{"id":2484,"date":"2010-07-21T21:43:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T20:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:19:04","slug":"sir-charles-mackerras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/sir-charles-mackerras.html","title":{"rendered":"Sir Charles Mackerras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just heard that the great Australian conductor Sir Charles Mackerras died last week.<!--more--> So, while this isn&#8217;t my typical blog post (actually the first I&#8217;ve posted under &#8216;Music&#8217; despite it being central to my life), I must say that there have been few (if any) recent musicians I&#8217;ve admired more and I&#8217;m genuinely sorry to hear of his passing. Can&#8217;t remember now if I ever heard him live (while of course that should be a memorable experience, it would be many years ago now if I did), but his wonderful recordings of (amongst others) Mozart, Beethoven and Janacek will surely stand the test of time and I&#8217;m listening to Kat&#8217;a Kabanova right now.<\/p>\n<p>Might also point the interested towards this official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jkn9dASarrA\">Linn Records video<\/a> promoting his second double album (both are brilliant!) of Mozart symphonies with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, which is the last Mackerras recording I bought on its release earlier this year. He was one of the true greats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just heard that the great Australian conductor Sir Charles Mackerras died last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11902,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/11902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}