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However good her performances may have been, there's a lot more to being music director of an American orchestra than making music. Especially in Detroit. The orchestra's board recognized that when they chose Leonard Slatkin as their most recent music director. The last "youngish" music director th...

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Fww,Saturday,April 13, at DSO.ORG./LIVE, pianist Helen Grimaud plays LvB PC # 4 with Detroit Symphony under Ludovic Morlot, starting at 8:00 pm EDT ( US ) from Detroit, with Prokofieff Sym.5 also on programme. Free TV April 13 , but no later VOD archive unless you make a donation later. I'm watchin...

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I've just read the following snippet in an article by noted classical music columnist, critic, gadfly, and gossip-monger Norman Lebrecht : "...Karina Canellakis [...] is favoured to succeed Leonard Slatkin in Detroit." 😲😍 Her recent performance leading the DSO in the Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 at O...

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As one can read on Page 35 of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's latest annual report, "contributed" revenue makes up the great bulk of operating revenue. I'm guessing the orchestra's well-publicized financial difficulties made for a surge in contributions, nearly doubling the amount from just three y...

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M7JG3YJ2L._SL500_AA300_.jpg I "like" the Bruckner No. 7 as much as anyone, but don't "love" it as much as others...nor as much as I love other Bruckner. My Klemperer and Chailly recordings are quite fine and somewhat divergent; I also have Furtwängler (incred...

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Chalkperson wrote:That's my photo on the sleeve...

No kidding?

Great work! Which came first, the album title or the photo?

Chalkperson wrote:...in fact that's my leather jacket...

GET OUT!

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Both are recorded in warm and vivid analog with the English Chamber Orchestra: The comparatively slow and stately Benjamin Britten on London/Decca from the '60s and the livelier Raymond Leppard on Philips from the '70s.

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61660BQ980L._SL500_AA300_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514ovTmZYGL._SL500_AA300_.jpg Currently marketed in a somewhat economical 2-for-1 package... http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SK8AOdzWL._SL500_AA300_.jpg David Gilmour -David Gilmour COL...

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Re: Casino Royale

I can't ever remember not just enjoying, but truly "appreciating" a Bond (James Bond) film as much.

Did you notice after that incredible foot chase, he wasn't even breathing hard?!

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Okay, who has my MSU Spartans advancing to the Elite Eight. :mrgreen: With Lucas's Achilles, Roe and his meniscus, and Allen with his arch; WE may end up being the underdogs against Northern Iowa! Congrats to Cornell, as well as St. Mary's and the 11th seeded Washington Huskies. This is a great tou...

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I do admire Levine's "no fear" approach to much of the Late Romantic and Modern repertoire and agree that he's a marvelous Mahlerian, at least from those recordings I've heard. To the list above, I'd like to add his Mahler No. 5 with the Philadelphia and No. 7 with the Chicago, both of which are per...

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From... http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H7ANY2S4L._SL500_AA240_.jpg Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Leonard Bernstein, cond. DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON I've come to really love this expansive and expressive (often outré) rendition of the popular Fifth. I can't say as I'm craz...

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Saul, I'm bookmarking this thread...thank you. There's much I can say on this topic from personal experience; I've been both a victim and unwitting perpetrator. I've also been witness to some dreadfully callous backstabbing, which is not your topic, but can ultimately be as embarrassing to the victi...

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Okay, who has my MSU Spartans advancing to the Elite Eight. :mrgreen: With Lucas's Achilles, Roe and his meniscus, and Allen with his arch; WE may end up being the underdogs against Northern Iowa! Congrats to Cornell, as well as St. Mary's and the 11th seeded Washington Huskies. This is a great tour...

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/314W9YKSB9L._SL500_AA300_.jpg Brahms: Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano in E minor, Op. 38; Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano in F major, Op. 99 Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano RCA (Musical Heritage Society) Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax give technically proficient ...

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Nowadays, so MUCH is available: I just don't get the point of all these mediocre releases of repertoire that's already available in better performances. As with cable channels, fantasy novels, and practically anything else; it's yet another instance of Sturgeon's Law : 90% of everything is crap . B...

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Recording is a bit resonant for this, but vivid and spacious in the Chandos manner. I think I like these by the Grimethorpe Colliery UK Coal Band a tad better. Still, fun stuff!

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Thank you, David.

Sibelius would've approved

...I think.

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31K4JQR318L._SL500_AA180_.jpg Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 * Nielsen: Pan and Syrinx; Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable" Philharmonia Orchestra* City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Simon Rattle, cond. EMI The young Simon Rattle of pre-knighthood was seemingly ...

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A thing that I find kind of disturbing is the way to use classical music as a mean of depicting a bourgeois family. Two examples are nothing more than two examples, not a trend. Emphatically agreed. More obvious to me was how at one time the guy with lighter hair and complexion was seemingly "alway...

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Just curious: Why are multiple stage adaptations of Hamlet and The Glass Menagerie , or interpretations of Beethoven's Ninth and Don Giovanni , such noble endeavors while remaking favorite old movies rates a big "Go f**k yourself" ? I think it's quite simple. It's the same reason that museums don't...

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• Joseph Cotten I'm not patient enough this morning to make such a list, but Lance echoes my gut reaction to the thread's subject; i.e., I've never seen Joseph Cotten play a bad role, or perhaps more accurately, play a role badly. His mere presence in a film compels me to watch. I'm not sure I can ...

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Chalkperson wrote:...i'll give you your money back if you don't enjoy it...

'Tis a deal!

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...if you are interested in Shostakovich then you must see this Documentary, it's exceptional... http://www.amazon.com/Shostakovich-Against-Stalin-Valery-Gergiev/dp/B000BLBZM0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1268690579&sr=1-1 That's been on my shopping list since forever, but the Amazon description sa...

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How are YOU celebrating Telemann's Birthday?

By playing some Corelli.

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Yes Boss, I meant 1989, a slip of the fingers... :oops: And, you know what, Boss, I forgot he was on that Arvo Part disc with Kremer, sorry, Boss, please don't make me spend a night in the Box... :wink: Okay. As is tradition, whenever anyone crosses the 12,000 post mark, we release one transgressor...

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Happy 12,000th, Chalkie...and many, many more!

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He went thru a brief phase around 1999 where he recorded Classical Music, Handel's Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Suites, Bach's Flute and Gamba Sonatas, The French Suites, The WTC (Book 1 on Piano and Book 2 on Harpsichord), Goldberg Variations, and, lastly, Shosty's Preludes and Fugues...all are wort...

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Jarrett's Shostakovich 24 Preludes & Fugues on ECM was actually released in '92...to much well-deserved critical ballyhoo, as I recall.

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jbuck919 wrote:They went out of fashion in the 60s when JFK refused to wear one.

I've asked the question often, but never got a definitely reply. Now I know!

I grew up in the '60s and all us prepubescent young gentlemen wore hats to church as part of our Sunday best.

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Love it!

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I listened to the First and to the Ninth symphony. On the strength of listening to both of them on one occasion only I must say that I loved the First and found the Ninth hugely disappointing. When it was finished I listened to the Bohm/BPO version as a release. I will revist Brüggen's Ninth but I ...

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XP4P320CL._SL500_AA240_.jpg Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 (A London Symphony); Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis London Philharmonic Orchestra Bernard Haitink, cond. EMI Coming to Bernard Haitink's late '80s rendition of Ralph Vaughan Williams' circa WW...

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slofstra wrote: Am I correct in thinking that the Haitink/LPO/CO cycle was one of the first complete cycles?

Haitink's might have been the first complete cycle recorded and released in the West. I believe Kondrashin's cycle preceded Haitink's, though I can't swear to it.

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An exhilarating, lacerating, and sardonic Shostakovich No. 4 with most jagged edges still intact is that of Neeme Järvi and the Scottish National Orchestra on Chandos. It's not the CSO, but still....

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For everyone who cares, it's back...finally!

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Just curious: Why are multiple stage adaptations of Hamlet and The Glass Menagerie , or interpretations of Beethoven's Ninth and Don Giovanni , such noble endeavors while remaking favorite old movies rates a big "Go f**k yourself" ? FWIW, I enjoyed all three film adaptations of Mutiny on the Bounty .

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I find browsing and sampling at Amazon to be as easy and pleasurable as at any bricks & mortar. The selection of new and used CDs (and other media) is unsurpassed, no matter the genre.

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TwMMLls5L._SL500_AA240_.jpg Daugherty: Fire & Blood; MotorCity Triptych; Raise the Roof Detroit Symphony Orchestra Neeme Järvi, cond. NAXOS Michael Daugherty; he of the Metropolis Symphony , UFO , Philadelphia Stories , and myriad other works inspired by mode...

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417XDAECQ1L._SL500_AA240_.jpg Bizet: Carmen Suites 1 & 2; L'Arlésienne Suites 1 & 2 Orchestre de Paris Semyon Bychkov, cond. PHILIPS Bychkov seems to have run hot and cold in Paris. Though nice enough, I'd place this closer to zero on the Celsius scale -- fine ...

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417m3oYiiDL._SL500_AA240_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CC65ZEV3L._SL500_AA240_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N3GDT6RML._SL500_AA240_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P3ZRSP9PL._SL500_AA240_.jpg Tchaikovsky's Suites and ot...

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From...

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim, cond.
WARNER CLASSICS (f. TELDEC)

Heavy, heavy cream, bay-bee! Definitely not for the HIPsters.

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http://mp3.about.com/od/digitalmusicfaq/f/CDripping_legal.htm Under US copyright law, if you convert (rip) an original CD that you own to digital files, then this qualifies as 'Fair Use'. As long as you use it for your own personal use and don't distribute the copyrighted material to others, then y...

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I seem to recall that his servant (Paul Stewart} overheard him say "Rosebud" as his final word and then Kane expired. I could be wrong, of course. The question is, Lance, where you fall on the question over whether "Rosebud" is a goof (there was, apparently, no one in the room to hear him say it). ...

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y8V71TTSL._SL500_AA240_.jpg Schubert: Fantasia for piano in C major ("Wanderer") Schumann: Fantasy for piano in C major Maurizio Pollini, piano DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON What a beautiful finale to the Schumann! A very fine alternative to Richter's, my personal favo...

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jbuck919 wrote:I hope no one has been intimidated into feeling he has to apologize for loving Schumann....

Good, 'cuz I've come to love Schumann

, particularly the symphonies and chamber works including solo piano, not so much the concertos. I'm not going to get into a ranking game, however.

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They comprise two-thirds of my Brandenburgs (Britten and Leppard) and my entire Water Music (Leppard). :D Actually, they make a sizable footprint in my collection in a diverse array of repertoire; conductors include: Salvatore Accardo Benjamin Britten Steuart Bedford Benjamin Britten Jeffrey Tate Ra...

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I have no clue how many orchestras Zubin Mehta has conducted, but over the years and in different countries, I have heard him with many. Perhaps, but we're talking about recordings. :wink: Though I'm sure there are others, I only know of his recordings from Los Angeles, New York, London, Vienna, It...

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NEEME JARVI is gaining on 'em and is still active: Either he or the aforementioned Dorati would've been my educated guess; the former a seeming phenomenon of the CD age, the latter of the audiophile stereo LP. It's interesting that both spent time in Detroit...not that there's anything wrong with t...

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