This is fascinating ...
Has anyone else here got an ancient organ?
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This is fascinating ...
Has anyone else here got an ancient organ?
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mine's pretty oldOriginally Posted by jandl100
This is fascinating ...
Has anyone else here got an ancient organ?
actually fancy .........na, not going there
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^^ I must confess that I struggle with a lot of Britten's work - can you actually make any sense out of the cello symphony, Malcolm?
If so, what's the secret?!
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It's all about colour, mood and incident for me. It makes me feel quite different from, say, Beethoven or Rachmaninov (that seems blindingly obvious as I type it but I guess you know what I mean). I suppose it's the lack of 'melody' in a conventional sense and the unexpected and unsettling shifts that I enjoy/appreciate. Not something I turn to very often, but I do find it rewarding when I take the time to listen. I was 'in the zone' today after listening to the War Requiem.
Writing that little paragraph makes me want to revisit Schoenberg's Erwartung...
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Hmm.- Thanks for that, Malcolm. I think i'm just not sympathetic to Britten's unique soundworld.
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Brahms' mighty 4th symphony transcribed for solo organ.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5PN22DGCe7jRowP3qAofxY
It works remarkably well, and some of it is quite magnificent.
The album also includes the finale of the 1st symphony and a very fine Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition.
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This is growing on me mightily. Not just a great VC but wonderful mainly orchestral excerpts from The Kingdom and Gerontius.For an Elgar vocals hater like me that is a fab thing cos the music itself is wonderful indeed.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6n4GRaMYnzUg7zAqk4B1EA
This is mighty fine ...
https://open.spotify.com/album/4e4Ug0aaDcvaEuDiEqYrpZ
and then
https://open.spotify.com/album/07kDJgfjNpKYqIkup2LwPq
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I love the way a good surround recording can transport you into a different space. Lovely atmosphere.
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Several sonatas from this set.
The Appassionata and Op 2 sonatas were particularly fine.
Then Mahler 6th symphony for organ solo.
https://open.spotify.com/album/7Evv3YTkHGakeZ5ColZYkT
Oh dear.
I needed reassurance of the music's romantic greatness and clarity of line after that, so I searched out on Spotify the longest/slowest rendition of the slow mvt I could find....
https://open.spotify.com/album/6y9Z4gQ3ogU9hfAPtLLm0n
Wow - yummeeeee! A bit OTT even for me.But wonderful.
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Handel, sung by Ann Murray.
https://open.spotify.com/album/4Uvsl6AtoiDQL50kyg4hBw
Perfect.
If track 16 doesn't have you wreathed in delighted smiles - then you have no soul - you have no heart, merely a fleshy, vilely palpitating thing that ticks away the dreary endless seconds of your pointless existence.
Then some grand, romantic gestures from Maestro Ashkenazy.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5IoGzCfp23WX0y0KzHXH3d
My goodness, this is a dynamic performance & recording!
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