Daniel Theophilus Orsen

Extraordinary violist | Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra | @wagnernightmare | ⬇️ CD Reviews Substack

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CD Reviews #6 is out. I loved the ethos, the audaciousness, and execution of this album. https://t.co/61rk7fVepH

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Published in @TheStradMag !

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CD Reviews #4 is out and about. This week I listened to Usha Kapoor and Edward Leung’s recording of the Beach and Corigliano Violin Sonatas.

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CD Reviews #3 is out! This week I listened to and wrote about Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri. https://t.co/IxabaQ5wOL

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CD Reviews #2 - Theofanidis Violin and Viola Concertos

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Kinetic on Spotify: https://t.co/rGvdrGv6Of

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CD Reviews #1 is out! This week I listened to Kinetic, the debut album of Kinetic Ensemble, a conductor less string orchestra in Houston, FX. https://t.co/4BuKCcQvNI

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I have started a Substack.
It will mostly be album reviews. I will buy, listen to, and write about one CD a week, with a focus on the work of my friends, colleagues, and contemporary music.

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“…if he wished to live, he must determine to reign.”

Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1, pg. 441, Everyman’s Library, 1993

#RomanEmpire #history #prose

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“…the joint influence of prejudice and affection operates with irresistible weight.” - Gibbon, D&F, Vol. 1, pg. 440, Everyman’s Library, 1993 #RomanEmpire #history #prose

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Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1, pg 434, Everyman’s Library
#history #prose #philsophy #Roman Empire

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Gibbon throws down on Neo-Platonists and metaphysics!

“The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science was neglected by the new Platonists;…”

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whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle and Plato, on subjects which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.”

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Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1, pg. 432, Everyman’s Library #RomanEmpire #history #prose #Gibbon

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“The practice of architecture is directed by a few general and even mechanical principals. But sculpture, and, above all, painting, propose to themselves the imitation not only of the forms of nature, but of the characters and passions of the human soul.”

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“In those sublime arts the dexterity of the hand is of little avail unless it is animated by fancy and guided by the most correct taste and observation.”

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- Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1, pg.428, Everyman’s Library, 1993

#history #prose #RomanEmpire #gardening

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He [Diocletian] rejected the temptation with a smile of pity, calmly observing that, if he could show Maximian the cabbages which he had planted with his own hands at Salona, he should no longer be urged to relinquish the enjoyment of happiness for the pursuit of power.

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“…he [Diocletian] deserves the reproach of establishing pernicious precedents, rather than of exercising actual oppression.” - Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1, pg. 425, Everyman’s Library, 1993 #dailygibbon #RomanEmpire #history #prose