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Oh dear, sorry...
You can change the keyboard (the mapping obviously rather than the physical keyboard) in the language settings on either Mac or PC - that can give access to characters you wouldn't be able to find otherwise. (I change mine to Czech from time to time for ěščřž and the like which aren't so easy to get from the German keyboard.)
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« Reply #31 on: 07:37:39, 14-08-2007 » |
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That's the one! Some sources say it was performed in Berlin in 1912, but I find that unbelievable.
Just out of interest, what sources are they? I have to admit that I've never heard about an airing of that piece other than the one and only one that I mentioned, so I must admit to curiousty about that. I believe that the Gabrielis were contemplating performing BvD1 in a programme with Carter 1 but this never happened. Best, Alistair |
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Just out of interest, what sources are they? I have to admit that I've never heard about an airing of that piece other than the one and only one that I mentioned, so I must admit to curiousty about that. I believe that the Gabrielis were contemplating performing BvD1 in a programme with Carter 1 but this never happened.
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« Reply #33 on: 18:40:55, 15-08-2007 » |
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Miaskovsky? One of the quartets was on R3 this very afternoon...
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« Reply #34 on: 21:57:50, 15-08-2007 » |
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it was, jonathan, and wasn't it wonderful?
bot - if we can't consider bartok, i consider schnittke's quartets to be the finest of the 20th century.
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« Reply #35 on: 07:09:36, 16-08-2007 » |
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tut, oppers.
why? i don't know the janacek quartets well at all. any recommendations?
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« Reply #36 on: 08:48:21, 16-08-2007 » |
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tut, oppers.
why? i don't know the janacek quartets well at all. any recommendations?
well, er, you could listen to the first quartet. and then you could listen to the second quartet.  what's that, sooty? he might have meant recordings? ok, here y'go: http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product//SU34862.htmThe Janacek quartets are absolute magic. Don't know the Skampa version but I can at least vouch for the Hagens on DG. |
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« Reply #37 on: 09:39:24, 16-08-2007 » |
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Me too. Before I heard the Hagens I had the Melos, of which I subsequently disposed. I wonder if those Hagens are planning to record the 2VS? I suppose it depends on DG fitting them in between their ground-breaking recordings of Osvaldo Golijov, Elvis Costello and Sting.
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« Reply #38 on: 12:21:08, 16-08-2007 » |
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Milhaud was mentioned in the first posting. I have enjoyed one of the probably half dozen of his that I have heard (there are 18 - two of them, numbers 14 and 15, I think, can also be performed together as an octet...) - sorry can't remember which it was...but they are not very long...  And it was an excuse to slip in my favourite French string quartet, Dutilleux's Ainsi la nuit - his sole exercise in the medium, sadly, therefore as soon as you read this sentence you must do the cyberspace equivalent of eating it and forgetting it (but there is a subliminal message there --- LISTEN TO IT --- LISTEN TO IT --- LISTEN TO IT--- ) |
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« Reply #39 on: 12:30:33, 16-08-2007 » |
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And it was an excuse to slip in my favourite French string quartet, Dutilleux's Ainsi la nuit - his sole exercise in the medium, sadly, therefore as soon as you read this sentence you must do the cyberspace equivalent of eating it and forgetting it (but there is a subliminal message there --- LISTEN TO IT --- LISTEN TO IT --- LISTEN TO IT--- )
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« Reply #40 on: 13:51:09, 16-08-2007 » |
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I'm glad we seem to be getting away from the arbitrary number of half-a-dozen essays in the genre as a reason for inclusion in the discussion: it seems to be lauding quantity over quality, and as the Milhaud examples show, the two don't always go hand in hand. There are plenty of C20th composers who managed fewer than six quartets but are still worthy of serious consideration, after all.
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« Reply #41 on: 16:09:46, 16-08-2007 » |
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Seconded - really beautiful piece. Worth hearing the Arditti disc that has that and the second and third Dusapin quartets on, both of which are also wondrous pieces.
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« Reply #42 on: 19:45:44, 16-08-2007 » |
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Not sure how many he wrote but recently heard Szymanowski's first string quartet on TTN- Incredibly tense and poetical and definetly makes me want to hear again.....
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« Reply #43 on: 00:10:45, 17-08-2007 » |
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Not sure how many he wrote but recently heard Szymanowski's first string quartet on TTN- Incredibly tense and poetical and definetly makes me want to hear again.....
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« Reply #44 on: 19:38:39, 17-08-2007 » |
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Dillon and Ferenyhough are both one away (couldn't see it mentioned but thought both sets are worth a listen if anyone has time)
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What's empirical about sound? You can't write an article about it in die Reihe, that's for sure.
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