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The Mick Taylor Stones are pretty damn good also!
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The Mick Taylor Stones are pretty damn good also! I really love some of the Ron Wood stuff too (I know, possible sacrilege). Some Girls was my first Stones album when it came out, after that I had to have everything before (same with the Who, started with Who Are You).
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SOME GIRLS was their last good album, mos def. ROCK N ROLL was their last great lp.
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SOME GIRLS was their last good album, mos def. ROCK N ROLL was their last great lp. I still need to check that last out...speaking of, thanks for reminding me!
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SOME GIRLS was their last good album, mos def. ROCK N ROLL was their last great lp. I still need to check that last out...speaking of, thanks for reminding me! "Time Waits for N one" is incredible! Check out the Taylor/Hopkins solos. B
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In honor of the late Gennady Rozhdestvensky: His recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella with the USSR Radio and TV Orchestra.
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Jun 18, 2018 - 2:11 AM
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Conductor Hans Swarowsky worked for minor, low-budget labels – Vox, Urania, Concert Hall – and with less than top-notch orchestras whose identity is not always clear, variously described as the Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra, the Vienna State Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmusica Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna State Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Festival Orchestra and even the “Music Treasures Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra”. My 1982 Allegro cassette of Swarowsky's recording of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, with pianist Friedrich Wuehrer, is actually a recording from the early 1950s that first appeared on the Vox label. The orchestra is identified as the "Vienna Symphony Orchestra" on the front cover and as the "Vienna State Philharmonia" on the cassette shell. One writer notes that "when a recording was to be made, a series of phone-calls was made to members of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, plus a few free-lancers. If they were lucky, they might get the Vienna State Opera Orchestra almost intact. Or the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Or they might get a more motley crew. Certainly, the quality of the Viennese bands on these records varies considerably, as does the apparent number of strings, which sometimes seem pretty thin on the ground."
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Jun 18, 2018 - 5:19 PM
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British pianist Stephen Hough, now age 56, is somewhat of a Renaissance man of the arts. As a music student, in 1983 he took first prize at the Naumburg International Piano Competition in New York City. He holds a master's degree from the Juilliard School. Hough has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras around the world, and has recorded more than 50 albums. Hough is also a composer and transcriber, and often includes his own works in his recitals. He has written over 30 published pieces. He is an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he is a visiting Professor of piano. He is also on the faculty of the Juilliard School. Hough is a painter, and had a solo exhibition of his paintings at the Broadbent Gallery in London in October 2012. He is a novelist, and in 2018 Sylph Editions published his first novel, "The Final Retreat," which explores the inner world of a priest dealing with sex addiction and religious despair. Hough is also a poet. In 2008, he won the Sixth International Poetry Competition. And of course, he is a philanthropist, being a patron of the charity The Nightingale Project, which takes music and art into hospitals, and of Music in Prisons (Irene Taylor Trust). Hough was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to music Hough's recording of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, with Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony, was recorded in September 1989.
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I enjoyed very much the score whilst watching the Burbs for the first time. On my list.
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Jun 19, 2018 - 11:00 AM
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Portions of the third movement of Brahms’ Violin Concerto are heard twice in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film THERE WILL BE BLOOD, including the end credits. The film uses a recording by the Berlin Philharmonic. The recording below, by Ukrainian violinist David Oistrakh, with Otto Klemperer conducting the French Radio Orchestra, was released in 1961. By 1959, Oistrakh was beginning to establish a second career as a conductor, and in 1962 he made his Moscow conducting debut. By 1967, he had established a partnership with the celebrated Soviet pianist Sviatoslav Richter. 1968 saw wide celebrations for the violinist's sixtieth birthday, which included a celebratory performance in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory of the Tchaikovsky violin concerto, one of Oistrakh’s favorite works, under the baton of Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
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Robert Schumann's String Quartet no. 1 played by the Quartetto Italiano. This is about as Romantic era as you can get, my favorite SQ by Schumann.
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"piss off, Brahms" - Franz Liszt (LISZTOMANIA) BRM P.S. I GUARANTEE I WAS THE only MOVIEGOER in the entire national audience (all three of us), who got that joke!
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"piss off, Brahms" - Franz Liszt (LISZTOMANIA) BRM P.S. I GUARANTEE I WAS THE only MOVIEGOER in the entire national audience (all three of us), who got that joke! That was a fun movie
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"Music, shmusik! Its a living" - Felix Mendelsohn
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My grandmother’s favorite opera
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Jun 21, 2018 - 1:13 AM
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Sviatoslav Richter was a Soviet pianist of Russian-German origin. At age 15, he started to work at the Odessa Opera, where he accompanied the rehearsals. On March 19, 1934, Richter gave his first recital, at the Engineers' Club of Odessa; but he did not formally start studying piano until three years later, when, at 22, he decided to seek out Heinrich Neuhaus, a famous pianist and piano teacher, at the Moscow Conservatory. During Richter's audition for Neuhaus (at which he performed Chopin's Ballade No. 4), Neuhaus apparently whispered to a fellow student, "This man's a genius". In 1949 Richter won the Stalin Prize, which led to extensive concert tours in Russia, Eastern Europe and China. In 1960, even though he had a reputation for being "indifferent" to politics, Richter defied the authorities when he performed at Boris Pasternak's funeral. Richter's first concerts in the West took place in May 1960, when he was allowed to play in Finland, and on October 15, 1960, in Chicago, where he played Brahms's Second Piano Concerto accompanied by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Erich Leinsdorf, creating a sensation. In a review, noted Chicago Tribune music critic Claudia Cassidy, who was known for her unkind reviews of established artists, recalled Richter first walking on stage hesitantly, looking vulnerable (as if about to be "devoured"), but then sitting at the piano and dispatching "the performance of a lifetime". Two days later, Richter reprised his performance on a recording for RCA, and the company had the recording in distribution within weeks. The recording won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Concerto or Instrumental Soloist. Richter's 1960 tour of the United States culminated in a series of concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City. But Richter disliked performing in the United States. A decade later, following a 1970 incident at Carnegie Hall, when Richter's performance alongside David Oistrakh was disrupted by anti-Soviet protests, Richter vowed never to return. He never played in the U.S. again. Richter died in 1997 at age 82.
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Jun 22, 2018 - 12:21 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, a classical music record producer for EMI. After nearly 20 years of operation, on 10 March 1964, Legge announced that he was going to disband the Philharmonia Orchestra. At a recording session with then music director Otto Klemperer, a meeting was convened where those present unanimously agreed that they would not allow the orchestra to be disbanded. Klemperer gave his immediate support. On 17 March 1964, the members of the orchestra elected their own governing body and adopted the name New Philharmonia Orchestra. Thus renamed, the orchestra gave many more live performances after it became self-governing than it had under Legge's management. It reacquired the rights to the name "Philharmonia Orchestra" in 1977, and has been known by that name ever since. It was during the 13-year period of the “New” Philharmonia Orchestra—1967 to be precise—that French conductor Pierre Boulez recorded for CBS a selection of music by Claude Debussy, featuring “La Mer,” “Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun,” and “Jeux.”
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My guy played some King Crimson "Starless and Bible Black" and I liked it. I like KC in general, especially the early albums they did with Adrian Belew.
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