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Der Abschied - Farewell

My last post here guys. I don't have strength any more for this shitty life. See you in next life. Good bye everybody.

gm1911 said:

My last post here guys. I don't have strength any more for this shitty life. See you in next life. Good bye everybody.

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Hey, hey, I hope that's not serious, but I don't like to read that anyway.

There is always a next day, my friend and nothing is worth to throw your life away.

ihno said:

There is always a next day, my friend and nothing is worth to throw your life away.

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:agree:

Always Look On The Bright Side of Life

haiducii said:

:agree:

Always Look On The Bright Side of Life

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And get some help & counseling!

Let's listen to something funny. :?

Don't know if I have posted this before. I mean I know that I have posted this before, I just don't know if I posted it here in this forum. .... You don't care? Fine, I don't either.

Edward Elgar - Nimrod Variations - BBC Symphonic - Leonard Bernstein

The older Leonard Bernstein got, he slower he had the musicians perform the music, or to be precise: the slow movements. It was - as said - as if he didn't want to hold a grab on the music as long as he could...

The result were some extraordinary performances. The BBC musicians weren't very happy about that. When Bernstein gave the tempo for the Variation X "Nimrod", they asked him if he was kidding.

And indeed playing the slow legato must be very difficult. They managed, but they didn't like Bernstein much. (the vid's comments show controversary). As said the result were some extraordinary performances (not all) and this goes for this recording as well.

The quality is poor - there is a DG-recording of it.


Variations 1 to 7


Variations 8 to 10
Go to 2:28


The rest.

Great vids here, I just hope gm1911 didnt really quit...

Anyone knows if Haydn was ever famously sampled in mainstream music?

Interesting question, no idea.

But wuuuuuaaaaah, almost forgot...

Today is ROBERT SCHUMANNs birthday.

Therefore his fourth symphony again:



A nice performance. In the comments you could read that the conductor looks like Voldemort, but that's not true. He looks like Lex Luthor and at the timpanis there's Piper Halliwell.







This is a total "must know" symphony, guys. Not for being smart or anything but just to fill that little gap in your heart/soul etc pp. you didn't even know existed. Best recording is with Herreweghe btw, though you should better have four or five recordings.

Go, Robert, GO!

Schumann: Carnaval, op. 9 (Boris Giltburg)



p.s. it took him 35-40sec to take a seat - be patient

Schumann: Träumerei (Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 7), Lang Lang



I think you've all heard this.

I like all four symphonies but the second and the fourth quite a bit more. Except for the 4th movement of the third of course, which stands out.

For me Schumann's symphonies are very personal works and therefore they cross the line from "outer" to "inner" music, where it seems to be soley about the inner things. Maybe it needed such an difficult personality for doing so. Not everybody might agree to that. And I think there is something deeply historical and "revolutionary" about them, they breathe very much the spirit of the 1840s. It's shame that Schumann is still misunderstood and underestimated.

Like this one for example, his violin concerto in d-minor





http://refhide.com/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Schumann)

If you can understand a decent portion of german, read the german one:
http://refhide.com/?http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violinkonzert_(Schumann)

Two anekdotes: You might know that Schumann wrote a certain article "Neue Bahnen" about Johannes Brahms, which helped and hindered Brahms very much. "Neue Bahnen" means "New ways". Wagner and Liszt etc. turned it into the mocking name "Hans Neubahn" for "Johannes Brahms" later (very funny but very nasty).

The Schumanns had eight children. The last child was named after Felix Mendelssohn, who was the initial performer of Schumann's first symphony.

Chopin - Nocturne op.9

I like samuel barber though

You've some great uploads here...I'm an organist myself...Franck, Dupre, Bach and Vierne are my 'faves'

Thanks guys for your insights. Ihno in particular is a fellow Schumannophile . Schumann is badly misunderstood by a lot of people, some of whom should know a lot better. Anyway, the ultimate performer of the ultimate work of Schumann (the musically richest, and in my view, the most characteristic and soul-revealing) is Horowitz in the Kreisleriana, here:

If I want to feel musically joyful, I listen to this:

Pure melancholy

@Sebaceous

Thanks for your nice postings...

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Max Pommer, lol.
That's from the old GDR, when they wanted to play historically correct but could not afford the correct instruments and used new ones...

Someone mentioned Samuel Barber, American composer:

one of his most popular works:

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, op11 Mstislav Rostopovich



This work can be heard in many tv shows and films: Amelie, Lorenzo's Oil, Platoon, The Elephant Man ... In 1967 Barber used this work for an choral arrangement "Agnus Dei" (The Lamb of God)

Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei

Thanks ihno, very kind to this noob

I have listend to the Mahler-Version of the Schumann-Symphonies for the frist time. HORRIBLE! Just horrible!!!