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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30526

    #46
    Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
    I strongly suspect that Verlaine (a poet I feel very close to) would have been quite content for my personal, aesthetically, physically and mentally broadening inference to be drawn...
    I'm sure he would be quite content - even empathise (I'm not sure how important music was to him) - with your inference. But in the context of regretting the lack of classical music threads in particular (I have often totted up the numbers on the What's New? view while regretting the Rock/Pop/Fusion, Favourite Jokes, Football, Stormy Weather &c threads), I was just pointing out that Verlaine himself did not put music avant toute chose. As a personal motto, of course, why not? The encouragement should be for all classical music enthusiasts to post more - rather than expecting those who have other interests to post less. But I don't think you were suggesting that anyway.
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 22215

      #47
      Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
      Care to elaborate....?
      I wouldn’t have thought that necessary - but have you never eg listened to radio and the music played was instantly switch-offable or are you happy to listen to anything?

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      • jayne lee wilson
        Banned
        • Jul 2011
        • 10711

        #48
        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
        I wouldn’t have thought that necessary - but have you never eg listened to radio and the music played was instantly switch-offable or are you happy to listen to anything?
        Er.... I simply thought that if soul or body need the healing touch, the sufferer would choose the music carefully to avoid your "reverse-remedial"...
        I guess that's one reason why streaming has come to be a personalised radio-player for so many....

        It can lead to serendipitous discovery..... that need for the calm, the Zen, led me, mazily, to find early plainchant, choral and obscure Barocco on Qobuz I'd never have tried otherwise...

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        • Eine Alpensinfonie
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 20576

          #49
          Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
          Care to elaborate....?
          Music played in the garden by an annoying neighbour; music played in Morrison’s; amplified buskers; the Scarborough Open Air Theatre concerts that can be heard in nearly half of the town; music played with Tom Service or Jess Gillam talking over it.

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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22215

            #50
            Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
            Er.... I simply thought that if soul or body need the healing touch, the sufferer would choose the music carefully to avoid your "reverse-remedial"...
            I guess that's one reason why streaming has come to be a personalised radio-player for so many....

            It can lead to serendipitous discovery..... that need for the calm, the Zen, led me, mazily, to find early plainchant, choral and obscure Barocco on Qobuz I'd never have tried otherwise...
            …or severe angst! Alps list just some of the sources but there is some very annoying music around particularly from composers who choose to use few notes with little variation.

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            • HighlandDougie
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 3108

              #51
              Originally posted by MickyD View Post
              Thanks folks, for all the nice messages.

              I agree, Jayne, music has great healing powers. Currently working my way through the discography of the wonderful young French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau. The cat very much approves - he is laid out in a Zen like state in front of the speaker!
              Micky

              Very glad indeed to see you posting again - and sympathies for the less than agreeable aspects of your treatment régime. I have the Jean Rondeau Rameau and Royer CD somewhere (which I like very much). I know that I shouldn't be distracted by appearances but I kept wondering how on earth he manages with the full Abraham hair 'n straggly beard look. Anyway, great to know that he is providing you (and the cat) with solace and enjoyment.

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              • jayne lee wilson
                Banned
                • Jul 2011
                • 10711

                #52
                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                …or severe angst! Alps list just some of the sources but there is some very annoying music around particularly from composers who choose to use few notes with little variation.
                You often leave me pondering.... what (or which) does he mean...

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                • Bryn
                  Banned
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 24688

                  #53
                  Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
                  You often leave me pondering.... what (or which) does he mean...
                  Perhaps a reference to those who restrict themselves to the 12 notes of the equal-tempered scale?

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                  • MickyD
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 4835

                    #54
                    Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
                    Micky
                    Very glad indeed to see you posting again - and sympathies for the less than agreeable aspects of your treatment régime. I have the Jean Rondeau Rameau and Royer CD somewhere (which I like very much). I know that I shouldn't be distracted by appearances but I kept wondering how on earth he manages with the full Abraham hair 'n straggly beard look. Anyway, great to know that he is providing you (and the cat) with solace and enjoyment.
                    Thank you, Dougie. I guess still being only a young performer in his twenties, he's trying out all sorts of looks...but I agree, that caveman look is not attractive! Take a look at the promotional video from Erato from that disc...he plays in the old château of Arras in bare feet! Something of the rebel about him, although I've seen interviews with him on French TV and he comes across as charming, eloquent and so mature for his young age...and I think you can hear that in his thoughtful yet dazzling performances.

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22215

                      #55
                      Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                      Perhaps a reference to those who restrict themselves to the 12 notes of the equal-tempered scale?
                      Steady now, Bryn - 12 ‘s too manny for most of them!

                      Some of it is probably unclassified!

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                      • Sir Velo
                        Full Member
                        • Oct 2012
                        • 3268

                        #56
                        Originally posted by MickyD View Post
                        Try his first album of Bach and then the following disc of Rameau and Royer. He plays with such grace.
                        Ah, nice pun on his new album!

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                        • Sir Velo
                          Full Member
                          • Oct 2012
                          • 3268

                          #57
                          Originally posted by MickyD View Post
                          Try his first album of Bach.
                          Ah, but was that this one:



                          or this:



                          My personal preference is for the dynastic album; some lovely performances of the younger scions' offerings.

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                          • MickyD
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 4835

                            #58
                            I was listening to the first album, before the hipster look! The album 'Barricades' with Thomas Dunford in French repertoire is also sublime.
                            And it looks like soon we will be treated to a new recording of CPE Bach quartets from Rondeau and his excellent group Nevermind.

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