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Lance, I've had this CD since it was issued in 2019, and agree that it is both interesting and wonderful to hear. Thanks for bringing it up!

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And still, no one has yet mentioned the late lamented Penguin Guide, which had the most concise yet in-depth reviews of all. I never could go wrong with any recording marked with a Rosette! I do miss them terribly.

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Interesting and coincidental, Lance. Along with a couple of CDs I received in the post last week, the seller enclosed as a "bonus" a copy of the March/April 2024 Fanfare . About 20 years ago I dropped my long-time subscription and disposed of over a hundred back issues. And I hadn't seen the public...

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Interesting. Thanks!

The MET could sure use some of that subsidy money right now, like $40 million/yr.

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Interesting and coincidental, Lance. Along with a couple of CDs I received in the post last week, the seller enclosed as a "bonus" a copy of the March/April 2024 Fanfare . About 20 years ago I dropped my long-time subscription and disposed of over a hundred back issues. And I hadn't seen the public...

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By Michelle Cottle Michelle Cottle writes about national politics for Opinion and is a host of the podcast “Matter of Opinion.” March 31, 2024 Donald Trump is someone you should think carefully about hitching your financial fortunes to. The guy is a gifted carnival barker, no doubt. But when it come...

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I've always loved the Ormandy with Judith Raskin, much as I've loved her Messiah with Robert Shaw on RCA. Times have changed performance practices so much, haven't they?

My go to performance now is this one:

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Absolutely wonderful, as expected. I had not seen this before. Many thanks, Mark, and Happy Easter!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1ItcF7PWRM [Concierto realizado el 16-01-2011 en La Ópera Real de Versalles]. OBRAS: Naïs (1748) Suite d'orchestre 1. Ouverture 2. Musette tendre 3. Rigaudons I /II 4. Sarabande 5. Gavotte pour les Zéphirs 6. Loure 7. Musette 8. Tambourins I/II 9. Entrée des Luteurs...

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March 28, 2024 By David Brooks Opinion Columnist In 1978, the Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave a commencement address at Harvard, warning us about the loss of American self-confidence and will. “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in th...

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From Slipped Disc today: "After two days of trying to find a star pianist who could play Bartok’s second concerto and get along with conductor Klaus Mäkelä, the Chicago Symphony simply gave up In fairness, I doubt many star or other pianists keep the Bartok #2 in their fingers on moments notice, ev...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXS84aq ... 6QB49Se4T4

Among digital recordings of Walton I, this is my top nominee. Bryden Thomson lives and breathes every detail of Walton's greatest score, and in superb Chandos sound.

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The pandemic changed families’ lives and the culture of education: “Our relationship with school became optional.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/29/us/chronic-absences.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gU0.1r73.CSXScQGXfz7P&smid=url-share By Sarah Mervosh and Francesca Paris Sarah Mervosh ...

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:oops: Shamefully, I report I have only one CD recording of Walton's Symphony No. 1, that with Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting [EMI Icon set 63412, 18 CDs]. It's been eons since I've heard it. And if I told you I acquired that set just FOR the Walton, would you believe me? Of course you would! Lance...

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Lance, I miss the days when labels here in America had the resources to launch their own record (and later CD) clubs. Columbia Records was particularly effective at marketing its classical recordings, with a quarterly FREE LP (Audition) that would feature not only tracks from their newest recordings...

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Lance, all I know is that more and more people want to come to the USA than ever before, due to climate change (drought in Central America and political unrest around the world, etc.). My take is that the dream is still there, but the reality of actually getting rich here is more and more difficult ...

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March 28, 2024, 5:03 a.m. ET By Pamela Paul Opinion Columnist Once upon a time on social media, the nicest app of them all, Instagram, home to animal bloopers and filtered selfies, established a land called Threads, a hospitable alternative to the cursed X, Formerly Known as Twitter. X had been take...

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One of two recorded symphonies written (1920s and 1930s) by the Austrian composer Marcel Tyberg (1893-1944). Tyberg was murdered by the Nazis - perishing in Auschwitz - and therefore his musical output was rather limited. When arrest was imminent, Tyberg entrusted his scores to an Italian physician...

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:05 am
This is the later of the two HvK video perfs from 1988. The other, even more famous, was given at St. Florian's in 1979, which is complete on youTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihtXjBmAXgM

I think it is the greatest symphony of the greatest composer of symphonies, but what do I know?

Yes!

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Thomas Tallis wrote his Lamentations of Jeremiah in 1560 for Maundy Thursday and that is my go-to music for this day of the liturgical year. If you ask me "what's the most beautiful music ever composed?", this is it. It's a biblical setting in Latin, but includes the Hebrew letters which mark the v...

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https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51NZPHDZ0DL._AC_UY327_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg Composer Aram Khachaturian, known for his great symphonies and ballets, not to mention his piano and violin concertos, also composed some superb pieces for violin and piano, represented here by violinist Hideko Udagawa and p...

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After enjoying decades of prosperity, the country has hit stubborn economic turbulence. By Natasha Frost Reporting from Melbourne, Australia March 27, 2024 Updated 8:35 a.m. ET For nearly three decades, Australia seemed to have a sort of get-out-of-jail card that allowed it to glide through the dot...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr3WVje-C3o

Andre Previn was a great spokesman for Sir William Walton's First Symphony. He recorded it commercially twice, first for RCA, then again for Telarc. Here he is leading it at the Proms in 1970 with the great London Symphony Orchestra.

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Two more additions to my own personal favorite symphonies....

Walton I
Rachmaninoff II (but only recordings with the cuts that Ormandy worked on with the composer)

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Speaking of opera, here's a few of my favorites:

Tosca: the Te Deum (Act I)

Gotterdammerung: The finale

Beethoven: Leonore #3

Boris Godunov: end of the Coronation Scene

Handel: Messiah, Amen

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To be truthful, Len, I just don't know. The Mimi was just not memorable, I guess. Thanks for checking! Brian it was interesting that they had 5 videos of Domingo but not a single one with Domingo-otoh they did have an audio of Domingo conducting a La Boheme. One they do have is the Pavarotti Scotto...

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The Georgia Republican files to oust Speaker Johnson, saying he’s ‘in the arms of Democrats.’ By The Editorial Board March 22, 2024 5:37 pm ET Speaker Mike Johnson claimed a victory for sanity Friday, when the House voted 286-134 to do its basic job of funding the government, rather than blunder in...

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You and I share similar interests in pianists! Being a piano-driven listener for many reasons, as much as I have on disc of Barenboim and, hard as I have tried (truly), I don't come back to him very often. He has recorded prolifically for many labels (and also as a conductor), but piano-wise, wheth...

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We saw it with Placido Domingo, who also disappointed (He took down "Che gelida manina..." a major second!). Renata Scotto was as described, but I can't find the program so I can't tell you who the soprano was. :oops: As for those glorious sets, I'm grateful that the MET has held on to them. Brian ...

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Dora Pejačević (1885-1923)
Symphony in F# minor, op. 41 (first complete performance 1921)
played by
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqKMp7MGjS8

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Interesting review, Len. Thanks! We saw that production in the 1980's, but not with Carreras whom I avoided as he was, as the reviewer states, in vocal decline at that point in his career, as was Renata Scotto. We saw it with Placido Domingo, who also disappointed (He took down "Che gelida manina......

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March 24, 2024 By David Brooks Opinion Columnist There seems to be a broad consensus atop the Democratic Party about the war in Gaza, structured around two propositions. First, after the attacks of Oct. 7, Israel has the right to defend itself and defeat Hamas. Second, the way Israel is doing this i...

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Next season will be far more interesting than this one. We plan on increasing our attendance by 50% due to the excellent programming! Haven't made a final decision yet, but we're really looking forward to it.

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I was never totally convinced of Pollini's music-... and like many others, felt his playing to be ultra-conservative and on the "cool," side, the latter a word used often. Lance, I agree with you. There was never any question of his total mastery of the keyboard, but I often felt that there was som...

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You're welcome.

You have been missed.

May you arrive safely in Heaven.

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There was another, too, with Suk as violinist, BBC Legends [4257] coupled with the Beethoven VC, all under Malcolm Sargent and the BBC Symphony, recorded 1964, 1965 respectively. So, we have a good number of this concerto with Suk, the grandson. Violinist Joseph Suk championed his grandfather's vio...

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Not familiar with the work of Dame Ethel Smyth. I listened in on the Concerto for Violin and Horn (1927), which I thought interesting. A book on her was published that might be interesting reading. Thanks for putting this up, sir! That concerto for violin and horn is indeed a rarity, one that works...

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I checked my live performances of Heifetz to determine if he recorded it in concert. Near as I can determine, he didn't. And you're right, many great recordings out there. Mine include Vengerov, Stern, Ughi, Rucci, Pamela Frank, Martzy, Milstein, Chang, Perlman, Menuhin, Prihoda, Kulenkampff, Krebb...

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March 21, 2024 By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist For many years, Ohio has been thought of as a bellwether state: With rare exceptions, whoever won Ohio in a presidential election won the nation as a whole. But in 2020, Donald Trump won Ohio by about eight points even as Joe Biden led the national po...

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This page contains much music by British composer Ethel Smyth, and includes an excellent documentary.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/v ... tion=click

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Lance, I believe Peter Pears to be an acquired taste, frankly. That said, I saw/heard him at the world premiere of Death in Venice at the MET in 1975, sitting just behind the conductor Stuart Bedford in the first row orchestra, thanks to a generous patron who handed me a ticket stub on the way out. ...

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:55 pm
Thanks for this.

I much prefer to hear the Dvorak than the Tchaikovsky.

I do think that the Dvořák is terribly underrated.

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Fascinating article, Len! Thanks for posting. I'll be interested to hear the recordings when they are finally issued. Brian I thought of you as I read this-the documentary they suggest on you tube had english captions when watched from my pc-on the TV with roku I could see a documentary but there n...

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The man continues to improve, doctors said. Organs from genetically engineered pigs one day may make dialysis obsolete. By Roni Caryn Rabin March 21, 2024 Updated 10:50 a.m. ET Surgeons in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a genetically engineered pig into an ailing 62-year-old man, the first ...

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Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Violin Concerto in A minor, Op.53 (1879) 01:07 I. Allegro ma non troppo 14:13 II. Adagio ma non troppo 25:45 III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo Veriko Tchumburidze, violin Andrzey Boreyko, conductor Warsaw Philarmonic Orchestra 39:48 Encore: Requiem for Freedom by Igor Lo...

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https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51QtSInwxLL._SX425_.jpg Daniel Barenboim's Wagner has always been near the top of my list, especially his 1992 Bayreuth Ring, which has also been released on DVD. This new box pictured above is now selling for the unbelievable price of $39 for 34 discs on Amazon ...

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Fascinating article, Len! Thanks for posting. I'll be interested to hear the recordings when they are finally issued.

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Brian, I tried to do some checking for you on the RCA edition of Janis. Apparently, it was short-lived. I see used and new prices for this 11-CD set going for $600/USD. RCA did eventually issue a white box edition of 5-CDs, which did not contain all that appeared in the first set. I understand that...

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Here are the top 20 according to the 2016 BBC Music Magazine survey of 151 conductors. 1. Beethoven 3 2. Beethoven 9 3. Mozart 41 4. Mahler 9 5. Mahler 2 6. Brahms 4 7. Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique 8. Brahms Symphony 1 9. Tchaikovsky 6 10. Mahler 3 11 Beethoven 5 12 Brahms 3 13 Bruckner 8 14 Sibel...

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Trump’s firebrand words and the left’s obsession with race are reminiscent of far darker times. By Gerard Baker March 18, 2024 1:10 pm ET Last year we learned that American men supposedly spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the Roman empire. Since the source of this information was a ...

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