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Dusting off these had not heard recently: Complete solo piano music of Guy Sacre, Billy Eidi,pianist,Timpani cd 1995, world premiere recording Korngold's Left-Hand PC, Hamelin,Hyperion 1998 cd Vierne's Piano Quintet,Muza Rubackyte,pianist with Terpsycordes Quartet,Brilliant Classics cd 2016 Chausson...

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The pianist Jeremy Denk has started his 3 part live video webcast about the Well-Tempered Clavier on a program called "From the Green Space " now at WQXR. Seems each will be a 90 minute video.First was April 7 and can be heard at WQXR's site. Also of interest his brief interview with WQXR about the ...

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At today's "briefing" , ie campaign rally paid for by taxpayers:

Reporter: You were highly critical of mail in voting
Trump: It’s corrupt
Reporter: but you voted by mail in Florida’s election last month
Trump: Sure
Reporter: How do you reconcile that?
Trump: Because I’m allowed to

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At today's "briefing", ie campaign rally paid for by taxpayers:

Reporter: You were highly critical of mail in voting
Trump: It’s corrupt
Reporter: but you voted by mail in Florida’s election last month
Trump: Sure
Reporter: How do you reconcile that?
Trump: Because I’m allowed to

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https://tinyurl.com/vsndnua ( Trumpster Mississippi Governor's recklessness ) https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/opinions/the-south-and-coronavirus-bailey/index.html : "After South Carolina seceded in 1860, lawyer James L. Petigru said the state was "too small for a republic and too large for an insane ...

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Almost all of us find your side so intolerable (essentially anti-American, in that, as I've said before, you've rejected the American Way of Life and the values that made it great in favor of woke multiculturalism), that we'll take Trump until someone else we can embrace comes along. There are othe...

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I have high regard for pianist Evgenyi Bozanhov ever since the 2009 Cliburn.Here he is at the 2010 Chopin playing the Op.71,# 2 in fine manner.But, without my blabbing on specifics you can hear yourself , the comparison to Friedman's above illustrates the difference, ie gulf, between " Golden Age " ...

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Ignazy Friedman’s amazing Chopin Polonaise,Op.71,# 2, Danacord cd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaeT6Z62PaE

Pollini did not include the work on his 70’s DGG cd I have of all the other polonaises, including Op.61, a 63-min.cd ? Liner notes dont mention.

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Religious Right in action:

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/amer ... 58435.html

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Trump's advice today: "There's a possibility, a possibility, and I say it: what do you have to lose?...Take it. I really think they should take it. But it's their choice...Hydroxychloroquine. Try it. If you'd like."

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How Trump is failing :
https://tinyurl.com/r6vqt9u

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Mozart PC #22 (K.482) not my fav Mozart PC, but Pavel Kolesnikov made the first mov. much more interesting than usual, as well as an extraordinary cadenza.Lovers of the slow mov. will find much to admire here. Final mov. quite subdued, pastoral colorations , another great cadenza.Great orchestral su...

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Models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd2ArJSKXyM

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https://www.wqxr.org/#!/ Vikingur Olafsson discusses his new DGG cd of Rameau,Debussy. 17 mins.

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Live last year, recently broadcast by RTBF ; I have not heard: Enregistré le 2/04/2019 au Studio 4 de Flagey à Bruxelles César Franck - Prélude, Fugue et Variation, op. 18, FWV 30 (arr. H. Bauer) Claude Debussy - Extraits des Images Livre II, L. 111 : - Cloches à travers les feuilles - Et la lune de...

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Dusting off these: Complete solo piano music of Guy Sacre, Billy Eidi,pianist,Timpani cd 1995, world premiere recording Korngold's Left-Hand PC, Hamelin,Hyperion 1998 cd Vierne's Piano Quintet,Muza Rubackyte,pianist with Terpsycordes Quartet,Brilliant Classics cd 2016 Chausson,Concert,Op.21,Harmonia...

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Back in the USA: 280M masks ordered by foreign buyer March 30. FEMA says did not discourage such sales: :https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/31/pence-task-force-coronavirus-aid-157806 Health care workers fired for concerns over PPE : https://tinyurl.com/rugtk6u Per WAPO yesterday : “FL has promptl...

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Indeed,Salzburg,too, I assume ?

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These 2 new 2020's may in fact inherit the Earth:

https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/first-e ... in-decorah

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I have heard only a couple live broadcasts,and perhaps a YT or two.Decided not to follow him. But, as my wife and sons frequently point out, I am often wrong ( or so they say).

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Couple of rarities, my first hearing of the Gablenz,Starts at about 1:06:00 into the broadcast. Bit Mendelssohnian to my ear, with some echoes of Brahms and Schumann, refreshing, very lyrical, although overstayed its welcome for me. Worth hearing , but probably just once.The work was written or comp...

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https://variety.com/2019/politics/news/ ... 203173316/

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University of Minnesota Law Prof.Richard Painter today after news National Symphony Orchestra salaries stopped despite $ 25M in aid recently: "Classical music as we know it may not survive this pandemic. This isn't just because concert venues will be shut for months, but also because ego centered ma...

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... Watts' playing is so idiomatic and so masterful that this is as good (or even better) than the piano/jazz band or piano/orchestra version. The album is filled out with the three piano preludes and gorgeous transcriptions of several Gershwin songs. Outstanding! Agreed. I have had the Columbia lp...

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Eldbjorg Hemsing and Simon Trpceski on BIS here for free listening. I have not heard as not a fan of these works, although I do have the Kreisler/Rachmaninoff recording of # 3:

https://www.nporadio4.nl/cds/grieg-the-violin-sonatas

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Unfortunately,the US media continues to broadcast Trump's "Briefings" when they could just report later any important new facts, news ( would not take long ),and later highlight his most egregious falsehoods.

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"Vile" is an understatement ; read this:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mashpee- ... 6a7a2bea44

Btw, New England Patriot's (Boston) NFL team is owned by huge Trump supporter Robert Kraft.May be he wants a license ?

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More Lamond today, at age 71 his noble if spartan Beethoven PC # 3, 1939 live broadcast with RCO,van Beinum, my Marston cd : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wl8yt86bDc Per Lamond: " Haydn leads us to Heaven, Mozart is Heaven,Beethoven is God in Heaven." Although here Lamond plays a first mov. caden...

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Also from WAPO, predicted spread outside NYC :

https://tinyurl.com/wo2y4wv

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The Lalo and Massanet PC's are worth hearing, especially the Massanet, a first-rate second-rate PC.Mystery it seems hardly played in comparison to the ubiquitous Saint-Saens # 2 and Ravel G, but perhaps is played in France. Mine the Vox Box here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXe3Vx7J_gQ (Massane...

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Frederick Lamond , revelatory readings:

From the Pearl cd :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-_aZq9vaIU ( “Gnomenreigen” )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-owYx0eFrc (“Feux Follets” )

From Marston's set :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGIEyTphZHU ( 2 Chopin mazurkas )

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May be of interest . From RTBF ( Google translate ) : "One of the Klarafestival events was the complete Beethoven quartets performed by the Catalan quartet Casals. The coronavirus pandemic that is shaking the whole world has decided otherwise, since the Klarafestival unfortunately had to be canceled...

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diegobueno wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 27, 2020 7:19 pm
There is no other source that backs up the story (if there is, I'd like to be corerected).

No idea source here : https://www.classicfm.com/discover-musi ... na-stalin/

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A rare (?) chance to hear live the Korngold, fantastic work. I did not hear the others. Enregistré le 22/10/2018 au Brahms Hall, Musikverein, Vienna Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Trio à clavier No. 6 en Sol Majeur, K. 564 Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Suite pour Piano à la main gauche, 2 violons et violonce...

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Not my cup of tea, but may be yours,

Harpsichordist Paolo Zanzu plays Scarlatti in France,2018 :

https://www.francemusique.fr/concert/fe ... atti-zanzu

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Per NYT's David Leonhardt today : " Cases in Republican-leaning states, especially in the South, are now growing more quickly than in Democratic-leaning states, as Nate Silver noted yesterday. One likely reason is that many Republicans, taking their cues from President Trump and some other party lea...

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diegobueno wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:18 am
I assume this is not necessary in the top orchestras, but it does make them sweat.

Vey interesting.Thanks for the insight. The 2 - piano cannot replicate the sound world , especiallythe sax, but I find their transparency appealing.

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Fauci is a huge disappointment, no hero.Call Trump out, and quit, go to work elsewhere (many would hire) on the virus, continue to speak out against madman Trump and his goons like Kudlow , or shut up.

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OSVALDO FATONE (Italy), piano F. Liszt - Tarantelle di bravura d'après la tarantelle de La muette de Portici d'Auber, S.386 Live from COIMBRA WORLD PIANO MEETING 2017, Young Talent's Concert 04/02/2017 Grande Auditório do Conservatório de Música de Coimbra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mDCMzc3CUY

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Some in the GOP have a plan for us old timers: https://news.yahoo.com/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-021600858.html He should be jailed. Trump's drug cure : https://twnews.us/us-news/man-dies-after-taking-drug-touted-by-trump-as-virus-treatment Lunatic Trump wants to re-start the economy now ! Of course, ...

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Some in the GOP have a plan for us old timers: https://news.yahoo.com/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-021600858.html He should be jailed. Trump's drug cure : https://twnews.us/us-news/man-dies-after-taking-drug-touted-by-trump-as-virus-treatment Lunatic Trump wants to re-start the economy now ! Of course, ...

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Starting right now.

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maestrob wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 23, 2020 12:41 pm
Just tried to access this, but the Hamelin concert has disappeared!

Sorry,it's on tomorrow,Tues,March 24,1300 Brussels time, I believe 8 am NYC time ?

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Hamelin's new Hyperion disc arrived: six Feinberg piano sonatas. Who is game? I have the 2 earlier BIS cd's of the complete 12 Feinberg's, 2 different pianists.These works are worth getting to know,however Nos.1-6 are the most challenging for the listener, IMHO.May want to try a few at YT first, eg...

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Pianist Tanya Bannister playing short solo piano works of David Del Tredici and Christopher Theofanidis, a 2009 Albany Records cd. The Violin Sonata (Sergiu Schwartz,Paul Posnak) ,String Quartet (Vega Quartet) ,and Piano Quintet (Vega,Posnak) of John Alden Carpenter, a 2002 Naxos cd. The Piano Sonat...

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"Get off Twitter and do your job." That's it in a nutshell. Here's hoping, but not much. Reported today madman Trump is thinking about relaxing the CDC social distancing, other virus guidelines, because his alt right wing nut advisors are telling him hurting economy too much, ie the cure is worse t...

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Thanks for your concern.Pretty much same here in fly-over country.Too late to go to Montana.Ialso concur with Holden's suggestion of a tipple of red, doing my part to help Australia with my cheap Lindeman's. Reported today madman Trump is thinking about relaxing the CDC social distancing, other viru...

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Thanks for your concern.Pretty much same here in fly-over country.Too late to go to Montana.Ialso concur with Holden's suggestion of a tipple of red, doing my part to help Australia with my cheap Lindeman's. Reported today madman Trump is thinking about relaxing the CDC social distancing, other viru...

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:02 pm
Next time you think about shopping at Target:

Or about visiting KansasTrumpReich, although apparently you'll be safer there :

https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/edit ... 53836.html

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Next time you think about shopping at Target:
Governor Jay Inslee
@GovInslee
We heard reports that a
@target
in Seattle was selling n95 masks.
My staff and others stepped in.
Those masks are now on their way to the health care workers who desperately need them.

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