Music Critics

[Alison]

Interesting background info Mahlerei. You've made me more eager to take a look more often.

Gramophone has improved but not every contributor is top notch!

[mahlerei]

Interesting background info Mahlerei. You've made me more eager to take a look more often.

Gramophone has improved but not every contributor is top notch!

Do, it's always worth a look

Have just finished html work on pages for next Monday and emailed the files to our webmaster in New Zealand. We are a truly global enterprise :) Tomorrow it's the second draft of my Farkas review, more web pages on Wednesday and Thursday and preliminary listeninf for a new review on Friday.

[Parry1912]

Gramophone has improved but not every contributor is top notch!

Philip Clark is the most pretentious .

[MrGongGong]

Philip Clark is the most pretentious .

I don't think he is a member though ?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2232851732/

[Dave2002]

Seeing the way some of this board is being restructured, when I saw the thread title Music Critics again just now, I wondered if we were going to have a new sub-sub forum for those too.

However a performers section might make sense.

[Alison]

Do, it's always worth a look

Have just finished html work on pages for next Monday and emailed the files to our webmaster in New Zealand. We are a truly global enterprise :) Tomorrow it's the second draft of my Farkas review, more web pages on Wednesday and Thursday and preliminary listeninf for a new review on Friday.

I do rather approve of more than one review of the same disc.

Looking forward to the New Year Dudamel review(s).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Seeing the way some of this board is being restructured, when I saw the thread title Music Critics again just now, I wondered if we were going to have a new sub-sub forum for those too.

Probably not - but I'm sure I can arrange a nice sub-basement for some of them.

However a performers section might make sense.

Should any Host be so inclined to start one, I'm sure they'd leap at your suggestion, Dave.

[mahlerei]

I do rather approve of more than one review of the same disc.

Looking forward to the New Year Dudamel review(s).

Yes, they can be useful. Alas, only a few labels/distributors provide us with multiple copies of the same disc.

I think Brian Wilson may have done a New Year's Day review; will check. Not on my to-do list, though.

Upcoming reviews: the Farkas Music for Wind Ensemble (Toccata), Yakov Kreizberg's Bruckner 7 (Pentatone), the Ed Gardner Zarathustra/Planets (Chandos), Pettersson's 14th (BIS) and Vol. 3 of Davis's Ives cycle (Chandos). All downloads; I rarely review discs these days.

[jayne lee wilson]

Seeing the way some of this board is being restructured, when I saw the thread title Music Critics again just now, I wondered if we were going to have a new sub-sub forum for those too.

However a performers section might make sense.

The FoR3 Forum has grow'd like Topsy, hasn't it? I think it may actually need a general index soon!
It's great in so many ways, but a bit frustrating for those of us with limited listening time. All these composers and recordings you're reminded of, but getting around to hearing them let alone commenting on them...?
But then I'm a slow listener anyway. Still in medias res with Rogner's Bruckner, and 2 movements into Levine's Ives 2..(had to stop and go to bed)..

It has made the place something of a classical music compendium, & probably more of a go-to, so I guess I'm glad it's here. It's all there if & when....

[Jonathan]

I would have expected there to be another MWI reviewer here aside from myself! I've only reviewed about 20 discs over the last year though but have several in the pipeline including Joseph Moog playing Chopin, Liszt 2 sonatas for two pianos and Brahms first piano concerto coupled with Liszt's Trois odes funebre.

[mahlerei]

I would have expected there to be another MWI reviewer here aside from myself!

There are three of us now :)

[french frank]

There are three of us now :)

Mark Sealey - whose spirit hovers above, although he seldom posts - is a reviewer.

[Jonathan]

Good stuff!

[Richard Barrett]

Ales Ross in the New Yorker: "The fate of the critic in the clickbait age"

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-fate-of-the-critic-in-the-clickbait-age

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Probably not - but I'm sure I can arrange a nice sub-basement for some of them.


Should any Host be so inclined to start one, I'm sure they'd leap at your suggestion, Dave.

Look what you've started, Ferney.