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About LinkBacksThe only Polish composer I really NEVER want to hear again is Gorecki (especially that tedious and boring symphony of sorrowful thongs).
The only Polish composer I really NEVER want to hear again is Gorecki (especially that tedious and boring symphony of sorrowful thongs).
Today's selection was the 'hybrid' (Dresden & Paris version elements present) Tannhäuser - Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting at Bayreuth. Two points- 1) Anja Silja (as Elizabeth) is very fine. 2) I still think "Tannhäuser" is the most accessible of the 'canonical' Wagner operas!
The truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent- William Blake, from Auguries of Innocence
Listening to Mahler's 6th Symphony ... ah, one rare composer who knew brevity ...
Listening at the moment to "Girl with flaxen hair" by Richard Stoltzman
Stunningly beautiful composition by Smetana, Moldau
Buxtehude organ works on last.fm
Charles Avison-violin concerti...
Hawk, I've not heard of Charles Avison, I must snuffle them out. I heard a rarely performed Swedish violin concerto on Monday morning, Atterberg was the composer, from memory.
Anyhoooo I'm currently listening to Vierne's 5th Symphony with my volume up quite loud. Must be irking my neighbours: "Bah" I say to them.
I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.
—Albert Einstein.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xYnx...eature=related
David here's a little taste. This is from his 12 concertos after D. Scarlatti's harpsichord sonata.
If you like it there is a recording by Cafe' Zimmerman which is superb!!!
Hawk - absolutely lovely and charming (like you I'm sure). David
Right now:
Listening to "Symphony No. 4." A truly great reading of this symphony.
I'm currently listening to an extended variation on 4'23" (but it's my own composition this time, not the famous Americans).
Listening to the 4 CDs I downloaded earlier, all Baroque, organ, trio sonatas, symphonies, concertos,a nice mixture, most relaxing.
David what is 4'23" ?
Mike care to elaborate?
Hawk, see the thread on "Baroque Music Library"
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