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- Mon May 13, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: de Graaff Concerto No.7 for Lutheal and Orchestra
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de Graaff Concerto No.7 for Lutheal and Orchestra
Jan-Peter de Graaff (1992 - ),Concert nr.7, voor luthéal en orkest (World premiere) Hannes Minnaar (piano/luthéal), Karina Canellakis (Dirigent), Radio Filharmonisch Orkest May 11,2024,Concertgebouw,Amsterdam. Interesting, but a one-hear for me. From Radio4 per Google Translate: The Dutch composer w...
- Mon May 13, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Canberra Symphony gets some aid
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9
- Mon May 13, 2024 10:25 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3181
- Views: 2332793
Re: What I listened to today
Faure,Piano Quintet No.1,Op.89,my first hearing, exquisite, perhaps the finest of his chamber works.Will look for the recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfpvJn0-fX4 Piano: Germaine Thyssens-Valentin Le Quatuor de l'ORTF: Violin I: Jacques Dumont Violin II: Louis Perlemuter Viola: Marc Carles...
- Mon May 13, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
- Replies: 6
- Views: 146
Re: To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
AxiosAm today: Trump leads in five of six swing states in Times/Siena polls out this morning. In a head-to-head race with Trump, Biden squeaks out a lead among likely voters in Michigan. Among registered voters (a looser screen), Biden leads in Wisconsin. Trump leads among likely voters in Wisconsin...
- Mon May 13, 2024 7:32 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Biden to Bibi: You’re not going to get our support if you go after these population centers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 147
Re: Biden to Bibi: You’re not going to get our support if you go after these population centers
NYT today: Israel has not offered a plan to govern Gaza after the war. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned yesterday that without such a plan, it’s likely Hamas would eventually regain power. U.S. officials said that Yahya Sinwar, the top Hamas leader, was not hiding in Rafah, in southern Gaza....
- Sun May 12, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3181
- Views: 2332793
Re: What I listened to today
And a fine cello concerto, too. Indeed. Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7It9-9ji1-k&list=PLH7uKkZ274vVe1ZiYLZLDWqBrs_21X-rN&index=32 As well above is an intense,worth hearing Violin Concerto No.1. Taktakishvili's Symphonies 1 and are big,sweeping,Romantic works, dark-hued at times, colorful a...
- Sat May 11, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Favorite D. Scarlatti Sonata pianists?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 108
Re: Favorite D. Scarlatti Sonata pianists?
Do not have a favorite, but the single Decca cd Andras Schiff did several years ago I enjoy greatly,about 15 sonatas if I recall,although some complain his playing on the cd is too “romantic.”
Fww, young Frenchman Lucas Debargue has recorded recently several for SONY.Have not heard yet.
Fww, young Frenchman Lucas Debargue has recorded recently several for SONY.Have not heard yet.
- Sat May 11, 2024 10:40 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3181
- Views: 2332793
Re: What I listened to today
Indeed. Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7It9-9j ... N&index=32
As well above is an intense,worth hearing Violin Concerto No.1.
- Fri May 10, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3181
- Views: 2332793
Re: What I listened to today
Otar Taktakishvili (1924-1989) has been pretty well unknown in the West... Many thanks. My first hearing of the composer. The Concerto a real gem !! I see he also has a violin concerto I'll now explore. Here a different performance of the PC, audio with score,which the poster prefers to the Spotify...
- Fri May 10, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 227
Re: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
Deja vu all over continues. STAT News May 10: WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended this week that dairy and poultry farms with infected animals supply protective gear to workers in a bid to stave off human transmission of the H5N1 virus. The challenge now is making...
- Fri May 10, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 132012
Re: Some mirth
From New Yorker cartoons May 10: “I worry that democracy’s only hope is Taylor Swift.” “I want to vote my fears this year, but they’ll only let me vote once.” “Majority rules! Well, except in a democracy where the majority is dependent on a larger system of districting and electoral votes, insuring ...
- Fri May 10, 2024 4:19 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: TrumpReich in action
- Replies: 803
- Views: 198317
Re: TrumpReich in action
From AxiosPM May 10. Racism alive and well: "The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, voted early today to rename two public schools after Confederate leaders, Axios' Rebecca Falconer reports Why it matters: The 5-1 vote is an apparent first-of-its-kind reversal of 2020-era racial justice re...
- Fri May 10, 2024 6:47 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: TrumpReich in action
- Replies: 803
- Views: 198317
Re: TrumpReich in action
Trump and GOP take pages from Putin's and Hitler's playbook:
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/10/trump- ... uels-biden
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/10/trump- ... uels-biden
- Fri May 10, 2024 6:19 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: No shrimp for the barbie ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 75
No shrimp for the barbie ?
How a Remote Australian Town Nearly Ran Out of Food By Julia Bergin The NYT Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. This week’s issue is written by Julia Bergin, a reporter based in the Northern Territory. Driving through Central Australia can be a battle with dust, floods...
- Sun May 05, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3181
- Views: 2332793
Re: What I listened to today
Rued Langgaard (1893-1952), Danish composer whose eccentricity and oddness show in his unconventional 16 symphonies. Many thanks ! My first hearing today of the composer. A stunning work at any age ! Will re-rehear.I heard Thomas Dausgaard's recording at YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W7BI-C8...
- Sun May 05, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Price gouging
- Replies: 3
- Views: 389
- Sun May 05, 2024 7:17 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another set-back for #Metoo
- Replies: 13
- Views: 413
- Sat May 04, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
- Replies: 6
- Views: 146
Re: To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
What would that have been? Adopting early on a combination of the approaches suggested by Tom Friedman and making clear US aid contingent on the approaches being adopted: http://www.classicalmusicguide.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=61062&p=545366&hilit=Tom+friedman#p545366 http://www.classicalmusicguide...
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:46 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
- Replies: 6
- Views: 146
Re: To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
What is galling is the fact the Biden Administration could have acted in manners that could have avoided any credible criticism from the Left and student demonstrations, while also avoiding any credible criticism from the Right and "antisemitism" complaints.A March 27 Gallup poll found 55 % of ALL A...
- Sat May 04, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 227
- Sat May 04, 2024 7:35 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: No phones, please, we're British
- Replies: 2
- Views: 114
No phones, please, we're British
A clever post by pianist Stephen Hough regarding an upcoming Brahms 1st PC concert:
https://slippedisc.com/2024/05/stephen- ... 6-185-199/
https://slippedisc.com/2024/05/stephen- ... 6-185-199/
- Sat May 04, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Rattle's live Mahler 6th Symphony
- Replies: 1
- Views: 104
Rattle's live Mahler 6th Symphony
If interested in Sir Rattle and his new gig with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, their live Carnegie Mahler 6 last week is now free at WQXR starting at about 56:00 into the playback : https://www.wqxr.org/ The 1st,6th,9th the only of Mahler’s symphonies I listen to ; nice moments in the 5th, but too lo...
- Fri May 03, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: TrumpReich in action
- Replies: 803
- Views: 198317
Re: TrumpReich in action
Voter suppression / intimidation: https://www.axios.com/2024/05/02/hard-to-vote-states-register-canvas --------------- WAPO May 3: " Our colleague Caroline Kitchener reports this morning on a potential new strategy by antiabortion activists to try to stop women from traveling out of state to end the...
- Fri May 03, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: I am getting requests for new CMGers every day, but ...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 403
Re: I am getting requests for new CMGers every day, but ...
But back to #1: If this group is so hard to find, it should surprise nobody in the internet age that something has gone amiss. And that's truly unfortunate. Perhaps the problem is with the searcher ? I just Googled " Classical music forums " and Chatterbox here came up as the second result and the ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3181
- Views: 2332793
Re: What I listened to today
A live performance of Poulenc's magnificent Organ Concerto: Enregistré le 29/02/2024 au Grand Studio, NDR, Hannovre Francis Poulenc - Concerto en sol mineur pour Orgue, Timbales et cordes, FP 93 Jean Langlais - Chromatique, des 7 Etudes de Concert Orgue Anton Bruckner - Symphonie N° 7 en Mi majeur C...
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 227
Re: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
From STAT News May 3: Vivien Dugan isn’t getting much sleep these days. The director of the influenza division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dugan is leading the team of CDC scientists that is working with partners — in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Admin...
- Fri May 03, 2024 6:30 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 227
Re: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
From WAPO May 3 in part: "...Of course, just because milk remains safe to drink doesn’t mean avian flu isn’t a potential threat to human health. I was honored to learn historian John M. Barry, author of the seminal book on the 1918 influenza pandemic, is a Checkup reader. He emailed me to express hi...
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
- Replies: 6
- Views: 281
Re: Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
There are little children on Mein Kampus at Sydney University shouting "Intifada" and 'from the river to the sea". That makes their propaganda from the cradle absolutely complete. All thanks to the Left side of politics. Yeah, all the brats: USA Today May 2: A Gallup survey released March 27, a day...
- Thu May 02, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
- Replies: 10
- Views: 383
Re: Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
... Prokofieff’s 5th PC ! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kDad8utFQ0O5vEgpvegozjHjgMYSNsAB4 From Pristine Classical: "Born in 1931, Brendel had just turned 20 when he recorded the Prokofiev - an amazing achievement for a young man who had been sent to dig trenches in Yugoslavia at the...
- Thu May 02, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
- Replies: 10
- Views: 383
Re: Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
I don’t have the Schubert, but consistent with your observation, his first Beethoven Opa. 110 and 111 also “better” to my ear than his later.
- Thu May 02, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
- Replies: 10
- Views: 383
Re: Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
I have several of his recordings, including mid-‘50s Vox not in very good sound, of studio recordings of “Pictures”, “Islamey” and “Petrushka”,as well as Prokofieff’s 5th PC ! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n2-PjyPABFZsa8kG2tzQKbvkuFfRl0h54 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5u...
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:41 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
- Replies: 6
- Views: 281
Re: Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
These causes aren't cool or trendy, you see. It's not about concern for Palestinian deaths, it's extending the middle finger to their elders that matters. And it was ever thus. With its support of and arms supply to Israel the US is more directly involved in and complicit in the deaths in Gaza than...
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
- Replies: 6
- Views: 281
Re: Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
The Right focuses on campus “ brats” to avoid and distract from the criminal slaughter the Right’s Israeli brothers have unleashed on the children of Gaza.
- Wed May 01, 2024 9:40 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 132012
Re: Some mirth
And now Steve? What comedies take your attention, and how much time do you give to news? No comedies except for occasionally the opening 5-10 minute monologues of the late Johnny Carson on old "Tonight Show" re-runs carried on one of our local stations now ( Carson was a huge fan, had some of same ...
- Wed May 01, 2024 6:49 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Trump's recent Time Magazine interview
- Replies: 0
- Views: 355
Trump's recent Time Magazine interview
From AxiosAm today, Trump's "Mein Kampf" : " What would a second Trump term really look like? You no longer need to guess: Former President Trump has laid out, publicly and unambiguously, designs to stretch traditions, norms and accepted law in historic ways, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write. Why i...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 365
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Miriam Hyde's Piano Concertos (inspired by another thread)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 205
Re: Miriam Hyde's Piano Concertos (inspired by another thread)
Fww, to my ears, her 2nd PC is even more attractive then her 1st, and her 1944 Piano Sonata ( also at YT with Geoffrey Tozer , with a different pianist at Presto ) is the most attractive of the three.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What a Great Country America Is
- Replies: 106
- Views: 21476
Re: What a Great Country America Is
CR Gazette recently: "I grew up in a Morris County, New Jersey town six decades ago. Dad was a teacher. Grandpa repaired radios. Like our neighbors we lived in an older home affordable on a modest income. Nearby were orchards, vegetable farms, and dairies. It’s gone. For decades politicians and civi...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 365
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3181
- Views: 2332793
Re: What I listened to today
Did find another pianist playing the Sonata and a couple other solo works, but bit steep price for the Sonata alone:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/p ... -new-bells
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:11 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 365
Re: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
Professor Alan Dershowitz refers to all this as "Mein Kampus". And he's nailed it. Of course, usual media attention seeking by a member of Bibi's friend Trump's legal team for Trump's first impeachment. https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-wants-alan-dershowitz-represe...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 365
Re: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
Bibi blaming American students for protesting against what his own actions have brought about. Indeed, and while I deplore much of what the protestors have been doing in terms of physical tactics ,eg. causing classes and graduations of other students to be cancelled,buildings occupied/damaged with ...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:51 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3181
- Views: 2332793
Re: What I listened to today
More impressive is her Piano Sonata I heard for the first time today as well, inspired by your post, here played by legendary Australian pianist Geoffrey Tozer, a work written 1941-44 while the composer’s husband spent 5 1/2 years as a Nazi POW during WW II. At the Sonata YT is a “Composer’s Note” ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Pianist Simon Trpceski redux
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1533
Re: Pianist Simon Trpceski redux
A wonderful revelatory and ennobling, not the usual rushed , live performance of the Saint-Saens PC # 2 with the Bournemouth Symphony under Andrew Litton,April 10 ,2024 in Poole,UK:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ygv0
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ygv0
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3181
- Views: 2332793
Re: What I listened to today
Two piano concertos by Australian composer Miriam Hyde (1913-2005). Thanks,fbnyc, my first hearing of the composer.While not a purchase, for me, the concertos were quite enjoyable, especially the 2nd. The influences you note, and, to my ear, English and Irish influences as well , reflecting her tim...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:18 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Shostakovich plays Shostakovich's PCs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 189
Shostakovich plays Shostakovich's PCs
Stand aside Martha,Daniil,Sergey, Benjamin,et.al.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QJnPO4abHU
1958 recordings with André Cluytens,ORF, apparently recently re-mastered,the set to have if have none.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QJnPO4abHU
1958 recordings with André Cluytens,ORF, apparently recently re-mastered,the set to have if have none.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another set-back for #Metoo
- Replies: 13
- Views: 413
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Conservative Justices Take Argument Over Trump’s Immunity in Unexpected Direction
- Replies: 2
- Views: 123
Re: Conservative Justices Take Argument Over Trump’s Immunity in Unexpected Direction
NYT Newsletter today.Thanks AG Garland. Delay, delay, delay "It now seems likely that Donald Trump will be able to run for president this year without having faced any legal penalties for his effort to overturn the last presidential election. To many of his supporters, of course, this outcome is jus...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 132012
Re: Some mirth
I watched Lucille Ball’s I Love Lucy Show every week for years, along with Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, and Sid Caesar I used to listen to Caesar's and Benny's show on the radio before we had a TV ( not until about 1956 for us ) usually around our supper table at home with my family on a Sun...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Rachmaninov works for two pianos
- Replies: 14
- Views: 281
Re: Rachmaninov works for two pianos
At YT I think, you may wish to have a listen to Vronsky & Babin, mine their original RCA lp, but it was a re-released on cd I think.Just the 2 Suites, Op.5 and Op.17. Per the liner notes, they played the Op.5 for Rachmaninoff in person at his home in NY,and he had forgotten he had written the work....