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I vant to heer his Messiah.  Zat good per'aps bia wrenched.  |
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« Reply #2056 on: 19:12:20, 16-01-2008 » |
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Now spitting: Next door, a brass quintet is rehearsing an arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibition.  Life is short, but life is grand. |
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« Reply #2057 on: 19:32:10, 16-01-2008 » |
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Hebrides Overture
Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink
Recorded 29 June 1956, Hilversum (Netherlands).
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #2058 on: 13:42:57, 17-01-2008 » |
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« Reply #2059 on: 16:17:50, 17-01-2008 » |
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Another set worth the wait is the 3CD reissue of 'Fricsay -Tchaikovsky' on the Andromeda label. ANDRCD 5095. Symphonies 5 & 6 with the BPO in 1949 and 1953; the rest of the set is with RIAS Sym Orch: Sym 4 (1952) Violin Concerto (1949 with Yehudi Menuhin), Swan Lake Suite (1957), 1812 Overture (1953) and Waltzes from Eugene Onegin & Nutcracker (1957).
A steal at £6 99 from hmv.online.
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« Reply #2060 on: 16:54:53, 17-01-2008 » |
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Another set worth the wait is the 3CD reissue of 'Fricsay -Tchaikovsky' on the Andromeda label. ANDRCD 5095. Symphonies 5 & 6 with the BPO in 1949 and 1953; the rest of the set is with RIAS Sym Orch: Sym 4 (1952) Violin Concerto (1949 with Yehudi Menuhin), Swan Lake Suite (1957), 1812 Overture (1953) and Waltzes from Eugene Onegin & Nutcracker (1957). Ah: the wonderful Ferenc Fricsay! I don't know his Tchaikovsky waltzes, but I do know his unforgettable recording of the Blue Danube. Such a famous piece, but under the direction of Fricsay it sounds so fresh.  |
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« Reply #2061 on: 17:50:23, 17-01-2008 » |
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Yes, Pim, fresh and elevating, too, in a distinctly gloomy week. Coincidentally, A DVD of Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' has also arrived as part of my New Year treat package. Well, that's my excuse. Performed by the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet and Orchestra, Valery Gergiev. A real antidote to tonight's Performance on Three which features Bernstein's Jeremiah Symphony!  "A gloomy day this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show its head...." Escalus, Romeo & Juliet |
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« Reply #2062 on: 18:26:22, 17-01-2008 » |
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"A gloomy day this morning with it brings.
The sun for sorrow will not show its head...."
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« Reply #2063 on: 19:04:06, 17-01-2008 » |
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Study 40 from:  Quite astounding clarity of textures after the Wergo effort. This one uses a 1927 Bösendorfer Grand and a 1925 Fischer Grand, both with Ampico mechanisms. Synchronization is computer controlled. |
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« Reply #2064 on: 19:05:46, 17-01-2008 » |
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Quite astounding clarity of textures after the Wergo effort. This one uses a 1927 Bösendorfer Grand and a 1925 Fischer Grand, both with Ampico mechanisms. Synchronization is computer controlled.
Thanks for the tip! Who's performing? |
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« Reply #2065 on: 19:21:49, 17-01-2008 » |
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Um, Ampico, CD. The project is the work of Jürgen Hocker who toured with Nancarrow using the Bösendorfer and developed the hammer rail in cooperation with him. There's a brief review here, but it does not go into the question of the two instruments. The booklet notes on the studies themselves are not really up there with those by James Tenney, for the the Wergo set, but the sound is far, far superior. |
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« Reply #2066 on: 21:00:27, 17-01-2008 » |
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« Reply #2067 on: 21:08:27, 17-01-2008 » |
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 Omnis spiritus laudat Dominum... Ah. Very refreshing. Played two concerts today, the first to a babes-in-arms audience with chattering and screaming all the way through, the second to an audience we barely outnumbered. So a little Monteverdi is just what the doctor ordered. [...I meant to write 'an audience who barely outnumbered us' but made instead the Freudian slip above. Although actually if you take our insiders away from the 'audience' figure and put them instead on the 'us' figure I was right the first time. Oh bugler that's a downer... ] |
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« Reply #2068 on: 21:20:38, 17-01-2008 » |
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There are quite a few photographs of the instruments to be found by searching Google Images for "Bösendorfer Ampico", and "Fischer Ampico" respectively. |
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« Reply #2069 on: 21:30:40, 17-01-2008 » |
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Omnis spiritus laudat Dominum... Monteverdi spinning here too:  |
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