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NP: Debussy Six Épigraphes antiques, L.139b (Ciccolini)



From this set:

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NP: Falla El retablo de maese Pedro (Pons et. al.)

[JBS]

Brahms Before Bed


PQ 2 in A Op 26
From

[Symphonic Addict]

Kinsella: Symphony No. 6



Field: Piano Concerto No. 7 and other works



Hamiton Harty: An Irish Symphony



Stanford: Irish Symphony



I'm usually indifferent to Stanford, but this one's a real beauty.

I think that exhausts the Irish composers in my collection.

Great selection of works. I don't have that recording of the Stanford, but I don't doubt it is fine. There is a passage/melody/section that sounds pretty similar to another one of the slow movement from Brahms 4th Symphony.

[Symphonic Addict]

A fantastic box indeed, and an unexpected treat.

Really solid indeed. I haven't heard any suite dull thus far.

[North Star]

Zorn: Kol Nidre
Hartmann: Concerto funebre for violin & string orchestra
Martin: Polyptyque for violin and two small string orchestras
Fišer: Crux for violin, timpani and bells
Bach: Chorals (transcr. for str. orch.)
Machaut: Kyrie from Messe de Nostre Dame (transcr. for str. orch.)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Camerata Bern

[Que]

Morning listening of a recent arrival:



Zodica, Ars Nova and  Ars Subtilior in the Low Countries and Europe

[Wanderer]

Tangentially, it tickles me that in Spanish, "computer" is feminine: una computadora, in French, masculine: un ordinateur

"Computer" (υπολογιστής) is a masculine noun in Greek, as well.

[Mandryka]

Tangentially, it tickles me that in Spanish, "computer" is feminine: una computadora, in French, masculine: un ordinateur

Do you know that in French some words change their sex, they are masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural? For example, mon amour enfantin, mes amours enfantines. Orgue is like this, and maybe - someone who studied French will know - gens. You certainly say il n'y a pas de sot métier, il n'y a que de sottes gens.

[Mandryka]

I see now, thanks for clarifying.

Computer was instantly decided / agreed upon as neutral.

Do you mean neuter?

[Irons]

A second listen to this one:

Noting the title Olivier I guess the Duo for Violin and Cello is not part of the set. Ravel's Duo is a masterpiece, one of his finest chamber works. Deserving to be better known but maybe an unusual combination of instruments can hold a work back no matter how good.

[Irons]

Hat tip to our Cato

https://www.youtube.com/v/1nk5kUVtpmY

I have Jazz-Toccata on a very obscure LP. The other two composers are unknown to me.

[Harry]

J.S. Bach.
Complete Organ Music, volume XVIII.
Bernhard Klapprott plays on aJohann Andreas Silbermann organ, 1761, Arlesheim, Dom.

Klapprott is a fine organist, detailed and compassionate. The music sounds just right in tempo, phrasing, and a good balance between pedal and keyboard.

[ritter]

"Computer" (υπολογιστής) is a masculine noun in Greek, as well.

Sorry to remain off-topic, but as it was mentioned before, just a small clarification: computer in Spanish is femenine when you're in South America ("la computadora") and masculine in Spain ("el ordenador"). Go figure..

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Sorry to remain off-topic, but as it was mentioned before, just a small clarification: computer in Spanish is femenine when you're in South America ("la computadora") and masculine in Spain ("el ordenador"). Go figure..

Spanish language was brought to South America by Spanish explorers. When computers became a thing Spanish people weren't able to tell South Americans not to take the loan word based on English. Mind you, American English and British English aren't exactly the same either.

[Que]

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Concerti Grossi II with Igor Ruhadze and the Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

Wonderful! 

[Brahmsian]

Zorn: Kol Nidre
Hartmann: Concerto funebre for violin & string orchestra
Martin: Polyptyque for violin and two small string orchestras
Fišer: Crux for violin, timpani and bells
Bach: Chorals (transcr. for str. orch.)
Machaut: Kyrie from Messe de Nostre Dame (transcr. for str. orch.)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Camerata Bern

Impressed with the fact a decapitated head can play the violin.

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Impressed with the fact a decapitated head can play the violin.

And more particularly a violin absent its neck!   

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Recent carnival-related chatter makes me want to hear Berlioz' Carnaval romain.   A fine performance of it, not my fave, well-engineered, rather cooler than I want my carnivals, or Berlioz generally, to be. As Rimmer says of Lister's attire in Red Dwarf, Bychkov is shown on the cover wearing "his least smeggy things."

[Traverso]

Bach