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MFMSMITH commented 7 hours ago

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Messiaen - L'Ascension - IV

Preire du Christ montant vers son Pere (prayer from Christ ascending towards His Father

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BBC Scotish Symphony Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski (c...

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MFMSMITH said:

If that doesn't nothing will.

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  Elisa Sutherland - Reine des mouettes by Francis Poulenc

  Mezzo Soprano - Elisa Sutherland Accompanist - Young Jee Cho

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  MFMSMITH said:

  Reine des mouettes mon orpheline je t'ai vu rose je m'en souviens sous les brumes mousellines voiles de ton deuil ancien...sous les brumes mousselines, voiles de nos liens...Rougez, rougez, mon baiser te devine..tu etais rose accordee a mes mains Queen of the Seagulls, my orphan, I noticed your b...

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MFMSMITH commented 2 months ago

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G.F. Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Kiyo and Chiemi Watanabe perform "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" by George Frideric Handel on Ruffatti Pipe Organ at Immanuel Baptist Church, Littl...

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MFMSMITH said:

To understand my comment, you need to have read Geoffrey Payzant's book where it discusses Gould's early musical experiences as an organist. I believe the phrase was 'the delightful chiff of old baroque organs' or something like that. That was I think in my mind when I heard this: they certainly ...

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  G.F. Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

  Kiyo and Chiemi Watanabe perform "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" by George Frideric Handel on Ruffatti Pipe Organ at Immanuel Baptist Church, Littl...

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  MFMSMITH said:

  There are a lot of ridiculously critical comments from people WAY less musical than the players. What they have achieved here is in the Glenn Gould class. The very slight cultural barrier which Japanese tradition (with its fixity) imposes upon western music actually improves and makes unique the ...

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  Adagio Un Poco Moso - Glenn Gould

  Beethoven's "Adagio Un Poco Moso" played most elegantly, with grandiose valor, by the eccentric, contrapuntal, polyphonic Glenn Gould (Grieg's gran...

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  MFMSMITH said:

  I can understand your reaction. I think it is because Beethoven chooses the sacred key of B Major, which is as far away as it is possible to get from the heroic E flat of the Emperor concerto. As if the outer movements are about the heroism of war; the inner kernel about all the human suffering i...

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  Michel Thomas, The Language Master Pt 1 of 3

  Part 2 now uploaded, in sync, at http://www.youtube.com/watc...

  Some background: I met Michel in 1995 and spent a couple of years gett...

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  MFMSMITH said:

  The problem is that the conventional educational tradition has scared the entire western tradition away from what was obvious to the great minds of the Renaissance -that learning is an adventure and probably the greatest excitement available on the planet. So we are all suffering from a collectiv...

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  Samson Francois Chopin Ballade No 4

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  MFMSMITH said:

  Well with such an account I have to revise my view that Chopin got harmonically lost on the coda. Samson somehow understands it.

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  Schostakovitch - Chamber Symphony op. 110 - 2

  Schostakovitch - Chamber Symphony op. 110 - third and fourth movement (not complete).

  The Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra conducted by Massi...

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  MFMSMITH said:

  While the triple repetition in the fourth movement is like some kind of execution, with the subtle shift in harmony having us wonder: does the sacrifice of people in wars actually improve anything.. ? This moves on to an elegaic slow-moving stream of music, every bit as impressive as the slow mo...

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  Schostakovitch - Chamber Symphony op. 110 - 2

  Schostakovitch - Chamber Symphony op. 110 - third and fourth movement (not complete).

  The Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra conducted by Massi...

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  MFMSMITH said:

  It is like a dreadful, evil waltz of bad spirits as well as being a parody of nationalistic cliches (the martial ta-ta-tum-tee-taa) recalling the absurdly overdone C major cadence at the end of the Trumpet and Piano Concerto.

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  Schostakovitch - Chamber Symphony op. 110 - 2

  Schostakovitch - Chamber Symphony op. 110 - third and fourth movement (not complete).

  The Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra conducted by Massi...

  8,101 views

  MFMSMITH said:

  Yes, this is from the Eighth Quartet - a response to the bombing of Dresden by the Allies. The word you want is mournful - l mourningful is very poetic. Noble Savage is allusion to Rousseau. To call yourself thus is somewhat vainglorious! I think the quartet version is much stronger. Strangely e...

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