jim5559

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Amen !  
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I have never seen any top musician who has done anything like what she does for her people or her land ! When the National Childrens Orchestra came in I left my tears and just cried  . Scotland Forever !  
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I would not say someone is better on "The Lark " among the 10-15 top Violinist alive or dead . I can say the Scottish Lady with the Italian name brings me faster to tears than anyone ..      
Great Rock Bassists your Top 10.Rock not Jazz. But Hey what about Reggae
Never were  any !  
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Must be wonderful to be God himself  !  
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Jim204 , I Was going to say that Lupu was THE Schubert  pianist . But every one  knows  I am a Schubert freak  and  perhaps It would not go over well at his death . BUT our Scottish  Icon of all things pianist did it for me. I have every Lupu  ... 
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Radu Lupu was a Giant , no one was like him . This Requiem is for us, he needs none. . He was a deeply kindly .modest ,and a wonderful friend. Jenny Vongel . his manager said he died peacefully at his home in Switzerland on Suday eve, April 17 ... 
Ralph Vaughn Williams
"The lark " is the most beautiful music I have ever heard . And he has a dozen very close . Think of the man who hated war and, would never had to go,, but went to the Ambulance Corp for the entire war and was very brave doing an easy way to d... 
Ralph Vaughn Williams
IMO , RVW was the greatest of the last century, To include Mahler .  
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Yes , I have them all . More a worshiper than a fan ,esp. on Easter . Listening to BWW 82, 'Ich habe genug" as I write this !   Happy Easter to all .  
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If they still had the Top Ten composers of yore , Brahms would be in my top 5 .  
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Celibidache always made me see things with his tempos of his mighty Munich men, .This great Brahm’s made me jump out of my chair , as good as any music I ever heard ! All the greatness that Brahms alone used was there in all his glory .   The us... 
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  I love Russian music but most of it was written in terrible times and made little to the culture of  Russia .  Out  of 350 millions in US  perhaps 2 % even know Ives's  name . I like music because it lifts  me  , Bach made me a different man ...