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« Reply #2100 on: 14:14:12, 28-01-2008 » |
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Aaaaaaaalbeniz sonata No. 5 - it very much wears its heart on its sleeve and isn't afraid to repeat itself in the least. Gorgeous (and there's not much I'd apply that word to). And the last movement is rather especially special I think, far more classical in style than the rest, with a lot of motivic strength I think.
(also, the fugato at the start of the scherzo in the 4th sonata is the closest I've heard to Kapusin from a pre-Kapustin composer).
I've been listening to that disk of his sonatas too much this weekend; think I'll have to force myself to stay away from it for a couple of weeks!
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« Reply #2101 on: 19:13:12, 28-01-2008 » |
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And? Is it really the most aesthetically successful opera of the late nineteenth century?
Not sure I'd like to nail my colours to the mast on what counts as "aesthetically successful", but it's every bit as good as I'd remembered? A pedant writes - it was actually first performed in 1901, so perhaps it's one of the first aesthetically successful operas of the twentieth century ......  |
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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 #2102 on: 16:39:20, 29-01-2008 » |
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Beethoven 'piano' concertos in C major and minor: Mary Verney, Hanover Band. I have been meaning to put these onto CD-R for some time, and eventually got round to it last night. Following on from watching/listening to a Channel 4 programme, "The Emperor's Old Clothes", on research regarding the tempo of the slow movement of the E flat major concerto, and from Paul Badura-Skoda's recordings of the G major, and the triple concerto with Collegium Aureum, these were my introduction to the sound of the use of the forte-piano for Beethoven concertos. It took a while redrawing the worst of the LP clicks, but I think it has been worth it. I'm much enjoying hearing them again.
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« Reply #2103 on: 20:12:07, 30-01-2008 » |
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Good ols Solti and his recording of Mahler's 8th. Havnt heard it for sometime now but wow, it certainly packs a punch or two. Incidentally, Helen Watts was living in Cuckfield, just down the road from me!!
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« Reply #2104 on: 20:32:06, 30-01-2008 » |
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Last night listened to Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe (Boulez recording on DG) with the score.  It's just astonishing what Ravel achieves in that piece, I think... Quite depressing when you're trying to finish off an orchestral score yourself.  |
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« Reply #2105 on: 21:55:15, 30-01-2008 » |
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« Reply #2106 on: 22:18:00, 30-01-2008 » |
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Don't, Stuart. Just don't. What, you mean don't finish the score? It had occurred to me!  And, have you ever had a bit where you think you might have got the orchestration a bit wrong, but can't quite decide, and are tempted to put in an appendix with an alternative scoring, titled "ossia: just in case I f***ed it up the first time"? Probably wouldn't make too good an impression on the orchestra that, would it? |
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« Reply #2107 on: 22:27:09, 30-01-2008 » |
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Trouble is, he looks so dapper in almost every photo of him.  Makes me want to punch him in the gob for no particular reason, just like Simon Beesley at college (sorry Simon). All of which has sent me back to this, posted by Chafers some days ago. One of my very favourite pieces. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez1s9JCzvQg |
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« Reply #2108 on: 00:10:43, 31-01-2008 » |
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I've mentioned it before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Ol_sliu6sWow. Alas the synchronisation in the youtube version is buglered - on the other hand the DVD is in the EMI classic archive series and there it's just fine. Or there's the cd with François in the EMI GROC series. Also has the two-hand concerto and Gaspard. An absolute steal in my book. Listened to that and watched the DVD chez Lurker Knoop last night. Amazing in the cadenzas how François did two completely different improvisations with (almost) the same notes. |
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« Reply #2109 on: 00:55:01, 31-01-2008 » |
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That film of the left hand concerto also comes on a DVD which accompanies his CD of Chopin Waltzes, Ollie. I used to have the concertos on LP, but the GROC CD eluded me a couple of days ago. I ordered it, but got a refund as they could not find it in the warehouse. |
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« Reply #2110 on: 01:36:21, 31-01-2008 » |
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 This is Biber in conservative, public, ceremonial mode, but the treatments of the extremely repetitious Litaniae text are extraordinarily imaginative. What are Biber's two masses like? Worth tracking down? |
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« Reply #2111 on: 02:01:57, 31-01-2008 » |
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What are Biber's two masses like? Worth tracking down?
There are four that I know of, plus two Requiems. The Missa Salisburgensis in 53 parts, only quite recently attributed to Biber, is a spectacular and impressive thing indeed, the somewhat smaller Missa Bruxellensis less so, at least on the basis of the only recording I've heard, and of the relatively normal-sized ones I know, the Missa Sancti Henrici is more interesting than Missa Christi Resurgens. The Requiem in F minor is to my mind Biber's most moving piece of church music, though the one in A major (!) is beautiful too (particularly the recording conducted by Ton Koopman). But even the less consistently inspired pieces each have at least some arresting moments. His opera Arminio has some of those too, melodically in particular, but its forms are a bit too stereotyped and (surprisingly) its instrumental writing too restricted to hold my attention throughout its (considerable) length. My feeling is that anything by Biber is worth listening to though. |
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« Reply #2112 on: 08:46:40, 31-01-2008 » |
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That film of the left hand concerto also comes on a DVD which accompanies his CD of Chopin Waltzes, Ollie. I used to have the concertos on LP, but the GROC CD eluded me a couple of days ago. I ordered it, but got a refund as they could not find it in the warehouse. Indeed the same thing happened when I tried to order the EMI box 'Les Introuvables de Samson François' a couple of days back: the title turned out to be unforunately apt. And when I ordered the DVD with François playing the Ravel two-hand concerto what arrived was a DVD of Isaac Stern - although the package and the DVD labelling were of the disc I ordered... |
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« Reply #2113 on: 15:28:19, 31-01-2008 » |
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Well wadyano ollie, I emailed the supplier who cancelled the order and refunded the costs to me, advising them that the item was still shown as being available on the Amazon UK website. They have written back thanking me for getting in contact and saying that they seem to have a bug in their system which is automatically, and erroneously, cancelling orders, and would I please re-order, which I have. Let's wait and see what happens. |
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« Reply #2114 on: 17:37:25, 31-01-2008 » |
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How's the Muffat treating you? Did you listen to that? Unfortunately, this disc is not in our own library but we will track it down (not the Grewvian we, but the U of I music library) |
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