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A few suggestions so that nobody gets the idea that there is no outstanding classical music beyond Johann Sebastian Bach
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Don’t get too caught up in agreeing with someone. I’d frankly rather disagree than agree. There’s often much more interesting and substantive discussions to be had then. As long as all parties have mutual respect for one another, they can really go all out, clash hard if necessary and then laugh about it together afterward. Circle jerks are rather lame parties in my experience.We agree completely this time, and nice that you posted Bright Eyes which I think was Anoushka Shankar´s first collaboration with Alev Lenz.
There are several versions of it on YT and I find them all hauntingly beautiful like most of their work together.
Cheers CC
Don’t get too caught up in agreeing with someone. I’d frankly rather disagree than agree. There’s often much more interesting and substantive discussions to be had then. As long as all parties have mutual respect for one another, they can really go all out, clash hard if necessary and then laugh about it together afterward. Circle jerks are rather lame parties in my experience.
And when it comes to matters of personal preference, I’m not even sure how applicable the word “agree” is.
Theremin, now all but forgotten and an instrument many have never even heard of, has been bravely championed by Carolina Eyck.
A Mozart Concert
Yesterday in Madrid we had a wonderful Mozart concert.
Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
Ronald Brautigam, piano
W. A. Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusic K.525 (1787)
Concierto para piano y orquesta n.º 12 KV.414 (1782)
Adagio y Fuga K.546 (1788)
Concierto para piano y orquesta n.º 14 KV.449 (1784)
As the concertino rightly pointed out nothing more soothing than Mozart in these difficult times.
Here two videos from the wonderful musicians of yesterday‘s concert.
Mozart: Sonata no. 8 KV310 | Ronald Brautigam
Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A major, K.201 - Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra - Live Concert HD
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 1, Spring | Romanian Youth Orchestra and Cristian Mandeal
Hi Christer, lucky your attending Sibelius 6th soon. I have never seen that one live. I like Sibelius. Later in the year I will see the 1st, 2nd and also Pelléas et Mélisande.Thanks Luis.
And time for another WOW!
What a wonderfully youthful and fresh performance of this the happiest of Schumann´s Symphonies.
" Con chicas lindas tambien".
Also surprisingly naturally recorded without any obvious artificial spotmicing.
Nice ambient sound even via YT.
When I watched it I got filled with hope for the future of Art Music also in Europe and not ony in SE Asia where I already know there is hope.
At most of the few live concerts I have been to in Sweden this winter the majority of the audience like myself ,always seem to be somewhere between 65 and death and only at the Opera and Piano Academy in Vadstena have I seen such young musicians and audiences as here.
It is still a bit early for Spring here though ,I went skiing both Saturday and Sunday afternoon and I was completely snowed in for three days earlier this week 35 centimetres of fresh snow made it impossible to drive anywhere.
How´s Madrid?
Allready in full Spring?
Cheers CC
Hi Christer, lucky your attending Sibelius 6th soon. I have never seen that one live. I like Sibelius. Later in the year I will see the 1st, 2nd and also Pelléas et Mélisande.
Madrid unfortunately is in full Spring. It is bad since we had not had rain or snow for a couple of months and a strong drought seems very likely next summer unless things change a lot! Having sun is nice, too much can also be very bad! My daughter is now skying in Sierra Nevada, south Spain where she has just barely enough snow to sky.
As to what you say, here in Madrid, many concert´s audiences are often really aged. Concerts of the Spanish Radio and tv orquestra are really almost like a retirement home. Sometimes is really off putting. I remember recently attending a concert where they played Brahms first symphony. The performance was really good but the audience was not excited at all, which is sad for the musicians and everybody else really. The hall was half empty and very very aged. These concerts do not get proper promotion since discounts and last minute deals are really a bargain. National orquestra is better as to the age of the audience, but I´m mid fifties and usually of the younger bunch. Some concerts fortunatelly give also hope and you can also see younger people and a more mixed balanced audience. Also sometimes some wonderful young musicians like María Dueñas, only 19, that I saw last year and she´s amazing. Here a bit of her with the Spanish radio and Tv orquestra
Concierto para violín - L. van Beethoven - Dir. Josep Caballé-Domenech - María Dueñas violín