Anybody Like Classical Music?

[Insidious Von]

Vladimir Putin cannot be happy with Anastasia Huppmann. She was born in Russia as the USSR was collapsing.

The music industry has tried to establish a rivalry between her and Yuja Wang. The Chinese virtuoso is an instrument of PRC soft power, Ana left Russia for Vienna and made it her home. Late last year she gave a sequence of concerts with the proceeds going to support Ukraine.

 

[Insidious Von]

Due to this music, I can never be an atheist.

 

[Zoot Allures]

Due to this music, I can never be an atheist.

Not a pipe organ fan but listen to Bach while on psychedelics.
The music becomes alive as each note means something as
it creates emotions.

Mozart is like a soap opera full of the drama of life and
Bach was the greater musical genius

The star were aligned for a couple of centuries to create all those geniuses,
that is all I can think of

 

[Insidious Von]

The organ is the Sun of the musical universe. I hope I live long enough to hear this happen.

 

[Insidious Von]

Cory Henry is one of the leaders in the organ revival, he grew up playing organ in his local cathedral.

 

[curvluvr]

Cory Henry is one of the leaders in the organ revival, he grew up playing organ in his local cathedral.

Playing a pipe organ and a Hammond organ are two very different skillsets, much like playing classical piano vs. jazz.

 

[Insidious Von]

Playing a pipe organ and a Hammond organ are two very different skillsets, much like playing classical piano vs. jazz.

Agreed, Cory Henry does perform gospel music well but I haven't found any recordings of Bach. Skillsets aside, jazz musicians do very well when they cross over.

Get through the applause to 1:35.

 

[Insidious Von]

This is refreshing, Yuja Wang playing chamber music.

 

[oil&gas]

The piece may have been posted before but this historical
performance of Elgar's 'Nimrod' by Arturo Toscanini is worth
re-posting.

 

[Insidious Von]

They really cleaned up Toscanini's recordings. Never bothered much with his recordings, they always sounded tinny and rough. It put American recordings to shame compared his rival Wilhelm Furtwangler's vastly superior German recordings.

The movement that gave Brahms nightmares. After he wrote a Bach Fugue of his own for the 4th, he never wrote another symphony.

 

[curvluvr]

Agreed, Cory Henry does perform gospel music well but I haven't found any recordings of Bach. Skillsets aside, jazz musicians do very well when they cross over.

Get through the applause to 1:35.

Crossing over is often the hard part, especially from classical to jazz. That's a hurdle that I've never been able to cross, mainly because of lack of training in jazz.
Although I wish I had jazz training...

 

[curvluvr]

This is refreshing, Yuja Wang playing chamber music.

Have you ever seen the video of Yuja Wang getting pissed of at her page turner?
Total incompetence (the page turner, not Yuja Wang).

 

[Insidious Von]

When Maurice Ravel sat down for dinner with George Gershwin in Paris in 1926, it changed the course of music. The New Orleans sound broke through its regional confines. Ravel became a lot less formal.

To become a complete musician instead of only a virtuoso, Yuja Wang has to do more ensemble work.

 

[oil&gas]

They really cleaned up Toscanini's recordings. Never bothered much with his recordings, they always sounded tinny and rough. It put American recordings to shame compared his rival Wilhelm Furtwangler's vastly superior German recordings.

I have the historical recordings of both Furtwangler and Otto Klemperer
conducting Beethoven's Eroica. Can't imagine how intensity of Furtwangler's performance can ever be surpassed. That being said, my own choice of all
time great is Hebert von Karajan's recording with Philharmonia from the
1950's done before his 1st Berlin Phil recording.

 

[Insidious Von]

Music critics are not kind people. When Beethoven's 3rd premiered the critic wrote, it was a flailing monster in its death throes. For Brahms 4th a critic wrote, Brahms can't be bothered to inject a hint of melody, the finale is a musical catastrophe.

As a homage to Bach it's the best kind of catastrophe, Ludwig would have loved it and given Brahms a soaker.

 

[Insidious Von]

The primordial sound of Anton Bruckner, perhaps the most copied composer of all. Wagner would not have ventured into music drama without him. There isn't a modern film score composer that doesn't purloin his sound.

I've attended several performances of his symphonies, each time I sensed my naked scalp growing hair.

Would he be cancelled today?

 

[Insidious Von]

Can AI do this?

 

[Ponderling]

Not a youtube post here, but classical music related.
I collect London Records vinyl LP's that bear the Phase 4 moniker, and to a lesser degree RCA Living Stereo records.
These were some of the earliest stereo recordings mixed on multi track recording desks.
Often the music is a bit poppier mix of classical music favorites
I usually find these killing time in thrift stores while wife shops, and 3-5 new finds in a year is a good year for me.

We made a road trip to Hamilton on Saturday amid rain showers to catch up with a pal that has moved there.
Wife spotted an ad for a store in Hamilton on Facebook after coordinating the visit on said app. Funny how that works.

So found the place, Pop Culture Market, amidst a residential area in the north end.
The area has gentrified a lot since I lived there about 30 years ago.
Found the shop and in the back part there is a whole slew of record bins.

I found 5 Phase 4 titles I did not already own, amid the 16 LP's we bought for a whole $1 each.
All are really clean and sound good.

Also found DVD's of The Who in concert performances from 1969 and 1974.
Have not found time to dive into those yet.

 

[Insidious Von]

Anton Bruckner, the father of heavy metal.

 

[Insidious Von]