Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View PostI see Rob's got that Great British charlatan, Alain Lobotomy on this week. No doubt the unthinking man's 'thinking man' has a new book to flog.
An execrable fraud whose profound philosophical insights make my navel fluff look well-read. Keep churning out the cod-philosophy long enough, though, and the Establishment will surely award you an OBE, even if it is for "services to omphaloskepsis". You can always help yourself to his nuggets for free here: https://twitter.com/alaindebotton Caveat Lector: Kafka's diaries, it isn't.
If re-stating the readily-apparent is philosophy, I'm in! Call me Socrates"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostI had to switch the silly man off today. Utterly incapable of saying anything illuminating about the recording of the St Matthew Passion RC played him, other than the bleeding obvious...
If re-stating the readily-apparent is philosophy, I'm in! Call me SocratesIt loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostI had to switch the silly man off today. Utterly incapable of saying anything illuminating about the recording of the St Matthew Passion RC played him, other than the bleeding obvious...
If re-stating the readily-apparent is philosophy, I'm in! Call me Socrates
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Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View PostI've been avoiding EC all week precisely because of this witless twerp.
I switched on in the middle of the very moving Bach recording, forgetting that at 10:45 it was still Twerp-Time!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by AndyJW View PostI heard the end of the Bach in the car. The "O Sacred Head" was stunningly beautiful, but I had to switch off that man afterwards!
I didn't catch the recording details, and they don't seem to have been posted. Did you hear who was performing? Was it one of those RIAS recordings?
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostPrecisely
I didn't catch the recording details, and they don't seem to have been posted. Did you hear who was performing? Was it one of those RIAS recordings?
Cantata 21
Performers: Concentus Music, Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
TELDEC 8.35032It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius
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Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View PostDetails are up now:
Cantata 21
Performers: Concentus Music, Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
TELDEC 8.35032"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostNo that was before.... After that. RC played a much older extract, from the St Matthew Passion.
I can't really take his Bach ; I am not surprised Rob Cowan was in ecstasies.Last edited by vinteuil; 22-03-13, 14:16.
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