What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

Symphony No.5. Captivating, a good antidote to the surrounding madness.

Wouldn't Symphony No.6 be better - the long struggle towards the sunrise? 

[vandermolen]

Sibelius 'Night Ride and Sunrise'
Toronto SO, Sarasate
Another beautifully atmospheric performance - as good as any I have heard of this work:

[AnotherSpin]

Wouldn't Symphony No.6 be better - the long struggle towards the sunrise? 

The symphony that I still consider the most overwhelming (this is the word for Pettersson) is the 9th. For a change, I started listening to the 5th today. And it really matched my mood of the moment perfectly.

[vandermolen]

The symphony that I still consider the most overwhelming (this is the word for Pettersson) is the 9th. For a change, I started listening to the 5th today. And it really matched my mood of the moment perfectly.

I must have another go at No.9 as I haven't got into it yet. What's the best recording?

[AnotherSpin]

I must have another go at No.9 as I haven't got into it yet. What's the best recording?

I prefer Lindberg.

[DavidW]

I must have another go at No.9 as I haven't got into it yet. What's the best recording?

Lindberg for transparency, detail, rhythm, and color. That CPO recording (Allun Francis) sounds like monotonic mush in comparison. If Segerstam had recorded it, there would probably be two great ones, but to my knowledge he never did.

[JBS]

Mozart the middle schooler.

Everything here dates to 1767 except for Bastien et Bastienne, which is from 1768.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Robert Haas, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan 

[Madiel]

You're also too much of a gentleman to engage in those posts. Unlike some posters here...

Really, what you mean is that I understand audience and context.

For one thing, the audience here is largely heterosexual men who I don't really know, who are unlikely to have a positive response to me declaring that a guy is hot. We have not gathered here for the purpose of declaring guys to be hot.

What we seem to be witnessing is that some people are so used to being in a context where they get to express certain thoughts, they cannot conceive of being in a context where they DON'T get to express them.

Which is straight male privilege writ large.

[hopefullytrusting]

Really, what you mean is that I understand audience and context.

For one thing, the audience here is largely heterosexual men who I don't really know, who are unlikely to have a positive response to me declaring that a guy is hot. We have not gathered here for the purpose of declaring guys to be hot.

What we seem to be witnessing is that some people are so used to being in a context where they get to express certain thoughts, they cannot conceive of being in a context where they DON'T get to express them.

Which is straight male privilege writ large.

It also might just be be, but the majority of men I've seen in classical music I didn't find attractive at all, then again, skateboarders are my type, lol.

[Brian]

Three Pulitzer Prize-winning works, two of them written at late stages in their composers' careers. In fact, one suspects the Pulitzers were more of lifetime achievement awards than prizes for these works, specifically. The Piston Symphony No. 7 (1960, age 66) is a little bit lumbering and rhythmically stiff compared to his livelier earlier symphonies. Though the "pastorale" slow movement promises nature and includes birdsong-like wind motifs, it is glum and somewhat bitter. It reminds me of what Samuel Adler told me about Piston recently: that near the end of his career, he was paranoid about the possibility that his music would be forgotten.

Gould's Stringmusic (1993, age 80) is a career-summing achievement, maybe a masterpiece. It has bits of jazziness, a motif in the prelude that is surprisingly Glass-ish, a Coplandish American optimism, hints of the sterner modernism Gould sometimes attempted but never mastered, and a central Dirge that is the heart of the piece (in a symmetrical 5-movement structure). The finale is a really exciting ride in which the string section achieves its maximum physical power and excitement. This does suffer from the same defect as much of Gould's best music, however: he so wants to be musically rigorous and pops-pleasing that he cannot quite fully achieve both.

Only Hanson's Symphony No. 4 (1943, age 47) comes from its composer's prime. Titled "Requiem" and with Catholic requiem mass titles for each movement, it seems to take clear inspiration from the world events of 1943. Only the Dies Irae is a fast movement; 19 of the 22 minutes in this work are largo or andante. The music is much more romantic and harmonically conventional than Britten's Sinfonia da requiem; it often succeeds admirably in conjuring the sound of the church organ, especially. The Lux aeterna's broad hymn, with the strings again evoking organ, is the most successful movement to me; the Dies irae is not so much. With its rat-a-tat snare drum, it sounds more like the bacchanal finale in Daphnis et Chloe than it does a Catholic rite.

[vandermolen]

Lindberg for transparency, detail, rhythm, and color. That CPO recording (Allun Francis) sounds like monotonic mush in comparison. If Segerstam had recorded it, there would probably be two great ones, but to my knowledge he never did.

Thanks David 

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn "sturm und drang" "paris" & "london" symphonies. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen

[vandermolen]

Honegger: Symphony No.3 'Liturgique'
Luxembourg Radio Orchestra
Cond. Louis De Froment

[VonStupp]

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Choral Transcriptions
São Paulo Symphony Choir - Valentina Peleggi

Similar to Swingle Singers style. The Mendelssohn works best for me, along with a few of the other Romantic composers.
VS

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Another Bach S&P.

[Karl Henning]

I did find it on youtube (the whole album)....am quite enjoying it. It's uploaded by Supraphon.

K

Superb!

[Karl Henning]

In your universe maybe, but in my universe, non of my female friends would think this way when I call them babe.

Just as an alternate data point, if I called any of my female friends, or my wife, "babe," I'd be slapped, literally or figuratively. And I ought to be.

[Karl Henning]

That is my thought at this moment. Mauna indeed.

Or the Native American proverb: Silence is better than bullshit.

[Karl Henning]

There are constant fluctuations and changes in the way things are viewed and judged. There are jokes in Falwty towers that nowadays require a disclaimer because people no longer pick up the humor from that time and take offense. It is not a question of right or wrong to take into account your choice of words to avoid friction.
We live in a time where we (usually short-sightedly) are ready to give our judgment about others.
The cancel culture, well you name it.
The only thing that matters is not to use words or expressions that could lead to controversy for the members of this forum.
Live and let live, maturity is in a sense also an opportunity to deal with various issues or different types of people.

Per the point raised by Rafael, if one is guided by respect and consideration, perhaps one's steps will not be false. (That's one of the most awkward sentences I've ever constructed.)