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Post by Silken on Jan 9, 2019 9:05:16 GMT -5
I heard this gorgeously understated gem, in this version, on BBC's classical radio station this morning. St. Petersburg is on our travel wish list for the coming years, so that makes this performance by the St. Petersburg Chamber Choir particularly memorable (watch out for the false ending at the six-minute mark): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy_of_St._John_Chrysostom_(Tchaikovsky)I love the videos where you can follow the score.
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Post by Silken on Jan 9, 2019 18:27:36 GMT -5
I love the videos where you can follow the score. So do I, Silken . I try to include them wherever possible, when it's only a few parts. (I draw the line at bigger orchestral scores with many staves.) I'm only interested in what I can sing (singing at first sight is a great exercise), so no orchestral scores for me, either.
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Post by Silken on Jan 12, 2019 18:39:49 GMT -5
I planned to post this yesterday but it was filled up with offline activity. January 9th 1905 is the fateful day in Russian history when soldiers of the Imperial Guard fired upon unarmed demonstrators marching on the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, killing several hundred of them. Shostakovich commemorates it in the second movement of his Eleventh Symphony, although it is more likely a depiction of the then recent crushing of the Hungarian Revolution by Soviet troops. (Important note: Play at full volume, otherwise you won't hear the deathly hush at 15:06.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._11_(Shostakovich)It's beautiful!!!
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Post by Silken on Jan 16, 2019 18:57:52 GMT -5
The Eleventh is my second favourite Shostakovich symphony, after the Fourth. I've been listening to Shostakovich since you posted that video, and I really like him!!! I don't think I had ever heard his music before.
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Post by treatzapiza on Jan 26, 2019 8:21:50 GMT -5
This is fantastic, man!
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 1, 2019 12:03:28 GMT -5
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 1, 2019 12:04:38 GMT -5
i'm on liszt kick. chime in, brothers and sisters
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 1, 2019 12:09:45 GMT -5
here's some non-youtube mob certified shit. who's bettrrrr
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 1, 2019 12:21:03 GMT -5
here's some non-youtube mob certified shit. who's bettrrrr this guy sucks the big one.
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 1, 2019 12:22:55 GMT -5
I need to respond with non-shitty liszt transcription recordings:
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 1, 2019 21:23:07 GMT -5
take back some of my opinions of post-war furtwangler . recant them all. I simply don't get on board with the consensus out-of-the-gate: bayreuth or lucerne or whatever ninths are as compelling.
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 1, 2019 21:26:26 GMT -5
JK/anyone: anybody got any hot tips on any interesting recordings of Mozart's 25th symphony?
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 2, 2019 4:47:38 GMT -5
JK/anyone: anybody got any hot tips on any interesting recordings of Mozart's 25th symphony? I'll see what I can unearth for you, Hal. In the meantime, here's a fantastic recording from 1949 of the 40th under Erich Kleiber. With thanks to greenhorn across the road:
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 6, 2019 20:46:37 GMT -5
Thanks for the effort in finding a notable recording of the "little G minor symphony"----even though I didn't like it.
last night:
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 6, 2019 20:56:41 GMT -5
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 23, 2019 1:02:58 GMT -5
I listen to this first thing in the morning in order to feel vigorous and confident.
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 25, 2019 23:37:35 GMT -5
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 28, 2019 1:39:19 GMT -5
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Post by Silken on Mar 12, 2019 10:26:27 GMT -5
Thanks jk for the two videos posted above. The Allegri piece is one of my favorites.
Estonian music is great! Where I live most of the choirs include it in their repertoires (I once went to a concert of Estonian songs only - it was amazing).
Here's a performance I admire:
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Post by treatzapiza on Jun 10, 2019 22:55:13 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Feb 20, 2020 9:16:10 GMT -5
With thanks to treatzapiza for his valiant attempt to keep this long-abandoned topic going. Since I last posted here I have, much to my own surprise, been converted to the music of the Baroque (with grateful thanks to JH). My principal discovery during this conversion was the music of Dieterich Buxtehude, the man Bach walked 250 miles to hear and meet. And this was my first taste of Dieterich B: Benedicam Dominum, with the huge added advantage of a church organ instead of the customary portative variety. Thrilling stuff. Expect more Baroque goodies from jk in the near future: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieterich_Buxtehude
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Post by jk on Feb 22, 2020 5:50:00 GMT -5
A 123-video YouTube channel of music performed by Le Concert Brisé under cornettist William Dongois recently introduced me to a welter of mainly Italian baroque composers, one of whom was G.B. Fontana (not to be confused with Elvis's drummer). This is his Sonata No. 14 a 3: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Fontana_(composer)
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Post by sneakypete77 on Feb 22, 2020 9:32:46 GMT -5
John, I know next to nothing - OK, absolutely nothing, about classical music, but I did enjoy listening to this. Hard to believe that it's almost 380 years old, it sounds so contemporary. And when the harpsichord joined in you could almost believe that you were hearing a lost instrumental passage from SMiLE
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Post by jk on Feb 22, 2020 16:07:42 GMT -5
John, I know next to nothing - OK, absolutely nothing, about classical music, but I did enjoy listening to this. Hard to believe that it's almost 380 years old, it sounds so contemporary. And when the harpsichord joined in you could almost believe that you were hearing a lost instrumental passage from SMiLE Glad you enjoyed it, Peter. There's a lot of great pre-Classical Period (c. 1730-1820) music out there. Baroque, Renaissance (much choral music)... Funny... I'd looked down on Baroque music all my life until the wonderful mandolin-playing person in my signature opened that door for me. Don't ask me how these things work. Now I listen to it almost to the exclusion of anything else. Catching up, I guess. That's the Baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude in my avatar. They say it must be him, rather than anyone else in the rest of the painting below, because of the position of his fingers on the neck of the viola da gamba, creating the pitches d and b! This is Musizierende Gesellschaft ("Musical Party") by the 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Voorhout:
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Post by jk on Feb 27, 2020 7:52:29 GMT -5
I remember from PSF days that Jason (The Real Beach Boy) liked piano music. So here's a piece he may appreciate. It's played by the stunningly attractive Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze (whom I saw performing it on Dutch TV). "Paradise - Birds" is the fifth piece in Poems, a work by Cyril Scott, a name I haven't heard in a long while. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Scott
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