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« Reply #1560 on: 17:25:49, 01-10-2007 » |
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 I'm really, really enjoying listening to the above CD. The sound of the piano, and the recording quality, the playing, and my current responsiveness to counterpoint all seem to be really working fantastically well together. (almost at the end of it; I think it'll go down in the books as the most enjoyable hour-long listening experiences I've had in some time. I don't know the last track (a fugato by Wong), so I'm also excited to hear that). |
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« Reply #1561 on: 20:56:38, 01-10-2007 » |
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Not quite "now", but last night's bedtime spinning (and a Spin Again on the tube today) was Tippett's Concerto for Orchestra. I wish he'd written more like this.
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« Reply #1562 on: 21:22:52, 01-10-2007 » |
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Not quite "now", but last night's bedtime spinning (and a Spin Again on the tube today) was Tippett's Concerto for Orchestra. I wish he'd written more like this.
Seconded! I rather think that he really came into his own during the 1940s at around the time of the Third Quartet and had his greatest flowering from then until - well, around the time of the Concerto for Orchestra, perhaps. The Triple Concerto seems to me to stick out like something of a later exception, almost as though he wanted to revisit some of those things that he did best, albeit from the perspective of the late 1970s (and the Third Piano Sonata is rather good, too). Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #1563 on: 22:05:15, 01-10-2007 » |
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Thirded! In fact, it's now spinning thanks to that. An extraordinary piece, and I wrote my masters paper on it - much to the bemusement of various Princeton worthies (including Babbitt) who had hardly even heard of Tippett, let alone the concerto. When the hell was this masterpiece last performed in this country?  |
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« Reply #1564 on: 22:11:14, 01-10-2007 » |
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Not meaning to break up the Tippettfest but now spinning here is this:  That's vintage Norrington, that is. Straight on the Pod with that one. |
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« Reply #1565 on: 22:21:27, 01-10-2007 » |
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 Can't say I'm that taken with the Liszt, but Komen and Weil make a pretty good job of the Beethoven, I think. |
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« Reply #1566 on: 22:22:06, 01-10-2007 » |
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That's vintage Norrington, that is.
Certainly is. And it's now spinning here as well... |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #1567 on: 22:50:59, 01-10-2007 » |
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Now spinning chez TommoBoth vastly under-rated concertos, IMO Tommo |
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« Reply #1568 on: 08:29:00, 02-10-2007 » |
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After all this Szymanowski talk I finally decided to play the Stabat Mater - of Domenico Scarlatti. It seems hardly possible that a person wrote this piece.
Concerto Italiano, Alessandrini
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« Reply #1569 on: 16:58:57, 02-10-2007 » |
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 Because some days only monster riff insanity will do, and this is one of those days. |
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« Reply #1570 on: 22:23:10, 02-10-2007 » |
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That's better.  Followed by:  Zsolt Durkó: Not As Much Fun As Hawkwind |
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« Reply #1571 on: 22:27:12, 02-10-2007 » |
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Zsolt Durkó: Not As Much Fun As Hawkwind
Great album title that, Tim.  Meanwhile, more Zawinul nostalgia here at martle mansions -  |
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« Reply #1572 on: 23:36:21, 02-10-2007 » |
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I heard some things by Durkó many years ago (I had a friend who was a hungarophile) and found them quite interesting, but that was then, and I dare say they wouldn't really cut the mustard when what you really crave is the company of the Masters of the Universe. Today this has been spinning in my vicinity:  ... because some days only Mr Braxton's cerebral yet visceral sonic convolutions will do. |
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« Reply #1573 on: 23:42:38, 02-10-2007 » |
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Not meaning to break up the Tippettfest but now spinning here is this: That's vintage Norrington, that is. Straight on the Pod with that one. I like the original ending to the Flying Dutchman overture on that one. |
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« Reply #1574 on: 00:56:38, 03-10-2007 » |
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Now spinning? My head. Too many G&Ts followed by Orval and a Macon-Villages
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