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  • richardfinegold
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    • Sep 2012
    • 7666

    Music For Medical Recuperation

    Thanks to all who have offered good wishes. Today my blood pressure is quite low and my Cadiologist has cut back on meds and liberalized salt and fluid intake. While the lightheaded ness is crimping the fun of being home playing sick, the liberalized diet is welcome. My wife is a Registered Nurse and today is our 11 th Wedding Anniversary. We have at least a nice shared dinner to look forward to, possibly Thai.
    Laying on the couch in our main room streaming files from my phone to a Blutooth DAC connected to the Home Theater
    Setup. Also listening to Chicago's WFMT. I have Bernstein's Amsterdam Mahler 1playing now. The cuckoos are making me miss the fine outdoor weather.
    Played Haitink/CSO Resurrection earlier, but when the Day of Judgement came, after what I have just been through, I thought "perhaps not"
  • Barbirollians
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 11692

    #2
    Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post
    Thanks to all who have offered good wishes. Today my blood pressure is quite low and my Cadiologist has cut back on meds and liberalized salt and fluid intake. While the lightheaded ness is crimping the fun of being home playing sick, the liberalized diet is welcome. My wife is a Registered Nurse and today is our 11 th Wedding Anniversary. We have at least a nice shared dinner to look forward to, possibly Thai.
    Laying on the couch in our main room streaming files from my phone to a Blutooth DAC connected to the Home Theater
    Setup. Also listening to Chicago's WFMT. I have Bernstein's Amsterdam Mahler 1playing now. The cuckoos are making me miss the fine outdoor weather.
    Played Haitink/CSO Resurrection earlier, but when the Day of Judgement came, after what I have just been through, I thought "perhaps not"
    All the very best Richard - how about some Mozart .

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26538

      #3
      Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post
      Played Haitink/CSO Resurrection earlier, but when the Day of Judgement came, after what I have just been through, I thought "perhaps not"


      I agree with Barbs. Mozart piano concertos - they cannot but do you good!
      "...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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      • EdgeleyRob
        Guest
        • Nov 2010
        • 12180

        #4
        Only just caught up with this thread.
        Best wishes Richard and Nick.
        I recommend daily doses of




        Works for me.

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        • richardfinegold
          Full Member
          • Sep 2012
          • 7666

          #5
          Music For Medical Recuperation

          OK, we need a thread on what music you want want to be able to listen to during a medical convalescence. (Well, I at least need this at the moment, but eventually all of us may be, or have been, in the same boat).
          So it has been suggested on another thread that Mozart Piano Concertos get the thumbs up, and Mahler's Resurrection, not so much.
          What would you choose? I am currently listening to the Brahms PC 2, and that opening horn call is some of the most gorgeous music ever penned. I know I won't win any style points with my next choice, the 4 Seasons, but hey, it's popular for a reason--it's fun and indestructible.
          Then on to Handel for some Water Music.
          And yours?

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26538

            #6
            Of course the most explicitly appropriate piece would be the middle (3rd) movement of Beethoven's Op 132 String Quartet: the "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" or...

            "Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the Deity, in the Lydian Mode".




            Apart from which it's just bloomin' fabulous music!
            "...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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            • doversoul1
              Ex Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 7132

              #7
              Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post
              OK, we need a thread on what music you want want to be able to listen to during a medical convalescence. (Well, I at least need this at the moment, but eventually all of us may be, or have been, in the same boat).
              So it has been suggested on another thread that Mozart Piano Concertos get the thumbs up, and Mahler's Resurrection, not so much.
              What would you choose? I am currently listening to the Brahms PC 2, and that opening horn call is some of the most gorgeous music ever penned. I know I won't win any style points with my next choice, the 4 Seasons, but hey, it's popular for a reason--it's fun and indestructible.
              Then on to Handel for some Water Music.
              And yours?
              I may want to hear something completely different as well when I am actually ill but I think these two CDs will be included. Both by London Baroque


              The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Italy

              The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Germany

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              • richardfinegold
                Full Member
                • Sep 2012
                • 7666

                #8
                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                [COLOR="#0000FF"]Of course the most explicitly appropriate piece would be the middle (3rd) movement of Beethoven's Op 132 String Quartet: the "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" or...

                "Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the Deity, in the Lydian Mode".[/COLOR

                Apart from which it's just bloomin' fabulous music!

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                • richardfinegold
                  Full Member
                  • Sep 2012
                  • 7666

                  #9
                  Originally posted by doversoul View Post
                  I may want to hear something completely different as well when I am actually ill but I think these two CDs will be included. Both by London Baroque


                  The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Italy

                  The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Germany
                  http://www.bis.se/index.php?op=album&aID=BIS-CD-1545
                  will check Spotify

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                  • Petrushka
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12252

                    #10
                    Strauss waltzes! You'll forget all about being ill with a batch of these.
                    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                    • richardfinegold
                      Full Member
                      • Sep 2012
                      • 7666

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                      Strauss waltzes! You'll forget all about being ill with a batch of these.
                      I had forgotten that you were such a fan of Der Rosenkavalier....

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26538

                        #12
                        Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post
                        I had forgotten that you were such a fan of Der Rosenkavalier....
                        Ka-pow!!
                        "...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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                        • richardfinegold
                          Full Member
                          • Sep 2012
                          • 7666

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Ka-pow!!
                          Maria Callas on the radio now singing the big climactic aria from Butterfly. My goodness, everybody's problems seem trivial after that...

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                          • Don Petter

                            #14
                            Best wishes for your speedy recovery.

                            R3 can come to your rescue here, with anything performed by a New Generation Artist. (They're all aspirin')

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22127

                              #15
                              Rfg
                              I guess you don't need too many musical suggestions - plenty in the collection to go at - but just in case - how about a load of Faure, Debussy and Ravel for starters!
                              Best wishes for your recovery.
                              Cloughie

                              Just seen new thread Cali - please will you transfer this.
                              C

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