Kent Stråhlén
@kentstrahlen.bsky.social
Product Manager, lover of classical music and bicyclist. My blog: https://lagomarsamst.strahlen.se/
Todays CD. Beethoven Symphony No. 5. An almost 42 years old CD, among the first ones i bought. As new, and still with a sound quality few can match.
February 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Todays CD. Beethoven Symphony No. 5. An almost 42 years old CD, among the first ones i bought. As new, and still with a sound quality few can match.
Dince my UPS deliver is delayed Mozart will have to supply the post. Posthorn Serenade.
February 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Dince my UPS deliver is delayed Mozart will have to supply the post. Posthorn Serenade.
The sound quality of this recording of Bartók's The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin is among the, if not the, best I have heard. #BIS #Bartok #classicalmusic
February 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The sound quality of this recording of Bartók's The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin is among the, if not the, best I have heard. #BIS #Bartok #classicalmusic
This is my blue line.
February 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is my blue line.
Sabin, our cat.
December 10, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Sabin, our cat.
What singers do you recognize very quickly? For me Franco Corelli, Luciano Pavarotti and Birgit Nilsson.
Ok, a classical music Q: If you heard an unfamiliar-to-you piece on the radio, what composer's style do you think you could accurately recognize in the briefest possible snippet? In other words, who do you think sounds the most like their own unique self the greatest proportion of the time?
November 19, 2024 at 7:07 PM
What singers do you recognize very quickly? For me Franco Corelli, Luciano Pavarotti and Birgit Nilsson.
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Hello - I'm new to here. I'm Clare, but you can call me Sturdy.
November 13, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Hello - I'm new to here. I'm Clare, but you can call me Sturdy.
Finally saw Mahler's 2nd symphony live! So many performers they hardly all fit.
March 28, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Finally saw Mahler's 2nd symphony live! So many performers they hardly all fit.
Just finished The Gathering Storm. Book 12 of The Wheel of Time. Contender for best book I have ever read!
February 12, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Just finished The Gathering Storm. Book 12 of The Wheel of Time. Contender for best book I have ever read!
Listening to Pettersson symphony 6 and symphony 8. New composer to me (embarassing as I am Swede), but absolutely awesome music!
January 30, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Listening to Pettersson symphony 6 and symphony 8. New composer to me (embarassing as I am Swede), but absolutely awesome music!
Ran across this box by chance. Muti conducting Verdi and other italian composers. Pure gold. Toscanini level performances!
December 2, 2023 at 10:00 AM
Ran across this box by chance. Muti conducting Verdi and other italian composers. Pure gold. Toscanini level performances!
HiFi bliss. Respighi Beliks, Queen of Sheba - suite on Reference Recordings. Great music, epic sound.
November 29, 2023 at 6:50 PM
HiFi bliss. Respighi Beliks, Queen of Sheba - suite on Reference Recordings. Great music, epic sound.
This will be interesting. Beethoven symphony no 5 sitting behind the orchestra.
November 25, 2023 at 11:47 AM
This will be interesting. Beethoven symphony no 5 sitting behind the orchestra.
Brahms 4th racket. Very nice high fidelity transfer.
November 24, 2023 at 3:31 PM
Brahms 4th racket. Very nice high fidelity transfer.
This brings back many memories. Kamu was the chief conductor in Helsingborg in the 1990s. I visited many memorable concerts, among them a Beethoven 7th I still have not heard any recording come close to. I am not familiar enough with this work to say if it is the best, but a vey enjoyable recording.
November 11, 2023 at 5:01 PM
This brings back many memories. Kamu was the chief conductor in Helsingborg in the 1990s. I visited many memorable concerts, among them a Beethoven 7th I still have not heard any recording come close to. I am not familiar enough with this work to say if it is the best, but a vey enjoyable recording.
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Just created a "Classical Music" list from people I follow. The process is a bit tedious, needing six clicks per person unless I've missed a simpler way, but it's done.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 7, 2023 at 11:59 AM
Just created a "Classical Music" list from people I follow. The process is a bit tedious, needing six clicks per person unless I've missed a simpler way, but it's done.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Tell us a perfect album that came out when you were 16.
November 7, 2023 at 10:18 PM
Tell us a perfect album that came out when you were 16.
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det absolut sjukaste med tvåstegsverifiering är, förutom hur sjukt störigt det är, hur värdelösa data det skyddar. tvåstegsverifiering till jobbets teams-sida? asså don’t flatter yourself, inte ens folk som de facto HAR BETALT för att logga in orkar rota i skräpet som ligger där.
November 7, 2023 at 6:02 PM
det absolut sjukaste med tvåstegsverifiering är, förutom hur sjukt störigt det är, hur värdelösa data det skyddar. tvåstegsverifiering till jobbets teams-sida? asså don’t flatter yourself, inte ens folk som de facto HAR BETALT för att logga in orkar rota i skräpet som ligger där.
Today it is exactly 166 years since the premiere of Liszt's Dante symphony. Sure in 500 years it will be a better annaversary with 666 number if the beast years. I won't be alive then so I celebrate with listening to some Inferno today with the CD I would play if Lucifer dropped in for a coffee.
November 7, 2023 at 6:58 PM
Today it is exactly 166 years since the premiere of Liszt's Dante symphony. Sure in 500 years it will be a better annaversary with 666 number if the beast years. I won't be alive then so I celebrate with listening to some Inferno today with the CD I would play if Lucifer dropped in for a coffee.
Many people regard Liszt as trash. I guess my taste is really bad because he is one of my favourite composers. I listened through a couple of versions of Mazeppa on Presto today. The sound of Weimar was way to slow. The Masur is a good interpretation but my choise today is Mehta. Boy does he get it!
November 5, 2023 at 9:26 PM
Many people regard Liszt as trash. I guess my taste is really bad because he is one of my favourite composers. I listened through a couple of versions of Mazeppa on Presto today. The sound of Weimar was way to slow. The Masur is a good interpretation but my choise today is Mehta. Boy does he get it!
I can't stop laughing. Who gave the OK to go with this cover? 😅
Currently listening to Mussorgsky's "A Night on the Bare Mountain" and the album art for this CD is really something. Looks like an angry birdman who has frames stuck on his wing.
It's from the Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit and the CD was published by Decca Music in 1987.
It's from the Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit and the CD was published by Decca Music in 1987.
November 4, 2023 at 9:29 AM
I can't stop laughing. Who gave the OK to go with this cover? 😅
This evenings entertainment. Muti is a conductor that kind of flew under my radar when I was younger. A mistake it turns out. The Tchaikovsky second in this box is probably the best version of this symphony I've heard.
November 2, 2023 at 7:42 PM
This evenings entertainment. Muti is a conductor that kind of flew under my radar when I was younger. A mistake it turns out. The Tchaikovsky second in this box is probably the best version of this symphony I've heard.
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My other half is strange: he doesn't do music, but has somehow learnt to identify when it's the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing a piece of music.
Even as a musician, I don't quite get how he does it.
Even as a musician, I don't quite get how he does it.
November 1, 2023 at 8:29 PM
My other half is strange: he doesn't do music, but has somehow learnt to identify when it's the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing a piece of music.
Even as a musician, I don't quite get how he does it.
Even as a musician, I don't quite get how he does it.
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