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CAJames Seasoned Member Online "I've run every red light on memory lane." Posts: 3334	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #1350 - 08/21/26 at 21:19:22 Herbert Blomstedt and the San Francisco Symphony play Sibelius' majestic 5th symphony to something near perfection. Aided as usual by Decca's demonstration quality recording. On CD.
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CAJames Seasoned Member Online "I've run every red light on memory lane." Posts: 3334	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #1351 - 08/22/26 at 21:25:58 If I were a virtuoso pianist, I think I'd want to play Bach like Glenn Gould. Not so much because his Bach is my favorite, although it is certainly a favorite, but because it is constantly changing. On CD I was enjoying some of the English Suites.
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Lon Seasoned Member Online "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 28663 Munson Township, OH	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #1352 - 08/23/26 at 00:23:56 Yes, I'm a Gould fan, though not a Bach fan, still I enjoy having this box set: Glenn Gould - The Goldberg Variations - The Complete Unreleased Recording Sessions June 1955
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CAJames Seasoned Member Online "I've run every red light on memory lane." Posts: 3334	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #1353 - 08/24/26 at 03:11:53 Igor Levit's recording of Mendelssohn's Lieder Ohne Worte was his response to raising anti-Semitism. And it is deeply moving, with or without the back story. On CD.
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Reply #1354 - 08/24/26 at 20:05:52

Another page, another Beethoven symphony, seven.

If Herbert Kegel and the Dresdner Philharmoniker have a name at all, it is for modern music. However their Beethoven is unapologetically old school and excellent, esp. the 7th. Capriccio does a great job capturing the winds and low strings, and the final movement is exciting as heck.

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Reply #1355 - Today at 15:38:08

One of the bits of trivial you might pick up in music class is that the piano is considered a percussion instrument because the strings are hit by a hammer while a harpsichord is a string instrument because the strings are plucked. Then there is the lute-harpsichord where the strings are made of gut rather than metal, and it sounds a lot like...you guessed it... a lute.

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The lute-harpsichord is not my favorite thing on the menu, but I'll order it once in a while when the mood strikes.

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