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It always amazes me to hear Sibelius's detractors say his music isn't human. That it's all landscapes, etc. With the 7th I hear a musical evocation of a life. It begins suddenly and mysteriously, expands, becoming more complicated, stronger. It reaches a high point and declines. The end is full ...

@jamesaellis Sibelius' last major work was from 1927, age 61. That's a good run! He continued to compose small works and the uncompleted 8th Symphony. He lived hard for most of his adult life: drank like a fish and smoked like a chimney. In his final years, Sibelius ironically lamented that all o...

Yamato and Musashi were beautiful ships, but what a waste in such incompetent hands! Every battle from mid-1942 was a disaster or near-disaster for Japan. All the grandiose strategies, overly complicated maneuvers, and Asian mysticism. And the worship carries on to the ships. In the end warriors ...

@betchay0855 This isn't an LDS song. In fact, it has nothing to do with Mormonism. It is about securing freedom and justice for America's oppressed, or else face the Wrath of God.

A horrible rendition in every way. It is affected and misses the point.

@gustl60 I agree on both accounts! She is Sarah Willlis, born in the USA, trained in the UK, first female horn player with the BPO. See YouTube video: YTSO Greeting by Sarah Willis. Very charming as well as talented.

@chrish12345 Yes, Kovacevich embellished the composer's cadenza and part of it may be his own. This is not uncommon for masters of Kovacevich's stature. However, with recordings it is usually stipulated that a standard cadenza be performed. Until the 1800s cadenzas were improvisatory. Eventually...

@IpsaPaphum Haitink is part Jewish. I believe it was his paternal grandmother.

@maryrhudy I agree, the guy over Kharitonov's shoulder is great. He's really into it!

@thecrusades2 In the sense that the Britons and their Breton forebearers were Celts, yes I am agreeing with you. Yet there were many Celtic tribes in addition to these. It's not correct to use the term British to describe the ancient people since the modern term British denotes a mixture of Celti...

@newton2013 By looking at your profile it is apparent you are a conspiracy theory junkie. Get a life! There is no proof that HAARP could be used to induce an earthquake. Nobody disputes HAARP's ability to affect local weather, which is why the founder of the Weather Channel has an opinion on it....

@johannsebastienbach Ride of the Valkyries atrocious? Hardly. Harsh, yes. Intimidating, yes. But one of the most effective, exciting and memorable melodies of all time. Genius! Siegfried Idyll atrocious? Only if you consider sublime beauty atrocious. Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey atrocious?...

@TeslaFactory Nietzsche's most famous work is called Also Sprach Zarathustra, though his ideas on morality were inverse to Zarathustra's. Nietzsche used that irony to present his own ideas on morality and the Fate of Mankind. Strauss was inspired by Nietzsche's work to compose this Tone Poem. In...

Pure synthetic beauty? Plagiarist! Please come up with your own inaccurate clichés to disparage Karajan.

Majestic! One of the two best, ever, along with Blomstedt/San Francisco Symphony.