2 hours ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

Yes. I recall a memorable 16-part version Ich bin der Velt ... Bruckner and Janacek are not at the top of my list, but Bach, now you are talking!

Maybe you'll be lucky enough to sing Janacek's Glagolitic Mass one day...

3 hours ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

 but Bach, now you are talking!

I prefer his cousin who kept the full family name, Burt Bacharch. 

12 hours ago, dieter said:

Maybe you'll be lucky enough to sing Janacek's Glagolitic Mass one day...

You never know your luck in the big city. Can you compare it to another work? Verdi Requiem? Bach Mass in B Minor? Mahler 8th?

13 hours ago, daisycutter said:

one of you two is baching up the wrong tree 

I don't think I can Handel this ...

12 hours ago, dieter said:

I'd rather go chopin...

Then don't forget your chopin Liszt

11 hours ago, Redleg said:

I prefer his cousin who kept the full family name, Burt Bacharch. 

Mantovani maybe, but in some ways I prefer Burt Reynolds ... And don't get me started on the difference between a Bach chorale and a bacchanal ...

16 hours ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

You never know your luck in the big city. Can you compare it to another work? Verdi Requiem? Bach Mass in B Minor? Mahler 8th?

It was written in the late 1920's. It's a Pagan Mass, if you like, it's full of passion and joy in life. It's exuberant like Verdi's Requiem is at times, nothing like Bach except in its sense of exhilaration, and, thankfully, nothing like Mahler's 8 which, to my ears is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The only decent music in it is  the orchestral prelude to the Second Part. No, Janacek is more down to earth and passionate.

There's really no-one to compare him to, you know. I suggest - if you have Spotify - to listen to it, or, there are performances on You Tube.

Zzzzzzz.......zzzzzz.....zzzzzz....zzz...

26 minutes ago, dieter said:

It was written in the late 1920's. It's a Pagan Mass, if you like, it's full of passion and joy in life. It's exuberant like Verdi's Requiem is at times, nothing like Bach except in its sense of exhilaration, and, thankfully, nothing like Mahler's 8 which, to my ears is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The only decent music in it is  the orchestral prelude to the Second Part. No, Janacek is more down to earth and passionate.

There's really no-one to compare him to, you know. I suggest - if you have Spotify - to listen to it, or, there are performances on You Tube.

Dieter, I am trying hard to be impressed but something is stopping me. 

8 minutes ago, hemingway said:

Dieter, I am trying hard to be impressed but something is stopping me. 

Not trying to impress, young man, just responding to a question from Red and Bluebeard, by the sounds of it, the only other chap of culture on this site. ( Demonland is fast becoming Boganville! I am attempting to lead you bogans to the path of culture and beauty. )

16 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

Zzzzzzz.......zzzzzz.....zzzzzz....zzz...

I wish something could put me to sleep when my wife snores like a full symphony orchestra.

57 minutes ago, dieter said:

Not trying to impress, young man, just responding to a question from Red and Bluebeard, by the sounds of it, the only other chap of culture on this site. ( Demonland is fast becoming Boganville! I am attempting to lead you bogans to the path of culture and beauty. )

well if you offered something other than barbarian music i might be interested

7 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

well if you offered something other than barbarian music i might be interested

That made me laugh...

2 hours ago, dieter said:

It was written in the late 1920's. It's a Pagan Mass, if you like, it's full of passion and joy in life. It's exuberant like Verdi's Requiem is at times, nothing like Bach except in its sense of exhilaration, and, thankfully, nothing like Mahler's 8 which, to my ears is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The only decent music in it is  the orchestral prelude to the Second Part. No, Janacek is more down to earth and passionate.

There's really no-one to compare him to, you know. I suggest - if you have Spotify - to listen to it, or, there are performances on You Tube.

Thanks for the recommendation. Shall do.

1 hour ago, hemingway said:

Dieter, I am trying hard to be impressed but something is stopping me. 

Try harder, Ernest. Be impressed!

i've checked the top 40 for the last 70 years and couldn't find any mention of mahler, bach, janacek, verdi, chopin or liszt 

45 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

well if you offered something other than barbarian music i might be interested

Nobody mentioned Collingwood, DC ...

13 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

i've checked the top 40 for the last 70 years and couldn't find any mention of mahler, bach, janacek, verdi, chopin or liszt 

So you did find Handel?

1 hour ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

So you did find Handel?

on;y a ken hands who played for carlscum......a relative?

4 hours ago, dieter said:

I wish something could put me to sleep when my wife snores like a full symphony orchestra.

Well clearly skinny, she needs a jolly good thrashing.

1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

on;y a ken hands who played for carlscum......a relative?

you are truly a bogan...

Anyway, his real name was post modern: ken handsell.

Edited March 21, 20187 yr by dieter

26 minutes ago, dieter said:

you are truly a bogan...

Anyway, his real name was post modern: ken handsell.

as in handsell und gretel?

3 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

as in handsell und gretel?

So you are just masquerading as a Bogan???/

30 minutes ago, dieter said:

So you are just masquerading as a Bogan???/

no, just another untermensch

4 hours ago, daisycutter said:

on;y a ken hands who played for carlscum......a relative?

Yeah, the one with the messianic complex