On Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 5:24:23 PM UTC-7,
andrewc...@gmail.com wrote:
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> Well, very few people here want to talk about music, do they?
This is indeed a very astute observation. Most people in this ng
appear to be more interested in talking about Kempff and Arrau
than in talking about music.
> Meanwhile, we need to take into account what "The Guardian" is.
> It's the UK equivalent, I suppose, of the NYT or the Huffington Post,
> a safe refuge for ageing hipsters who probably think that C.P.E.
> Bach was a white supremecist.
C.P.E. Bach was a firewood worshipper.
> Maybe people don't talk about new 'albums' these days because
> there's less and less to talk about when compared to the Golden
> Age of the Top Forty in the 1960s and 1970s. There's only so much
The need to talk about music has diminished almost as much as
the desire to dance about architecture. During the 1960s and the
1970s access to recordings was limited and more expensive. This
motivated people to talk about concerts and recordings. Nowadays
anyone can listen to practically anything on YT and various other
music streaming services. One no longer needs others' opinions
about what to buy or listen, and what to avoid.
> you can say about Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Adele, except perhaps
> "Shut up" or "Go away". The exceptions are fifteen year old girls who
> need to know who's 'in' and who's 'out' as their position in the high
> school pecking order depends on knowing such things.
How would one know about the opinions of fifteen year old girls?
Are you dating one?
> Meanwhile, I often surprise people that generaly speaking, my own
> collection does not contain 'albums'. That is because it is almost
> entirely digital, and the Haydn goes into a folder called Haydn and
> the Boccherini goes into a folder called 'Boccherini' and what the
> original CD was called - e.g. "18th Century Cello Concertos" - is
> irrelevant. The only exceptions are recordings of music by different
> composers which the producer of the CD intended to be played
> together to bring out a certain theme: examples would be Sabine
> Devieilhe's "The Weber Sisters" and "Mirages", and these go into
> a folder called 'Recitals, collections, etc.'. I was undecided about
> whether to treat John Wilson's 'Escales' with the Sinfonia of London
> the same way, but I see I've split it up. I could of course do it both
> ways: digital techonology allows me to do such things with the
> greatest of ease.
Aren' you depriving yourself of the tactile pleasure of cleaning LPs
and rewinding magnetic tapes? What other forms of exercise do
you engage in?
> How many people here are interested in Sabine Devieilhe and the
> Sinfonia of London - adjudged a 'pick up band' by Big Dave - is an
I am now. I will listen pronto.
> interesting question. Or why the Pittsburg orchestra, recorded by
> what I guess is an independent label in California, is worthy of
> inclusion in The Gramophone's list of Orchestras of the Year,
> while the NY Phil is not.
Because of the Honeck connection -- he is the new Golden Baton.
By the way, it is Pittsburgh (PA), not Pittsburgh (QLD).
dk