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- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Dvorak Violin Concerto - Veriko Tchumburidze
- Replies: 15
- Views: 690
Re: Dvorak Violin Concerto - Veriko Tchumburidze
Brahms was dead wrong when he urged Dvorak to eliminate the Czech coloration of his music . Dvorak would not be Dvorak if he had not. put that distinctive Czech flavor in his music . It's. an integral part of it , as it should be .
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:43 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Puccini’s ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Turandot’: More Than Appropriation
- Replies: 11
- Views: 560
Re: Puccini’s ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Turandot’: More Than Appropriation
"Cultural appropriation" is a recently coined and loaded term , and it's very foolish to judge pseudo Asian operas such as Turandot and Madama Butterly by the trendy. PC. standards of the present day . Today, cultural appropriation has to do with. white people doing things such as wearing. the cloth...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Klaus Mäkelä named to head Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Replies: 19
- Views: 786
Re: Klaus Mäkelä named to head Chicago Symphony Orchestra
I's understandable that people have misgivings about. Klaus Makela being MD in Chicago and. Amsterdam simultaneously . It would be a demanding job for a highly experienced conductor to head. only one of these two renowned. orchestras . But let's give him and chance and I wish him well . He appears t...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Top Dozen Symphonies
- Replies: 25
- Views: 980
Re: Top Dozen Symphonies
I love so many symphonies , or at least like them it's impossible for me to choose a "top dozen " list . This may not be relevant to the question , but here is my list of. some. symphonies which are undeservedly neglected in the concert hall. but which can. fortunately be heard on CD 👍 In no particu...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Where does Peter Pears stand in the lineup of tenors?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 335
Re: Where does Peter Pears stand in the lineup of tenors?
Peter Pears occupies a very specialized niche among tenors . He wasn't suited to. tenor roles in Italian opera except for his portrayal of the aged emperor in Turandot on the classic. Decca recording with. Sutherland and Pavarotti. with Mehta conducting. or. most tenor roles in opera in general , bu...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Why Don't More American Maestros Head American Orchestras
- Replies: 4
- Views: 222
Re: Why Don't More American Maestros Head American Orchestras
So many of the most prestigious European orchestras and opera companies have had American music directors in out time : For example Lorin Maazel with the Vienna State opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Bavarian Radio orchestra , the Berlin Radio orchestra , James Conlon with the Rotterdam Philharm...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Smell the Music: Inviting a Perfumer Into the Concert Hall
- Replies: 5
- Views: 397
Re: Smell the Music: Inviting a Perfumer Into the Concert Hall
I suppose people who can't stand the music of Scriabin could say it smells !
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What is it about conductors of the past ...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 474
Re: What is it about conductors of the past ...
I think Fricsay might be better remembered today if. not for his untimely death just a year before his 50th birthday and he had lived long enough to make more recordings than he did .
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: John McWhorter challenges Ethan Iverson on "Rhapsody in Blue"
- Replies: 10
- Views: 852
Re: John McWhorter challenges Ethan Iverson on "Rhapsody in Blue"
I don't know what all the fuss is about . The Rhapsody in Blue is a highly effective piece which has been popular with audiences everywhere for about a century . And one thing which is rarely mentioned is that it is also influenced by Klezmer music ! Virgil Thomson's description of the Shostakovich ...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:05 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Our First Dalibor Smetana
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1424
Re: Our First Dalibor Smetana
2024 is. the Smetana bicentennial. as well as. for Anton Bruckner . I hope there will be as much celebration of Smetana as with Bruckner . I love the music of both composers .
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Welser-Most to leave Cleveland Orchestra in 2027
- Replies: 6
- Views: 824
Re: Welser-Most to leave Cleveland Orchestra in 2027
I think Welser-Most would be a really valuable asset to the Met after he leaves Cleveland as a regular visitor there .
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Peter Schickele, Composer and Gleeful Sire of P.D.Q. Bach, Dies at 88
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1099
Re: Peter Schickele, Composer and Gleeful Sire of P.D.Q. Bach, Dies at 88
R.I.P. His sublimely groan-inducing puns will be missed .
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Our First Dalibor Smetana
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1424
Re: Our First Dalibor Smetana
Dalibor is a wonderful opera which deserves to be better known . But it has not been performed often outside the Czech republic, formerly Czechoslovakia . Eve Queler did a concert performance with the Opera orchestra of New York some years ago , with. the late Nicolai Gedda in the title role , and t...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:56 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Unnecessary Recordings, Episode No. 4,373
- Replies: 7
- Views: 846
Re: Unnecessary Recordings, Episode No. 4,373
Yes, in recent years there has been an astonishing number of Beethoven symphony cycles , more than necessary . For example, ones by Yannick Nezet- Seguin, Andris Nelsons , Gabor Takacs Nagy , formerly first violinist of a famous string quartet whose name I can't recall offhand , Michael Sanderling ,...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:39 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Once again, record magazines aren't giving ME much!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 831
Re: Once again, record magazines aren't giving ME much!
Belle, Klemperer's "leaden performances " were the result the recordings he made in his 70s and 80s for. EMI, now Warner classics . He had serious health problems in his later years , such as a stroke which. left him paralyzed on one side etc. But if you listen to his earlier recordings before the f...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 3:36 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Joe Patrych (1955-2023)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2780
Re: Joe Patrych (1955-2023)
So sorry to hear about his passing . 68 years is. not very old at all , and I wish he could have lived longer and accomplished more .
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 6:43 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: A Joke For Lance !
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1503
Re: A Joke For Lance !
Thanks !
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 12:31 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: A Joke For Lance !
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1503
A Joke For Lance !
This joke is for Lance, but also for everybody here . I just found it on an email in my inbox . A woman hears a knock on the door , and. there is a piano tuner who asks to talk to her . Startled , she relies "But I didn't send for a piano tuner ! " He responds "I know you didn't . But your neighbors...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 1:56 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Climate Protests Upstage a Debut at the Met Opera
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1654
Re: Climate Protests Upstage a Debut at the Met Opera
I'm all for their right to protest PEACEFULLY , but. the Metropolitan opera is not an appropriate place for this .
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Thoughts on conductor Felix Weingartner
- Replies: 11
- Views: 915
Re: Thoughts on conductor Felix Weingartner
I'm familiar with some of Weingartner's recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic and London orchestras Lance, but I wasn't aware of any recordings with him conducting the Concertgebouw orchestra . I would certainly like to hear the Amsterdam recordings .
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:29 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 - Ormandy--World Premiere Recording
- Replies: 12
- Views: 725
Re: Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 - Ormandy--World Premiere Recording
OOPS ! I meant to post this on the thread discusing Ormandy' recording of the Prokofiev 6th symphony ! My bad !
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 4:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 - Ormandy--World Premiere Recording
- Replies: 12
- Views: 725
Re: Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 - Ormandy--World Premiere Recording
I have the recording by Yevgeny Mravinsky and the Leningrad Philharmonic on the Urania label , a reissue I guess from Melodiya . It's really intense and gripping performance, and the sound is surprisingly good for its time and place of origin .
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 4:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Conductor Yuri Temirkanov (10 December 1938 – 2 November 2023)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 946
Re: Conductor Yuri Temirkanov (10 December 1938 – 2 November 2023)
Not at all ! The Circassians have been spread all over the globe , mainly in Turkey, Jordan <Israel and other middle eastern countries since Russia invaded their lands in the 1860s in an attempt to commit genocide against them . Temirkanov is a descendent of those who managed to escape being killed ...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:36 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Conductor Yuri Temirkanov (10 December 1938 – 2 November 2023)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 946
Re: Conductor Yuri Temirkanov (10 December 1938 – 2 November 2023)
R.I.P. Yuri Temirkanov was certainly one of the most compelling conductors of our time, not only in. Russian music . I wonder if his negative reaction to women conductors is due to the fact that he is not actually Russian , but an ethnic Circassian from the Caucasus . The Circassians are a very anci...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Eugen Jochum, conductor
- Replies: 3
- Views: 440
Re: Eugen Jochum, conductor
Eugen Jochum left so many wonderful recordings . I also admire his DG Meistersinger with. Fischer-Dieskau and. Domingo , the 3 Bruckner masses, also on DG among others .
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 6:21 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Opinion on viola vs. violin? Favorites?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 650
Re: Opinion on viola vs. violin? Favorites?
i agree. The viola is a wonderful but sadly under appreciated instrument . One wrk for viola I really like is Hindemith's "Der Schwanendreher " ( the swan turner ), which uses old. German folk songs , especially. " Aren't you the swan truner ". A swan. turner was a. kitchen servant who turned roasti...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:21 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Summer festival doldrums ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 728
Re: Summer festival doldrums ?
Lebrecht's claim that Karajan reorganized the Salzburg festival as a "showcase for superstars " and. an "advertising vehicle " is nothing but his usual bovine scatology . The Salzburg festival featured. the world's foremost classical musicians from the beginning and it was just the same under Karaja...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 5:54 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Review: ‘Dead Man Walking’ Opens a Met Season Heavy on the New
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1773
Re: Review: ‘Dead Man Walking’ Opens a Met Season Heavy on the New
Ugh . Which operas are they going to ban next ? La Traviata because it's the story of a French courtesan ? And other operas some prudish, narrow-minded moron finds "offensive "?
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 3:27 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Who cares if you listen ?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1731
Re: Who cares if you listen ?
The title "Who cares if you listen" was chosen by the individual who was editor of High Fidelity magazine at the time and Babbitt did not approve of it at all .
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 4:39 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Who cares if you listen ?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1731
Re: Who cares if you listen ?
Could someone please translate this article into English ?
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 5:09 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Felix Klieser, French horn virtuoso
- Replies: 9
- Views: 693
Re: Felix Klieser, French horn virtuoso
Thanks, MaestroB.
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 1:22 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Felix Klieser, French horn virtuoso
- Replies: 9
- Views: 693
Re: Felix Klieser, French horn virtuoso
I've heard of him and saw a video of him playing a few years ago, and he's truly amazing, I was forced about 20 years ago to give up performing as a horn player because of a rare neurological disorder which took many years to rob me of the ability to walk and. I've been confined to a wheelchair for ...
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 3:50 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Our First Zemira e Azor Grétry Operavision Youtube Free
- Replies: 6
- Views: 575
Re: Our First Zemira e Azor Grétry Operavision Youtube Free
I remember this opera from an. LP on a label I can't recall offhand and a cast I also can't recall ; I believe i may have made in Brussels but I'm not sure . This was ages ago before CDs existed . I do remember the conductor ; it was Edgard Doneaux , whom I otherwise know almost nothing about . I do...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 3:24 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Brahms and Dvorak
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3331
Re: Brahms and Dvorak
Dvorak and Brahms both wrote wonderful music , but to me at least, the music of Dvorak seems fresher and more spontaneous . Many critics and musicologists have faulted Dvorak's music for not strictly following the "politically correct " methods of composition and dismissed his works as "structurally...
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 1:39 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The alt.Right on the demise of Classical music
- Replies: 8
- Views: 797
Re: The alt.Right on the demise of Classical music
This article on the alleged " death " of classical music is nothing but the same old tired right-wing drivel applied to the arts . The author dismisses attempts to diversify the repertoire and find new audiences for classical music in New York and Philadelphia as "woke ". Woke Schmoke ! I'm sick of ...
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 1:37 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Leonard Bernstein’s Children Defend Bradley Cooper’s Prosthetic Nose in ‘Maestro’
- Replies: 4
- Views: 928
Re: Leonard Bernstein’s Children Defend Bradley Cooper’s Prosthetic Nose in ‘Maestro’
This is odd, because Bernstein's nose was. not particularly large, nor was is aquiline like the stereotypical Jewish nose . There doesn't seem any need to put a prosthetic nose on Cooper .
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 4:18 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Record magazines not covering much of interest to me these days!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1161
Re: Record magazines not covering much of interest to me these days!
The online classical recordings magazine. "Classics Today " has reviews of. a very. wide variety of repertoire , including. rarities of all kind , and is always interesting to read, even though I. often disagree with. the reviews by its executive director Dave Hurwitz , who is quite a character . Of...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 2:10 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Opera News To Shut Down !
- Replies: 1
- Views: 331
Opera News To Shut Down !
Unfortunately , Opera News magazine, which has been in existence for some 87 years , will publish its last issue this November . The magazine will be incorporated into the English magazine Opera . I've been a subscriber for many years and have been reading Opera News for over 50 years since I was a ...
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 4:23 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: ‘We’re Like Athletes Here’: The Maestro With a Gym Habit
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2414
Re: ‘We’re Like Athletes Here’: The Maestro With a Gym Habit
Not too long ago, I saw a video on youtube of the Netherlands opera production of "Der Zwerg" ( the dwarf ) by Alexander von Zemlinsky , and while the production was somewhat hokey , Lorenzo Viotti and the orchestra. gave a performance which. could hardly have been bettered . His late father Marcell...
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 4:17 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: "New" Sibelius "Karelia"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 613
Re: "New" Sibelius "Karelia"
This is certainly interesting and I'm curious to hear the differences . The conductor is a new name to me. Is he related to another Finnish conductor of an earlier generation ; Tauno. Hannikainen ? I remember his record of the Sibelius 2nd symphony with I believe a London pickup orchestra from LP ag...
- Sun Jul 16, 2023 1:45 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival
- Replies: 8
- Views: 689
Re: The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival
The London symphony orchestra under Sr Simon Rattle was "virtually unimpeachable ? " You mean it's possible for conductors and orchestras as well as politicians to be impeached now ? This is a new one to me . I'm not sure which ones I'd like to see impeached , or what would be done if this were to h...
- Tue Jul 04, 2023 3:24 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: To the Conductor Claudio Abbado, the Orchestra Was a Collective
- Replies: 4
- Views: 508
Re: To the Conductor Claudio Abbado, the Orchestra Was a Collective
Years ago, I was privileged to attend. Abbado's concert with the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie hall . This was probably the most memorable concert I have attended , and their account of the Bruckner 7th symphony was. truly inspired. The orchestra sounded like the kind of orchestra you would hear i...
- Mon Jul 03, 2023 6:00 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The Women of ‘Don Carlo’ Portray a Moment in History
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1684
Re: The Women of ‘Don Carlo’ Portray a Moment in History
The historical Don Carlos was nothing like the handsome, courageous hero of the Verdi masterpiece . As a scion of the incredibly inbred. Hapsburg dynasty . he was a totally dysfunctional. and pitiful human being . He was terribly deformed , probably mentally retarded and. almost totally helpless . H...
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 6:15 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: A must explore YT site
- Replies: 2
- Views: 370
Re: A must explore YT site
Yes, thanks . Classical music on youtube is truly an embarrassment of riches ! There seems to be no end to all the cool classical music channels there .
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 6:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: How does Fischer-Dieskau vs. Prey compare to you?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 623
Re: How does Fischer-Dieskau vs. Prey compare to you?
Both truly great artists . But at least on recordings, I think Fischer-Dieskau was also outstanding in opera, and his repertoire was huge, even though hr did not sing all the roles he recorded live . There's a brief youtube excerpt from a Berlin performance of Don Giovanni from the 60s sung in Germa...
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 5:42 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto
- Replies: 7
- Views: 831
Re: ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto
The Busoni piano concerto is a truly unique work. It's colossal , weird, wildly original and. enigmatic . Alfred Brendel has described the horrendously difficult piano part as "monstrously overwritten," or words to that effect . I wonder if this was merely sour grapes and envy of other famous pianis...
- Wed Jun 14, 2023 6:22 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Australians and Kiwis that Deserve Recognition as Composers
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10221
Re: Australians and Kiwis that Deserve Recognition as Composers
I wonder . Are Australian composers marsupials ?
- Mon Jun 12, 2023 1:44 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: s It the End of an Era at the Metropolitan Opera?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 501
Re: s It the End of an Era at the Metropolitan Opera?
I don't know if this was "an end to an era:" at the Met, but the company is adjusting as best it can to adverse circumstances . I'm certainly glad to see the Met doing more to support contemporary opera , and rather pleasantly surprised to hear about its notoriously conservative audience base reacti...
- Mon Jun 12, 2023 1:40 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: How's the weather up your way, Lance?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 459
Re: How's the weather up your way, Lance?
I met Camille Coppola several years when a number of singers from the New Rochelle opera appeared at a small public park very close to where I live during the summer , accompanied by a portable electric keyboard instrument played by an accompanist who works for the company . Some of those singers we...
- Sat Jun 10, 2023 4:39 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: How's the weather up your way, Lance?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 459
Re: How's the weather up your way, Lance?
I live in New Rochelle, just a stone's throw from the border of the Bronx , and the sky is perfectly clear and normal . I wonder how much of the five boroughs of the city were effected by this mess ?