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- Tue Feb 01, 2022 5:39 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bruckner 9th, finale
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2646
Re: Bruckner 9th, finale
Must admit I like Carragan's first attempt. It was recorded by Soudant with the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra (1985) and of the many recordings I've listened to seems to capture the spirit of the rest of the Symphony more than the rest. He doesn't try to overdo the (missing) coda. With Schaller's rende...
- Tue Feb 01, 2022 5:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Villa-Lobos Wind Trio (1921)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 894
Re: Villa-Lobos Wind Trio (1921)
Well played and like all his woodwind music, difficult. A feat of endurance. Well, most of his music is difficult.
- Sun Apr 04, 2021 2:53 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Music’s Most Treacherous Assignment: Finishing Mozart
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1505
Re: Music’s Most Treacherous Assignment: Finishing Mozart
I imagine that soon we'll have computers capable of writing music in the style of various composers. Yuck! :mrgreen: When I bought my most recent computer I talked about its aid in music composition. The salesman (whom I've come to know as I've bought all my computer stuff there for the past 15 yea...
- Sun Apr 04, 2021 2:27 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3164
- Views: 2091887
Re: What I listened to today
The last 3 movements of Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony for several orchestras and choirs. A massive thing, this one remarkably well recorded by Hyperion, with the BBC Welsh Orchesra, the BBC Concert Orchestra and various choirs. Cond: Martyn Brabant. Comes over 'modern' given it's in the same era ...
- Sun Apr 04, 2021 2:16 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Music of Tasmanian composer Don Kay
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3003
Re: Music of Tasmanian composer Don Kay
I felt the works linked to here are a little backward looking considering he comes from the same stable as one of my favourites, Peter Sculthorpe. Kay doesn't seem to have quite the same sense of adventure. . The Legend of Moinee came over more as a piece of film music. Nice if it could be recorded ...
- Sun Feb 28, 2021 1:25 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Roger Scruton; The Classical Tradition Today
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1061
Re: Roger Scruton; The Classical Tradition Today
What a wonderful speaker (and I have to say that because he SO expresses my own feelings about so many aspects of musical evolution!!). So many interesting points. Just a couple: the whole Darmstadt thing was a mistake. Of course. At the simplest level where some people make 'music' while others lis...
- Sun Feb 28, 2021 11:12 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Scrapped Plans for London Concert Hall Sour Mood for U.K. Musicians
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2798
Re: Scrapped Plans for London Concert Hall Sour Mood for U.K. Musicians
"The new London concert hall “was always a dream, but at least it was a dream,” Looks more like a nightmare to me. Shame, though. It would help insure that London retains its top place as the world's most ugly skyline.... It has plenty of concert halls. Spend the money on the music instead. It gets...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 4:57 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Another Attack on Western Music from the Woke
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14093
Re: Another Attack on Western Music from the Woke
It's what comes of trying to turn tuition in music composition - well, any art for that matter - into an industry. A swindle. Graduates either move on to something else or become teachers in the subject, just to perpetuate the industry. . I look at some of the theoretical stuff taught now that seems...
- Sat Aug 15, 2020 1:39 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Opera Foundation Removes Trustee for Racially Charged Comments
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7953
Re: Opera Foundation Removes Trustee for Racially Charged Comments
One of the posts that really touched the point has been edited. Freedom of Speech, you lot? First Amendment?
I think I have to go. As I said, open debate is silenced at the first stroke.
I think I have to go. As I said, open debate is silenced at the first stroke.
- Sat Aug 15, 2020 9:38 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Can't warm to Bruckner
- Replies: 57
- Views: 52286
Re: Can't warm to Bruckner
I've never been unhappy with Bruckner. My favourite recordings were the many made by Klemperer, Takashi Asahina, Akira Naito and Knappertsbusch who gives a window on the style of performance typical of the early 20th century, particularly his higher tempi and, interestingly, that he seems to have st...
- Sat Jul 25, 2020 7:57 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Opera Foundation Removes Trustee for Racially Charged Comments
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7953
Re: Opera Foundation Removes Trustee for Racially Charged Comments
So much for freedom of speech. I find nothing wrong in expressing an opinion provided it doesn't disadvantage anyone directly. Many people are racist but keep quiet about it. Open debate is silenced before it's even started and it's truly needed but no one dares start it. We in the UK have seen the ...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 3:35 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Black Artists on How to Change Classical Music
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2388
Re: Black Artists on How to Change Classical Music
It always works the other way around to me too. How many white musicians have effected a change in black classical music (which, like it or not, probably predates white classical music). Ok, they may not have traditional European orchestras and bear a different slant on religion and ceremony but it'...
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 1:18 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Cultural Life Is Back in Europe. In the U.K., They Talk of Collapse
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2568
Re: Cultural Life Is Back in Europe. In the U.K., They Talk of Collapse
The government has made a mix of grants and loans to 'the Arts' of 1,700,000,000 gbp. It's a start. . Don't get any idea that European culture (or what's left of it) has suddenly sprung into life. It isn't as simple as that. EU venues are as subject to lockdown restrictions as in the UK. The UK is n...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 5:30 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: TV ads (again) way too much!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5690
Re: TV ads (again) way too much!
Hello, Lance, I usually record anything I'm likely to want to see - not a lot because I spend much of this lockdown at composing. But when ads come on I flick past them on the remote. . I never respond to ads anyway. Who'd believe them, these firms coming on fanfaring their wares in glowing (and usu...
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 7:49 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4710
- Views: 2499688
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
Nielsen's 3rd Symphony / Erik Tuxsen / Radio Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen. Decca LXT 2697. (Interesting because of voices used as instruments in 2nd Movement. Something I'm attempting in a current composition.) . . I can't paste an image directly (Attachment). If I post a link the target could dis...
- Thu May 28, 2020 1:18 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3164
- Views: 2091887
Re: What I listened to today
Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez - Sinfonia No. 1 - Orquestra Sinfônica de Barra Mansa - Regência
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then reviewing a suite of mine for coloratura and orchestra.
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then reviewing a suite of mine for coloratura and orchestra.
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- Wed May 13, 2020 1:18 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: I'd like to hear from CMGers how you are doing
- Replies: 36
- Views: 33242
Re: I'd like to hear from CMGers how you are doing
Thank you for asking, Lance, and to show I'm still around looking in from time to time, my household is ok - not much fun queuing up outside supermarkets but ok with the summary weather. We get by! Been devoting much time to composing and piano practice. Good to be able to have some day to day conti...
- Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:38 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Trump damages national soul
- Replies: 75
- Views: 43971
Re: Trump damages national soul
We're getting much the same in the UK. Though we have a Mr Blond rather than Mr Orange(whom I trust more than most in parliament - Mr Johnson, that is) he's been so poorly advised by arrogant, know-all scientific advisers who now admit they looked on this new virus as a variant of the flu - oh dear ...
- Sun Dec 29, 2019 7:37 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: In Germany, Trump scores landslide win over other despots like Kim, Putin and Xi as biggest threat to peace & security
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9291
Re: In Germany, Trump scores landslide win over other despots like Kim, Putin and Xi as biggest threat to peace & securi
Not sure I agree with your analysis of European politics, though I am always happy to snipe at the Germans. Understand. My "analysis" if you can call it that, is pretty loose but based on deeds not words. With only 4 remaining net contributors, the rest being net takers, and Germany likely to come ...
- Sat Dec 28, 2019 6:02 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: In Germany, Trump scores landslide win over other despots like Kim, Putin and Xi as biggest threat to peace & security
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9291
Re: In Germany, Trump scores landslide win over other despots like Kim, Putin and Xi as biggest threat to peace & securi
They would............because he's jolted them from their complacency. Germany pays the most into the EU and naturally expects to run the show. The EU was set up by the Germans for the benefit of Germany and through miles of diktats to member states has created a highly protectionist economy. Most o...
- Thu Dec 26, 2019 7:45 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Christmas and Ladybird Mr Trump
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4772
Re: Christmas and Ladybird Mr Trump
True, Barney, they're the 999 series "Ladybird for grown ups". A while ago they did a good one on car routine maintenance and have also done one on Brexit!
- Wed Dec 25, 2019 11:20 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Christmas and Ladybird Mr Trump
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4772
Christmas and Ladybird Mr Trump
For those who celebrate the festival, a Merry Christmas! Otherwise, happy holidays! I received A Ladybird book about Donald Trump among other presents. . For those who know the Ladybird series can guess what to expect. Here's a couple of clips from it. "Donald has called an important meeting. It is ...
- Thu Dec 19, 2019 3:31 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The dejection election
- Replies: 37
- Views: 36889
Re: The dejection election
Belle, thank you for posting the Kelly article. It's far close to the mark although I can't be aware of day-to-day living under either President Trump or Mr Morrison. I tend to look on Mr Trump as an astute if a little dodgy businessman. But then, America is a business disguised as a country, isn't ...
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 5:48 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The dejection election
- Replies: 37
- Views: 36889
Re: The dejection election
"Mr. Johnson is playing another game entirely. Amoral and power-hungry, he’s lying with knowledge, calculation and abandon. He and his advisers have made a ruthless and sinister decision — to subvert and smash up British political culture. They have learned from the successes of the Vote Leave camp...
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 4:59 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The dejection election
- Replies: 37
- Views: 36889
Re: The dejection election
I've asked many people to tell me exactly what lies Johnson has told. I've yet to receive an answer. I voted on the basis of Johnson's record. He successfully managed London as London Mayor for several years. What has Corbyn/McDonnell or Swinson ever managed? . Do people really imagine the commie Co...
- Mon Dec 09, 2019 10:48 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Is ‘Playing It Safe’ Bad for Classical Music?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 31279
Re: Is ‘Playing It Safe’ Bad for Classical Music?
Tommasini is a critic, a cultural vampire. Say no more.
- Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:53 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Outrage, confusion and expulsion: is this opera’s Me Too moment?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6078
Re: Outrage, confusion and expulsion: is this opera’s Me Too moment?
My, my.....How the pendulum swings.
- Sat Nov 23, 2019 2:15 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: World Music Quiz Experiment
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7767
Re: World Music Quiz Experiment
I seem to remember we had discussions about musical semiotics in the past. I'm not in a position to cast judgement on whether it's worthwhile. To me it ties in with neurophysiology.
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 3:32 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: LPs are now outsellng CDs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12072
Re: LPs are now outsellng CDs
A couple of years ago I decided to revert to vinyl when I can. Having to buy "used" is always a risk but with the music I listen to the discs are usually in very good condition. Problems with crackle and pop can near enough be avoided with careful handling. . I find the ritual of "playing a record" ...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:49 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: My topic deleted.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 83211
Re: My topic deleted.
Thanks for the response, John F. It must have been me not submitting it, then. Curious but these things happen. I know that Mr Trump hasn't enamoured himself to many members in this pub and wondered if my post raised enough hostility to have it deleted - not that I was entirely praiseworthy of said ...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:56 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: My topic deleted.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 83211
My topic deleted.
I wrote a post raising another side to Trump and it's been deleted.
Thank you (not) for that. Thanks for encouraging a more international audience in the pub. I shall think twice before posting here again.
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Thank you (not) for that. Thanks for encouraging a more international audience in the pub. I shall think twice before posting here again.
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- Sun Oct 27, 2019 9:02 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Australian Serial Killer dies in jail
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6969
Re: Australian Serial Killer dies in jail
A most interesting and horrifying story, Belle. . It harks back to the Peter Sutcliffe story here, caught not by detective work but when he was stopped for Road Traffic offence and a connection was made. He's still inside. Just my personal opinion(s) but a) a life sentence should mean life inside, n...
- Sat Oct 26, 2019 12:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Concorde
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19815
Re: Concorde
Agreed.....except I think another plane that matches in beauty and elegance is the Lockheed SR71, made of titanium painted a very dark blue to cope with heat dispersal and the only plane in which the pilots must wear space suits. . I've been looking out on ebay to see if one comes up at a price I ca...
- Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:52 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Debunking Domingo
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17787
Re: Debunking Domingo
I was reminded of an incident at work in the 80s, when a friend of mine, a courtly Englishman, held the door open for a female journalist, who rounded on him saying he was a sexist pig and she could open her own door. But of course most women - and men - who receive this courtesy smile their thanks...
- Sun Oct 13, 2019 3:14 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Any news of Karl Henning?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18493
Re: Any news of Karl Henning?
Thank you for these snippets. At least he seems to have recovered. I don't have a Faceache account so unless he has a public page I won't be able to visit it. I'll try, though. Edit: There are so many Karl Hennings on Faceache.... Just register with GMG Classical Music Forum and you'll find him. Lo...
- Sat Oct 12, 2019 3:32 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Any news of Karl Henning?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18493
Re: Any news of Karl Henning?
Thank you for these snippets. At least he seems to have recovered. I don't have a Faceache account so unless he has a public page I won't be able to visit it. I'll try, though.
Edit: There are so many Karl Hennings on Faceache....
Edit: There are so many Karl Hennings on Faceache....
- Sat Oct 12, 2019 6:33 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Standards for New Music
- Replies: 72
- Views: 309809
Re: Standards for New Music
Just a reminder that there are listeners for whom new music is not too much effort but an instantaneous joy. There are few of those listeners on this particular board (one?), but those listeners do exist, listeners who actively seek out music they've never heard before (the model of listening that ...
- Sat Oct 12, 2019 4:35 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Standards for New Music
- Replies: 72
- Views: 309809
Re: Standards for New Music
Thank you for your kind comments, Belle. It's the liberal lefties who call the AfD "far right". Yes, they lean to the right and are nationalists only inasmuch as they want to preserve the Germany they know and love. It's less xenophobic than trying to mend the fracture in their culture. There are pl...
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 5:32 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Standards for New Music
- Replies: 72
- Views: 309809
Re: Standards for New Music
I've got living relatives who were in WW2 so it's still fresh in our family's memory. Belle I am concerned when I read something like this though-and of course there's Trump and his fine people on both sides! Regards, Len as Germany Forgotten the Lessons of the Nazis? The country’s culture of remem...
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:48 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Any news of Karl Henning?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18493
Any news of Karl Henning?
Just asking if he's recovering and how he is. He and I didn't get on too well for various reasons but I was always ready to appreciate him as a composer. I wrote a soliloquy for clarinet but never gave it to him. I wish him well all the same and wonder if anyone has news and if in contact, please pa...
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 4:49 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Standards for New Music
- Replies: 72
- Views: 309809
Re: Standards for New Music
In many cases, only repeated hearings will enable you to decide if you like a new work or not . And if one initially doesn't like a work, you should be willing to give it repeated hearing,s because you could begin to like it more this way . True - but over a period of time this usually needs a reco...
- Mon Oct 07, 2019 1:26 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Schnabel/Szell/NYPO LvB PC # 3,live 1945
- Replies: 19
- Views: 26844
Re: Schnabel/Szell/NYPO LvB PC # 3,live 1945
- Sat Oct 05, 2019 11:48 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Standards for New Music
- Replies: 72
- Views: 309809
Re: Standards for New Music
New music gives a lot of classical listeners no end of grief, apparently. And a lot of listeners return the compliment, with interest, complaining about all the things new music does or fails to do. I recently read a long post on FB about how the hideosities of new music were all the result of a un...
- Sat Oct 05, 2019 10:40 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Schnabel/Szell/NYPO LvB PC # 3,live 1945
- Replies: 19
- Views: 26844
Re: Schnabel/Szell/NYPO LvB PC # 3,live 1945
For me, the Schnabel/Sargent recordings of the 1930s are his best Beethoven concertos, and they have good sound too. The later versons with other conductors, studio and live, aren't on the same level. Agree entirely. I have the LP transfers of these recordings in a boxed set. However, though I can ...
- Sat Oct 05, 2019 10:20 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Plácido Domingo has resigned as general director of the Los Angeles Opera
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8504
Re: Plácido Domingo has resigned as general director of the Los Angeles Opera
Is sex still legal? I don't think it is in the UK without the proper consent forms signed and witnessed in triplicate!
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:21 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Two women come forward to corroborate E. Jean Carroll's account of being raped by Trump
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6621
Re: Two women come forward to corroborate E. Jean Carroll's account of being raped by Trump
One can't help ask why complain this late after the event and this crucial time?
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: It's Time To Let Classical Music Die
- Replies: 18
- Views: 22075
Re: It's Time To Let Classical Music Die
Classical Music is Inherently Racist So what? So is Reggae, so is Zouk, so is Kompa, so are Ragas.... I have to confess disdain for politicising music. There are plenty of different colours of musicins around today and no one is barred from any musical activity if they have the talent and presentat...
- Thu May 23, 2019 2:06 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Firing Up the Neural Symphony
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6154
Re: Firing Up the Neural Symphony
Neurophysiology has interested me for years. Problem is keeping up with developments. I seriously doubt anything can be discovered about how we assimilate experience as we do when exposed to music (or perhaps anything else), why our preferences are as they are, why our emotional reactions vary in th...
- Thu May 23, 2019 1:42 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: WIP - LP deaccessioning
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13719
Re: WIP - LP deaccessioning
I've recently returned to vinyl where possible. I vowed to buy no more CDs and consider downloading digital as a very last resort. I bought a Rega turntable - nice job but overall, flawed design if wanting to fit certain cartridges. I use a Shibata tipped stylus. Canned music is canned music whichev...
- Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:51 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Classical Music Streaming
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18676
Re: Classical Music Streaming
My question is 'what's the point' when one can download these longer works to audition at one's leisure? They can almost always be copied into a portable player if one wants them on the go but I can't think of many people I know who could stream an hour-long work without interruption or inconvenienc...