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This morning, I heard the second symphony of Beethoven on the CBC. It was a recording by Osmo Vanska and the Minnesota Orchestra. I was totally blown away by that performance and I was very impressed by the quality of the sound too. It was amazingly clear in fact. Then I realized that it was probabl...

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Donaldopato wrote: She has not composed a Symphony but her "blue cathedral", Concerto for Orchestra and Percussion Concerto are great pieces.

I know all these pieces and I second your comment about them. Strongly recommended to all.

Matt.

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Prometheus,

Please forgive my late reply. Happy belated birthday to you. You are one of my best pal on CMG and I can't believe that I forgot to wish you a happy birthday.

Hope you had a memorable day and that all is well with you.

Matt.

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Congratulations to Fergus !!! One of the nicest guy that I know here on CMG. You and you compatriot Sean are always very interesting to read. If everyone in Ireland is as friendly as you then I wish I could live there

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Congratulations for reaching that number.

Matt.

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Very interesting thread. I always wondered the same thing. I really enjoy the wonderful cd of some chamber works by the latest Pullitzer award winner Jennifer Higdon. http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2007/Mar07/Higdon_8559298.gif I'm not sure if she has a fan club here on CMG but if po...

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My answer will be no but that is just because of my own situation with regard to the music of Mahler. I am very ashamed to said that I only have listened to his symphonies 1 to 5 :oops: . I have the box set of brilliant classics (with the superb Horenstein's 3rd) but never listened to the symphonies...

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Secondly, it is not because a conductor share "cultural background" with the composer that his or her recording or performance of a work is going to be excellent. Perchaps this was the case several years ago but now, I think that this is completely different. May I recall that we are in 2010 and fr...

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Nezet-Seguin led a masterful Carmen at the MET (seen on TV last night), but that's to be expected given his cultural background. I heard good things about his Bruckner, so let's see what happens. He's certainly likeable enough. What ? Two things here. Number one, Nezet-Seguin is a french-canadian j...

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What about Baremboim ? Truly remarkable conductor in my mind as well as been one of the top pianist of his generation. Oh wait, I bet a lot of people don't like him here either as a pianist of a conductor. I still consider his Bruckner's cycles to be excellent as well as his Mozart's piano sonatas r...

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For some reasons, Chopin is not that memorable for me

. I am looking forward for the responds on this thread as it may help me to see more in his music than I currently do.

Matt.

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Dear CMG members, Thank you so much for your precious help and all the good wishes. I will never forget your generosity and kind help. So I had a lot of tough decisions to take regarding the choice of music and I tried to followed as much of your advices as possible. I planned 4 hours of music total...

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Definitively french. I consider him to be a revolutionnary composer and he did it all by himself. I don't even find his orchestral work to be like anything else before him. Not even close to Gluck a composer that he liked so much and that he was greatly influenced by. Not too sure what point you are...

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Dear all, I have not been very active lately on CMG for a few reasons (if you care). One of them being that I am getting married this coming Saturday :D . Our wedding will be quite small (about 25 guests) and my fiancee and I only decided recently that we should have music playing in the background ...

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As for theory, I have absolutely no qualification. Yet, listen to this neat demonstration of the pentatonic scale: ne6tB2KiZuk Once again, thank you Piston for your very interesting comments and informations. I have seen that clip on CMG before. I live this Bobby McFarrin a lot. His song Don't worr...

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Thank you all for your insights into that music. All very interesting to read. Unfortunately, I know next to nothing in music theory and there is another question that I have related to Oriental music as used by the Mighty Five (or others). There are important characteristics in the music originated...

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Hello all, Lately, I have been listening to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade a lot. What a wonderful piece. Not only does it have marvellous melodies, it also has superb sound effects. I have always seen that piece as a collection of 4 tone poems each link with the violin that plays the role of Schehe...

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I think that it is in the booklet of the boxset of Scriabin's complete piano sonatas on Brilliant Classics that I read the most interesting comment about Scriabin's piano sonatas. The comment was something like from the 4th sonata onward each sonata obey its own logic and is an universe by itself. I...

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What a cool thread. My fiancee and I only have one cat that we love dearly. One among many things that I find interesting and special about him is that he doesn't like to hunt birds (and he actually like birds) as opposed to most cats. It is to the point that the regular wild birds that visit our ya...

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BWV 1080,

Thank you so much for posting that article here. I saw the add in question a few times on tv and I was very intrigued by that claim. How is that possible I thought ? The article was very interesting and it answered a lot of my questions.

Many thanks.

Matt.

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I am very happy that Jennifer won that price and I am looking forward to hear this work fully (beside the excerpts on the New York Times website). Very happy because a few weeks ago (well before she was given that price) I made a review of an album that contains her work Blue Cathedral http://www.cl...

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Hi Piston, Debussy is my favorite composer. Of all his works, my favorite would probably be his piano music. In fact, his piano music are probably among the few works that I collect performances. My favorite piano pieces are L'Isle Joyeuse, Images 1 and 2, the 24 preludes, Suite Bergamasque, the two...

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Many thanks to all of you for your replies. Thanks Febnyc for suggesting these other composers. I must say that I am now a fan of Jennifer Higdon. Her music is definitively at the top of my wishlist right now. I just listened to her Piano Trio on Naxos. It is simply beautiful. I am still eager to le...

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Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: Symphonies I & V http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31NATBD641L._SL500_AA300_.jpg Intriguing late-romantic style, very easy on the ears. Maestrob, You made my day. I like to think of myself as the official fan of P.-B. See a previous post I wrote on him http://www.classi...

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Hi hope Corlyss_D gets better soon. I miss her

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Hope to read you soon Corlyss_D.

Matt.

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I listened to the five latest cds that I bought on Friday and Sunday. -Blue Cathedral by Jennifer Higdon -Rainbow Body by Chris Theofanidis -Appalachian Springs by Aaron Copland -Symphony no. 1 All from the following excellent recording (in my opinion) (see review) http://www.classical.net/music/rec...

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Hi, Three days ago I was looking for any recording on Itunes that contained Barber's symphony no. 1. At the end, I only had a few choices. I was about to purchase the Jarvi/Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Chandos recording that contains Barber Symphony 1, Symphony 2, Adagio for strings and the school of ...

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I have always been a huge fan of Lindsay Buckingham (and Fleetwood Mac).

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NancyElla, That is one very interesting thread indeed. Good idea ! Here are my three : - Proctoring an exam that my students are doing and looking at all these bright young minds using their brain and intelligence. Each time, I just feel like telling them that they are smart beyond belief but they d...

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Congrats to our friend and leader Lance. Well done

Matt.

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Fergus wrote:Rautavaara....Cantus Articus and Symphony No. 3:

Excellent choice Fergus. I love this piece so much because it includes two of my passions. Birds and music. Who said that modern music could not be fun, touching and beautiful ?

Matt.

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I wondered the same question Lance. In fact, if I may add, I find the Chatterbox to be rather boring lately. I missed the time like a few months ago when there were several interesting threads about different kind of composers and that every day of the week. To me, the Chatterbox started to go downh...

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Hi, One of the book on classical music that I have is Classical music (eyewitness companions) http://i29.tinypic.com/6sass3.jpg I like this book as I learned about several composers that I didn't know about. One of them is the finnish composer Selim Palmgren (1878-1951). According to this book, he m...

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Here's a book (just an example): http://www.amazon.ca/Musique-classique-John-Burrows/dp/2700013476/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269552191&sr=1-4 I do have that book in english and find it quite interesting. It is more a list of composers and a list of what the author and its collaborators think ...

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Hello all, For quite some times now I have been wanted to give a try to the famous three members of the second viennese school but never got around to it really. I have the following two cds: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2007/Aug07/Schoenberg_pierrot_8557523.gif and http://www.clas...

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Think again. Canadian Courts have been moving in an aggressive and autocratic direction for a number of years. No, bare breasts aren't too much of a concern for them, but the presence of free thought and free religious expression within Canada troubles the Canadian courts deeply. And they aim to fi...

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......a book on Berlioz, Debussy and Schubert..... "A book on Berlioz, Debussy and Schubert"? :lol: Sounds like it must have been a work of fiction. :) Or maybe a "walk-into-a-bar" joke...... Sorry, I was not clear. I read a book in french on each of these composers. So 1 book on each and no it was...

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Judging by the reaction to this story, I hope most of you understand now why it is so over the top for canadians to hear or read the likes of Limbaugh, Fox News, Sarah Palin and all that. I could be wrong but nonsense like some comments of Saul (for example) would not be tolerated for very long on a...

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Hjalmar, Hi, I don't think that we have met before. Judging by your nickname, I think that you are from a part of our world that I particularly like. As a person whose mother tongue is french (like most of you couldn't tell, right !), I think that I qualify for your request. The problem is that I ha...

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First of all, many thanks to Corlyss_D, NancyElla and JackC for your enlightning answers. Your answers were all different and very interesting. I am glad that sflostra answered the question about the canadian healtcare system before me. I actually agree with pretty much everything he wrote. I think ...

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Thank you JackC & Corlyss for the clear and succinct responses you offered to Matt's sincere questions. NancyElla--comparing Obama to Hitler or Stalin is clearly over the top. Calling him a socialist, however, is right on the money. He and those who agree with him regarding the role of government t...

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How interesting. A few days ago I wanted to write here that she was coming to where I live and that i may want to attend because I find her hilarious but I decided not to go and so I didn't write about it. I am surprised that 2000 people showed up to protest against her. Surprised in the sense that ...

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ratsrcute, That is a very interesting thread. One that I will follow a lot since I am not that familiar with a lot of Brahms' chamber work. The works that I am the most familiar with are the ones including the clarinet: The two clarinet sonatas, the trio for Cello, Piano and Clarinet and the clarine...

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Saul, You have the right to your belief. However, I am getting a bit tired of you using the same old argument. That or that Rabbi said this or that therefore it must be true. As much respect as I have for religious leaders, they can't all be right at the same time. As much as you would like to belie...

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3- According to you, why is the reform so bad ? What are your main arguments ? If you haven't been following it closely, it can't be explained briefly, and I would imagine that not being directly involved it's not worth your time to become informed. As Moynihan once observed, if you don't have a li...

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Good choice. Very interesting movie. I should watch that one again sometimes.

Matt.

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Hi, I find this section of CMG to be rather quiet lately so I thought that I could start a new thread. I don't know about you but I always like to know people's favorite book(s). Quite oftenly, it helps me a lot to discover books that I didn't know as well as getting to know my friends better. So, w...

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Please read: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/chilean-quake-shifted-earths-axis-nasa-scientist-20100302-peqe.html Lapland is the Ideal place to live for people who fear or believe this 'scientist'... http://www.emagine-travel.co.uk/blog/content/binary/Lapland%20blog.JPG As they say :"You a...

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jbuck919 wrote: Gosh, Matt, those are exactly the questions I have.

Great. That must be the maths connexion.

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Voltaire wrote: "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. " As much as I find Saul's comments to be pointless or egocentric at times and as much as I find most of you to be exagerating when you compliment Saul's music, I think that Saul has as much...

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Dear friends, I have several questions for you all. As a canadian I must say that there are a lot of things that I do not know about America. However, I try to learn as much as I can and I also try to keep in touch with as much as I can (not only for america but everywhere in the world. The BBC is a...

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