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Cerberus
Cerberus
2:00 AM
This me be all tacky and whatnot, but I actually like this combination of opera and ballet.
Aeneas is a bit easier to understand, but still very hard.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Well, that's very fine.
And yes, very hard to understand.
Do you know the St Matthew Passion?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Of course.
The most famous passion ever!
Or is that just a Dutch tradition?
It is a bit of a national event, the performance on Good Friday.
The Queen will often be there, I believe.
 
tchrist
tchrist
It is difficult to judge whether the St Matt's is the greatest, or the B Minor Mass.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Is that a passion?
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:15 AM
No.
It is a mass.
It doesn't have the drama.
But the music is incredible.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I said the most famous passion...
 
tchrist
tchrist
Aye.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
So are we talking Bach?
 
tchrist
tchrist
Yes. The haunting Crucifixus followed by the explosive Et Resurrexit is particularly magnificent, if you will consent to the phrase.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
To particularly magnificent?
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:17 AM
Yes.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Why shouldn't I?
 
tchrist
tchrist
It seems inherently superlative already.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
That it is. But a small pleonasm is venial when it concerns great music.
 
tchrist
tchrist
I am particularly fond of the unusual Rifkin recording.
One voice for each of the five parts, except when there's the double-choir part, where he has 2 voices on each.
And the alta is male, per the historical practice.
The nice thing about it is how well you can hear the clear words.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Is that recording on Youtube?
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:20 AM
I don't know.
Let me check.
No, the only Rifkin I could find was one of the cantatas.
Hm.
Just a second. I will post something very briefly, then erase it once you ack.
There are five there, including the Rifkin.
Did you get a directory listing?
Yup. You did.
This is the nice thing about having your own server.
I can watch in real time to make sure you got access correctly.
Take your time, and grab what you will.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@tchrist Oops, I missed it.
I was Away.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Really?
Interesting.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I swear to Matthew and all the saints.
 
tchrist
tchrist
I wonder who else is grabbing it then?
Well, you never know.
Lurkers.
Ah too late to delete.
I can rearrange things to invalidate it after a bit though.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Yeah.
Odd that we should have live lurkers!
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:33 AM
Indeed.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Although it makes sense, given our extremely interesting conversations and such.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I am downloading now.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Chrome/21.0.1180.60 Safari/537.1
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I am Firefox.
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:34 AM
Ah.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Chrome is the engine behind Safari or something?
 
tchrist
tchrist
Perhaps.
 
Vitaly
Vitaly
Add my Opera to the collection.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Welcome "Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; U; en-GB) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.62"
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Nice.
You never speak of your taste in music, Vitaly.
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:35 AM
@Cerberus is
""Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1"
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I am on Windows XP.
That is not NT 5.1, is it?
 
Vitaly
Vitaly
@tchrist You could just flag it and provide a custom message asking a mod to delete. Worked when @Cerberus tried it.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Ok.
Here is another: ""Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.60 Safari/537.1""
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Much better than the Youtube recording.
 
tchrist
tchrist
It may be lying about NT.
Well, yes.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:36 AM
Could be the file's quality too.
 
tchrist
tchrist
It's a very high quality rip.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I'm not sure I can hear the difference in quality beyond a reasonable level.
No idea what that level is.
Ah, look which saint has answered your prayers.
 
tchrist
tchrist
It's at Ogg Level 8/10, so like 256 bps.
My goodness they are attentive of us, aren't they?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Good.
 
tchrist
tchrist
But I'm glad for it.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:40 AM
One can never have too many guardian angels. Unless they are Nopal.
Or what were the anti-Nopal called again?
Did they even have a name?
Were they even plural?
 
tchrist
tchrist
I don't whether your browser gives you an uplink to the parent directory, but if not you can just hand-edit the URL to back up a directory level.
The only Nopal I know are a Mexican food item.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
It does. I was waiting for the parent page to appear, then forgot about the tab.
Now it shows different versions of the same mass.
 
tchrist
tchrist
They're prickly pear pads, I think.
Right, there are five versions.
Two discs each.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
List of fictional planets by medium
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tchrist
tchrist
If you think that's something, wait till you find the Well-Tempered Clavier. :)
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:42 AM
Oh, dear.
Several Goulds?
 
tchrist
tchrist
I may have both, yes.
 
Vitaly
Vitaly
Command-line browsing is fun.
 
tchrist
tchrist
The cool thing is that I have phantom directories by BWV number.
 
Vitaly
Vitaly
What's the user-agent, BTW?
 
tchrist
tchrist
So you can go to one piece and then find many recordings of the same piece.
haskell-HTTP/4000.2.3
You’ve got to be kidding me!
 
Vitaly
Vitaly
2:43 AM
I see.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Oh right, you're a programmer.
 
Vitaly
Vitaly
So it's just the version of the Network.HTTP module.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@tchrist Ah, now I get it.
 
tchrist
tchrist
If you put Keyboard/Well-Tempered-Clavier/BWV after ... Bach/ in the directory, it will show you the Forty-Eight.
Yes, that's right.
You can also get them by album, but I really like this style.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I like your "keyboard" categories!
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:46 AM
:)
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I have this box with the complete works, but they are all awfully authentic.
I want pianos!
 
tchrist
tchrist
Yes, I heard that that was the case.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I do think I have Gould's WTK somewhere.
 
tchrist
tchrist
It's manic.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
It's good.
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:49 AM
Try the second C#m fugue.
Indeed.
It's like at 160, in 12/16.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
 
tchrist
tchrist
Yeah, I saw that.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
 
tchrist
tchrist
It's because the filesystem is in an 8-bit encoding, not in Unicode.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
You have the diamond too?
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:51 AM
Oh, I don't use a browser.
I have Unix shell.
I just do directory listings.
The Albéniz is cool. I take it you know him.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Not really.
 
tchrist
tchrist
People find that I have a curious filing system.
Oh, let me find the piece to listen to.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Listen to a Preludio.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Asturias.
Isaac_Alb?niz_-Piano_Music-Sanchez_2-3CD ./Espa?a_y_otras_piezas_para_piano 07-Suite_espa?ola_-_Asturias.ogg
Down there.
Yes, I get ? not diamonds.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Yeah I found it on my own.
Actually this may sound familiar.
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:55 AM
It’s pretty famous.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Funny guy.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Indeed.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
It sounds inspired by flamenco.
 
tchrist
tchrist
The whole thing is inspired from different regions.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I know.
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:56 AM
Asturias of course is in the far north, though.
Flamenco in the south.
Gypsy and all.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Still...
 
tchrist
tchrist
Asturias is where the Reconquista started.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Didn't it start in Poitiers, technically?
 
tchrist
tchrist
The Prince of Asturias is the Crown Prince, like the Prince of Wales is in Britain.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Oh, funny.
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:57 AM
Yes, but that isn't part of Spain, so they don't count it. :)
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Chauvinists.
I say that in the French way.
 
tchrist
tchrist
That's like in Boston you can find "The Oldest Church in the United States", from well into the 1600s.
Santa Fe is older.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Ah.
 
tchrist
tchrist
So is St Augustine.
And San Juan.
But those are wicked ex-Spanish.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Is the church in Boston protestant?
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:58 AM
So they "don't count".
Whatever.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
It probably is.
 
tchrist
tchrist
I presume so.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
So why count catholic churches?
 
tchrist
tchrist
Er, they're churches, aren't they?
They really mean the oldest church in the original 13 colonies.
That's all.
But that is not what is says.
 
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