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

Last post by Papy Oli - Today at 02:50:13 AM

Still Reiner:

R. Strauss - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Op.60

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Leif Segerstam (1944-2024)

Last post by Florestan - Today at 02:46:29 AM

May God rest him in peace.

Like many here, I've never heard a not of his music.

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

Last post by Florestan - Today at 02:39:49 AM

Dipping my toe in this boxset with a first listening:

Overture to a Picaresque Comedy

Love it.

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

Last post by Papy Oli - Today at 02:34:19 AM

Bartok - Concerto for orchestra

from the Reiner/Chicago box.

Wow!!!! 

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The Diner / Re: Tennis anyone?

Last post by Iota - Today at 02:26:46 AM

Thinking again, wondering if you might be confusing him with another chair:  Kader Nouni?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/sports/tennis/us-open-kader-nouni-umpire.html

K

Yes, that's the guy I was thinking of! Hard to forget a voice like that ..

[Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28]

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

Last post by Iota - Today at 02:21:02 AM

Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28

A magnificent beast in many ways, with an unspeakably lovely slow movement. For all its occasional sprawl, for me the lights come on immediately and stay on throughout. Simple chord progressions (as in the opening) seem to run right to the heart of human aspiration and feeling, with the directness of a tune hummed by a child but heard by an adult. SR's unique and raw gift on full display, a thing to induce immense gratitude if you ask me. 

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Leif Segerstam (1944-2024)

Last post by pjme - Today at 02:13:07 AM

   We'll miss him. 

My introduction to Segerstam:

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Leif Segerstam (1944-2024)

Last post by Crudblud - Today at 01:44:20 AM

I was about to call him 'the greatest Schnittke conductor' as if I had listened to many others. Regardless, Segerstam has left a formidable body of work on record. I suspect his day as a composer is not today, however, partly because, as others have already noted, his output is going to take a long time for time itself to sort through. There is perhaps something noble in presenting such a challenge in itself, though.

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

Last post by ultralinear - Today at 01:21:16 AM

Yet another disruptive 20th-century first symphony, and one that represents an unbelievable sonic experience (I would love to hear it live someday). I can't emphasize enough how wacky, unconventional, rambunctious, this symphony is, and all of that in a positive way. The fourth movement contains the best music IMO. It's a bizarre maelstrom, a whirlwind that takes you to an unpredictable place.

In this sort of wild stuff Segerstam excelled I reckon.

FWIW I did get to see a performance of No.1 some years ago, Michael Jurowski conducting the LPO.  And I say "see" advisedly as it was as much a theatrical experience as musical.  E.g. at one point the entire brass section got to their feet and filed off stage left, still playing their instruments - carried on playing while processing audibly around the outside of the auditorium - then re-entered stage right and sat back down, all without missing a note.  Great entertainment. 

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Recordings That You Are Co...

Last post by Mandryka - Today at 01:14:13 AM