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Today, 20:55

HenryPenfold replied to a thread Your top 10 post-1920 composers in Classical Music Discussion

Perhaps Penderecki, Lutoslawski & Gorecki for starters? Or maybe they don't float your boat? I happen to think that Poland really took the baton...

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Today, 20:53

Highwayman replied to a thread The Elgar/Vaughan Williams Competition (Selections and Game) in Classical Music Discussion Polls

Vaughan Williams - Symphony no. 5 - 65 Vaughan Williams - Symphony no. 3 "Pastoral" - 51 Elgar - Cello Concerto - 49 Elgar - Enigma Variations -...

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Today, 20:53

johnfkingmatrix started a thread rules for resolving chords? in Music Theory

Hi, maybe beginner question and im kind of self educating myself /trying to learn, so forgive me if my ideas are disjointed , and ty for you...

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Today, 20:53

adriesba replied to a thread Game: Your Least Enjoyable Music (with a positive spin) - Round Two of Five in Classical Music Discussion Polls

Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier - 17 Beethoven - Violin Concerto - 6 Borodin - String Quartet no. 2 - 6 Cage - 4'33" - 0 Copland - Rodeo - 4 ...

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Today, 20:48

Knorf replied to a thread Recordings of Beethoven 8 in Classical Music Discussion

This is true. The obsession with celebrity (even in classical music) in our culture, as well as sundry other factors, mean that many very worthy or...

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Today, 20:41

Andante Largo replied to a thread Generate play-lists (a game) in Non-Classical Music

New theme: Gone 1) Gone Country (Alan Jackson) 2) Already Gone (Eagles) 3) After the love has gone (Earth Wind and Fire) 4) It's All Gone...

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Today, 20:40

Chilham replied to a thread Game: Your Least Enjoyable Music (with a positive spin) - Round One of Five in Classical Music Discussion Polls

I suspect some voters weren't focused on having one piece win but, as the game perhaps implies, having one piece lose.

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Today, 20:40

Knorf replied to a thread Current Listening Vol VII in Classical Music Discussion

Sergei Prokofiev: Concertos for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in D major, Op. 19 & No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D for Violin...

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Today, 20:39

Eclectic Al replied to a thread Game: Your Least Enjoyable Music (with a positive spin) - Round One of Five in Classical Music Discussion Polls

Given that you can give 6 points to a work, I am just puzzled why it took more than 17 voters for the Bach to get to 100.

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Today, 20:38

Brahmsianhorn replied to a thread Recordings of Beethoven 8 in Classical Music Discussion

I'll add that it is of course possible and common for a recording to lack a reputation simply due to lack of marketing and circulation. Obviously. ...

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Today, 20:33

Knorf replied to a thread Recordings of Beethoven 8 in Classical Music Discussion

Here's the bottom line for me. Critics are useful when they are helpful in directing you to new experiences. They are not useful⁠—in fact...

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Today, 20:32

SanAntone replied to a thread Current Listening Vol VII in Classical Music Discussion

Morton Feldman : Triadic Memories Helena Basilova

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Today, 20:30

wkasimer replied to a thread Recordings of Beethoven 8 in Classical Music Discussion

Yes, but sometimes the reason is that the record companies keep reissuing that recording, and critics and listeners keep saying the same thing about...

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Today, 20:28

RICK RIEKERT replied to a thread "Jazzy" Baroque Chamber Performances/Recordings in Classical Music Discussion

L'Arpeggiata & Christina Pluhar have a jazzy go at Handel.

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Today, 20:28

Highwayman replied to a thread The Haydn/Mozart Competition (Selections and Game) in Classical Music Discussion Polls

Mozart - Clarinet Quintet, K 581 - 31 Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 20 - 22 Mozart - The Magic Flute - 20 Haydn - String Quartet in F minor, op....

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Today, 20:22

Manxfeeder replied to a thread Current Listening Vol VII in Classical Music Discussion

Mozart, Piano Quartet No. 2, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 24 I wasn't aware Szell did chamber music. He's quite the pianist; precise but also...

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Today, 20:17

Brahmsianhorn replied to a thread Recordings of Beethoven 8 in Classical Music Discussion

I understand your general point, but I don't think it is an apt comparison. We have ears. We can hear recordings for ourselves. They aren't locked...

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Today, 20:12

calvinpv replied to a thread Your top 10 post-1920 composers in Classical Music Discussion

This is pretty much my list as well, with a few switch-outs. I'd include Scelsi, Radulescu, Varèse, Gorecki, Saariaho, Poppe, Manoury, Reich, van der...

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Today, 20:10

Joachim Raff replied to a thread Recordings of Beethoven 8 in Classical Music Discussion

When you have a protection racket called the BBC, the Great British public will believe anything. After all, BBC would never do anything wrong,...

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Today, 20:04

HenryPenfold replied to a thread The Non-Classical 'I'm Currently Listening To...' Topic in Non-Classical Music

Agree with all of that. Anecdotally speaking, 'Richard Hell & The Voidoids' was my favourite band name (for a while then it was something else).

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Today, 20:03

haziz replied to a thread Current Listening Vol VII in Classical Music Discussion

Dvorak: Symphony No. 6 LSO - Kertesz

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Today, 20:00

HenryPenfold replied to a thread Current Listening Vol VII in Classical Music Discussion

From me he does ....

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Today, 19:59

Merl replied to a thread Recordings of Beethoven 8 in Classical Music Discussion

There was once a consensus of opinion that a certain British TV and radio celebrity was a nice guy. A bit odd but a 'real personality'. He did lots...

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Today, 19:59

Malx replied to a thread Current Listening Vol VII in Classical Music Discussion

Arnold, Symphony No 6 - LSO, Richard Hickox. Does Malcolm Arnold get the credit he deserves as a Symphonist?

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Today, 19:56

SanAntone replied to a thread Current Listening Vol VII in Classical Music Discussion

Morton Feldman : Palais de Mari Ronnie Lynn Patterson Not among the better recordings of this work.

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Today, 19:55

Malx replied to a thread The Non-Classical 'I'm Currently Listening To...' Topic in Non-Classical Music

Television came out of New York at the time everything coming out of CBGB's was getting exposure, essentially a 'new wave' band they, for me at...

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Today, 19:47

Brahmsianhorn replied to a thread Recordings of Beethoven 8 in Classical Music Discussion

If a recording has stood the test of time, there is most often a reason. It is not a conspiracy. There is no such thing as a classical music cabal...

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Today, 19:44

HenryPenfold replied to a thread The Non-Classical 'I'm Currently Listening To...' Topic in Non-Classical Music

I wasn't a trendy pop listener either, but I still heard the album - so that can't be the reason. Must've been something else.

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Today, 19:41

allaroundmusicenthusiast replied to a thread Your top 10 post-1920 composers in Classical Music Discussion

Impossible to pick 10 and I'm sure the ranking order will be totally wrong but thinking fast: 1. Ligeti 2. Messiaen 3. Bartók 4. Webern 5....

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Today, 19:36

Bulldog replied to a thread A Game of Solo Keyboard Miniatures (Qualifying Round Seven of Ten) in Classical Music Discussion Polls

Brahms - Intermezzo in A major, op. 118 no. 2 - 45 Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte - 37 Bach - Fugue no. 4 in C sharp minor, BWV 849 (from...

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