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András Szollosy - Works for Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra. This hasn't really grabbed me before now, but I've been giving it serious attention this weekend, and it's paying off. I know Richard likes a bit of Szollosy (I'm not even going to attempt the Hungarian accents, sorry), so I've been alternating it with Vanity. Yes, it's been a weekend of charming chamber lollipops round here...  |
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« Reply #1546 on: 11:03:56, 30-09-2007 » |
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Sinfonia in F Major to the Whitsun Cantata "Ertönet, ihr seligen Völker"
Tell me this is NOT the strangest piece of music in this man's output. Never have I witnessed imitative counterpoint clashing so horrendously with phrase structure!
Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Hartmut Haenchen, dir.
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« Reply #1547 on: 11:06:07, 30-09-2007 » |
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Currently stuck listening to a particular disk of piano music by a one Giuseppe Martucci (he was a teacher of Respighi's). Some rather beautiful sounds in it that, if they were more modern I might term cliched but, given when he was about they must count as something far more beautiful. Will definitely keep an eye out in future for his works I think.
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Morning Increpatio, Martucci's complete orchestral works have recently appeared on Brilliant for £10. I've heard good things about them and so that set of discs is on my wishlist! I do have a disc of his chamber works but it's another in my "bought too many CDs so haven't listened to it yet" pile. Anyway, here's the details of the orchestral CD: http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product//93439.htmHope this helps! |
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« Reply #1550 on: 11:16:04, 30-09-2007 » |
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Morning Increpatio, Martucci's complete orchestral works have recently appeared on Brilliant for £10. I've heard good things about them and so that set of discs is on my wishlist! I do have a disc of his chamber works but it's another in my "bought too many CDs so haven't listened to it yet" pile. Anyway, here's the details of the orchestral CD: http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product//93439.htmHope this helps! Oh yes! Thanks! |
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« Reply #1551 on: 11:23:30, 30-09-2007 » |
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Tell me this is NOT the strangest piece of music in this man's output. Never have I witnessed imitative counterpoint clashing so horrendously with phrase structure!
Hmmm. I feel in my bones that I have recordings of WFB's complete cantatas on the top shelf over there. That Biber CD is one of my favourites. It's the only recording of baroque chamber music I know where the continuo organist uses the carillon stop. Good for him! |
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« Reply #1552 on: 11:34:22, 30-09-2007 » |
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I feel in my bones that I have recordings of WFB's complete cantatas on the top shelf over there.
Scheidt! not complete AT ALL. I suppose we'll have to wait until the awakening of the Dish which Chafeth. |
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« Reply #1553 on: 14:45:57, 30-09-2007 » |
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Well, now I've probably talked it up too much, but listen to it a few times, and I'm sure a bowel movement isn't far away. Sinfonia in F Major to the Whitsun Cantata "Ertönet, ihr seligen Völker"Also quite neat are his viola duos, which every WFB anorak has already score-read in her/his vestibule. |
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« Reply #1554 on: 18:51:34, 30-09-2007 » |
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Well, now I've probably talked it up too much, but listen to it a few times, and I'm sure a bowel movement isn't far away.
It sounds amazingly clumsy in places. Who taught this guy counterpoint? On the other hand, WFB did write a few very fine things, particularly a concerto in Eb for two harpsichords and orchestra |
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« Reply #1555 on: 19:04:36, 30-09-2007 » |
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Well, now I've probably talked it up too much, but listen to it a few times, and I'm sure a bowel movement isn't far away.
It sounds amazingly clumsy in places. Who taught this guy counterpoint? On the other hand, WFB did write a few very fine things, particularly a concerto in Eb for two harpsichords and orchestra Clumsy? I guess that's a good word for it... but I do like it very much. I'd prefer to say "unsettled" and mean it in the best sense of the word. Ollie? |
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« Reply #1556 on: 19:46:21, 30-09-2007 » |
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Well, now I've probably talked it up too much, but listen to it a few times, and I'm sure a bowel movement isn't far away.
It sounds amazingly clumsy in places. Who taught this guy counterpoint? On the other hand, WFB did write a few very fine things, particularly a concerto in Eb for two harpsichords and orchestra Clumsy? I guess that's a good word for it... but I do like it very much. I'd prefer to say "unsettled" and mean it in the best sense of the word. Ollie? No, I do like it, and thanks for uploading it, but, though there are some moments which are stylistically very familiar from his other ensemble music, the asymmetry of the phrases sometimes sounds like the piece was written on a vase that got broken and then stuck back together not quite perfectly. |
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« Reply #1557 on: 20:08:38, 30-09-2007 » |
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Yes, that's a nice image to describe it. Quirky, a little off, in the best sense. That effect would be ruined if it weren't so full of what you call "familiar moments", eh?  |
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Roslavets: Chamber Symphony
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Carter: Quartet No. 1.
First, a work well worthy of the subtitle "Schönberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1½" and then one of the most remarkable string quartets from the second half of the recently departed century (for all that it almost ushered in that half-century).
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a work well worthy of the subtitle "Schönberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1½"
I do believe I'll be hearing No 1 live in concert tonight, possibly (could it be true? I've a feeling it may be) for the first time in my increasingly long life. As for the weekend just ended, spinning chez Mr T.I. Now were diversos cosas, among which: Hoban: selected works, starting with Jormungandr since it seems to have provoked no small amount of comment here recently, although the piece that really held my attention was Doppelte WahrheitFox: one, two, three (reasons to be cheerful for string quartet) more Fox: the well-Paced piano music Kurtág: ... concertante ... for violin, viola and orchestra, a giant by his standards at 25 minutes, and really rather good (it won the Grawemeyer Award a couple of years ago but I'd never got round to it, so was listening for the first time) and, as a nightcap last night, this lovely collection of sounds from Madagascar:  |
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