Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[Nick Armstrong]

and the pension funds of members of that association are

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[teamsaint]

perhaps the funds have administrators....and assistants?

[Roehre]

the employees of the pension funds for members of that association are

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[teamsaint]

I knew we could rely on you , Roehre.

[Nick Armstrong]

I 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.

I 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

[Thropplenoggin]

I 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

I've been avoiding EC all week precisely because of this witless twerp.

[amateur51]

I 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

Are you familiar with Walter Mosley's great creation Socrates Fortlow?

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/socrates.html

Great stuff

[Nick Armstrong]

I'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!

[AndyJW]

I 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!

[Nick Armstrong]

I 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!

Precisely

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?

[amateur51]

Be fair, the Twerp and m'Lord Berkeley have done wonders for men with unusual hair loss issues

[Thropplenoggin]

Precisely

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?

Details are up now:

Cantata 21
Performers: Concentus Music, Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
TELDEC 8.35032

[Nick Armstrong]

Details are up now:

Cantata 21
Performers: Concentus Music, Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
TELDEC 8.35032

No that was before.... After that. RC played a much older extract, from the St Matthew Passion.

[vinteuil]

No that was before.... After that. RC played a much older extract, from the St Matthew Passion.

... it was Furtwängler with Anton Dermota and D F-D and the Viennese, live, Easter 1954.

I can't really take his Bach ; I am not surprised Rob Cowan was in ecstasies.

[Serial_Apologist]

There should be an equivalent for pseudo philosophers to that well known company motto: "Miracles we can do; the impossible takes a little longer".

"The obvious we can tell you; platitudes take a little longer to fabricate"?