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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:06 am

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Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:44 am
Can it be that the adults in the room have finally found a spine?
Yes, but it’s not their spine they found, it’s their Johnson.

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Can it be that the adults in the room have finally found a spine?

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https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81kfQ83ylqL._SX425_.jpg Katharine Dain's new album has finally brought this great recitalist to my attention. She floats, she soars, in the longest lines possible, injecting her sensitive and profound style into early XXth century songs by Lili Boulanger, Bacewic...

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April 23, 2024 By John McWhorter Opinion Writer Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage. His most famous piece is “4'33",” which directs us to listen in silence to surrounding noise for e...

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Manufacturers like BYD, Tesla and Li Auto are cutting prices to move their electric cars. For gasoline-powered vehicles, the surplus of factories is even worse. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from Chongqing, China April 23, 2024 On the outskirts of Chongqing, western China’s largest city, sits a huge ...

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April 24, 2024, 5:02 a.m. ET By Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann Ms. Murray and Mr. Weissmann are co-authors of “The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents With Commentary.” The Supreme Court’s decision to hear oral arguments in Donald Trump’s immunity-appeal case on Thursday may appe...

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How do you police such a deal if it is made exclusive? I should think this would create enormous ill-will for Costco.

Keep things as they are.

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Excellent analysis, Barney. Thanks for posting. Joe Biden has made an enormous contribution to maintaining the world order, in spite of opposition from Republicans here. The facts speak for themselves. As for paying for it all, well, $100 billion compared to an economy of $26 trillion is surely a sm...

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Congratulations, Mark! I'm marking our calendar now. Barring foul weather, we'll be there.

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Cristina Ortiz (1950 - ) is featured in this piece, part of a 2 record set of the complete works of Mendelssohn for piano and orchestra. As in her previous appearances on this channel, she plays beautifully. The Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart under Moshe Atzmon also provides an excellent performa...

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Goodness, Lance, when DO you find the time to listen to all those? :wink: I also love Mendelssohn's piano music, especially his concertos, but have only two recordings, Perahia & Cristina Ortiz. Believe it or not, I love the sparkly in Ortiz's playing: she seems to have downloaded Mendelssohn's spir...

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These are indeed old favorites. Toscanini did perform a Brahms cycle with the Philharmonia Orchestra in the summer of 1952. For some strange reason they were marketed for decades on pirate labels and eagerly sought after by yours truly. I picked up a set of CDs in the early 1990s, and have loved the...

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Don't 'tremble'; enjoy every single minute, especially with music. It's our motto for every single day and and it works a treat. New intellectual pursuits, music and great films and lots of fabulous books. The occasional trip thrown in for good measure and after that a few decent friends who are st...

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:19 pm
Kondrashin’s 1961 recording with Moscow Phil. fine,too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FYItK8JS4Q

Yes,I grew up with that one on blue label Melodiya LPS. Now I have it as part of his complete cycle issued on cds briefly about 15 years ago.

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An interesting new find with pianist Severin von Eckardstein . His extraordinary realization of the epic Sonata " Ballada" , Op.27 by Nikolai Medtner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Df-0z0EtHA&list=PL_qnZP9dy-CY5MV2TCwRRBkhIyfweU6uu&index=29 (Mov.1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI5fArOtV34 (Mo...

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Drug parcels kept showing up on beaches along Australia’s shoreline. Now, the police say they found the man behind the botched shipment. By Yan Zhuang April 18, 2024 It started with one package, plastic-wrapped and barnacle-encrusted, discovered on a secluded beach in New South Wales, Australia, on...

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I have many of his recordings. Very fine. R. I. P.

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A searing performance recorded by the BBC live in concert in London in 1960. Excellent stereo sound. Not to be missed. Mravinsky's best recorded performance by far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GK2NPgHzK0 "Symphony No 8" op.65 by Dmitri Shostakovich I. Adagio - Allegro non troppo - Adagio II. Al...

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Febnyc wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:41 pm
Yes, indeed. So much lovely music of Bowen's has made it to CD. Thanks for the reminder.

(But, your first link appears to be off the subject. )

Quite right!

Please see the corrected post above with Ridout's live performance from Wigmore Hall.

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Bernard Hermann's "The Planets" I do not own. How does his compare with so many others? Ones I have including Karajan [2] (I thought excellent), Bernstein, Stokowski, various ones with Boult, one conducted by Holst, Levine, Mehta, C. Davis, Steinberg, Sargent, Maazel, Ormandy, Barbirolli (live exce...

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April 18, 2024 By David Brooks Opinion Columnist Hilary Cass is the kind of hero the world needs today. She has entered one of the most toxic debates in our culture: how the medical community should respond to the growing numbers of young people who seek gender transition through medical treatments,...

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Restaurants here in the Big Apple have indeed slowed down considerably due to huge price increases since the pandemic. We used to go out to dinner at a favorite neighborhood haunt for about $110 or a bit more in 2020 several times a month. While that place closed down and never reopened when the pan...

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A long read, but well worth the effort. Kristof makes a compelling argument for his POV. FREE at the link below.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/opin ... =url-share

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Sonata No. 1, Op. 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uuIgByoZSI York Bowen (1884-1961) contributed several works for Viola, notably 2 sonatas and a Concerto, all dedicated to english violist Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) known as “father of the viola” and revolutionized viola playing as we know it toda...

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Indeed, these are wonderful songs - and fortunately there are quite a good number of recordings out. I favor those with Kiri Te Kanawa (Decca), Victoria de los Angeles (EMI/Warner), Veronique Gens (Naxos), Arlene Auger (Virgin), Kate Royal (EMI), Jill Gomez (EMI), Frederica von Stade (Sony or Orfeo...

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https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51XaLXLuSpL._SX425_.jpg This rarity by Claudio Abbado and the Boston Symphony Orchestra was recorded by DGG in 1974. I say rarity because it is now only available as a used CD on Amazon, even though it is deservedly graced with a perfect 5-star rating there, and ...

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97,217 views Apr 3, 2014 Chants d'Auvergne: 1st series (1923-30): I. La pastoura als camps 00:00 II. Baïlèro 02:48 III. L'aio de rotso 08:02 IV. Ound'onoren gorda? 11:07 V. Obal, din lou limouzi 13:41 Canteloube, Joseph (1879-1957) -composer Véronique Gens -soprano Jean-Claude Casadesus -conductor L...

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May I recommend this recital CD that includes the Biblical Songs by the great Czech soprano Gabriela Benackova? Rudolf Firkusny is the pianist, so who could ask for a more authentic team of great artists?

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david johnson wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:49 am
Thanks, guys. I just could not remember.

Hi, David.

It should be noted also that Markevitch recorded an outstanding Beethoven cycle in the mid-1950s with the Lamoruex orchestra, almost complete (minus the Fourth).

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I bought his Sibelius cycle on a reviewer's recommendation, but found it disappointing, frankly. Haven't kept up with him. There's only so much room on my shelves, eh?

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Totally agree here, Lance! Podles was a force of nature! We saw her in her MET debut paired with Marilyn Horne in Handel's "Rinaldo," a lovely farce. She was a fine partner for Horne, and she blew my mind with her stunningly accurate coloratura just when I was studying vocal technique and had become...

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I look forward to reading this whenever my March issue of Gramophone arrives.

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Has anyone seen a review of this concert in Atlanta with René Fleming singing Strauss's Four Last Songs and a group of lieder with the Atlanta Symphony under Stutzmann? My sister was at the concert and the audience could barely hear her because the orchestra was so loud. If anyone can post that rev...

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Nobody was critically injured, the police said. The attack came two days after a deadly stabbing rampage at a mall in an eastern suburb of Sydney. By Claire Moses April 15, 2024 Updated 11:58 a.m. ET Two days after a deadly stabbing attack at a crowded mall in Sydney, the police in Australia said t...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCR7EEtHnwc

Poem by Theophile Gautier with subtitles.

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Breathtaking beauty...

Enjoy!

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Costco may be selling up to $200 million worth of the bars each month, according to a Wells Fargo analysis. The bars sell out quickly, and customers are trading advice online about how to get them. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/04/11/multimedia/11xp-costcogold2/11xp-costcogold2-jumbo.jpg?qua...

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Bernard Hermann's "The Planets" I do not own. How does his compare with so many others? Ones I have including Karajan [2] (I thought excellent), Bernstein, Stokowski, various ones with Boult, one conducted by Holst, Levine, Mehta, C. Davis, Steinberg, Sargent, Maazel, Ormandy, Barbirolli (live exce...

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Lance, I have a huge soft spot in my heart for "Les nuits d'ete." My first exposure to it was with the great Regine Crespin in my early teens, accompanied by Ernst Ansermet and his Suisse Romande. Her rendition of "Le Spectre de la rose" inspired me so much that, to this day, her video remains a tou...

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What Are the Stakes of ‘Civil War,’ Really? April 13, 2024, 11:00 a.m. ET By Jamelle Bouie Opinion Columnist Ahead of the release of “Civil War,” the new alt-history action-drama from the director Alex Garland, A24, the studio that produced the film, released a map of the United States showing the ...

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Len, I have this one on video. It's a fine performance for sure. Thanks for the memories!

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Oh, my!

Thanks for that one, Len. Beautifully written.

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Gustav Mahler Symphony No.7 in E minor, "The Song of the Night" Chicago Symphony Orchestra Georg Solti, conductor Recorded at the Krannert Centre, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois in May 1971 Originally released in 1972 (remastered) Tracklist: 00:00:00 I. Langsam. Adagio – Allegro risolut...

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Considering the mores of the time, I sincerely doubt that Mahler was afraid of the competition. Women simply had no rights at the time. Alma Mahler's songs are quite something, aren't they? Who knows how she might have flowered 100 years or so later. As for Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony, I've bee...

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Lance, I've been an admirer of Louis Langree's conducting ever since he took over the podium for the Mostly Mozart Festival here in NYC. His style is energetic with fascinating attention to detail without ever being fussy. I'm delighted he and Tharaud had a chance to record together, and will listen...

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April 11, 2024 By David Brooks Opinion Columnist Nobody writes poems about middle managers. Nobody gets too romantic about the person who runs a department at a company, or supervises a construction crew, or serves as principal at a school, manager at a restaurant or deacon at a church. But I’ve com...

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Indeed! Thanks for this! We love Borge, and have seen him live on Broadway several times. :D One evening performance that we attended, Borge was wearing afternoon formal (grey tails and striped pants!). We couldn't figure it out, until, visibly annoyed, he began making fun of his son who had forgott...

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Thanks, Lance! I'll be hearing this wonderful release today on Spotify. Sounds like a "buy" for me.

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