Recently I've been listening to contemporary works involving the flute. I love this instrument; it's so dreamy and surreal. It's a shame that older composers didn't compose many works for unaccompanied flute.

can you recommend me some music by György Ligeti if I like the 2001: a space odyssey soundtrack?

cool library

There's a way how to rename albums (or even artists) in the library. The user must be last.fm pro, and for me, it's the only feature worth it: https://support.last.fm/t/how-do-i-bulk-edit-scrobbled-albums-and-artists/1438.

I confess I'm not sure what to think about Marc-André Hamelin. But I must say this: His interpretation of Alkan's Concerto for solo Piano in G sharp minor, Op. 39/8-10 is absolutely brilliant!

L'Amour de loin by Saariho is really something special. Even on Saariaho who is without a doubt one of the leading living composers.

Returning from renaissance to contemporary music. So many great living composers. Would like to be so familiar with them that I would wait eagerly for their latest works. Not there yet, but trying.

great library!

Your comment on Kodály's shoutbox about his songs are absolutely on point, especially Kadar Kata version for piano, which reminds me of Janáček songs in The Diary of One Who Disappeared. Thanks for that info, do have any other advice for Kodály? :)

Hello, Jan! Nice taste.

Happy 12th scrobbling anniversary today, Jan! ... Wouldn't you agree, how quick time passed by listening to nice music ? ... May you have even more such musical cake days

Nice, you have got hold of your ">65k scrobbles" personal record :-) ... I saw you in the "Discovery Leaderboard" section (July 10-16), you are at #3 place there (I am in the Scrobble LB): last DOT fm/user/classicalbird/listening-report/week ... How is life on your position of the Earth these days, still in Taiwan? I assume you also avoid public crowds recently in these pandemic times, as we also here in the German side of the EU ... Stay safe and let us wash our hands as often as possible - and go on with enjoying songs unstressed in the meantime, Jan

great collection - super compatibility

Requiem für einen jungen Dichter by B. A. Zimmermann is from another world... Such a dark, bleak, fatalistic and powerful work is hard to find.

Krystian Zimerman's performance of Debussy's La cathédrale engloutie is one of the most epic short pieces of music for solo piano I've heard. It's incredibly evocative, majestic and beautiful.

I've stopped using Spotify lately and returned back to my own collection of classical music in Foobar. Partly because I want less scattered and more focused listening experience and party because I started to meticulously tag my music to the point of individual compositions, information about them, their composers and performances. It's a lot of work but for a classical music fanatic in me worth it. To have option to go through composer's list of compositions sorted by the year of creation, to see in a well arranged way how was string quartet developed throug time or to have possibility to list several performances of individual Mozart sonatas is sweet and far beyond what can Spotify currently offer.

Hello and thank you for the follow back. Wonderful compatibility. I hope you don’t mind me asking a question right away, I was wandering – how well known is Adam Michna z Otradovic in his homeland, compared to the world famous Czech composers? Is he on the list of the great ones, at least? Anyway, if you find this question tiresome, forget it and have a nice day. Pozdrav

I follow only people who have sensible numbers in the library. I can't get how someone could listen more than thirty thousand tracks of classical music in a year (which is a huge number by itself). I listen classical music a lot, usually at work and honestly, sometimes I don't even know what I'm listening. But it's like pre-mapping a field, so later that day, at my commute or before the sleep, and then at the weekend I try to go back to the works which somehow struck me during my busy hours and listen them carefully. But still, I feel guilt, because I should listen classical music even more carefully, with better focus and stronger concentration... So, on Last.fm I want to compare myself with people and not with radios...

nice tastes

Hello, Jan.

nice academic charts. do you enjoy any other types of music?