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« on: 09:50:31, 19-07-2007 » |
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I've been listening to a CD of contemporary viola music by Paul Silverthorne and John Constable, and I'm particularly struck by Tiensuu's Oddjob.
Does anyone here have any views on this composer?
Thanks
Tommo
[Edit: Tienssu (as on the CD) changed to Tiensuu (as on the web)]
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #1 on: 13:02:47, 19-07-2007 » |
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Ah, having just found out he is Finnish, I now see that there is a link with the modern Finnish Solo Violin thread.
Jonathan, Aaron - could you point me in the direction of other Tiensuu works you have enjoyed
Thanks
Tommo
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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Evan Johnson
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« Reply #2 on: 13:20:53, 19-07-2007 » |
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Tiensuu is a really, really interesting composer, and I don't know nearly enough of his music; I can recommend heartily Arsenic and Old Lace (what's with his titles, by the way?) for microtonally retuned harpsichord and string quartet, on the Arditti "From Scandanavia" collection, which was reissued in one of those Montaigne colored cardboard sleeves but is by now probably pretty hard to find again. (The rest of it is pretty good too, with a nice Bent Sorensen piece and some decent Lindberg and Saariaho).
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« Reply #3 on: 13:47:54, 19-07-2007 » |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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Evan Johnson
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« Reply #4 on: 13:56:30, 19-07-2007 » |
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Heh. Relatively speaking  I have some time for Kraft etc., but the more recent stuff, not my bag. This is a fairly entertaining and quite well-put-together piece, though ("this" being the Clarinet Quintet) |
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« Reply #5 on: 14:13:00, 19-07-2007 » |
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Yeah, I've heard it. It's sort of inoffensive, I guess (which I find pretty offensive, actually, if you see what I mean).
One of the long-term projects I'm unlikely ever to realise is to learn enough about Open Music to write a really, really damning critique of how Lindberg uses it to produce a piece like A Due.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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Jonathan Powell
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« Reply #6 on: 14:10:44, 20-07-2007 » |
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I played a piece by Tiensuu called Grround for piano. It is good, and it was broadcast on R3. He is also an excellent harpsichordist, with a few CDs. I think one or two of his harpsichord pieces are on his own CDs.
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« Reply #7 on: 14:54:58, 11-08-2007 » |
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Yeah, I've heard it. It's sort of inoffensive, I guess (which I find pretty offensive, actually, if you see what I mean). Says the Anderson appreciator?  |
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richard barrett
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« Reply #8 on: 14:58:13, 11-08-2007 » |
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He is also an excellent harpsichordist, with a few CDs. He certainly is. One of them contains both Xenakis' Khoai and Soler's Fandango and both of these are my favourite performances of the respective pieces. |
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« Reply #9 on: 14:59:36, 11-08-2007 » |
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(Is that a Goldsworthy, Richard? I prefer it to the cowbells.)
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richard barrett
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« Reply #10 on: 15:53:21, 11-08-2007 » |
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Yes it is. The cowbells mysteriously disappeared yesterday, and, strangely, a muffled tinkling was heard soon afterwards from my sock drawer.
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aaron cassidy
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« Reply #11 on: 16:20:26, 11-08-2007 » |
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He is also an excellent harpsichordist, with a few CDs. He certainly is. One of them contains both Xenakis' Khoai and Soler's Fandango and both of these are my favourite performances of the respective pieces. I absolutely love that disc, RB. And you're right, the Xenakis is outstanding. (Though ... my favorite piece on the disc is the Sciarrino De o de do, I think.) |
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Evan Johnson
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« Reply #12 on: 16:39:07, 11-08-2007 » |
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He certainly is. One of them contains both Xenakis' Khoai and Soler's Fandango and both of these are my favourite performances of the respective pieces.
I absolutely love that disc, RB. And you're right, the Xenakis is outstanding. (Though ... my favorite piece on the disc is the Sciarrino De o de do, I think.) This sounds like something I might need to get my hands on. Is it alive and hiding in a corner somewhere? The usual suspects didn't turn it up... (I assume it is the Finlandia disc questionably entitled--or at least translated--"The Fantastic Harpsichord"?) |
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Sydney Grew
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« Reply #13 on: 17:00:50, 11-08-2007 » |
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I'm particularly struck by Tiensuu's Oddjob.
Does anyone here have any views on this composer? also . . . Xenakis' Khoai
Sciarrino De o de do
Grround for piano
Arsenic and Old Lace
We have found silly and pretentious names for a piece of music to be a reliable indication of its lack of substance. |
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« Reply #14 on: 17:01:56, 11-08-2007 » |
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What's silly or pretentious about Khoai?
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