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[PianoMan]

 

[NorthSky]

To be receptive musically is to not only feel the chord's resonances and the deep vibrations but also to understand the artist's state of mind...life's own experiences.
Classical avant-garde music of deep penetration on an emotional level is not everyone's taste. This recording in my opinion is a perfect example.
Take a music conductor with his baton in front of an orchestra comprised of only one musician...a violinist.
It's a fact. Then go inside that music and the artist who composed it to explore a world that most of us cannot even try to contemplate yet living through it.
Even for the most experienced music critic it takes more than brain dexterity to understand the music complexity and its emotions.
The ride is not your usual one, yet it is amenable only if you can analyse deeply your own dreams.

Why this introduction to this music recording (CD, on ECM record label)? Because some music requires it, and this one does.
Set the master volume level, and don't touch it for the fifty-three running minutes. But then you won't even have to perform this CD ritual with this particular recording, or unless you access it. But not only that, you'd have to enter a new world, a not easy world. There is suffering in the music message, like the album's cover, like the ghosts of WWII. ...Even my avatar has some reflection of it.

Is this the music I listen to on a regular basis? No, but it's one that I do explore occasionally to further my musical adventure from artists who lived a life in not the happiest circumstances. And that I can deeply relate to, just as much as simplicity of happiness.
Classical music has many faces, and it's the most expressive music of them all; the deepest, the most complex, the master music.

This recording, is only for very very few. ...A much deeper exploration into the mind and life of its composer.
Being on ECM record label the sound quality is good (2004). The violin is well recorded, and played with visceral impact.
Only go there if you don't mind visiting the shadows of a past cruel world. ...And only classical can get you there on the closest level, and a violin is a good musical instrument of classic emotions, like strings caressing your bones and making marks.

@ first you might dismiss it all together. But after repeated listening you'll open a door to a different world. ...A very dreamy world, and you also might explore it by reading about it...then your understanding will get you closer to the artist and his expression.
This is Music, with a capital "C"...for Classical. ...And a capital "M" for Music.

Too many words in this post in trying to describe the indescribable. ...Not the music, but the guy who composed the music we hear.
Reach a higher level, explore the unknown...

♫ samples by clicking on the album's cover.

 

[NorthSky]

This is a more modern classical music recording (2011)...with grandeur, beauty, and avant-garde...no doubt.
The sound quality is good...it's there, in the room with you. ...And it grabs you in ways you don't usually get grabbed by anyone, anything.
It makes me look around, and contemplate...nature, life.

"I sought him but I found him not
My own vineyard I did not keep
I sleep, but my heart waketh
My head is filled with dew, my locks with drops of the night
My soul went forth when he spoke"

Genre of people who would appreciate this type of classical music with voices (choral style)? Thomas, our moderator, certainly.
And other advanced minds from most members here. It's very smooth, mellow and peaceful for the soul of a man and a woman.
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<<>> This I'm going to say right here; this new site, audiosciencereview, created by Amir...only here in exclusivity I'm sharing some...and nowhere else.
Some music and films reviews are exclusive to only here. And that's the way it is...just because.

 

[NorthSky]

It's not easy to be a music critic and describe the right emotions with the right words and tempo.

I think it's easier to be an audio critic.

Also, to be a people's critic, like the artists, the musicians, the composers, the film directors, the actors/actresses, the audio designers...amplifiers, preamplifiers, loudspeakers, DACs, turntables, tonearms, cartridges, CD transports, music servers, speaker wires and interconnects and AC power chords...is also an art to master rightfully and justly.

We are not machines, we are not robots, we are humans...with everything attached to it. Classical music is the higher level, the inner sophistication.
The two recordings above...delicate intricacy...higher musical plateau. The room becomes a sanctuary without walls and one with the outside world in a very unique way.

 

[PianoMan]

I have that Holliger CD--it's at the absolute zenith of my tolerance level. I had one of his String Quartets on a Wergo LP years ago--it exceeded my level. One reviewer said, "I thought the stylus had fallen out and my cartridge was just scraping on the LP surface"! I tend to agree.

 

[NorthSky]

Lol, to exorcise your tolerance level is sometimes required to acquire that avant-gardiste genre where not many people dare to penetrate.
I agree, it's a more demanding listening exercise. And what that reviewer said was just an impression, overcharged. ...Because the recording is fine (CD).

And if I made a longer comment (post) on this particular recording it's because it's not an easily acquired music taste.
But read about the story behind the composer and it's an eye-opener into this music. ...No joy, but rather pain.
And that's part of the music essence...various emotions...like movies...laughing, and crying.

John, the first time I listened to it I wanted to dismiss it after that. I went through an exploration process, I went deeper into the music composer, and after multiple replaying I could fly. I also read about him, and some of his life's experiences.

 

[PianoMan]

I used to listen to a steady diet of Xenakis, early Penderecki, Boulez, et al--my taste has just changed over the years. I still like Penderecki, though I prefer his more recent works, as well as Schnittke, Auerbach--I need a little melody these days.

 

[NorthSky]

I'm listening to it right now, again; Heinz Holliger - Thomas Zehetmair.

...While reading about this guy and some of his works → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl

Legacy[edit]
Frankl's logotherapy and existential analysis is considered the third Viennese School of Psychotherapy,[4] among the broad category that comprises existentialists.[13] For Irvin Yalom, Frankl, "who has devoted his career to a study of an existential approach to therapy, has apparently concluded that the lack of meaning is the paramount existential stress. To him, existential neurosis is synonymous with a crisis of meaninglessness".[13]

He is thought to have coined the term, Sunday neurosis. The term refers to a form of anxiety resulting from an awareness in some people of the emptiness of their lives once the working week is over.[14] Some complain of a void and a vague discontent.[13] This arises from an existential vacuum, or feeling of meaninglessness, which is a common phenomenon and is characterised by the subjective state of boredom, apathy, and emptiness. One feels cynical, lacks direction, and questions the point of most of life's activities.[13] (see noogenic neurosis).

Viktor Frankl once recommended that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast of the United States be complemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast:

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.[15]

Reportedly, there are plans to construct such a statue.[16]
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I would have like to meet that man; and discuss the "New World Order". It's the cause of all human calamities perpetrated by the sickest of the sickest minds, and with them their followers who have been converted. That responsibility is all ours, the responsibility to denounce and to unite in saying NO. This, is the true reality many are living here on Earth.

But this is way beyond the realm of this Classical music thread; still, it is where it can lead us sometimes (some recordings), and it is exactly where that music led me.
Is that powerful or not!

To understand deeper is to listen more attentively with a more attuned spiritual hearing.
Music is a healer. And classical music is man's history through all life's joys and torments.
...The magic and the tragic moments. ...In time and in space.

And that music, no matter what others can say about it, I just wanted to share where I've been with it...
Today, Saturday April 16, 2016 - in a lovely sky outside surrounding the 360° mountains and forests and lakes and Pacific Ocean.

I believe I've transcended.

 

[Opus111]

Awesome ensemble, very clear recording too.

 

[Vincent Kars]

Anybody heard of Nathan Milstein?

 

[Fitzcaraldo215]

Yes, I know the name. I had no idea he was, in fact, a female and had a great ass!

The bad thing about ripping your collection to computer is that you forget about the soft porn on your album covers. It is hard to see with just fuzzy thumbnails.

 

[NorthSky]

Nice poster. Looks like a violin from the rear.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Milstein

You made me google him, so now I've heard (read about) him.

 

[NorthSky]

 

[NorthSky]

 

[Kees de Visser]

Anybody heard of Nathan Milstein?

Sure. I got to know him by doing the audio post-production for one of his video portraits. (hope that's ok Amir)
Although I've never met him in real life (I'm too "young"), I fell in love with his playing and his personality from watching the concerts and interviews.
His last concert in 1986, at the age of 82, was very impressive. Here's a 3 min. preview.

 

[amirm]

Prompted by Pianoman I re-listened to this delightful and well recorded album: Brahms: The PIano Trios, Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt

The dynamics are superb and liable to have you jump out of your seat if you are not careful!

 

[amirm]

Perfectly auto-selected by Roon when the last album ended: Time for Three

Not sure if it is a CD rip or digital download. Either way, fidelity is superb as is the music.

Here is their Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/officialtf3/videos

 

[amirm]

Recent discovery: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 In C-Minor, Op. 37 / Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 58
Wilhelm Backhaus et al

Beautiful music. Good fidelity.

 

[amirm]

Op.130/133 today. Magnificent in every respect.

Magnificent indeed! Streaming it on Tidal and both the music and fidelity are great! Definitely recommended

 

[amirm]

I listened to this a couple of days ago, very powerful and emotional by turns.

https://open.spotify.com/album/5n1NjF7mLgU9mjKE2JfKcJ

Wow excellent dynamics and beautiful music to boot. Thanks for the recommendation and sorry I did not notice it before.