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Now another of today's deliveries, Ronald Brautigam (Paul McNullty 2005, after Wlater & Sohn, c. 1802), Beethoven Opera 26, 27 and 28. More joyfuyl playing, this time in well mixed surround and well as two channel stereo. I somehow managed to order two copies, it seems, one from Caiman, and the other from Caiman Bargain. They must have ben slightly differently described and separately listed on Amazon.
The recording does report a whole host of mechanical squeaks, clicks, etc, associated with the instrument. These incidental noised are particularly prominent in the opening few seconds of Op. 27/2. At first hearing I took them for digital artefacts, but closer listening reveals them as being produced by the fortepiano's mechanism and/or frame/housing.
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« Reply #136 on: 09:03:47, 27-02-2007 » |
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Tommo, what about Zemlinsky. Do you like his music? I only know the name.
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I really love die seejungfrau, and quite like the string quartet. Not sure about his songs yet. Generally, I think his lush symphony stuff is OK. Worth listening to.
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« Reply #138 on: 20:46:40, 27-02-2007 » |
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Just finished playing the latest CD of Carlo Grante's Godowsky edition - various arrangements of Weber, Chopin and Schubert. Great stuff!
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« Reply #139 on: 21:41:31, 27-02-2007 » |
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Roberto Gerhard - The Plague, after Camus. One disturbing aspect of the Dorati recording is that the very English narration by Alec McCowan sits uncomfortably with the US-accented voices of the (Washington DC) chorus, particularly since so much of the chorus part is also spoken. Mind you, it's not un-disturbing in many other ways.
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« Reply #140 on: 22:01:36, 27-02-2007 » |
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r, that also used to worry me with that recording, which as yet I've not duplicated on CD. What I do have, as yet still wrapped, is the other recording (Michael Lonsdale/BBCSChorus/Joven Orchestra Nacional de Espana/Colomer on Auvidis - part of the same series as the symphonies)(substantial coupling of 22 mins in the Epithalamion, too): I'll have a dive in there in the next couple of days...
Just sampling the Dutton recording of the John Pickard Quartets for the first time; whilst we're not talking cutting-edge modernity here, I'm really impressed with what I'm hearing in the 2nd, which is the first on the disc (with the 3rd and 4th); very idiomatic writing in a language which inhabits territory bordered distantly by Bartok, Britten, Nielsen and Tippett: strong, muscular, closely argued stuff, engaging and involving. This won't be going back on the shelves for a while, I'm sure; it will stay in the desk pile for imminent replay.
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« Reply #141 on: 22:14:18, 27-02-2007 » |
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A DVD at the moment, John Cage: From Zero (Four films on John Cage by Frank Scheffer and Andrew Culver). Mode 130.
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« Reply #142 on: 22:20:26, 27-02-2007 » |
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"Both fantastic, I think. The Ferneyhough really came alive for me once I saw it live -- quite a special and intimate piece."
Enjoy both, though I found the Ferneyhough string trio harder to get into than the Finnissy, probably bcz I played it back-to-back.
Been playing quite a bit of stuff from both Richard Ayres and Christopher Fox and an ECM CD with two song cycles from Heinz Holliger: "Beiseit" and "Alb-Cherhr".
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« Reply #143 on: 23:25:00, 27-02-2007 » |
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Been playing quite a bit of stuff from both Richard Ayres and Christopher Fox and an ECM CD with two song cycles from Heinz Holliger: "Beiseit" and "Alb-Cherhr".
I absolutely adore the Holliger ECM discs, but that one is perhaps my favorite (a toss-up w/ the Scardinelli Zyklus). Which Ayres & Fox? |
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« Reply #144 on: 00:53:33, 28-02-2007 » |
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I've just been watching the first act of Schreker's Die Gezeichneten, in the Salzburg Festival production conducted by Kent Nagano. It's pretty decadent I must say. I'm not entirely sure what's been gained by the central character being portrayed as a transvestite rather than as a hunchback, though, particularly as he keeps referring to his ugliness when he's basically just a bloke in a pink frock and a bit of slap. But what do I know.
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« Reply #145 on: 10:49:39, 28-02-2007 » |
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Yes I will get onto Scardinelli Zyklus next.
Richard Ayres - MacGowan, no31, no5 and NONconcerto (best for last).
Fox - Etwas Lebhaft, Reeling (from the ensemble works on Metier).
Last night it ws the Arditti quartet and a cpl from the 'For Italy' set - 'Spirali' by Marco Stroppa and 'Secundo Quartetto' by Melchiorre.
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« Reply #146 on: 22:45:12, 02-03-2007 » |
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Bax Tintagel - Ulster Orchestra/ Thomson
Amazing performance of this piece, the rocky cliffs and rolling waves of cornwall in my ears just before I go to bed....
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« Reply #147 on: 00:03:16, 03-03-2007 » |
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Raautavara - Angels of Light
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« Reply #148 on: 13:28:00, 03-03-2007 » |
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Beuna Vista Social Club - Chan Chan
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« Reply #149 on: 21:08:04, 03-03-2007 » |
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some of you might know that I just acquired a recording of the Diabelli Variations played by Jörg Demus (Saphir LVC 001064). I'm horrified to report that it's spinning now. Horrified because at the end of every track it doubles back a fraction of a second resulting each time in something between a brief change in the acoustic and a couple of repeated notes. And since the variations are individually tracked that's a lot of hiccups.
Why did the reviews I read not mention this? Grr. There are some email addresses on the cover so I'm going to write to them. In the meantime I post this to warn those I've recommended it to that to compensate for what's very right about the disc there's also something horribly wrong with it.
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