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« Reply #15 on: 12:31:24, 19-03-2007 »
Roslyn - I've remembered a couple of Misha Mengelberg pieces (Sing Song Saturday and Rollo 4) which I was involved with about 25 years ago. Somewhere I have both scores and recordings. I seem to remember that they were agreeably off the wall, but not in the same way as his jazz piano playing . . .
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« Reply #16 on: 13:53:10, 19-03-2007 »
Here's a film in which Dick Raaijmakers talks about electronic music. He also mentions Karel Goeyvaerts and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Unfortunately, it is in Dutch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ykZYy82eGs

Dick Raaijmakers worked as an assistant to Henk Badings and helped Edgard Varese when he was working on his Poeme Electronique in Eindhoven. Raaijmakers is still regretting the fact that he didn't ask Varese to become his teacher. In the late 1990s the Dutch television and radio network VPRO made a film about Varese's activities in the Neterlands (I have it somewhere on a video tape) and for this film the images of the original Brussels performance of Poeme Electronique were transformed into a short film. Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC3OXai7W9I

I will post more on Dutch composers later on. I'm very busy at the moment.
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« Reply #17 on: 14:01:41, 19-03-2007 »
Quote from: pim_derks on 13:44:17, 06-03-2007
...My favourite Dutch composer is Alphons Diepenbrock.

He managed to create a perfect balance between German late-romanticism (Wagner, Strauss, Mahler) and French impressionism (Debussy)...

That's a good description of the music by Diepenbrock that I have heard. My favourite piece by far is "Lydische Nacht". It is a delight from beginning to end - a haunting orchestral nocturne, gentle but still passionate. Issued on Olympia OCD 507, which to my astonishment is still available via Amazon (and you can hear a brief sample here)  Smiley
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« Reply #18 on: 14:07:01, 19-03-2007 »
Quote from: harrumph on 14:01:41, 19-03-2007
That's a good description of the music by Diepenbrock that I have heard. My favourite piece by far is "Lydische Nacht", a delight from beginning to end. Issued on Olympia CD

I bought that CD years ago. Ed Spanjaard is a wonderful conductor and very underrated in the Netherlands. He almost never gets the chance to conduct the major Dutch orchestras. Wonderful Andriessen, Badings and Van Gilse on that disc too. Smiley
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« Reply #19 on: 14:16:23, 19-03-2007 »
Quote from: pim_derks on 14:07:01, 19-03-2007
Wonderful Andriessen, Badings and Van Gilse on that disc too. Smiley

Yes, I agree - the disc was an unexpected treasure trove and a rare bargain!
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