaps a few weeks... ), since Diablo 3 is into Season 31.
D3 is still a hoot. Some of the NPC dialogue is better than anything my coworkers ever come up with, and the game still look's good enough to not leave me wishing for better visuals.
Say what you like about Blizzard ( and I have certainly said enough that's been negative over the last couple years ), but I've used very few products which have given me as much value as D3 has over the years.
D3 is still a hoot. Some of the NPC dialogue is better than anything my coworkers ever come up with, and the game still look's good enough to not leave me wishing for better visuals.
Say what you like about Blizzard ( and I have certainly said enough that's been negative over the last couple years ), but I've used very few products which have given me as much value as D3 has over the years.
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by JBS - Today at 07:28:31 PM
Contents;
H 649/Wq 174 in C major
H 651/Wq 176 in D major
H 652/Wq 177 in e minor
H 657/Wq 182/1 in G major
H 659/Wq 182/3 in C major
H 660/Wq 182/4 in A major
H 661/Wqb182/5 in b minor
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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by Symphonic Addict - Today at 07:01:45 PMThis must be the longest violin sonata ever written (unless Feldman had wrote something like Violin and Piano): 58:36 min.
It does have its longueurs, but there are moments where it sounds more focused and/or with memorable material, e.g. the 2nd movement (fantastic music there) and part of the 4th movement.
It does have its longueurs, but there are moments where it sounds more focused and/or with memorable material, e.g. the 2nd movement (fantastic music there) and part of the 4th movement.
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Composer Discussion / Re: Boris Tishchenko (1939 - 2...
Last post by Symphonic Addict - Today at 06:54:10 PMI meant part of the celebration in a broader sense, not necessarily related to what you posted.
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Composer Discussion / Re: Boris Tishchenko (1939 - 2...
Last post by Roy Bland - Today at 06:17:05 PMQuote from: Symphonic Addict on Today at 05:35:23 PMThis new recording must be part of the celebration of his anniversary I guess:it doesn't seems same item
https://bomba-piter.ru/shop/product/tishchenko-boris-beg-vremeni-iuliia-kuchina-patrichelli-anton-lubchenko
"... Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko wrote the vocal cycle "The Running of Time" in 2003, in his last decade - this is one of his later masterpieces. And all the more symbolic is this appeal to the work of Anna Akhmatova, the love for which he carried throughout his life: back in 1966 year, the composer wrote the famous "Requiem" based on its text.