What are you listening 2 now?

[Lisztianwagner]

Carl Nielsen
Saga Drom
Pan og Syrinx

Herbert Blomstedt & Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Flet Major, 1885 Version. Ed.Leopold Nowak,  City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,  Simon Rattle

[Traverso]

Messiaen

Messe de la Pentecôte (1950)
Livre D'Orgue (1951)

[Karl Henning]

Finishing up the work week with this:

Nielsen
Symphony no. 5
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi
(on Spotify)

I forget what the program was, but I heard Luisi conduct the BSO and it was a fine night in the Hall.

[Karl Henning]

Shhhhh! We've been though this already!

(* chortle *)

[Mandryka]

N
As the left portion indicates humans, the Chinese letter of gentleness suggests that gentleness (or excellence) is based on human with melancholy.

Extraordinary really - and thanks for taking so much trouble to explain. Is it right to say that it's just an orthographic curiosity? And hence it would be incorrect to conclude that in Japanese thinking, there is a style of performance which links melancholy and gentleness.  Or, more boldly, a characteristic and well known way of being in the world  in which these traits are linked.

[Verena]

What's your impression of these recordings? On first listen I particularly like No 5. I think he is an excellent Bach player, I've also enjoyed his English Suite 6 on an earlier recording.

[Todd]

Tip-top Mozart.

[Traverso]

Rameau

CD 9

[Traverso]

For clarinet lovers as myself.....

Boris Karadimchev

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Extraordinary really - and thanks for taking so much trouble to explain. Is it right to say that it's just an orthographic curiosity? And hence it would be incorrect to conclude that in Japanese thinking, there is a style of performance which links melancholy and gentleness.  Or, more boldly, a characteristic and well known way of being in the world  in which these traits are linked.

There is a link among melancholy, delicacy and gentleness in Japanese thinking. I thought that there is the same in western Europe. Also, there is a Japanese thinking that melancholy, sadness, imperfection, incompletion etc are beautiful, and not bad things.

I imagine Uemura wants to bring the beauty/finesse of melancholy.

[vandermolen]

Shhhhh! We've been though this already!

I'm aware of that but I don't think that it's controversial.

[Linz]

Nielsen Aladdin, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra And Chamber Choir

[Karl Henning]

Because the post of Jeffrey's below reminds me that it's been a while since I listened to it:

RVW
A London Symphony (original 1913 version)
LSO
Richard Hickox

There are now several recordings of the 1920 edition as well as Hickox's 1913 version. They all feature the magical section before the Epilogue.

[vandermolen]

Because the post of Jeffrey's below reminds me that it's been a while since I listened to it:

RVW
A London Symphony (original 1913 version)
LSO
Richard Hickox

That, deservedly, was Gramophone Record of the Year.

[Todd]

1.

[Bachtoven]

Very well played and recorded.

[Mandryka]

There is a link among melancholy, delicacy and gentleness in Japanese thinking. I thought that there is the same in western Europe. Also, there is a Japanese thinking that melancholy, sadness, imperfection, incompletion etc are beautiful, and not bad things.

I imagine Uemura wants to bring the beauty/finesse of melancholy.

I'm not sure there is in the current zeitgeist, but it's subtle and hard to think about. I'm going to have to visit Japan I think.

[Mandryka]

I don't know if it's anything more than me being in the mood, but this sounds wonderful, perfect. I need to get more Poblocka in my life.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I'm going to have to visit Japan I think.

You should. You know Japanese artists and composers more than any Japanese people I know. Probably you should visit one of Tetsuro Hanai recitals plus performances of lute and/or keyboard players there.