#gürzenich

[andreas-nolte]

Gürzenicher Bruch (März 2024)

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[carbone14]

Char M4A3 (76) Sherman à l'angle de la rue Schillingsstrasse et Trierbachweg dans le quartier de Gürzenich à Düren tirant sur des allemands retranchés – Campagne de la ligne Siegfried – Bataille de la forêt de Hürtgen – 14 décembre 1944

Photo via https://www.worldwarphotos.info/

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Festival Hall “Gürzenich” (1952-55) in Cologne, Germany, by Karl Band & Rudolf Schwarz

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Sunday, 12-01-24, 7pm Pacific

'Evenin', everyone...Mr. Baggins here with your Sunday Serenade, some music to soothe your achin' nerves and help ease us all into a good night as we head into the new week. Let's begin this evening with a record that has been with me a long, long time. Here is Van Cliburn's classic recording of the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto, after winning the first Tchaikovsky Competition. Kiril Kondrashin conducts. This record became the biggest selling classical music album of all time. Recorded in 1958.

We turn to Mozart for our Serenade next, his "Haffner" Serenade in D-Major, KV 250, performed here live by Gürzenich Kammerorchester Köln, in a very spirited performance from April of 2023.

Now let's hear the next installment in our survey of the Beethoven Symphonies. Here is Lenny and the Vienna, from a live recording in February 1978, with Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36

Let's hear Charles Munch and The Boston Symphony with their reading of Debussy's "La Mer". Another gorgeous RCA Living Stereo recording, from 1956.

We turn to music of Holst next, we hear his "St. Paul's Suite", performed here by Marriner/ASMF.

Let's listen next to Rachmaninoff's moody Etude Tableaux Op. 39, Nos. 1-9, performed by pianists Rustem Hayroudinoff, Nicolai Lugansky, and the legendary Vladimir Sofronitzky. Excellent notes on this in the video description, highly recommended reading. I had not heard of Rustem Hayroudinoff before. We might have to hear more of his Rachmaninoff. As for Lugansky, I had heard of him, just not heard his playing until this evening. And Sofronitzky was from another higher plane altogether!

I thought we might conclude tonight's Sunday Serenade with a bookend to the beginning, with another Van Cliburn recording. This time his Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, with Reiner and The Chicago, in stunning RCA Living Stereo, from 1962. This is really to my mind definitive. I have heard countless others, including Rachmaninoff himself, and I always come back to Cliburn/Reiner. And given the distance of 50-60 years, we can now see it was a brilliant combination which yielded some of the best concerto recordings ever made. Their "Emperor" is also no slouch! [Edit: I found a MUCH BETTER clean version of the audio for this, and the link below is the right one. Refresh browser, etc. The first one was horribly distorted and said it had been "restored"...like this needed "restoring". Moron. Enjoy the link below!

And as a little encore to send us into dreamland, here is Sergei Rachmaninoff himself, conducting The Philadelphia Orchestra in the orchestrated version of his haunting "Vocalise", recorded on April 20, 1929.

That's all the time we've got for this evening's program, and I do hope you have enjoyed the selections, and possibly heard something new to your ear. Mr. Baggins signing off for the evening; I'll return at 8am Pacific with our Morning Coffee Music.

Until then, dream sweet dreams, babies, dream sweet dreams.

Baggins out.

[lesser-known-composers]

Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942) - Der König Kandaules, Op. 26, Act III: Vorspiel

Orchestra: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Conductor: James Conlon

[marcusagrippa]

hello!! I am that anon from the water ask! (also the same anon who wanted to burrow into the ground, actually!) (sorry in advance for all the links by the way…! i cannot send images through anon orz)

I personally haven’t done a lot of reading on whatever happened to the Mausoleum and its ashes in the later centuries, but from what I’ve seen, the main theory (though only a theory….) is destruction by the Visigoths…unfortunately no one (I’ve read) seems to have a super clear idea of what happened! Mostly due to an absence of concrete evidence (But if I come across anything more solid in future I will send it your way!)

OH that bit from Suetonius! Even before looking it up I was guessing whether it would be the Sunbathing Baby anecdote haha…..and ashfjfkl your sun-moon idea of the statues in the Pantheon is brilliant…

On the Pantheon, I also think it’s really interesting that it was built right opposite the Mausoleum of Augustus….(on one hand there is definitely the imperial image-making component but)…there is some sort of connection to be made (in Vibes *waves hands around due to lack of words*) between the invitation to enshrine someone in the heavens, and the material/mortal assurance of setting someone’s ashes in a place to rest for eternity (perhaps?) next to where you’ll be in future…

[Model of the Pantheon and Mausoleum positions: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Model-depicting-Campus-Martius-with-the-Mausoleum-of-Augustus-at-the-far-end-Pantheon-in_fig8_327437132 , Model depicting Campus Martius with the Mausoleum of Augustus at the far end, Pantheon in the foreground and the Horologium and Ara Pacis in the middle.]

OHhHh the aqua virgo panel,,!! I love them so much….him in action….

Not very related but here are two other (less ancient) non-water related agrippas for your viewing pleasure…

https://images.app.goo.gl/mPhV1nK4iTf4xjaj8

This is from the facade of Gürzenich in Cologne! Made in the medieval period and thus looking very…medieval…as well

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rathausturm_K%C3%B6ln_-_Marcus_Vipsanius_Agrippa_-_Augustus-9899.jpg

-> the pair on the outside of the Cologne City Hall!

(Glad to hear that you enjoyed the article btw!)

OH YOURE SO RIGHT. ENSHRINING IN THE HEAVENS AND LAYING TO REST FOR ETERNITY. i cant put it into words properly either but. something something memory and genius and legacy. you protected me while you were alive and now i will protect what remains of you in death OR i will assure you will continue to defend me even after the end and you are not allowed to leave my side. idk.

thank you for the agrippas! (agrippas? agrippae? agrippi?) the cologne city hall ones are so silly...... they are just standing there......... the medieval one is cool as shit also. agrippa in full armour!!!! unstoppable (more than he already was, anyway-)

yesyes the article was awesome!! in exchange i offer this one, which i have been thinking about a lot. he was pliny's blorbo... (it also talks about his 'excessive servitude' to augustus - i've seen that phrase translated a lot of different ways but excessive servitude is. yyheah. yeah. owie.)

[sjvllsblog]

14 December 1944:

M4A3(76) Sherman tank firing to smoke out a German field entrenchment between the buildings at the crossroads of Schillingsstrasse and Trierbfchweg in Gürzenich in the Rhineland.

Apparently, this tank was in service with 629th Tank Destroyer Battalion because of shortages of equipment.

(NB. this could be a M4A3(75) rearmed with the 76.)

(Photo source - III-SC 197356, Credit NARA)

(Colour by RJM)

(Additional research by Doug)

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[korrektheiten]

„Wir sind nicht rechtsextrem, wir sind die Mitte“: „Wir sind nicht rechtsextrem, wir sind die Mitte“ Die CDU-Grundsatzprogrammkonferenz: Viel Show, wenig Konkretes

Die JF schreibt: »Während die Antifa vor dem Kölner Gürzenich lautstark gegen die CDU demonstriert, erläutert deren Generalsekretär Carsten Linnemann im Saal, warum sich seine Partei vom derzeitigen Kulturkampf besser fernhalten sollte. Die JF war vor Ort. Dieser Beitrag „Wir sind nicht rechtsextrem, wir sind die Mitte“ Die CDU-Grundsatzprogrammkonferenz: Viel Show, wenig Konkretes wurde veröffentlich auf JUNGE FREIHEIT. http://dlvr.it/T3YWG2 «

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Clara Haskil With Otto Klemperer And The Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne Play Mozart - 1956 - Past Daily Weekend Gramophone

https://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Mozart_KV_595_Haskil_Guerzenich_Klemperer_09_09_1956.mp3 Another historic performance from the Archives of French Radio and Radio Suisse Romande – From a concert recorded on September 9, 1956. The Güzernich Orchestra of Köln led by Otto Klemperer and featuring the legendary pianist Clara Haskil in a performance of Piano concerto Number 27 by…

[andreas-nolte]

Gürzenich (April 2023)

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[dashalbrundezimmer]

gürzenich // köln altstadt

architects: karl band & rudolf schwarz

completion: 1955

bronze portal by ewald mataré 1956

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#express #pripoo #köln #gürzenich #karneval #party #liz #lizbaffoe #heikehaupt @caputart #kunst (hier: Cologne, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/BskX5iuHPXi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=195swy8ng055q

[lesser-known-composers]

Hans Rott (1858 - 1884) - Symphony for String Orchestra in A-Flat Major, Nowak 37: II. Grave e largo ·

Gürzenich-Orchester Köln · Christopher Ward

[tomdebohrar]

#vodafonedancestage #tanzbühne #alejandroalvarez #back2back #ronygolding #mariapsycho #revolverpartyontour #worldofsexy #gürzenich #colognepride #openair #techno #djs #musicistheanswer #pride #strassenfest #greatstage #vodafone #instagay #instapic #partypics (hier: Tanzbühne | Dance Stage Cologne Pride) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz-mRlVod6e/?igshid=536u8jw95amm