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Gary

climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
Sep 7, 2012 - 11:04am PT
John, get that piano tuned!

selfish man, thanks for posting the Gould and Golschmann. Golschmann doesn't have much fame or reknown, but I like his style with baroque. He and Gould seem to be on the same wavelength when it comes to Bach. Golschmann's sound is very crisp. Bernstein, in comparison, seems muddy when he conducts these Bach keyboard concertos.

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Somebody asked about violinists. After seeing him twice, Gil Shaham strikes me as one of the best. He plays with an evident joy. When he plays with Dudamel the enthusiasm level overwhelms the crowd.

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selfish man

Gym climber
Austin, TX
Sep 8, 2012 - 08:32pm PT
83 year old Horowitz plays Scriabin's etude in his (one and only) concert in Moscow:

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he meets Scriabin's daughter and tells her that he used to play for her father

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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Sep 11, 2012 - 10:38am PT
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This one's for our own Gypsy Flores and the Gypsy in all of us.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 11, 2012 - 11:16am PT
Having indulged in my own Scottish Fantasies...




I find I myself partial to Bruch's. If the four minutes of the third movement
don't tug at yer heart strings then you don't have one.
(I've only included the third and fourth here)
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Holy jeebus, what a mensch that dood is, no?
But I do like my Itzakh Perlman version too.
The performance obviously was not in LA - nobody clapped between the movements.
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Sep 11, 2012 - 11:36am PT
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John Murphy: Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor)
Gary

Social climber
Monza by the streetlight
Sep 14, 2012 - 12:15am PT
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Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Sep 19, 2012 - 04:05pm PT
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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 6, 2012 - 01:18pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video][Click to View YouTube Video]Synthesia seems to lack soul. It's just not music. It's nice. It's interesting.
It's just not feeling the music.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 11, 2012 - 07:14am PT
It's Illya Kuryakin, aka Ducky Mallard, aka David McCallum.

His father was a first chair violinist, his mother a cellist. His interests musically, well, he's f___ing Ducky, after all! Read the review below for some nice, fluffy journalistic reviewing in the old school. Same with the music. It swings like 1966. The year I graduated h.s. and into the Bay Area music scene, and Illya with his Nehru jacket were being shut down by incoming flowers.

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The Edge is DMC's most well-known musical composition now intro and riff to Dr. Dre's The Next Episode, OK?
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Fine little fusion version.
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Words and music by David McCallum on Insomnia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McCallum


Oh, look at that. The same issue, April 29, 1966, (35 cents) as the review of McCallum (titled 'McCallum and the Woodwinds') and A Bit More of Me, his second LP, also containd an article on the last night of the Old Metropolitan Opera. Gee.

I think I'm passing on typing the article out. If you want to read it, it won't change your LIFE if you can't locate it. You can buy the mag from me, or look for your own. You'll never get Julie Christie away from me!

"What makes the album exciting are the classic overtones soaring above the driving beat in almost every number....an unusual combination of reed instruments...what we've come to know as the Big Beat..one of the freshest LPs to make the rounds in months." Fluffy, in a enthusiastic way. He likes.

And Life Magazine's normal Oh-So-Generic-Style prognostication, part of standard mainstream reviews half the time (fluff): "McCallum's climb from bit player to teen-age idol in less than a year stunned the TV trade. With his album aalready in the Top Forty ("kiss of death") and with musical capability to match his hefty Nielsen, he may repeat the feat in the pop field."

The last article in this vintage Life is the national break-out piece on Cesar Chavez. And Julie Christe, of course.

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 16, 2012 - 07:56pm PT
The ominous "military" symphony of Haydn is only a paper tiger, the melody belies it's nickname.

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Gary

Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
Oct 19, 2012 - 10:00am PT
I like Haydn's attitude. He was a plucky lad.

Wednesday, went and saw Andras Schiff play Book I of the Well Tempered Clavier. The acoustics at Disney Hall are superb. It was too expensive to sit where we sat, but I noticed he changed the fingering on the Prelude in C Major from what he'd indicated in the Henle Edition!

It's amazing work. The preludes are little jewels thrown out to clear the palate in between the massively engineered structures of the fugues.

Book II next Wednesday.

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Gary

Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
Nov 4, 2012 - 11:29pm PT
Extreme old school. This is an amazing good rendition:
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selfish man

Gym climber
Austin, TX
Nov 9, 2012 - 11:12am PT
to continue on the very old school theme....

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steveA

Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
Nov 9, 2012 - 11:19am PT
I have loved classical music since I was about 5 years old.

If I had it all over again: I think that a composers life would be great.
Notice how many musicians and composers live a long life.

Ludwig is still my favorite!

( Thanks Marlow: John Murphy is new to me--thanks for posting )
selfish man

Gym climber
Austin, TX
Nov 9, 2012 - 08:40pm PT
two Horowitz recordings that blew me away, sometime in the 80's

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Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Dec 3, 2012 - 03:43pm PT
Jean Sibelius - Karelia

 Intermezzo I
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 Ballade 2
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 Alla Marcia 3
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Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Dec 4, 2012 - 05:30pm PT
Arvo Pärt - De Profundis
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Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jan 29, 2013 - 02:46pm PT
Hans Christian Lumbye-Copenhagener: Jernbane damp galopp
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jogill

climber
Colorado
Jan 29, 2013 - 02:52pm PT
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This fellow is magnificent.
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jan 30, 2013 - 12:50pm PT
Jogill: Great acting, great voice - magnificent.

Something else: Bach - Wilhelm Kempff (1955) - Siciliano from Flute Sonata No 2 in E flat major, BWV1031
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