tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post7738836862862320337..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: This is listening to a human mindUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-89281155366765605472010-01-20T14:31:26.412+00:002010-01-20T14:31:26.412+00:00You have to believe that if even one person is swa...<i>You have to believe that if even one person is swayed, or inspired, or changed, or comforted, by a programme, then that programme has been worthwhile.</i><br /><br />http://www.overgrownpath.com/2009/12/thoughts-from-vienna-woods.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-44755599948986877852010-01-18T21:42:50.544+00:002010-01-18T21:42:50.544+00:00I clicked through and read your post on James Gain...I clicked through and read your post on James Gaines' book, 'Evening in the Palace of Reason'. What a great book! Thanks for the suggestion.Lidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09531869752882924437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-27410863496397370052010-01-16T10:42:23.177+00:002010-01-16T10:42:23.177+00:00This is not a comment on the merits or otherwise o...This is not a comment on the merits or otherwise of the Brilliant set itself, more on boxed sets in general, which I was only discussing with a friend earlier this week.<br /><br />I am currently collecting the Suzuki cantata set, as each is released on BIS - I had got to the point of no return (!) when the Gardiner cycle started to be released. As I have been collecting and listening to them now for almost 15 years, and have bought, on average, one every 4 months, I have played each disc a number of times, and have really got to know (and love) the cantatas.<br /><br />Although not a cheap way of buying the full set, I cannot help compare this to some of the boxed sets I have bought over the years - they might have been amazing value, but there is something so daunting about a 30 CD set (let alone 150+) that I have often struggled to get to listen to them very often. Two excpetions that DO spring to mind are Dorati's Haydn symphonies and The Angeles String Quartet's Haydn set.The Marches Hatterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02717010843247210169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-70719823914538208252010-01-15T19:23:27.002+00:002010-01-15T19:23:27.002+00:00The cantata cycle on the Brilliant complete editio...The cantata cycle on the Brilliant complete edition was a new recording, featuring the Holland Boys Choir directed by <a href="http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Articles/Leusink-Interview.htm" rel="nofollow">Pieter Jan Leusink</a>, together with a small group of musicians. The cantatas were originally sold in chemist shops and supermarkets, and all concerned were suprised how well the sold. Listening to BWV106 now, I'm not. They have the everyday freshness and directness that Bach must have produced in his job as choirmaster.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-38739214974351452522010-01-15T12:43:44.851+00:002010-01-15T12:43:44.851+00:00Lewis Thomas on chance is interesting -
'Or p...Lewis Thomas on chance is interesting -<br /><br /><i>'Or perhaps we are only at the beginning of learning to use the system, with almost all our evolution as a species still ahead of us. Maybe the thoughts we generate today and flick around from mind to mind...are the primitive precursors of more complicated, polymerized structures that will come later, analogous to the prokaryotic cells that drifted through shallow pools in the early days of biological evolution. Later, when the time is right, there may be fusion and symbiosis among the bits, and then we will see eukaryotic thought, metazoans of thought, huge interliving coral shoals of thought.'</i><br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Thomas<br /><br />Lewis Thomas wrote <i>Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's "Ninth Symphony</i> -<br /><br />http://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Thoughts-Listening-Mahlers-Symphony/dp/0140243283Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com