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pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:11 am **Posts:** 5130

Yes.

But each piece on Tabula Rasa is substantially better.

And I was wrong in my prior assessments of Rautavaara (I think I mostly kept them private?). Dude is amazing. Autumn Gardens.

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:11 am **Posts:** 5130

I gave Giacinto Scelsi's Uaxuctum a somewhat close listen earlier today (I was pretty tired, though, so not entirely focused at all times), and I quite like it or at least parts of it. The first movement is captivating. The rest less so, at least it seems to me so far (though those parts are still good if not ecstatic), but I think further close listens could well reveal a wonderful unified whole. Either way, good piece.

The Man · **Posted:** Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:00 pm

George wrote:

i don't know much about the subject at hand, but i've heard there are a number of laxatives that solve the issue quite easily.

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4201

john17 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:50 pm

Sibelius Symphony #7. Man are there some amazing moments with Sibelius. His music is some of my favorite to just sit back, close my eyes, and do nothing but experience it.

Krym · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:21 pm

My husband wrote me a note to listen to Claudio Abbado, Beethoven Symphonies #1 & #4 (Vienna Philharmonic, DG import) ... a good 4-6 years ago. I just found the note again, but I can't find the album on Amazon. ...mebbe he meant Berlin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERvm2sX4Nvo

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4201

sweet lord.... you can take me now...

john17 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2012 3:30 pm

I love that guy. "When David Heard that Absalom was Slain" is a favorite of mine. Thanks for the link

rockvirtuoso · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:36 pm **Posts:** 2418

holy shit. im taking a day off work to listen to this guy

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4201

john17 wrote:

that guy

rockvirtuoso wrote:

this guy

rv, i have posted a link to this guy's "sleep" some months ago... have you not heard it yet?

PS: from now on, eric whitacre is known as "this/that guy".

rockvirtuoso · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:36 pm **Posts:** 2418

dont think so, must have missed it. brilliant stuff though

Brian · **Joined:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:52 pm **Posts:** 2387

Krym wrote:

My husband wrote me a note to listen to Claudio Abbado, Beethoven Symphonies #1 & #4 (Vienna Philharmonic, DG import) ... a good 4-6 years ago. I just found the note again, but I can't find the album on Amazon. ...mebbe he meant Berlin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERvm2sX4Nvo

He may have meant Berlin. I checked my record guides, and the version of that coupling that they recommend is Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic, with no mention of Abbado. However, Abbado with the Berlin Philharmonic is one of the complete cycles that the Penguin Guide recommends, and maybe those 2 symphonies are paired on a disc and sold separately from the rest of the cycle. The comments on the set mention Abbado having done an earlier Beethoven cycle without specifying whom he did it with, but implying that his later version of the cycle was better.

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4201

this is too good... beauty like this shouldn't exist according to known laws of physics, and yet it does... it is simply magical...

john17 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:30 am

I was at byu in 2002 and heard them do this live. An experience I'll remember forever. That guy sure knows how to use silence.

rockvirtuoso · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:36 pm **Posts:** 2418

yeah saw that the other day after john mentioned it, awesome stuff

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