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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...

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Going against the trends elsewhere :

https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ca ... t-2722726/

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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.

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Febnyc wrote: ↑
Fri May 10, 2024 6:42 pm
And a fine cello concerto, too.

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.

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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Trump and GOP take pages from Putin's and Hitler's playbook:

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/10/trump- ... uels-biden

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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...

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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...

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:05 am
As I've said here before and an issue for the 2024 election:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/05/business ... index.html

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MP assaulted Yeppoon ?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/australian-m ... 07098.html

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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...

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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...

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Recent trends:

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/04/bird-f ... stream=top

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A clever post by pianist Stephen Hough regarding an upcoming Brahms 1st PC concert:

https://slippedisc.com/2024/05/stephen- ... 6-185-199/

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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... 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...

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Lance wrote: ↑
Thu May 02, 2024 2:50 pm
Interpretively speaking, however, Brendel displayed his talents in a manner more convincing than his later recordings of the same repertoire.

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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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 ...

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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...

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Belle wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:00 pm
Mein Kampus. Brilliant.

Conveniently ignoring Bibi's "blitzkrieg", unfortunately not a pun.

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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.

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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...

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Telling ( ? ) photos:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios ... are#story0

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:51 am
I've not been able to find the Tozer recording of her Piano Sonata.

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

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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...

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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 ...

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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” ...

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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

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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...

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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.

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Male violence in OZ ? Surely all lies:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/australi ... index.html

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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...

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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...

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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....

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