Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by bluemooze, Feb 22, 2017.

  1. Bevok

    Bevok Forum Resident

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  2. Bevok

    Bevok Forum Resident

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    This just hasn’t been topped in my listening to Renaissance music, stunning
     
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  3. Alexlotl

    Alexlotl Forum Resident

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    Just finished an inaugral listen to Disc 3 of this set:

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    Debussy - Complete Works for Piano Vol. 3 - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

    Again, lots of bits, so here's the back of the original release:

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    Weirdly, I've been encountering a lot of Debussy in indie video games over the last few years.

    Sayonara Wild Hearts, a self-described "Pop Album Video Game" makes use of synth arrangements of a few numbers from this disc - Nocturne, Reverie and the ubiquitous Clair de lune from Suite bergamesque - alongside some cracking dream-pop of its own. Highly recommended.

    The wonderfully anarchic Untitled Goose Game, a great favourite of my daughter, uses the Preludes. The sound team recorded them played at different levels of intensity, broke them down into stems, then stitched them together into a genuinely impressive reactive soundtrack which ebbs and flows depending on your actions.

    Anyway, I think this is a good phenomenon, and hardly a new one - it's amazing how much Bach I found already knew from old 8-bit video games! But it would be nice if I could listen to the Preludes without imagining people being harrassed by a horrible goose.

     
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  4. ibanez_ax

    ibanez_ax Forum Resident

  5. Daedalus

    Daedalus I haven't heard it all.....

    I have this particular recording in both CD and vinyl Lp formats.
     
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  6. Daedalus

    Daedalus I haven't heard it all.....

    Those Switched-On Bach albums were ubiquitous back in the day. Talk about cross-over.
     
  7. Daedalus

    Daedalus I haven't heard it all.....

    I think you are certainly confessing to a sympathetic crowd!
     
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  8. Daedalus

    Daedalus I haven't heard it all.....

    I don’t have any of these recordings but I have been aware of this project from an audiophile perspective. It reminds of the minimal miking recordings which were done by Kavi Alexander of Water Lily Acoustics.
     
  9. Daedalus

    Daedalus I haven't heard it all.....

    This box just arrived and I will be getting into listening at leisure as time allows over the week-end. I am very happy to secure this collection! The Liszt alone is worth the acquisition cost-the rest is icing. He was known for very colorful emotive performance and perhaps idiosyncratic ones as well. But ever interesting. I have his “Sadko” on ancient MK Lp.[​IMG]
     
  10. Scope J

    Scope J Senior Member

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  11. ibanez_ax

    ibanez_ax Forum Resident

    I bought a copy of that a few years ago from the used bin at Hastings. The record looked good, but sounded like it was used as a Frisbee on a beach somewhere.
     
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  12. coopmv

    coopmv Newton 1/30/2001 - 8/31/2011

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    IMHO, Walter's Pastoral may be among the best if not the best. I have this box and have revisited the Pastoral more than I ever have the other 30 Beethoven Symphonies cycles ...
     
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  13. J.A.W.

    J.A.W. Music Addict

    David Hurwitz on Furtwängler's Decca recordings (Furtwängler fans might want to skip this, it's not exactly a recommendation, on the contrary :)):

     
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  14. PunkSaxMix

    PunkSaxMix free yourself from apathy

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    Kreisleriana Hélenè Grimaud
     
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  15. vanhooserd

    vanhooserd Senior Member

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    That's too bad. Mine is in good shape. I bought a few things at Hastings in New Braunfels when we visited friends there in 2007 & 2008.
     
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  16. Bachtoven

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    Qobuz is releasing a few tracks at a time. I enjoyed 3 Etudes and Scherzo No.3 this morning. Amazing playing, as always.

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  17. sherrill50

    sherrill50 Well-adapted Melomaniac

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    New release Friday; first listen on Qobuz. This is subtitled 'Demons and Miracles from Winchester around 1000'

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  18. bluemooze

    bluemooze Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Listening to "John Dowland - Ayres" performed by The Hilliard Ensemble on EMI Reflexe.

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  19. bluemooze

    bluemooze Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Andrew Parrott and his Taverner performers are favorites of mine. :)
     
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  20. ibanez_ax

    ibanez_ax Forum Resident

    I had mostly good luck with used classical records that I bought at Hastings. Sometimes though a physical inspection doesn't tell the whole story
     
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  21. Scourge

    Scourge The Contagion in Nine Steps

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    NP:
    Brahms/Cello Sonatas/Rostropovich/Serkin

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  22. Scourge

    Scourge The Contagion in Nine Steps

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    Hey I live in New Braunfels. Hastings is now gone unfortunately as I spent many, many hours there.
     
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  23. JuniorMaineGuide

    JuniorMaineGuide Forum Resident

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    I just bought this this week too! Excellent stuff
     
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  24. bluemooze

    bluemooze Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Listening to "Sigismondo D'India - Duetti Profani" on Tactus.

    Featuring Matelda Viola, Paola Ronchetti (sopranos)

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  25. J.A.W.

    J.A.W. Music Addict

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