,,-XNhXtOrb1A,, Society, channel_UCMKJdaq2iYnRYvplVjCiNJg, video_-XNhXtOrb1A,Footage showing four Russian FAB-250 glide-bombs striking Ukrainian forward deployment points on the outskirts of Sviato-Pokrovske, Siversk direction.
What's interesting about this footage is the fact that four separate buildings up to 500 metres away from each other are hit simultaneously, with one bomb each. This is the first time I've ever seen something like this.
,,tIi2Mu7GkC4,, Lifestyle_(sociology), channel_UCMKJdaq2iYnRYvplVjCiNJg, video_tIi2Mu7GkC4,In the Elonkierto Display, Jokioinen Southern Finland, Sept 13th, 2025.
Hanging out with friends and pecking birch seeds on the access road while some dogs are walked past.
,,D7m7__Y2LXo,, Military,Politics,Society, channel_UCMKJdaq2iYnRYvplVjCiNJg, video_D7m7__Y2LXo,US military choppers spotted off Puerto Rico ahead of possible attack on Venezuela
? The low-flying helicopters were caught on camera by local residents, with the footage soon emerging online
? While some social media users identified the aircraft as US Naval MH-60 Seahawk helicopters, others argued that those were the UH-1Y Venom and AH-1Z Viper helicopters of the US Marine Corps
,,DnwTh8NVRqw,, , channel_UCMKJdaq2iYnRYvplVjCiNJg, video_DnwTh8NVRqw,Russian ground drones are clearing access roads near the village of Aleksandro-Kalinovo
,1,He's been this way all his life, but now he just can't hide it any longer in his bouts of dementia-tinted rage.
He's allegedly referring to Elon Musk here.
,1,I redid this with my "new" turntable and a new cartridge & needle.
The local recycling centre closes down, I grabbed a bunch of 1960s Music Club LPs and Melodia "souvenir" LPs (for a tourist, LPs in the Soviet Union were really cheap).
Seems the excellent recording has never been transferred to CD. I now ordered the other two Haydn Symphonies Neeme Järvi has recorded in the late 1970s with the Estonian orchestra, namely #93 and #99.
Haydn: Symphony № 82
0:01 Vivace
7:35 Allegretto
14:44 Menuetto
19:22 Finale. Vivace assai
Haydn: Symphony № 83
24:59 Allegro
31:47 Andante
41:21 Menuetto
45:24 Finale. Vivace
,1,Perhaps the key song out of all Janne's key songs.
Brings the first recording of this from 1904 to my mind, by Janne's brother-in-law Armas Järnefelt and his wife Maikki Pakarinen. It should not be possible to overload the acoustic recording system but Maikki did it in the conclusion, like the soloist does in many places here too, I cleaned up the worst of the distortion.
I was going to congratulate the singer for her perfect Swedish, but she was Swedish already.
"Kerstin Margareta Meyer
1928-04-03 — 2020-04-14
Opera singer, principal
Kerstin Meyer was a Swedish mezzosoprano, an opera and concert singer. Her career spanned three decades. She gained recognition both at home and abroad for her performances of the classical mezzosoprano opera roles. She was also an entertainer in the folk parks and in musicals. She also sang in children’s operas and premieres of contemporary works. After her stage career, she was the principal of the Opera Academy in Stockholm in 1984–1994."
https://skbl.se/en/article/KerstinMargaretaMeyer
The PIC is an AI PIC.
,1,Another old 1950s (mono) LP repaired, and my pseudo-stereo applied.
The info on the orchestra varies as is typical of Concert Hall and the associated labels, but I think it's the Swiss orchestra as the conductor and the soloist were Swiss.
Haydn: Keyboard Concerto No. 11 in D Major (ca 1780-83)
0:00 Vivace
7:35 Un poco adagio
13:54 Rondo all'ungherese - Allegro assai
,1,I started working on the Concert Hall LP, but found out the contents is on YouTube, also from an LP but from one of better quality. However, there were 6 needle jumps, but I was able to reconstitute the LP from it and mine. In the end it became presentable. I also added pseudostereo.
She seems to have a number of performances on the cheap labels under aliases.
Grieg, Tchaikovsky 1, Rach 2. I ordered the first 2 on an LP. She deserves her just space.
"A child prodigy, trained by Frank Sheridan at The Mannes College Of Music and Isabella Vengerova at Curtis Institute Of Music, she debuted in concert on November 1, 1941 at the age of almost 11,
with The New York Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
Active in Europe during the 1950s, she performed and made a number of recordings under the direction of, among others, Carl Bamberger, Jean Martinon, Walter Goehr, Carl-August Bünte and Hans-Jürgen Walther.
Sondra Bianca performances were issued on various budget labels owned by Eli Oberstein, using, for unclear reasons, various pseudonyms including Suzanne Auber, Albert Cohen, Karl Bernhard, Frederick Antenelli and David Haines.
After her early retiring from live performances, she continued teaching other young pianists. Born: November 17, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York."
Chopin Waltzes (Complete)
0:00 No. 2 In A Flat, Op. 34, No. 1
4:45 No. 3 In A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2
10:05 No. 8 In A Flat, Op. 64, No. 3
13:21 No. 6 In D Flat, Op. 64, No. 1
15:10 No. 9 In A Flat, Op. 69, No. 1
19:12 No. 7 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2
22:22 No. 11 In G Flat Major, Op. 70, No. 1
24:13 No. 1 In E Flat, Op. 18
29:29 No. 4 In F, Op. 34, No. 3
31:55 No. 10 In B Minor, Op. 69, No. 2
35:15 No. 13 In D Flat, Op. 70, No. 3
38:11 No. 14 In E Minor (Posthumous)
41:05 No. 12 In F Minor, Op. 70, No. 2
43:58 No. 5 In A Flat, Op. 42
,1,I went through many Peters & the Wolves, but Karloff's stands out to me as not irritating nor histrionic. Additionally, I had a nice amount of work in order to make this recording pristine. The traffic noise was very high.
,1,The other side of the LP that had the Borodin No. 2. A very competent performance as well.
The same routine for the Kingsway Hall sound applied.
Capriccio Espagnol (1887)
0:00 Alborada
1:10 Variazioni
5:39 Alborada (variant)
6:50 Scena e canto gitano
11:44 Fandango asturiano
14:52 Tsar Saltan Op.57: March
,1,Walking through the Kingsway Hall recordings. This time it's a very good Borodin No. 2.
0:01 Allegro moderato
6:44 Scherzo. Molto vivo
11:23 Andante
19:07 Finale. Allegro
,1,The Kingsway Hall rumble was very strong with this one.
Nothing wrong here in the musical sense, on the contrary.
The symphony was Shostakovich's graduation work from Petrograd (=St. Petersburg) conservatory, first performed in the public when the composer was just 19.
https://houstonsymphony.org/32484-2/
0:01 Allegretto — Allegro non troppo
8:48 Allegro — Meno mosso — Allegro — Meno mosso
13:36 Lento — Largo — Lento (attacca:)
22:22 Allegro molto — Lento — Allegro molto — Meno mosso — Allegro molto — Molto meno mosso — Adagio
,1,Ricci's playing suits this uber-romantic composition.
This time the tube trains under the Kingsway Hall made short 30 sec calls and not very often.
0:00 Vorspiel: Allegro moderato
7:41 Adagio
16:08 Finale: Allegro energico
,1,Von Karajan's 1st "Pathetique" out of the "at least 5" he recorded.
He had just signed with the DGG in 1939 at age 31.
0:01 Adagio – Allegro non troppo
18:03 Allegro con grazia
26:16 Allegro molto vivace
31:51 Adagio lamentoso
An aesthetically pleasing interpretation, the music flows in a natural way, and the orchestra is an old times good one (comes with wearing ties).
Karajan was the dominant conductor all my youth so I grew weary of him and his publicity skills.
Eventually he passed (he was an early proponent of digital recording, that to his merit) so now we can have 12 Finnish international conductors for the price of one von Karajan.
The recording is thoroughly revived, without going into all the details. I've done so much of this I don't have to spend time wondering, I just do it.
Recordings of this vintage came in 78rpm disk sides of the length of 4-5 mins, with each side normally having different noise/click characteristics. The CD originals normally have them joined up, sometimes I have to do that too, or repair bad existing joints.