What are you listening to now?
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Classical at its core, pleasantly and accessibly intellectual in its approach, retro and fresh at the same time. If you want original classical-sounding chamber music that (1) is not boring, not too predictable, and (2) won't leave you questioning WTF has contemporary classical music become, this fits the bill. The composer is still living.
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Martha at any age, but at 84 is so freaking amazing.
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@mark, The woman is a sorceress on the piano. Certainly my favourite living pianist. Quite likely the greatest pianist of the second half of the 20th century to present. Only Grigory Sokolov comes close in pianistic genius. I know it’s subjective but the young ones like Yuja Wang and Khatia Buniatishvili certainly have the technical chops but still have some work to do on the musicality thus not quite there to sit among pantheon of greats dating back to Liszt and Alkan. Argerich and Sokolov reached those dizzying heights some years ago and continue to leave audiences and listeners in awe.
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@renauda I agree 100%!
My former teacher studied along side of Martha in Italy under Michelangeli. He considered Martha a good friend and spent quite a bit of time with her and her family. That fact still gives me chills when I think about it. That I was so fortunate to have studied with him.
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Rick Beato interviewed this delightful young lady recently. Makes me want to learn bass guitar.
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Wow.
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Yunchan Lim The Goldberg Variations Live at Carnegie Hall. I ordered this not realizing that it would come in what is essentially a hardcover 46 page book full of wonderful photos, quotes, and multilingual write-ups about this young pianist.
It's a double LP that is expertly mastered with a very good, silent, dark background free of surface noise. Meticulously produced. A little static on rare occasions, but that is easily rectified and is mostly due to the dry nature of this season.
I must say that he does an excellent performance of the Goldberg Variations.
I have heard just about every recording ever made of the Goldberg Variations and this one definitely stands out as one of the best I have heard.
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@Horace Well that was different. I am wondering how you came across that. 555
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@kluurs said in What are you listening to now?:
Mark - agree - a very fine performance.
Did you notice the crushed corners of the book? It was delivered that way. I sent photos of it to DECCA and they are replacing it no questions asked. They didn't even ask for me to return this one. I will wait to see if they include a pre-paid return address label before I gift this one to my audiophile buddy.
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Symphony No. 1 for Orchestra and Organ, Opus 42 by Felix-Alexandre Guilmant
Paul Jacobs played at the local music hall last week. I never heard of Guilmant before.
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