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Bach - WTC - Angela Hewitt

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Sorabji - Clavicembalisticum - yup, all 5 Ogden CD's in a row. You reach a point where you wish it will never end, then you're afraid it won't, then unfortunately it does.

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Apple's music match service would seem to have advanced all this a little further representing at least tacit acceptance of the existence and economic function of downloads. My guess is those folks who who influence such things may be ready to consider a download to be essentially a form of advertis...

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These are among my fave aquisitions of all time.

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Janacek - String Quartets - Panocha

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Chalkperson wrote:I agree with every word MaestroB just wrote...

Indeed, we're hardly living in impoverished times, musically speaking.

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I think the incident underscores the enduring necessity, as technology becomes ever more ubiquitous and complex, for it's users to familiarize themselves with what they're carrying around in their pockets.

However, most amusing - gracious of Patron X to offer his story.

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Would be fun to get the protagonist's side of the story. Absent that, I'll go with the alarm theory: bored with the whole thing, only attending for the business connections, working hard = nap time and I need to wake up just before the end to save embarassment. Didn't respond to direct questioning a...

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I'm with the brat on this. It's annoying to look up a famous Russian bass under the conventional international spelling of his name, to find that he's way down the alphabet in another volume. I'm speaking of Feodor Chaliapin, whose name the Germans spell Schaljapin. Worse than annoying is failing t...

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The Ravel quartet is a surpise for me - probably thought they were voting for Bolero?

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From here: http://nealshistorical.wordpress.com/ Enescu plays Enescu.

Georges Enescu, Céliny Chailley-Richez play the Violin Sonata No. 3 (1948 Columbia)

Total playing time: 23 minutes!

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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-zzoNXYZydo/SioXQ6YzWXI/AAAAAAAAAF8/Xyg7TfDYjNM/s320/label.jpg Chabrier - 10 Pièces pittoresques - Ginette Doyen A vinyl to FLAC conversion made available here: http://quartier-des-archives.blogspot.com/ Open using Google Chrome and the translate button works pretty well, ...

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Bach French Suites, Andras Schiff - good Sunday morning music.

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Neither. What I listen to doesn't depend on my mood one way or the other. John, the perfect answer for me, too, my friend. 8) Regards, Mel 8) Silly question perhaps, but what causes you to listen to a certain piece at the time you put it on? Do you think "I want to listen to Beethoven's op.135"? If...

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Thinking about appreciating Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words yesterday and Schoenberg's Opus 45 Trio today makes me realize I more often select music to match a mood I'm already in than to create a new one. Perhaps it's a sympathetic sort of thing, maybe I want to be comforted knowing someone once ...

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Ah yes - The AvantGarde Project indeed - thanks for the reminder, I haven't checked it out in a long while - looks like the mirror is using the original banner graphic, fun! This evening I'm thankful to sample two performances of Schoenbergs Opus 45 Trio, recordings otherwise virtually lost to the w...

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Inspired by this site I googled around a moment and found another historical recording FLAC site:
http://nealshistorical.wordpress.com/
Containing, among other items of interest, a nice 3-LP set of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words recorded by Ginette Doyen on Westminster in the early '50s.

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Very nice find - enjoying George Antheil's 1st Quartet this evening.

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I liked it except for the ending, kind of leaves you hangi...

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Not often in rotation but I like Etudes Books I and II, Idil Berit - and - Quartets 1 & 2, Artemis

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I'm optimistic enough to think that however it functions logistically, the music industry will continue to deliver what it's supporters want, including what CM lovers want which is quality. I find for myself the really interesting questions revolve around the concept of ownership, private property, ...

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Soo92pn3L._SL500_AA300_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61J52-qD%2BfL._SL500_AA300_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61c53QZ3gKL._SL500_AA300_.jpg Pleasant, refereshing, agreeable, amiable - this classical music fan wonders why Galuppi is n...

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Rihm - Music for 3 Strings - Ensemble 13

Engaging throughout and well-recorded.

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I can understand why the Met would want to focus attention on the seasons for which it actually has tickets to sell, and also that unauthorized publicity for future plans that may well change is not in its best interests. Still, Wilber's site appealed to a significant segment of the Met's customers...

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Enescu Piano Suite Cycle.

Fab stuff. Enescu commentators often wonder why he's not more often heard - concur!

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Interesting. Of course now the original will become something of a collectors item and the story a bit of esoterica for some future musical discussion board, should make an excellent post for someone in 2051. I am very unlikely to be around to find out myself.

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Enjoying Hindemith solo viola works from CD1 of: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KDWEH43ML._SL500_AA300_.jpg There was a time I wouldn't have, now somehow it's all good. I have a personal theory about post-romantic classical: it represents one's immediate experience of real life, the ups and...

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Just want to say how much I appreciate this forum and it's regular contributors. Here's hoping things can continue as normal for CMG after transiting the giant data pothole of early 2011!

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The source said Apple was more interested in buying the people behind Lala's streaming service and their experience than the service itself. Yeah this makes the most sense and of course it points to a possible development direction, using their particular skills to develop something similar but new...

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I've been listening thru the Quartetto Italiano's entire Mozart quartet series in the car for the last couple weeks - this evening it's Kraus Op. 1 with the JMK Quartet.

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In my cataloguing system I use...Early Music - Baroque - Classical - 20th Century - that's all I need, I have never considered thinking Romantic unless I am thinking about my wife... :wink: I have iTunes set up this way - Renaissance (20 albums) - Baroque (152) - Classical (229) - Romantic (169) - ...

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Seems the greats, with the always-notable exception of LVB, are usually associated with a definite period while transitionals are considered less great, they're a bit of this and a bit of that - or am I confusing cause and effect, perhaps the presence of a great composer causes us in retrospect to c...

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After the Hatto scandal in which major music critics couldn't discern that umpteen different pianists were responsible for the Hatto discs, in some cases praising the "Hatto" version after panning the original, can anyone really tell the differences among prominent pianists? A most interesting bit ...

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SaulChanukah wrote:Ocean Reflections

Nice work, thanks for posting - I think this one's my fave.

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I got the concept of obligation, which has caused so much grief, from the quote of the anonymous Viennese critic now at the bottom of my posts. I forthwith propose an explication of the entire imbroglio: perhaps the word "obligation" for Mr/Ms Anon living in the Vienna of 150 years ago, had somewha...

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Um, not to say that advertising is an art form comparable to classical music but functionally: I feel no more obligation to listen to any particular type of music than I believe anyone has any obligation to pay attention to my own work in the area of internet marketing. Just doesn't work that way, i...

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ContrapunctusIX wrote:Grumiaux Trio/Leseur/Gereux - String Quintets also on Philips

Emphatically agree, also:
K.563 Divertimento - Yo Yo Ma, Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian

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Sculthorpe - Quartet No. 8 - Kronos Quartet

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I just checked my database and I seem to have by rough count performances by something like forty different keyboardists - and none are by Mr. Horowitz. I've certainly sampled many over the years but don't seem to have purchased or kept any. I'm unable to explain as eloquently as Chalkie why this mi...

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Santa has on backorder for me a lovely cable/adapter that will allow me to plug my ipod/phone directly into my 1999-era car's head unit. I've been making do with an FM transmitter thus far - ugh...

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I don't get the Delibes, are we talking about this or something else altogether?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTahuhVqD8A

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Dulcinea, we share our birth year. The first Mozart I heard was EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK Many: - take these sorts of works to be the best since they're popular, and there's no point listening to anything other than the best - have no time or make no time, same thing in the end, to really learn; they'r...

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Beethoven's Op.59 Rasumovsky Quartets - Amadeus Quartet

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I'm surprised that composers such as Prokofiev or Shostakovich have 1/6 as many sales as Mozart, I'd have guessed more like 100 to 1. Perhaps I'm underestimating the general record buying public.

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last.fm is very good for this. For anyone unfamiliar, you can enter a name you know and it'll play something by that composer then follow up with an apparently never-ending series of individual tracks by "similar" composers. One might search on Morton Feldman, be treated to Rothko Chapel 5, then be ...

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Guitarist wrote:Try Max Reger--he wrote several Sonatas and solo Suites--Bach was his God!

Seconding - Reger's solo string works are excellent.

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When we reach the end I shall post a link to my podcast where you can hear four violinists playing different movements. We're waiting the podcast link? I wonder if I'll be able to resist collecting all four recommendations, if not not already in the fold? I'm a little worried... this is core materi...

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Conversely, if any of you get to visit on American shores, you would be most welcome here as well. When is the last time Seán, Jared or any others have made a visit? Well I've lived in and visited much of Canada, but only been round and about the west in the USA: Seattle, San Fran, LA, Phoenix, nev...

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Not late romantic but great solo works, and performed by Susanne Heinrich.

Apparently Mr. Abel was a student of Bach.

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I just read someplace Apple's iTunes Store now accounts for 25% of music sales in the US.

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