Sunday night chat

[EdgeleyRob]

I wouldn't call myself a particularly religious person either but I love most religious music whether it is our cathedral choir tradition, the organ (could kick myself for missing tonight's live recital), Verdi Requiem or Bach. I listen to Choral Evensong each week (on Sunday) and find it an oasis of peace in difficult times.

I know what you mean Pet.
There are pieces that actually make me question my non belief (I reckon these big Bach works are beginning to do just that) such as this glorious creation.

I've been in love with Mozart's Great C Minor for years.

[gurnemanz]

The great religious works do not nourish any belief in a supernatural being for me, but I do experience something "divine" (big, universally true, all-encompassing?) which human beings can apprehend and miraculously share with each other. So the artist is a kind of secular priest. I had a poster of Beethoven in Byronic pose on the wall of my student room on which I had added his Missa Solemnis inscription: Vom Herzen, möge es zu Herzen gehen ("From the heart, may it go to hearts" - it did then and it still does)

[EdgeleyRob]

The great religious works do not nourish any belief in a supernatural being for me, but I do experience something "divine" (big, universally true, all-encompassing?) which human beings can apprehend and miraculously share with each other. So the artist is a kind of secular priest. I had a poster of Beethoven in Byronic pose on the wall of my student room on which I had added his Missa Solemnis inscription: Vom Herzen, möge es zu Herzen gehen ("From the heart, may it go to hearts" - it did then and it still does)

Yep,I can relate to that gurney,the power of music eh.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well in between the snooker and the footie i listened to the radio and thought that the radio is like having a friend in the room ...

and of course les bleus knocked manyoo 3..1 so good day

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The great religious works do not nourish any belief in a supernatural being for me, but I do experience something "divine" (big, universally true, all-encompassing?) which human beings can apprehend and miraculously share with each other.

To paraphrase Kagel, I don't believe in god(s), but I do believe in Bach.

It's the Art that moves me - not the religious sentiment - a sense of belonging to a species that can produce this sort of stuff; that there are some of us who can create stuff that will move and inspire millions of people who the creators never met, never could meet - some of us who can simultaneously make us feel humble and magnificent.

[BBMmk2]

Been to a brass band weekend up in the dubious surroundings of the Butlins Holiday Camp- Site. Well, although this place isn't all that great a place to be, at least I was with great people, with a common denominator and having a great time too! nThe beer helped! Alas no Spitfire but Marsdens Pedigree.

[teamsaint]

Good evening Sunday nighters. Hope you all had a great weekend, and are raring to go for the last week of January.
I'm busy playing with a download of all the Holmboe symphonies.....got them tamed I think.sounding great......... just need to burn them now !!

[Padraig]

Brahms and Liszt tonight.
On Radio 3.

[gurnemanz]

A very pleasant Saturday evening. We went to London to see our daughter for her birthday (32) and take her and her partner out for a meal. Then a pint at the Golden Eagle near Wigmore Hall before going there for the legendary Joshua Rifkin playing Scott Joplin in a late evening concert. + Plenty of film chat. They both work in the industry.

[Alison]

Have been to North Norfolk for the weekend. Drove up with a friend and sadly too much chitchat for music on the car player. Very envious of Roehres two Mahler Nines dedicated to Claudio.

A day off work tomorrow to complete a long weekend.

[EdgeleyRob]

Good evening everyone.

I've been doing a bit of light reading,Hector Berlioz treatise on instrumentation and orchestration,as one does of a Sunday evening.

[Petrushka]

Still enjoyably playing through Claudio Abbado discs and have got so many I've barely scratched the surface!

Pay day coming up this week so I've ordered one or two missing Abbado recordings as if I haven't got enough already.

It's been a fairly standard weekend. Lost on the horses but kicking myself for changing my mind and ditching my first choice (The Giant Bolster who naturally won at 6/1) for a donkey in another race who came last . Went to see my mother this afternoon as usual. She's in a care home and afraid we got no response out of her which is the way it usually is now.

Abbado in Mahler 6 tonight.

[Alison]

The joys and sorrows of life Pet. Thank goodness we have music - and recordings. You've put me in the mood for Abbado Mahler.

[Petrushka]

The joys and sorrows of life Pet. Thank goodness we have music - and recordings. You've put me in the mood for Abbado Mahler.

The Chicago Mahler 6 is better than memory had it but still puzzled by the tame recording of the timpani. Brass is superb though.

Yes, music gets us through the joys and sorrows of life. I really don't know how I'd manage without it as it's probably kept me on an even keel in these difficult times.

[Old Grumpy]

Been to a brass band weekend up in the dubious surroundings of the Butlins Holiday Camp- Site. Well, although this place isn't all that great a place to be, at least I was with great people, with a common denominator and having a great time too! nThe beer helped! Alas no Spitfire but Marsdens Pedigree.

Marston's, man, Marstons! How much did you have?