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It absolutely beats the snot out of
That's an expression I must learn to use. Must you really? Would it require all that much of a learning process? Actually, it was the idea of beating it out of a parrot that really got me. Anyway, there are nasal sprays on the market for this kind of purpose, the use of which would surely obviate any necessity to "beat out" the offending excess music (I mean mucus). Phew! Glad I've got that off my chest... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #1591 on: 11:25:57, 03-10-2007 » |
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 It absolutely beats the snot out of the Parrott. Outstanding disc. As good as anything else Junghaenel & his band ever do, which is to say, it's brilliant. Questions from M. Ollie 'Shivering in Köln' Sudden for M. Aaron 'Toasting my Toes in Hudds' Cassidy: Are the Mag and Lauda Jerusalem at the right pitch? Does Wilfried Jochens do the tenor solos? (I fear he probably does.  ) Do they really get their throats around the coloratura? Because on their Selva Morale I'm afraid they don't, at least not to my satisfaction... |
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« Reply #1592 on: 11:32:21, 03-10-2007 » |
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Bruno Maderna - 1st Oboe Concerto. Takes a bit to get going, but classy from 6 minutes in...beautiful percussion writing and some of the ensemble colours are really very striking...good gong action too!
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« Reply #1593 on: 11:52:55, 03-10-2007 » |
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Bruno Maderna - Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra No 2 (1967). Bizarrely, only 6 seconds longer on this recording than the first one...Fabian Menzel doing a good job of the solo part...
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« Reply #1594 on: 12:12:55, 03-10-2007 » |
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Onwards to Concerto for Oboe No. 3 (1973), the last piece Maderna wrote...lovely oboe melos to open and gradual minimalist entries of percussion and (possibly) high piano...very striking. The oboe line is incredibly high for much of these opening 4 minutes...definitely happy with this buy.
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« Reply #1595 on: 12:27:54, 03-10-2007 » |
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So Biroc what kind of excitement will you move on to after the Maderna?  Wish I'd brought my CD player and new CDs to work - need something to make time go quicker!! |
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« Reply #1596 on: 12:45:08, 03-10-2007 » |
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Hmm...good question Animal...possibly Philippe Manoury's 'Le Livre des Claviers' for percussion, performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg...  |
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« Reply #1597 on: 13:18:19, 03-10-2007 » |
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An appropriate horn for the piece has yet to be found.....
Here's one. (My fading memory tells me the horn is supposed to be in e'. Is that not the case?) It must be a blue f, because it's meant to be an out-of-tune version of the last note of the rising minor tetrachord at the beginning, which is itself a transposed version of the opening of Billy Joel's Goodnight Saigon. Oh dear wrong thread. Edit: no offense intended.. I already said how much I admired the piece, eh? |
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« Reply #1598 on: 13:34:47, 03-10-2007 » |
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It must be a blue f, because it's meant to be an out-of-tune version of the last note of the rising minor tetrachord at the beginning, which is itself a transposed version of the opening of Billy Joel's Goodnight Saigon. I thought it was Venus from The Planets... oh well, Kolberg do an f' as well. |
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« Reply #1599 on: 15:05:25, 03-10-2007 » |
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Anyway. Haydn! 88th symphony! La Petite Bande / Kuijken! What a slow movement! And why can't my printer currently churning out hard copies of my tax documents for 2006 do it a bit more quietly?!?  |
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« Reply #1600 on: 15:09:08, 03-10-2007 » |
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88 is often overlooked in the din of Paris and London Symphonies. A real gem! The recording of Kuijken is what I have, too: I wonder how he does on 'The Hen' ?
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« Reply #1601 on: 15:14:32, 03-10-2007 » |
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No home should be without this box:  ...especially since you can get it for around 10-15 squid from the Brazilians (and I see a used one for £7.50). 5CDs of pure magic. Only problem is it then becomes hard to enjoy anyone else's Haydn recordings. Did for me, anyway. He's also done the Londoners. They're also great. |
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« Reply #1602 on: 17:19:11, 03-10-2007 » |
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No home should be without this box: ...especially since you can get it for around 10-15 squid from the Brazilians (and I see a used one for £7.50). 5CDs of pure magic. Only problem is it then becomes hard to enjoy anyone else's Haydn recordings. Did for me, anyway. He's also done the Londoners. They're also great. Thank you for this; I bought this box (cheap!) in a fit of Haydn-enthusiasm a few months ago and never got around to listening to most of it. It shall spin upon my return home, where such things are spun. (My fit of Haydn-enthusiasm, in retrospect, didn't seem to last long. I've never really found a way into Haydn... my loss, no doubt, but there it is.) |
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« Reply #1603 on: 20:02:47, 03-10-2007 » |
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No home should be without this box:
...especially since you can get it for around 10-15 squid from the Brazilians (and I see a used one for £7.50). 5CDs of pure magic. Only problem is it then becomes hard to enjoy anyone else's Haydn recordings. Did for me, anyway. He's also done the Londoners. They're also great.
Thank you for this; I bought this box (cheap!) in a fit of Haydn-enthusiasm a few months ago and never got around to listening to most of it. It shall spin upon my return home, where such things are spun. (My fit of Haydn-enthusiasm, in retrospect, didn't seem to last long. I've never really found a way into Haydn... my loss, no doubt, but there it is.) I'm the same, Ev. All sorts of people who I respect insist that Haydn's great, but I just can't get excited. I'll give a quick listen to this Kuijken one online and see if that changes anything. |
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« Reply #1604 on: 20:05:40, 03-10-2007 » |
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Ditto, sorry to say. Or, rather, I go through periods when I think I see it; but then the mist falls again. I'll try that stuff too.
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