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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Musical depictions of the ...

Last post by foxandpeng - Today at 02:11:57 PM

Peter Maxwell Davies' early symphonies. Chaotic, turbulent, difficult, and unpredictable.

[The Karate Kid]

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The Diner / Re: Last Movie You Watched

Last post by VonStupp - Today at 02:03:58 PM

The Karate Kid (1984)
Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue
William Zabka, Martin Kove

My wife and daughters competed in a karate tournament this weekend, so I thought I would show them the original Karate Kid afterwards. The competition sequence is remarkably accurate to what I saw, minus the theatrics and the tune You're the Best by Joe Esposito.

Martin Kove gets precious little screen time, but what a memorable baddie! Before practice, I always remind my daughters 'No mercy for the weak!'!
VS

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Composer Discussion / Re: Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Cast...

Last post by Lisztianwagner - Today at 01:57:40 PM

Interesting, Ilaria. His piano works are still unknown to me. I think he is an underrated composer (that epithet again!), and also very prolific, who wrote in practically all forms but symphony (something I regret).

He seems so, what a pity; today I've listened to his Piano Sonata, quite sharp and hectic, but extremely enchanting. His piano works are certainly worth exploring, I hope you'll find some time to check them out sooner or later, Cesar.

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Musical depictions of the ...

Last post by pjme - Today at 01:56:03 PM

OK. Thanks for the info. can you name the conductor?

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Favourite pianist who emer...

Last post by Todd - Today at 01:50:57 PM

The Schumann and Mozart CD was 1992 according to Amazon.

My bad.  It also looks like he squeaked in an early Ravel disc for Musical Heritage Society that was released between his first and second Hyperion releases, but I don't know when it was recorded. 

In the late 90s and early aughts, comprehensive discographies of different artists seemed more prevalent than today for some reason, and some of the old ones have disappeared.  Discogs and allmusic.com do not really suffice.  Maybe I will scour the Wayback Machine for discographies at some point.

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: CPO diaries

Last post by Symphonic Addict - Today at 01:41:20 PM

Peterson-Berger's 2nd is definitely his best effort in the form. I used to love the 3rd, but over the years my admiration has waned. Perhaps it wasn't as good as I initially thought. His 4th and 5th, whilst pleasant and with some good orchestration ideas, belong to a similar level of inspiration as in the 1st, so I don't think you will miss anything remarkable, although since tastes differ so much from person to person, it may happen otherwise, who knows. Ah, and the Violin Concerto is interesting, more so than his symphonies (save the 2nd) IMO.

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Composer Discussion / Re: Mozart

Last post by Madiel - Today at 01:39:58 PM

I don't even see the relevance of that point.  Are Madiel and Brian saying that PI recordings shouldn't even exist because they're sure that the composers would have preferred modern instruments?? 

Okay if Beethoven magically travels forward in time, I'll let him hear Kempff play his music.  But until that time, nobody is taking Badura-Skoda away from me.  Hell Beethoven himself could not take Badura-Skoda away from me!

No, what I'm saying is that it shouldn't be assumed that PI recordings are inherently better for being on period instruments.

And there most certainly are people who do assume that. There's a difference between liking the sound of a fortepiano and treating it like the sound is morally superior.

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Composer Discussion / Re: Mozart

Last post by Madiel - Today at 01:36:39 PM

Yes, that's a point often made. Although the only example I usually hear and gets used over and over again, is Beethoven. But those composers didn't have a crystal ball to predict what the exact characteristics of those "improved" instruments would be like. They only knew what they knew, and that is what they wrote for. Maybe Beethoven would have absolutely hated a modern Steinway D? Just a thought...

Shostakovich.

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General Classical Music Discussion / Anthology of Russian Symphony ...

Last post by dhibbard - Today at 01:36:00 PM

Hello.. I'd like to start this thread on this topic.   As a collector of this series on the old Melodiya CD issuance,  I'd like to connect with fellow collectors that may have this collection.   I'm finding it somewhat frustrating that in the last set released on Tchaikovsky, the series faded out and the series was not completed.   Another thing I discovered was the Glazunov releases were not numbered and the series skipped approx 8 numbers which is the exact number of CDs in the unnumbered Glazunov collection... so they were supposed to be numbered. 
any thoughts?

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Favourite pianist who emer...

Last post by Mandryka - Today at 01:32:13 PM

It does appear that was his first CD.

The Schumann and Mozart CD was 1992 according to Amazon.