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#91

Opera and Vocal / Re: Favorite vocal recitals on...

Last post by Roasted Swan - May 12, 2024, 08:23:43 AM

Cross posted from the new releases thread - just stunning;

A stunning new release by coloratura soprano Erin Morley.  She has a remarkable voice - flexible, beautiful and with an amazing range - comfortable up to an E 2 octaves+ above middle C.  But even more remarkable perhaps is the programme.  When did you last see Saint-Saens, Berg, Milhaud, Rachmaninov, Zemlinsky, Brahms, Sullivan and Ivor Novello(!) on the same recital programme - and it works beautifully.  Big big cheer for Ms Morley!!

#92

Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: New Releases

Last post by Roasted Swan - May 12, 2024, 08:20:02 AM

A stunning new release by coloratura soprano Erin Morley.  She has a remarkable voice - flexible, beautiful and with an amazing range - comfortable up to an E 2 octaves+ above middle C.  But even more remarkable perhaps is the programme.  When did you last see Saint-Saens, Berg, Milhaud, Rachmaninov, Zemlinsky, Brahms, Sullivan and Ivor Novello(!) on the same recital programme - and it works beautifully.  Big big cheer for Ms Morley!!

#93

The Diner / Re: Astronomy

Last post by Pohjolas Daughter - May 12, 2024, 08:19:51 AM

Too cloudy in my area alas.   

PD

#94

The Diner / Re: What TV series are you cur...

Last post by Karl Henning - May 12, 2024, 08:18:57 AM

Salvor Hardin was famous for saying "violence is the last act of the incompetent" and finding nonviolent resolutions, while in the tv show Salvor solves most issues with violence, including Salvor and a reincarnated Harry Seldon murdering someone while Harry quips "I never liked her anyway." 

As someone who read the original trilogy as a teenager. I'm profoundly disappointed in this. And, a non-judgmental corrigendum, as this thought arises from your citation, I believe it's actually the last refuge. I seem to remember that phrase being echoed in the curtain line of the chapter.

#95

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

Last post by Bachtoven - May 12, 2024, 08:05:15 AM

This is an interesting new release. I've never heard Julián Orbón's Partita No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra and Manuel Martínez Burgos' concerto for piano and orchestra "Cloches" receives its premiere. Both are very enjoyable. The playing and DSD256 sound are great. It was recorded, edited, mixed, and mastered in DSD 256, something of a rarity. More info here: https://www.nativedsd.com/product/euddr2406-mysterium/ (Native DSD is having a 20% off sale. Due to a technical problem, they kindly upgaded me from DSD64, which I originally ordered, to 256 at no extra charge--a good deal!)

#96

The Diner / Re: What TV series are you cur...

Last post by DavidW - May 12, 2024, 08:03:30 AM

I'm currently reading Asimov's Foundation series for the first time (at least the original three books) on Nook, and I watched the first episode of Season 1 a couple of nights ago. It appears the TV series is only loosely based on the books (do the three Emperor clones appear anywhere in the books?) - but I want to finish reading the books before venturing further into the series.

One of the Cleons is in Foundation and Empire... but he wasn't a clone.  But it is not a bad change, what better way to symbolize the stagnancy of the empire then to have the emperor literally cloned over and over again?

I think the biggest changes were (a) in the books psychohistory predicts what large groups of people do because we are predictable over large numbers, and has nothing to say about the individual, while in the tv show it is exactly opposite.  Special individuals matter more than the group.  And (b) Salvor Hardin was famous for saying "violence is the last act of the incompetent" and finding nonviolent resolutions, while in the tv show Salvor solves most issues with violence, including Salvor and a reincarnated Harry Seldon murdering someone while Harry quips "I never liked her anyway."  Thanks Joss Whedon.  Your witty dialogue which was charming in Buffy has now infected every corner of Hollywood and is just STUPID.

[Argerich]

#97

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Purchases Today

Last post by Wanderer - May 12, 2024, 07:47:13 AM

Oh, great, Mme. Argerich's 97th recording of the Beethoven PC1! 

Good day to you, Tasos!

...and I must have at least half of them. 😁

Καλησπέρα, Rafael!

#98

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

Last post by Que - May 12, 2024, 07:38:48 AM

Reframe it.  The countertenor is the voice of a putto. I think it's well balanced, or at least it sounds well balanced now on my big ESL system. But  it's true that there's a tendency for the ear to be drawn to higher voices. Blue Heron are way too smooth and polished for me. Hollywood style renaissance polyphony.

I don't think putting actual meaning to the words is polish. Besides that: nothing new here - we like the same music in very different ways.... 

#99

The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...

Last post by San Antone - May 12, 2024, 07:34:05 AM

Someone told me that No Country for Old Men was better as a movie than a novel - I haven't seen it or read it, yet.

That movie was very faithful to the book (I'm not sure if McCarthy had input) but I enjoyed both the book and movie very much.  While the movie was faithful to the novel there is still much in the book, internal dialog, motivation, etc., as is the case with any novel that no movie adaptation can include.

#100

The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...

Last post by Mandryka - May 12, 2024, 07:27:10 AM

I would say that , as good as they are, the film adaptations of Jane Austin do not replace experiencing the books.  The movies do not capture the multi-layered and subtle manner of her style.

But I think this about most movie versions of novels, but I feel it is even more true concerning Austin.

Someone told me that No Country for Old Men was better as a movie than a novel - I haven't seen it or read it, yet.