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« Reply #795 on: 19:12:24, 07-09-2008 » |
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Oh, if you can help me correct any errors, I'd be very grateful!
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richard barrett
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« Reply #796 on: 19:20:53, 07-09-2008 » |
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Certainly. The extracts are to the best of my knowledge as follows: (1) Dienstag, Jahreslauf (bells); (2) Sonntag, Licht-Bilder; (3) Licht-Formel; (4) Montag, Montags-Gruss; (5) Montag, Befreuchtung mit Klavierstück; (6) Dienstag, Dienstags-Gruss; (7) Dienstag, Jahreslauf; (  ditto; (9) Dienstag, Pietà; (10) Mittwoch, Michaelion; (11) Mittwoch, Helikopter-Quartett; (12) Donnerstag, Donnerstags-Gruss; (13) ditto; (14) Donnarstag, Michaels Jugend; (15) Freitag; (16) Freitag, Kinder-Chor; (17) Freitag, Kinder-Tutti; (18) Freitag, Kinder-Krieg; (19) Samstag, Luzifers Traum; (20) ditto; (21) Samstag, Luzifers Tanz; (22) Sonntag, Hoch-Zeiten; (23) Sonntag, Sonntags-Abschied. (e&oe) |
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« Reply #797 on: 19:58:28, 07-09-2008 » |
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Richard, thank you very much. Do you mind if I post a correction on the blog using this?
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« Reply #798 on: 20:53:47, 07-09-2008 » |
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Richard, thank you very much. Do you mind if I post a correction on the blog using this?
Please feel free. I've just checked through and found that (10) is actually from Mittwochs-Gruss (which is based on material from Michaelion). I can't track down (15) precisely because I don't have a complete recording of Freitag. |
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« Reply #799 on: 20:40:21, 12-09-2008 » |
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« Reply #800 on: 21:00:30, 12-09-2008 » |
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Thank you sir!
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« Reply #801 on: 13:04:38, 15-09-2008 » |
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If I want to dig deeper into Licht, what's the best way to do it? Looking at the Stockhausen-Verlag website, it'll cost a small fortune to buy the complete cycle. If this is the way to do it, I could manage it over two or three years, I suppose. Alternatively, are some of the extracts a better way of approaching this? I suppose I'm looking for a list of the top 10 or so recordings to go for.
The Verlag website also lists an impressive list of upcoming concerts - but none of the operas seems to be on it. I'd certainly travel to hear some of these - in fact this would probably be preferable to buying recordings - but what is the (apparent) disincentive to stage some of these?
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« Reply #802 on: 13:22:30, 15-09-2008 » |
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Mittwoch and Sonntag haven't been staged complete as far as I know. There are movements towards changing this, Tantris, of which it would be premature to speak...  but keep an eye on the western edge of Germany over the next few years. One disincentive to staging Mittwoch is of course the need for four helicopters. |
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« Reply #803 on: 19:25:27, 15-09-2008 » |
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Elsewhere on that blog, amongst the marvellous free jazz (with a lot of Anthony Braxton), you'll also find Xenakis and Finnissy ...
I previously misread this as 'Finnissy coming soon', but now I look again it actually seems to say 'Finnissy already there' ... Any clues as to where I can find it? Thanks in anticipation! |
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« Reply #804 on: 19:38:11, 15-09-2008 » |
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If I want to dig deeper into Licht, what's the best way to do it? Looking at the Stockhausen-Verlag website, it'll cost a small fortune to buy the complete cycle. If this is the way to do it, I could manage it over two or three years, I suppose. Alternatively, are some of the extracts a better way of approaching this? I suppose I'm looking for a list of the top 10 or so recordings to go for.
The problem here is that (IMO) very few of the excerpted bits (especially the ones for solo instruments) are anything like as impressive out of context as they are in it. Of the complete recordings of the operas I would recommend starting with Samstag. For me it's the most consistently strong of the series. |
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« Reply #805 on: 20:04:29, 15-09-2008 » |
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Elsewhere on that blog, amongst the marvellous free jazz (with a lot of Anthony Braxton), you'll also find Xenakis and Finnissy ...
I previously misread this as 'Finnissy coming soon', but now I look again it actually seems to say 'Finnissy already there' ... Any clues as to where I can find it? Thanks in anticipation! Hi; Finnissy is here, and Xenakis is here. |
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« Reply #806 on: 20:17:02, 15-09-2008 » |
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Mr T, you are a gentleman indeed. Actually I heard that performance of English Country-Tunes live (and wrote a sort of review-commentary in which I compared Finnissy to the nameless heroine of Bob Dylan's 'Love Minus Zero'  ), and taped it off the radio myself a few weeks later. But the Xenakis is most welcome, even though I may have to co-opt a few family members, friends and lovers into some free rapidsharing! |
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« Reply #807 on: 09:56:36, 16-09-2008 » |
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I would like to have been at that concert - the performance sounds extraordinary (although I have no other one to compare it to). You are very welcome to post your review of the concert on the blog.
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« Reply #808 on: 15:05:41, 16-09-2008 » |
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Thanks - I was paid by a magazine for it though, so I'd probably better not! There is a much earlier recording by Finnissy, still commercially available I think, on the Etcetera label. The most stunning performance I've ever heard of it, though, was by a recently departed member of this very board, at King's College earlier this year; but I'm not sure if he recorded it. |
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« Reply #809 on: 08:35:07, 20-09-2008 » |
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This has just come to my attention. It looks very interesting, and I wonder how much will be broadcast?
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