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| Classical Music for Aficionados Wow- I have been away from this board for a few weeks and there have been some interesting discussions here! I don't think anyone responded to Pete, who asked about programs for cataloging a collection. I found the ones I looked at wanting for c... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I haven't ever read that Gardiner book, though I would like to. That's one to add to my list, for sure. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hi Schubert - Pablo Casals used to do the same thing, apparently. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I have been away from this site for a long time now, and have just caught up with this thread. I'll mention that I too would agree that Grimaud is one of the best working today. I've had the good fortune to work with her I think on three differen... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I can't resist posting here today about two things (I have always been "lurking" here every so often catching up on the thread). First, RIP Roy Hargrove. The trumpet world and the jazz world have lost another one way too early. Got to hear him l... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I would agree with rvpiano on Trifonov. He is a huge talent, I have worked with him before. It was a few years ago at least that he played with my orchestra. I am not as familiar with his recordings, but the one or two I have heard confirm that i... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I started typing a post, went back to refer to an earlier one, and then my text disappeared! So retyping, and apologize if this gets posted twice somehow. Just catching up on the thread. rvpiano, the Brahms horn excerpt you mentioned (from the 4th... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados rvpiano - no, I don't know Doug. I have heard of him, but haven't ever hear him play. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados rvpiano, your comments do indeed agree with that of many scholars. Many musicians, however, hear quite a few echoes of Handel in the orchestral music of Brahms in particular. I am not denying that Bach is a heavy influence at all, of course, just ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I would not presume to judge such a contest - those are all very good choices, and different people will have different favorites. I will mention one of my favorites, though, that I doubt would be mentioned by anyone but a horn player. It is near... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes, good comments, rvpiano. Both were heavily influenced by the baroque. Brahms was actually even more influenced by Handel than by Bach. The influence of Bach on Wagner is well documented, too.schubert, are you actually trying to say that you... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hi gdnrbob - schubert is correct. Brahms literally grew up playing piano in some pretty nasty brothels. Women were either madonnas or whores for him forever after. One wonders if his experiences in them also contributed to his lack of confidence... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hi schubert - yes, there is an abundance of great choral music in the Twin Cities. And you also have the Mask of the Flower Prince blogger - one of the best in support of symphonic musicians everywhere (I do know his real name). Not sure what you... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Craig, what you have heard about Brahms is true, as far as being the last of the major composers to use natural horns in his works. What Brahms did in his symphonies, for instance, was (generally) to use one pair of natural horns (Horns I and II),... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hello all - the Schumann Konzertstuck is indeed a great piece. I do have that Gardiner recording, though it would be not quite correct to call all of the instruments natural horns - at least a couple of them do have valves on that recording. They ... |