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« Reply #15 on: 22:57:52, 16-10-2007 »
Listened to the Requiem Canticles tonight and in the first movement was struck very forcibly (it was on quite quietly initially) with the question 'WHAT IS THIS?'
Very strange. Looking forward to going back and re-listening with less wine in my system.
Thanks for the recommendation Ron!
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« Reply #16 on: 11:38:20, 18-10-2007 »
Listening to Volume XII of the Sony Stravinsky edition, the thought occurred to me that I'd much rather have serial Stravinsky than another Danses concertantes. Actually you can keep the one that he already wrote. Zzzzz (IMHO of course!)
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« Reply #17 on: 17:04:12, 20-10-2007 »
'The Owl and the Pussy Cat' has a certain dead-pan charm-
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« Reply #18 on: 17:53:34, 20-10-2007 »
Alas I can only listen to The Owl and the Pussycat as I first heard it: on an old Russian recording by I don't remember whom, with an accent you could put some caviar on and eat with your vodka. Anyone else remember this recording? Oh Poosy mai llove...
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« Reply #19 on: 18:13:39, 20-10-2007 »
It's one of the pieces I don't know  Embarrassed
But I'll be searching it out next week!  Grin
I love these threads that drive you to discover new things (or, as in this case, things that you've been meaning to get around to for years but haven't quite got round to it).
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« Reply #20 on: 20:50:33, 20-10-2007 »
I'm not keen on that Owl and the Pussycat. (Hello again jennyhorn.) It seems very grey and contrived to me.

It also occurs to me that the late Stravinsky pieces I like are the instrumental ones. Actually I might stick my neck out and say that twelve-tone vocal music of that degree of strictness doesn't do much for me. For example (off the top of my head) Berg, Boulez and Barraqué tend not to fall into ponderous syllabic renditions of serial forms like Stravinsky did. While there's obviously a lot to be explored in the area of "treating voices as instruments", treating them as "any old" instrument is another matter. I think. Or at least I think I think. Just trying to post something about music for a change.
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