David Hurwitz

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I think he saves that for right around Christmas/New Year's.

The last two days...
Review - new Dvorak piano trios set
Review - DG Kubelik big box
Random Reviews of Richard Strauss
Rant about Vanska's second Sibelius cycle
Bach's Most Embarrassing Work
Haydn Symphony Crusade, No. 52

Oh, my!  That's quite a lot!  I'll have to check out the Kubelik big box set review.   

PD

p.s.  Bach's most embarrassing work...hmm.  I'll have to ponder that one. 

[Madiel]

And perhaps we now see a suggestion that there should be no dissent in this thread. Call this half- or one-third-kidding.

The dissent consists of finding Hurwitz' videos useful. I started dissenting a long time ago.

[Atriod]

Unrelated, but I recently got an email saying "What is your address? We have a gifting for you" and it made me want to scream. We're not giving gifts anymore...we're gifting giftings.

My favorite Britishism that has stuck with me is saying "we'll be holidaying in ___."

[Atriod]

Bach's Most Embarrassing Work

Haven't seen this yet but if it is the Coffee Cantata I will be sad.

[Madiel]

Haven't seen this yet but if it is the Coffee Cantata I will be sad.

Your tissues are safe.

[Florestan]

This is officially the first I've seen Christmas verbed! Just noting, not criticizing.

To Christmas is human, to Santa Claus is divine.

[Irons]

Oh, my!  That's quite a lot!  I'll have to check out the Kubelik big box set review.   

PD

p.s.  Bach's most embarrassing work...hmm.  I'll have to ponder that one. 

Views = money.

[DavidW]

Haven't seen this yet but if it is the Coffee Cantata I will be sad.

Hurwitz actually likes Bach, he wouldn't do that even for views.  Out of curiosity I watched the video, and it was a work that I personally dislike enough that I forgot that Bach even wrote it!  I don't think it is bad, but it is certainly is his weakest.  And no it is not something slightly esoteric like the Anna Magdalena notebooks or the reconstructed St. Mark Passion.

Now, he also did a Mahler one and I could not imagine myself being agreeable on that one.  Mahler didn't write many works, and I don't know of a single dud including his early piano quartet.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Yes you're right.  The new thread should be about Hurwitz content and the original can carry on with the nastiness!

It is impossible to separate the critic from the personality.

[71 dB]

Haven't seen this yet but if it is the Coffee Cantata I will be sad.

It was BWV1065. Hurwitz just thinks making four harpsichords play simultanuously sounds like two skeletons copulating on tin roof. 

[(poco) Sforzando]

It was BWV1065. Hurwitz just thinks making four harpsichords play simultanuously sounds like two skeletons copulating on tin roof. 

Not four skeletons?

[Florestan]

Not four skeletons?

Four harpsichords would actually make for eight skeletons. Ask Thomas Beecham. 

[steve ridgway]

Hurwitz just thinks making four harpsichords play simultanuously sounds like two skeletons copulating on tin roof. 

That can't be right as then two harpsichords would sound like one skeleton copulating on a tin roof. Two skeletons per harpsichord as @Florestan said seems more sensible .

[Madiel]

The Mahler embarrassing work involves a sleight of hand. I have mixed feelings about the Sibelius choice. The Dvorak choice... well I don't remember it enough to have an opinion, which could be a clue in itself...

[Madiel]

Well, the analysis of the mechanics of bony intercourse might just be one of the best things to emerge from this thread.

[Papy Oli]

Well, the analysis of the mechanics of bony intercourse might just be one of the best things to emerge from this thread.

It is very humerus indeed...

[71 dB]

Not four skeletons?

Don't ask me. Ask Hurwitz. I don't have harpsichord allergy. I don't think about skeletons when I listen to J.S.Bach.

[steve ridgway]

Well, the analysis of the mechanics of bony intercourse might just be one of the best things to emerge from this thread.

The harpsichord accompanying half a skeleton was received by the applause of a single hand .

[Mookalafalas]

It was BWV1065. Hurwitz just thinks making four harpsichords play simultanuously sounds like two skeletons copulating on tin roof. 

Actually, that made me laugh. I'm glad I just heard the punchline and didn't have to listen to a whole "Hello Friends!....yada yada" to get there.

   Actually, Dave just did me a solid. I saw his rave review of Abbado's LSO box. It was odd, because he's generally rather dismissive of Abaddo.
    I like Abaddo, and bought his DG symphonies box right when it came out. Everything is beautifully played, and yet I have to admit I never got very excited about it, and it's been collecting dust for several years.
    Curious after hearing DH rave about the LSO box, I tracked down a digital copy. And he's right. It's marvellous. I'me only about 5 disks in, but they really are corkers.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Well, the analysis of the mechanics of bony intercourse might just be one of the best things to emerge from this thread.

Eight harpsichords would be required indeed, plus a large tin roof and a thunderstorm.