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Now spinning, one of my favourite Bach discs:  Cantatas 18, 106 and 150. One to a part (including the instruments) and, yes, they use a 16' bass, as well as a proper church organ. Whether the resulting sound is just a bit too opulent is perhaps debatable, but it is very good, and the consort as a whole seems better integrated (as well as more polished) than that on the ongoing Kuijken series. If Cantata 150's not by Bach, I don't really mind: it's still a great piece! But I think probably most recent opinion is in JSB's favour - probably his very first cantata, and all the more remarkable for that. And then in Cantata 18 there are these, er, memorable lines: Und uns für des Türken und des Papsts
grausamen Mord und Lästerungen,
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« Reply #2161 on: 13:03:51, 14-02-2008 » |
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Now spinning, one of my favourite Bach discs:
That's one I like a lot too. (Not sure I'd like it quite as much if I were Turkish or Catholic though.) I think the approach of Pierlot and his colleagues is interestingly conditioned by the fact that they've also performed and recorded a lot of church music by Bach's immediate predecessors (Buxtehude, Tunder, Lübeck, Hammerschmidt, Weckmann, Selle etc.), giving them quite a different perspective on JSB from many other interpreters. Today I have been spinning this:  in which the wonderful Anton Steck performs a selection of virtually unknown concertos having in common extreme virtuosity in the solo part (of the order of Locatelli, but more wild and jagged) - a reminder, in the present context of his absorption into Classic FM's consumerist packaging of music, that Vivaldi was quite a radical composer, who didn't subscribe much to the ideas of musical beauty generally accepted in his time. |
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« Reply #2162 on: 13:06:49, 14-02-2008 » |
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 cd arrived saturday, some nice bits, i found |
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« Reply #2163 on: 15:48:52, 14-02-2008 » |
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Now spinning, one of my favourite Bach discs:
That's one I like a lot too. (Not sure I'd like it quite as much if I were Turkish or Catholic though.) I think the approach of Pierlot and his colleagues is interestingly conditioned by the fact that they've also performed and recorded a lot of church music by Bach's immediate predecessors (Buxtehude, Tunder, Lübeck, Hammerschmidt, Weckmann, Selle etc.), giving them quite a different perspective on JSB from many other interpreters. Yes, that perspective shines through in these recordings: extraordinarily vivid performances. I've just ordered their more recent CD of the A major Missa and the Trauerode. Today I have been spinning this: in which the wonderful Anton Steck performs a selection of virtually unknown concertos having in common extreme virtuosity in the solo part (of the order of Locatelli, but more wild and jagged) - a reminder, in the present context of his absorption into Classic FM's consumerist packaging of music, that Vivaldi was quite a radical composer, who didn't subscribe much to the ideas of musical beauty generally accepted in his time. D'oh! Now that has to go on the wish-list too! Speaking of which, I think it was your recommendation that put me on to this, which arrived yesterday and is now spinning, a truly glorious sound:  |
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« Reply #2164 on: 18:25:01, 14-02-2008 » |
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 Lovely, lovely, lovely. He uses the Lehman temperament here, too, as in the Ollie-approved WTC I, and while obviously it's not as in-your-face in this piece it's definitely there. He takes all the repeats, and at a relatively leisurely pace, too, so the whole affair takes about 90 minutes (with the so-called "Goldberg Canons" affixed to round out the two discs). I first came to Egarr through Manze, as I imagine everyone did, but I'm becoming more and more impressed with his skills as a solo keyboardist. |
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« Reply #2165 on: 21:51:48, 14-02-2008 » |
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I have Andras Schiff playing. Ive heard that the Richard Eagarr recording was rather good. I havn a recording on this instrument yet. I heard it when it came out a few months ago(?). Loved it!!
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« Reply #2166 on: 22:17:12, 14-02-2008 » |
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Tonight chez t-i-n: Boulez, Improvisations I & II (w/ Christine Schäfer) followed by Improvisation II w/ Phyllis Bryn-Julson (I think I preferred this one actually, I've never listened to them back to back before) then: Robert Heppener, Im Gestein (for chorus, 2 percussionists and string quintet) ... hmmmmm ...  then, to clean my ears out: Fox, Clarinet Quintet |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #2167 on: 23:17:20, 14-02-2008 » |
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Tonight chez t-i-n: Robert Heppener, Im Gestein (for chorus, 2 percussionists and string quintet) ... hmmmmm ... I'm very surprised to read the name of Robert Heppener on this message board! Tonight chez p-d:  Jack Buchanan - This'll Make You Whistle and other favourites  |
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« Reply #2168 on: 23:37:42, 14-02-2008 » |
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Do tell me about Heppener, Pim. I'd never heard of him until 3 weeks ago.
I've just received the score of this piece from Donemus. I'm supposed to be writing about it for a forthcoming CD recording but I don't really like it very much!
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #2169 on: 00:03:17, 15-02-2008 » |
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Do tell me about Heppener, Pim. If I may: I came across Heppener and his work a few times while I was living in Holland and found it on the whole rather "worthy" although there was a saxophone quartet I enjoyed more than the other pieces I heard. I have the impression he's more well thought of as a teacher of composition than as a composer. |
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« Reply #2170 on: 09:32:32, 15-02-2008 » |
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Lovely, lovely, lovely. He uses the Lehman temperament here, too, as in the Ollie-approved WTC I, and while obviously it's not as in-your-face in this piece it's definitely there. He takes all the repeats, and at a relatively leisurely pace, too, so the whole affair takes about 90 minutes (with the so-called "Goldberg Canons" affixed to round out the two discs). Yes, Evan, a wonderful, beautiful and searching performance: another of my favourite Bach discs! |
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« Reply #2171 on: 13:11:37, 15-02-2008 » |
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Do tell me about Heppener, Pim. I'd never heard of him until 3 weeks ago.
I've just received the score of this piece from Donemus. I'm supposed to be writing about it for a forthcoming CD recording but I don't really like it very much! I believe that "Boog" (written for the Concertgebouw Orchestra) is his most important piece. I heard it on radio years ago, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Heppener wrote an opera based on a story by Jakov Lind, a good writer, but I never heard the music. I remember hearing some interesting songs by Heppener, based on poems by Ezra Pound and Chris van Geel. |
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« Reply #2172 on: 20:25:43, 15-02-2008 » |
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I get obsessed sometimes with playing one thing all the time (sorry it posted this tout a coupe before I pressed anything) Ce-soir Pet Shop Boys, discograqphy. Sad, innit? Next, Morrissey I expect. On Dear. Blimey, it'll be Dusty Springfield next, or Marc Almond, or Echo and The Bunnymen?
I think I had better concentrate on me cooking.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #2173 on: 20:29:32, 15-02-2008 » |
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I get obsessed sometimes with pla
Nobody does it like the Chinese! |
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« Reply #2174 on: 09:29:22, 16-02-2008 » |
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Now have Karl Jenkins The Armed Man. There is a version for Choirs, solists, organ and brass Band. Sounds marvellous! Acharity cd for Ethopia. A celebrity brass band band, etc.
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