What are you listening two?
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Weird and wonderful:
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
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I have not listened to Hindmith's music in quite a while. I must put it down for a personal listening project some time.Seán wrote:
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
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That work can be played in so many variable ways.Seán wrote:Weird and wonderful:
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
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Mozart: Requiem / Krips....
This recording/performance is definitely of its time and I find it difficult to listen to. The tempi are far too laborious for my taste and there is no forward drive, momentum or drama. The soprano and alto roles are sung by boys, and sung poorly and insipidly. Not one of my favourite versions but still I keep it purely for comparison purposes.
This recording/performance is definitely of its time and I find it difficult to listen to. The tempi are far too laborious for my taste and there is no forward drive, momentum or drama. The soprano and alto roles are sung by boys, and sung poorly and insipidly. Not one of my favourite versions but still I keep it purely for comparison purposes.
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
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Finishing off with this electric performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony....
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
Re: What are you listening two?
I have more than a dozen versions of the Fifth and Gardiner's recording with this orchestra is my favourite. It is brilliant!fergus wrote:Finishing off with this electric performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony....
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grossi VII, IX, III & I op. 6
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Jeanne Lamon conducting.
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Arcangelo Corelli
Sonata in G minor op. 5 No. 7
Sonata in A minor op. 5 No. 8
Sonata in E flat major op. 5 No. 9
Frans Brüggen - Recorder
Anner Bylsma - Violoncello
Gustav Leonhardt - Harpsichord
Lovely music-making.
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 & 6
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner conducting.
The performance of the Fifth is oustanding in every way and is succeeded by a lovely performance of the Sixth.
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 93 & 101
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado conducting.
These are truly wonderful performances. Abbado and the COE demonstrate everything that is beautiful in these works. What a pity they only recorded 7 instead of the full London cycle.
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"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler