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So it's in stereo, is it? That certainly makes my ears prick up (both of them). For me Böhm has a bit too much "forward momentum" though. an advantage (more pix?) On the strength of the Rheingold cover I'm not sure whether more pix would be much of an advantage. Surely that's a false nose? |
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« Reply #1996 on: 10:16:55, 06-01-2008 » |
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it's the best cycle on so many levels.
even through the sulphuric hiss of Nibelheim!  yes, ollie richard, in stereo. it's not quite as helter-skelter as Bohm can be in places (which I generally find thrilling), but it's pacey, as Wagner wanted. And Keilberth (helped by the recording) really gets inside the textures. Not always the most polshed orchestral playing, but always hugely characterful, and well balanced. For 1955, it's a remarkable recording. There are some aural blips -- a pronounced hiss* throughout the Nibelheim scene (a result of the staging), a few moments where the sound image briefly switches to mono, and (most seriously) some pitch wobble (from the tape) at the end of Walkure Act 3. For me, those reservations aren't enough to distract from what is an extraordinary vintage performance, and in fact on repeated listening they bother me less and less. * H-I-S-S, pronounced "hiss" |
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« Reply #1997 on: 10:20:05, 06-01-2008 » |
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yes, ollie, in stereo. Thanks, Tony. Opilec. (is this really me writing?) |
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« Reply #1998 on: 10:21:45, 06-01-2008 » |
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yes, ollie, in stereo. Thanks, Tony. oops! now edited!  |
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« Reply #1999 on: 10:25:02, 06-01-2008 » |
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Skalkottas - 32 piano pieces. Performed by Nikolaos Samaltanos on BIS.
A possibly major discovery, this. I'll post later on the Skalkottas board.
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« Reply #2000 on: 10:26:04, 06-01-2008 » |
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sososo s & i.
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« Reply #2001 on: 10:30:03, 06-01-2008 » |
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and (most seriously) some pitch wobble (from the tape) at the end of Walkure Act 3.
IIRC, there's bit of pitch wobble in the big Wotan-Brunnhilde scene in Act 2 as well. I wonder if some of these issues have been sorted out for the recent issue of the entire cycle? |
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« Reply #2002 on: 11:22:44, 06-01-2008 » |
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Spinning yesterday, an unexpected Xmas prezzie:  Never heard it before, and it's rather wonderful. |
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Green. Always green.
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« Reply #2003 on: 11:39:38, 06-01-2008 » |
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What pianist is going to play? Nothing so exciting here. We are going to have saxophone quartet called Amstel (Netherlands).  There is Glazunov (the only name I know) Quartet, Renske Vrolijk Squawk Box (2006/2007) Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Chromatic Fantasy (transcription) Ian Wilson Ghosts (2006) Do you know any of the composers? The program looks challenging. I know Ian quite well; the Amstel quartet have recorded his Atlantica on this CD; it's also available on this disc (free from the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland). There's a CD of Wilson's string orchestra pieces coming out around April which I recommend as a good introduction (or for those who want to catch up). |
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« Reply #2004 on: 15:15:22, 06-01-2008 » |
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Spinning yesterday, an unexpected Xmas prezzie: Never heard it before, and it's rather wonderful. Yes, I've sung in a production of that in San Francisco: a very charming work in the approximate calibre of Purcell's operas, though not nearly as wild, harmonically. |
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inert fig here
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« Reply #2005 on: 16:04:24, 06-01-2008 » |
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Cesar Franck - Les Djinns (1884). Symphonic poem with piano obbligato (Richter).
Blimey, what a bizarre piece. It quotes Finlandia and Weill's Bilbao song.
Hang on. Those came later, didn't they?
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« Reply #2006 on: 20:06:11, 06-01-2008 » |
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Hooray for Marty Paich, here in an octet with special guest Jimmy Giuffre (1955). Giuffre comes off very well, but the star is Paich's arranging
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« Reply #2007 on: 22:33:57, 06-01-2008 » |
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A CD of Maxim Florin - a rather fine accordionist I encountered in Bank Tube Station shortly before Christmas.
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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 #2008 on: 06:52:22, 07-01-2008 » |
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Don't tell us any more than you think you need to... |
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« Reply #2009 on: 08:31:14, 07-01-2008 » |
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Was just spinning Johannes Schöllhorn's berstend-starr, a rendition of Boulez' explosante-fixe.
If music is ever "disarming", this is what it sounds like.
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