Dear Dave, I can't think of a better way to close out the year than to say Thank You for your videos, your insights, and the many ways you prod my thinking. There is nothing I look forward to with greater anticipation than your videos (though I suppose that could read as much of a commentary on me as on your videos). In the last year-plus by listening to your daily releases and by scouring your past videos, I have truly consumed a lot of knowledge and insight from you. Thank you. On a personal note, I was not aware of the deep loss you experienced this past year. I hope that some peace comes your way. In closing, I promise to keep on listening so long as you continue to put out these videos. And a Happy New Year to Finster and Mildred. Wesley
Happy New Year first of all...and I look forward to the new year's game plan for the channel. The idea of the finger/foot prints of the great composers is a fantastic idea for a new mini series in my opinion...I also will be along for the ride in the Haydn Crusade (as usual), and thanks for sharing your knowledge and love of this music!!!
Happy New Year to you, Dave (and Mildred & Finster, too) - I hope you stay well and provide us with many more hours of your musical thoughts in 2025. Lang may yer lum reek, as we say in Scotland!
Happy New Year David! And Mildred! Your channel (YOU!) are an oasis in this social media wasteland. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with wit and unbridled enthusiasm. Cheers to you!👍🥂
@@DavesClassicalGuide Great. You have a talent for coming up with excellent concert programs. I find it quite enjoyable using them to create playlists.
Happy new year, dear Dave! I can't imagine a day without checking your channel. Here's to a year full of this joy of sharing. Oh, and the Haydn Symphony Crusade matters a lot, believe me! Cheers!
Happy New Year, Sir! I am so thankful for your videos! As I have mentioned in the past, I only wish your vids had been around 50 years ago, when I was struggling to begin my subsequent music degrees. It is SO nice to hear the voice of reason on so many musical issues that have been troublesome to me during most of those 50 years! One of the largest of these issues has been the German-centric almost total exclusion of most other nationalities in musicology...particularly Italian music of the 18th-19th and early 20th centuries. Ditto with the late 20th-century ridiculous academic embracement of the CRAPPY atonal and serial music to the almost exclusion of tonality. Thank you for getting this Old Man through the COVID crap of 2020 and then opening so many doors to new listening pleasures!
Happy New Year! I am a interested teenager from Sweden, and I have listened to countless hours of your talks this year. Almost all of my interpretative music knowledge and knowledge of conductors, orchestras etc. is all from you! You are my only source of the best recordings of all the works. I cannot thank you enough. Please keep going with the series and videos next year
I’ve discovered so many great new recordings-not just of music I love, but of music I had dismissed or never heard of before thanks to you, Dave. You’re helping us find life-affirming music in whatever form that takes. Thanks a million!
Happy New Year to you, Dave! You are performaing a great service, which I think you know. You continue to enrich the lives of music lovers. I tune in every day. As for 2025, I can't wait for your review of the next Ormandy box from Sony. It's all about the joy of music.
Happiest Music 🎶 Oriented 2025 Mister Dave Hurwitz and a healthy wealthy one ☝️ Your humble fan from Tehran Iran. I’ve learned a lot from you Sir 🫡🌞💎🫵👑🤩
Happy New Year Dave! Thanks for a wonderful year of videos, learning and fun conversation. I look forward to watching more in the new year. And happy new year to Mildred too!
Dear Dave, Happy New Year 2025...thanks for all the fun and happiness you have been giving us since 2020!! I discovered you like in August 2020 and I have been watching your videos ever since...keep up posting and we will keep watching and listening!! Sincerely, Guillermo Villacorta...
Happy New Year, Dave! During the last few years you‘ve lit my fire for classical music again. Before, I have to confess, it paled out a bit. But now it´s burning like hell! No day without a symphony, a concert, a tone poem. Thank you, Dave, and take care! Harry from Berlin
Wishing you a fabulous New Year, Mr. Hurwitz, and thank you for your podcasts that educate with your erudition and, yes, also entertain with your humor. And happy New Year to Mildred, Finster, and all your loved ones.
Happy New Year and thank you for news of new recordings, reviews of old recordings and bringing composers to our attention! And I do listen to the Haydn Symphony reviews.
“Keep on Listening” has become my goal. Like others I listen to your videos everyday and then followup by streaming the music. To have more listening time I bought wireless headphones so I can stream outside and inside without bothering my spouse who is not a classical fan. Dave, your knowledge and humor are amazing and fun. I look forward to a wonderful 2025 with you. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Dave! And it's your spontaneity that we love, and that makes you so watchable, because we never know what you're going to say! We sit there waiting for a zinger, and most times we are not disappointed!
Dave, I appreciate you so much. It was a sad day for me when the last record store closed in my city. I've always loved music and loved recordings, and the thrill of going to a physical space filled with recordings and discussing them with the informed (and opinionated) staff has in my experience not been replaced by the new modes of buying discs online or streaming. I know we have to move on with the times, but still, it's a loss. You go a long way to filling the void left by those great record stores...and the lack of access to great music criticism in general. I've mostly only commented when I disagree with you...which is grossly unfair given how much I value your contributions. More Haydn and musical examples will be most welcome. Thanks for all you do. Happy 2025!
Happy new year David May all your dreams and projects come true I am glad I discovered your channel I have been relying on your smart comments to sift through my vinyl collection of classical music to prioritize my listening but also to reduce the volume of those and sell the not needed to help my daughter pay for her schooling since I am retired and have serious illness
Happy new year for you too Dave! And I have good news for your Haydn crusade : the german publishing house Die Andere Bibliothek will publish next year a book called HAYDN! They call it a "literary symphony" -, it is a collection of texts about Haydn, including people like Alfred Brendel! I hope this information will be of some interest for you! For sure such an initiative show growing interest in the music of Haydn!
Happy New Year to you, Dave! And thank you for introducing me to so much magnificent music on so many terrific recordings I most likely would never have found on my own! And thank you for sharing your joy in the music - not to mention your erudition! This channel has become my favourite RUclips go-to EVAH!!!
Pettersson's effing cool, man! You turned me on to this music years ago. Happy New Year to you too. Glad you're happy! Me too! Was among the first few hundreds to join your channel, Commander (of the Arts) Hurwitz, the one and only Hurwitzler! Bless You! Spirited Cheerful Knight of the Davidsbundsler, Video Improviser Virtuosic Aesthete...
Happy New Year! My supply of and appreciation for classical music has grown over time with the help of this channel. I've got more than enough stuff to go through now. Time to do the listening!
Very best wishes for 2025, Dave! I am resolved to listen to music that is unfamiliar to me in the coming year. Your videos, old and new, will be my guide. Looking forward to your new projects (and the Haydn videos too!).
Happy New Year, Dave! I found channel back during covid and have made your channel an essential part of my day. I've learned and continue to learn so much from your resources and your love of exclaiming about all the great stuff in the world of music, especially classical. Keep at it and may your 2025 be as fine as any other!🎉
Thank you for all the composers unknown to me that I have explored because of your talks! Happy New Year! So many young performers bringing a fresh look at standards as well as music not as mainstream... For lovers of the organ, seems to be a surge in young fresh artists, like Jan Liebermann and Gert van Hoef...as well as choral groups like Tenebrae and VOCES8...sort of like in athletics, where new generations raise the bar of technique and energy and the resulting effect on the music. I am glad listening to music does not affect my weight, cholesterol or A1c...we'd be in trouble! Happy listening! And thank you for your informative and always entertaining talks.
I owe you a big thank you, Dave! I got into classical music in early 2024 and your videos have been my best friend since! Due to them, I've learnt so much aboat music in general, and I've listened to so many new pieces that brightened my days! Listening to classical music was and still is the most enjoyable hobby of mine, and you are the biggest reason behind it! Thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge with us!
I have just moved into retirement and the concept of composer finger prints is really interesting! I should definitely be keen on being able to identify that specific composer for a piece of music that is playing! Happy New Year to you as well Dave, and all the best for 2025 and ahead!
Happy New Year, Dave, and long live your channel ! My wish for 2025 : that you will not forget any more Alessandro Scarlatti ! He was a great, great composer.
Happy New Year, Dave! Thanks as always for all of your work and generosity in sharing your vast knowledge! I think the comparison videos would be amazing! If I recall correctly, you had done one for Beethoven's 5th and it was very enlightening. Oh, and the 'footprints' idea - love it! As an aside, it's very cool to read through the comments and see people from all around the world who share the enthusiasm for classical music and this wonderful channel. I'll add my own greetings and best wishes for a prosperous 2025 to everyone from here in Colorado, US.
Thank you, Dave, for this stupendous resource! I am keen on the idea of coupling the videos with the sample passages on the website. I do frequently pause your talks to find the examples you discuss. Also, I love the “fingerprints” idea. The Twoset Violin guys did some amusing videos featuring increasingly challenging “guess the composer” quizzes.
I love your love Dave - it’s that simple. It rekindles relationships with these wonderful works, which I think of as my friends. And you have in recent months since RUclips served you up to me made some new ones, from Segerstam, Kletski, and N Jarvi; and reconnected with many others. Thank you. Congratulations for your long relationship and for surviving the loss so well.
And a Happy New Year to you Dave (& Mildred!) I can hardly keep up with the truly amazing Odyssey of music familiar & unfamiliar that you explore & disseminate on this invaluable channel you've set up for us all to come back to when we want to increase our experience & knowledge. All power to you in 2025 & beyond!
To my friend Dave and our community here. HNY to you all. Dave - this channel is a revelation and it continues to go from strength to strength. Amazing stuff!
Happy New Year Dave. I want to thank you for the thousands of videos and so many fantastic recommendations. Since I started watching your videos my CD collection has increased 10 fold. Recordings that I would never have given any consideration to but are now invaluable additions to my collection are: Barenboims Beethoven Cycle (Szell's is on the way), Klemperer's Bruckner 6, Suitner's Dvorak Symphonies, Ozawa's Mahler 2, Masur's Mahler 9, Andras Schiff's Mozart Concerto's (how had I never heard of this), Munch and Boulez's Daphnis and Chloe, Barenboim's Saint-Seans Organ Symphony, Blomstedt Schubert Symphonies, Caballe's Salome, Muti's Philharmonia Tchaikovsky cycle, Ozawa's Chicago Rite of Spring and von Dohnanyi's Vienna Petrushka and The Miraculous Mandarin. I would never have had the joy of hearing these recordings without your recommendation. So thank you so much and I can't wait for 2025. BTW - I'm a Classics Today Insider.
Happy New Year to you, Finster and Mildred, and the rest of the Dave Community. You have becoming part of my musical life. Thank you for suggesting and promoting all this fantastic music. I will, of course, keep on listening!!!
A happy and prosperous 2025 to you, Dave, and to your loved ones. May it be as rich, interesting and full of musical enthusiasm as the previous ones. "Composers' fingerprints" : great idea, I'm in !
Happy New Year. Thank you so much for another year of picks and pans, cheers and jeers, and splendid insider tales of the marvelous classical music world.
Happy New year David sorry your friend passed away I don't know how you find the time to make these videos but really appreciate them and always interesting look forward to them everday . Thanks.
Happy New Year! One of the things that you have done in the past that I found really useful is referencing the score when discussing why one conductor does something well and one that doesnt, so if you are going to have more music comparisons, please add the score to the discussion for us to follow along to see as well as hear the differences.
Äs guets Nöis with countless new musical discoveries and steps into terra incognita, thought-provoking insights in seamingly well-know territory, and often very rewarding motivation to embark on new musical ships, with lesser-known captains or - even better - routes. Thank you and greetings from Zurich
David, I can't thank you enough for what you give us everyday...I pray you don't burn out 😮 Happy New Year to you, partner, cats, mom & entire family. I'm looking forward to many,many more years. Keep on listening & thanks again 👍
Happy New Year, Dave, Mildred, and Finster! Looking forward to the rest of the Haydn Symphony series and the return of the Scarlatti sonatas series. I hope we can dive into Haydn's quartets when the Symphony series is complete!
Thanks, Dave. I’ve learned a lot on this channel about music I’ve listened to for years and music that is new to me and introduced to me by you. Two hundred albums from IDAGIO is what I’m talking about!
Thanks for this talk, Dave. Your enthusiasm, knowledge, and great presentation style has taught me so much about the music that I love so much. Have a great 2025. Enjoy the ginger beer. 🙂
HAPPY NEW YEAR. Just found your channel two months ago. Thank you for re-energising my love for the artform, it lay dormant for such a long time after having gotten a bit bored with what I knew. Look forward to the new content formats. All the best.
Let me add my congratulations and thanks for many hours of wonderful commentary and your introduction to so many works I hadn’t previously been familiar with.
Dave ~ I’m new to listening with intention to classical music and newer still to your channel. I subscribed just last month. And, it’s been an absolute delight. I grew up in and around your neck of the woods- New Haven and Woodbridge… who knows we might have brushed past each other at some point… Anyway, not being Hallmarky! 🤦🏽♀️ And, you’re right, this year was indeed not one of the best… so thank you for being one of those sparks of light in an often trying world. Wishing you and yours an amazing and incredibly happy 2025! ~ Batsheva
Happy New Year to you too! Please could you continue with everything you are doing but a special plea for a relaunch of the much missed Ripe for Reissue series in 2025.
A very informative video, Dave. It means a lot to learn of your book writing beginnings and method of video presentation. I've learned so much from those books and videos. Your command of organization gives the reader and viewer the best possible window to valuable knowledge.
Hi Dave, I’m a new subscriber to the channel and loving it! Similar to your Uber driver friend, I love classical music but know very little about it. Your channel is a magical portal of musical discoveries - most recently Stokowski’s Bach orchestral transcriptions. We’ll have to agree to disagree on the Finale of Bruckner’s Ninth (I absolutely love the SPCM completion and especially the last revision by John Phillips), but that minor quibble needn’t detain us. Thank you for this labor of love and I will most definitely keep listening! Happy New Year!
Happy new year Dave, Jed, and all viewers! 🎉 The demise of classical music people always blow my mind, just this year the Sergei Babayan and Daniil Trifonov Rachmaninoff (coming from an admitted piano crazy) album and BIS Pettersson didn't just make my favorites of the year, but my all time favorite classical releases ever!
Happy new year Dave…you bring much joy to my life…warmly appreciated and much loved. If I can make a suggestion, can we have comparative content on existing recordings of individual symphonies in the Haydn Crusade please? Including some great stuff and not so great but pioneering work done on LP some of which have not always made it on CD…wish you and all my fellow classical music fans and collectors a wonderful 2025!
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I love the Haydn Crusade and will keep on listening--and watching! Happy New Year, Dave!
Dear Dave, I can't think of a better way to close out the year than to say Thank You for your videos, your insights, and the many ways you prod my thinking. There is nothing I look forward to with greater anticipation than your videos (though I suppose that could read as much of a commentary on me as on your videos). In the last year-plus by listening to your daily releases and by scouring your past videos, I have truly consumed a lot of knowledge and insight from you. Thank you. On a personal note, I was not aware of the deep loss you experienced this past year. I hope that some peace comes your way. In closing, I promise to keep on listening so long as you continue to put out these videos. And a Happy New Year to Finster and Mildred. Wesley
Just want to echo completely everything you said. Dave, thank you so much and take care of yourself.
My condolences for your great loss in 2024. I hope 2025 will prove a better year for us all! Your knowledge is truly phenomenal.
Happy New Year first of all...and I look forward to the new year's game plan for the channel. The idea of the finger/foot prints of the great composers is a fantastic idea for a new mini series in my opinion...I also will be along for the ride in the Haydn Crusade (as usual), and thanks for sharing your knowledge and love of this music!!!
Happy New Year to you, Dave (and Mildred & Finster, too) - I hope you stay well and provide us with many more hours of your musical thoughts in 2025. Lang may yer lum reek, as we say in Scotland!
Auld lang syne. (What a beautiful tune it is, too.)
Happy New Year David! And Mildred! Your channel (YOU!) are an oasis in this social media wasteland.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with wit and unbridled enthusiasm. Cheers to you!👍🥂
Happy New Year! I really miss the Fabuolous Concert Programs.
More coming. Got to finish the Lloyd symphonies.
@@DavesClassicalGuide Great. You have a talent for coming up with excellent concert programs. I find it quite enjoyable using them to create playlists.
Happy new year, dear Dave! I can't imagine a day without checking your channel. Here's to a year full of this joy of sharing. Oh, and the Haydn Symphony Crusade matters a lot, believe me! Cheers!
Happy New Year, Sir! I am so thankful for your videos! As I have mentioned in the past, I only wish your vids had been around 50 years ago, when I was struggling to begin my subsequent music degrees. It is SO nice to hear the voice of reason on so many musical issues that have been troublesome to me during most of those 50 years! One of the largest of these issues has been the German-centric almost total exclusion of most other nationalities in musicology...particularly Italian music of the 18th-19th and early 20th centuries. Ditto with the late 20th-century ridiculous academic embracement of the CRAPPY atonal and serial music to the almost exclusion of tonality. Thank you for getting this Old Man through the COVID crap of 2020 and then opening so many doors to new listening pleasures!
Dave, you're a blessing and a treasure. I thank you and appreciate you! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! I am a interested teenager from Sweden, and I have listened to countless hours of your talks this year. Almost all of my interpretative music knowledge and knowledge of conductors, orchestras etc. is all from you! You are my only source of the best recordings of all the works. I cannot thank you enough. Please keep going with the series and videos next year
I’ve discovered so many great new recordings-not just of music I love, but of music I had dismissed or never heard of before thanks to you, Dave. You’re helping us find life-affirming music in whatever form that takes. Thanks a million!
Happy New Year to you, Dave! You are performaing a great service, which I think you know. You continue to enrich the lives of music lovers. I tune in every day. As for 2025, I can't wait for your review of the next Ormandy box from Sony. It's all about the joy of music.
Happiest Music 🎶 Oriented 2025 Mister Dave Hurwitz and a healthy wealthy one ☝️ Your humble fan from Tehran Iran.
I’ve learned a lot from you Sir 🫡🌞💎🫵👑🤩
Happy New Year Dave! Thanks for a wonderful year of videos, learning and fun conversation. I look forward to watching more in the new year. And happy new year to Mildred too!
Yes, things are cyclical ! And beauty never dies. Thanks for your presence. Happy new year Dave !
Happy New Year, Dave. You're a unique voice for classical music, our eternal love.
Dear Dave, Happy New Year 2025...thanks for all the fun and happiness you have been giving us since 2020!! I discovered you like in August 2020 and I have been watching your videos ever since...keep up posting and we will keep watching and listening!! Sincerely, Guillermo Villacorta...
Thank you!
Glad to hear the artist Top 10 series will return.
Happy New Year, Dave! During the last few years you‘ve lit my fire for classical music again. Before, I have to confess, it paled out a bit. But now it´s burning like hell! No day without a symphony, a concert, a tone poem. Thank you, Dave, and take care! Harry from Berlin
Wishing you a fabulous New Year, Mr. Hurwitz, and thank you for your podcasts that educate with your erudition and, yes, also entertain with your humor. And happy New Year to Mildred, Finster, and all your loved ones.
Happy New Year and thank you for news of new recordings, reviews of old recordings and bringing composers to our attention! And I do listen to the Haydn Symphony reviews.
Happy New Year Dave and may you long continue.
“Keep on Listening” has become my goal. Like others I listen to your videos everyday and then followup by streaming the music. To have more listening time I bought wireless headphones so I can stream outside and inside without bothering my spouse who is not a classical fan. Dave, your knowledge and humor are amazing and fun. I look forward to a wonderful 2025 with you. Happy New Year!
A Very Happy New Year, Dave, I am so sorry for the loss of your partner. I wish you the best for 2025!!!
Happy New Year Dave and thank you so much!
Happy new year to you too, Dave. Thanks for all the insight and music you helped us to gain and discover!
Listening to you is a blessing.
Happy New Year. Thank you for your work,
Happy New Year Dave! And it's your spontaneity that we love, and that makes you so watchable, because we never know what you're going to say! We sit there waiting for a zinger, and most times we are not disappointed!
Dave, I appreciate you so much. It was a sad day for me when the last record store closed in my city. I've always loved music and loved recordings, and the thrill of going to a physical space filled with recordings and discussing them with the informed (and opinionated) staff has in my experience not been replaced by the new modes of buying discs online or streaming. I know we have to move on with the times, but still, it's a loss. You go a long way to filling the void left by those great record stores...and the lack of access to great music criticism in general. I've mostly only commented when I disagree with you...which is grossly unfair given how much I value your contributions. More Haydn and musical examples will be most welcome. Thanks for all you do. Happy 2025!
A very happy musical and critical year!! Thanks for sharing your wonderful chats and insights for all these years. I'm a fan from the beginning!!
Thank you so much for your knowledge and enthusiasm. I follow your guide and have found much joy in the music. The very best channel on RUclips.
Thanks for another year of great work. Looking forwart for the next one. Keep on recording! 😊 Happy New year.
Happy new year David
May all your dreams and projects come true
I am glad I discovered your channel
I have been relying on your smart comments to sift through my vinyl collection of classical music to prioritize my listening but also to reduce the volume of those and sell the not needed to help my daughter pay for her schooling since I am retired and have serious illness
Best wishes for your health. I know what you're going through from personal experience.
Happy new year for you too Dave! And I have good news for your Haydn crusade : the german publishing house Die Andere Bibliothek will publish next year a book called HAYDN! They call it a "literary symphony" -, it is a collection of texts about Haydn, including people like Alfred Brendel! I hope this information will be of some interest for you! For sure such an initiative show growing interest in the music of Haydn!
Happy New Year to you, Dave! And thank you for introducing me to so much magnificent music on so many terrific recordings I most likely would never have found on my own! And thank you for sharing your joy in the music - not to mention your erudition! This channel has become my favourite RUclips go-to EVAH!!!
Happy New Year Dave, and thank you for all the joy and enthusiasm you put into your videos. All the best for 2025 from London, England.
Happy New Year, Dave! Thanks again for the valuable info and listening hints... ❤️
Pettersson's effing cool, man! You turned me on to this music years ago. Happy New Year to you too. Glad you're happy! Me too!
Was among the first few hundreds to join your channel, Commander (of the Arts) Hurwitz, the one and only Hurwitzler!
Bless You! Spirited Cheerful Knight of the Davidsbundsler, Video Improviser Virtuosic Aesthete...
Happy New Year! My supply of and appreciation for classical music has grown over time with the help of this channel. I've got more than enough stuff to go through now. Time to do the listening!
Very best wishes for 2025, Dave! I am resolved to listen to music that is unfamiliar to me in the coming year. Your videos, old and new, will be my guide. Looking forward to your new projects (and the Haydn videos too!).
Happy New Year, Dave! I found channel back during covid and have made your channel an essential part of my day. I've learned and continue to learn so much from your resources and your love of exclaiming about all the great stuff in the world of music, especially classical. Keep at it and may your 2025 be as fine as any other!🎉
Thank you for everything! Happy New Year
Happy New Year, Dave. Thanks for adding so much to my year.
Thank you for all the composers unknown to me that I have explored because of your talks!
Happy New Year!
So many young performers bringing a fresh look at standards as well as music not as mainstream...
For lovers of the organ, seems to be a surge in young fresh artists, like Jan Liebermann and Gert van Hoef...as well as choral groups like Tenebrae and VOCES8...sort of like in athletics, where new generations raise the bar of technique and energy and the resulting effect on the music.
I am glad listening to music does not affect my weight, cholesterol or A1c...we'd be in trouble!
Happy listening!
And thank you for your informative and always entertaining talks.
I owe you a big thank you, Dave! I got into classical music in early 2024 and your videos have been my best friend since! Due to them, I've learnt so much aboat music in general, and I've listened to so many new pieces that brightened my days! Listening to classical music was and still is the most enjoyable hobby of mine, and you are the biggest reason behind it! Thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge with us!
Thanks very much! You are why I do this.
Happy New Year, Dave! And thank you...
Thsnks for a great year of commentary and fun. I love Classics Today Insider--what a great value. Cheers and Happy New Year Dave.
Thank you! Happy New Year to you as well.
Happy New Year Dave & to all your subscribers 🍻
Happy New Year, dear Dave! Your channel is a true treasure! Keep up the excellent work!
Thanks very much!
I have just moved into retirement and the concept of composer finger prints is really interesting! I should definitely be keen on being able to identify that specific composer for a piece of music that is playing! Happy New Year to you as well Dave, and all the best for 2025 and ahead!
Happy New Year, Dave, and long live your channel !
My wish for 2025 : that you will not forget any more Alessandro Scarlatti ! He was a great, great composer.
Hi Mildred! Happy New Year to her and to you, Dave! Thank you so much for your wonderful content over the years!
Happy New Year, Dave! Thanks as always for all of your work and generosity in sharing your vast knowledge! I think the comparison videos would be amazing! If I recall correctly, you had done one for Beethoven's 5th and it was very enlightening. Oh, and the 'footprints' idea - love it! As an aside, it's very cool to read through the comments and see people from all around the world who share the enthusiasm for classical music and this wonderful channel. I'll add my own greetings and best wishes for a prosperous 2025 to everyone from here in Colorado, US.
Happy Newyear tae you !
All the best for 2025
Great channel
So glad I stumbled on it years ago
Happy New Year, Dave! That fingerprint thing sounds really cool. Here's to a wonderful, music-filled year!
Thank you, Dave, for this stupendous resource!
I am keen on the idea of coupling the videos with the sample passages on the website. I do frequently pause your talks to find the examples you discuss. Also, I love the “fingerprints” idea. The Twoset Violin guys did some amusing videos featuring increasingly challenging “guess the composer” quizzes.
I love your love Dave - it’s that simple. It rekindles relationships with these wonderful works, which I think of as my friends. And you have in recent months since RUclips served you up to me made some new ones, from Segerstam, Kletski, and N Jarvi; and reconnected with many others. Thank you. Congratulations for your long relationship and for surviving the loss so well.
And a Happy New Year to you Dave (& Mildred!) I can hardly keep up with the truly amazing Odyssey of music familiar & unfamiliar that you explore & disseminate on this invaluable channel you've set up for us all to come back to when we want to increase our experience & knowledge. All power to you in 2025 & beyond!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Happy New Year!
To my friend Dave and our community here. HNY to you all. Dave - this channel is a revelation and it continues to go from strength to strength. Amazing stuff!
Happy New Year Dave. I want to thank you for the thousands of videos and so many fantastic recommendations. Since I started watching your videos my CD collection has increased 10 fold. Recordings that I would never have given any consideration to but are now invaluable additions to my collection are: Barenboims Beethoven Cycle (Szell's is on the way), Klemperer's Bruckner 6, Suitner's Dvorak Symphonies, Ozawa's Mahler 2, Masur's Mahler 9, Andras Schiff's Mozart Concerto's (how had I never heard of this), Munch and Boulez's Daphnis and Chloe, Barenboim's Saint-Seans Organ Symphony, Blomstedt Schubert Symphonies, Caballe's Salome, Muti's Philharmonia Tchaikovsky cycle, Ozawa's Chicago Rite of Spring and von Dohnanyi's Vienna Petrushka and The Miraculous Mandarin. I would never have had the joy of hearing these recordings without your recommendation. So thank you so much and I can't wait for 2025. BTW - I'm a Classics Today Insider.
Thanks very much! Happy New Year to you too!
Happy New Year Dave your the best. Thanks for your musical insight and yes I need to become an insider subscriber as we start the new year.
Happy new year, and looking forward for more records reviews and hopefully more Reference Recording episodes 😀
Happy New Year to you, Finster and Mildred, and the rest of the Dave Community. You have becoming part of my musical life. Thank you for suggesting and promoting all this fantastic music. I will, of course, keep on listening!!!
A happy and prosperous 2025 to you, Dave, and to your loved ones. May it be as rich, interesting and full of musical enthusiasm as the previous ones. "Composers' fingerprints" : great idea, I'm in !
Happy New Year, mr. Hurwitz!
Happy new year, Dave. As long as you are happy to talk about music, i am happy to listen to you. From Singapore.
A hearty "Godt Nytår!" from Denmark. I look forward to your videos and what you have in mind for 2025 sounds good to me.
Happy New Year. Thank you so much for another year of picks and pans, cheers and jeers, and splendid insider tales of the marvelous classical music world.
All the very best to you Dave. You're one of the good guys.
Happy New year David sorry your friend passed away I don't know how you find the time to make these videos but really appreciate them and always interesting look forward to them everday . Thanks.
Happy New Year! One of the things that you have done in the past that I found really useful is referencing the score when discussing why one conductor does something well and one that doesnt, so if you are going to have more music comparisons, please add the score to the discussion for us to follow along to see as well as hear the differences.
Happy New Year Uncle Dave! I Love what you do! I wish the best for you and the cats in the new year! Hugs and kisses! BE WELL BROTHER!!!
Äs guets Nöis with countless new musical discoveries and steps into terra incognita, thought-provoking insights in seamingly well-know territory, and often very rewarding motivation to embark on new musical ships, with lesser-known captains or - even better - routes. Thank you and greetings from Zurich
David, I can't thank you enough for what you give us everyday...I pray you don't burn out 😮
Happy New Year to you, partner, cats, mom & entire family. I'm looking forward to many,many more years.
Keep on listening & thanks again 👍
Happy New Year, Dave, Mildred, and Finster! Looking forward to the rest of the Haydn Symphony series and the return of the Scarlatti sonatas series. I hope we can dive into Haydn's quartets when the Symphony series is complete!
Thanks, Dave. I’ve learned a lot on this channel about music I’ve listened to for years and music that is new to me and introduced to me by you. Two hundred albums from IDAGIO is what I’m talking about!
Thanks for this talk, Dave. Your enthusiasm, knowledge, and great presentation style has taught me so much about the music that I love so much. Have a great 2025. Enjoy the ginger beer. 🙂
HAPPY NEW YEAR. Just found your channel two months ago. Thank you for re-energising my love for the artform, it lay dormant for such a long time after having gotten a bit bored with what I knew. Look forward to the new content formats. All the best.
You are so welcome!
Let me add my congratulations and thanks for many hours of wonderful commentary and your introduction to so many works I hadn’t previously been familiar with.
Dave ~
I’m new to listening with intention to classical music and newer still to your channel. I subscribed just last month. And, it’s been an absolute delight. I grew up in and around your neck of the woods- New Haven and Woodbridge… who knows we might have brushed past each other at some point… Anyway, not being Hallmarky! 🤦🏽♀️ And, you’re right, this year was indeed not one of the best… so thank you for being one of those sparks of light in an often trying world. Wishing you and yours an amazing and incredibly happy 2025!
~ Batsheva
Welcome! Glad you're enjoying the channel, and that you're from my neck of the woods!
Happy New Year to you too! Please could you continue with everything you are doing but a special plea for a relaunch of the much missed Ripe for Reissue series in 2025.
It's never died. I just need to rotate these series because, well, there's only one of me and so much to talk about!
Happy New Year to you, Dave
A very informative video, Dave. It means a lot to learn of your book writing beginnings and method of video presentation. I've learned so much from those books and videos. Your command of organization gives the reader and viewer the best possible window to valuable knowledge.
Happy New Year, Dave! I stumbled on your channel last year and have thoroughly enjoyed it.
Happy New year! Love your talks.
Happy New Year Dave! Thanks so much for your wonderful Channel!
Hi Dave, I’m a new subscriber to the channel and loving it! Similar to your Uber driver friend, I love classical music but know very little about it. Your channel is a magical portal of musical discoveries - most recently Stokowski’s Bach orchestral transcriptions. We’ll have to agree to disagree on the Finale of Bruckner’s Ninth (I absolutely love the SPCM completion and especially the last revision by John Phillips), but that minor quibble needn’t detain us. Thank you for this labor of love and I will most definitely keep listening! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you Dave. I look forward to more of your great videos in 2025.
Happy New Year brother!
Happy 2025🎉 from Auckland, NZ! Started watching your channel in late 2020 and hope you are ready for a fabulous 2025!
Happy new year Dave, Jed, and all viewers! 🎉
The demise of classical music people always blow my mind, just this year the Sergei Babayan and Daniil Trifonov Rachmaninoff (coming from an admitted piano crazy) album and BIS Pettersson didn't just make my favorites of the year, but my all time favorite classical releases ever!
Many more years of Dave to come please. Happy New Years. Enjoy the butterscotch.
Best Wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year!
Thanks for mentioning your guide on Mahler! have to look it up! You are indeed prolific! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, Mildred!
Happy new year Dave…you bring much joy to my life…warmly appreciated and much loved. If I can make a suggestion, can we have comparative content on existing recordings of individual symphonies in the Haydn Crusade please? Including some great stuff and not so great but pioneering work done on LP some of which have not always made it on CD…wish you and all my fellow classical music fans and collectors a wonderful 2025!
Happy new year! Your channel is invaluable.