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« Reply #2175 on: 09:13:04, 17-02-2008 » |
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Arrived yesterday and spinning this morning as I listen in stunned amazement:   And have just "pre-ordered" this:  |
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« Reply #2176 on: 07:20:18, 18-02-2008 » |
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Ive never come across J S Bach's Tombeau de Sa Majeste la Reine de Pologne. Tell me more Opilic?
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« Reply #2177 on: 07:34:32, 18-02-2008 » |
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Ive never come across J S Bach's Tombeau de Sa Majeste la Reine de Pologne. Tell me more Opilic?
That's the title on Bach's score: otherwise known as the Trauer Music, Trauer-Ode or (the text incipit:) Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl, i.e. Cantata 198. A glorious work, and coupled here with the "short" and lovely Missa in A major. The Tombeau itself is framed by the B minor Prelude and Fugue BWV 544, and the chorale prelude Herzlich tut mich verlangen BWV 727 is played between the two parts of the cantata. A really marvellous disc, stunningly well performed, one voice per part, and all the better for it!  |
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« Reply #2178 on: 11:57:09, 18-02-2008 » |
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Do keep us posted on that St Matthew - it looks very promising indeed.
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« Reply #2179 on: 11:57:27, 18-02-2008 » |
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This thread is always incredibly uplifting and inspiring. I'm listening to Tuvan biphonic singing at the moment. Gosh that's incredible.  |
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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« Reply #2180 on: 00:16:23, 19-02-2008 » |
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This week I have mostly been listening to:  Gosh. Someone (Andy D) was just commenting that George hadn't been about for a while, and I had a look at his last posts and found this. Now, I know there was that whole kerfuffle about a number of paintings including this one and the way in which they match up to images of the human brain at work/play, but that's not what I saw when I looked at it. |
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« Reply #2181 on: 00:23:20, 19-02-2008 » |
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It wasn't me hh but I had been thinking that the double G hasn't been around for a while. I've just been listening to a great track by Konono No 1 on R3 - I've got their CD Congotronics which is fantastic - if you like thumb pianos played through home made amplification systems.
I certainly do!
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« Reply #2182 on: 00:58:50, 19-02-2008 » |
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This week I have mostly been listening to: Gosh, does that strike anyone else as being rather ... labial a cover? Now spining here: Castelnuovo-Tedesco's cute but not especially substantial (so far as my ears can tell) Bassoon/Piano sonatina. |
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« Reply #2183 on: 08:29:56, 19-02-2008 » |
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Gosh, does that strike anyone else as being rather ... labial a cover?
Ah. Not just me then. |
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« Reply #2184 on: 08:32:24, 19-02-2008 » |
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It wasn't me hh
No, it was Daniel... And it's not as if you look alike so I don't have that excuse. |
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« Reply #2185 on: 18:21:13, 19-02-2008 » |
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As an appendix to the Kondrashin Mahler set on Melodiya, I felt I had to have this:  His last concert: 7 March 1981 in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. He died the same night. (As the fates would have it, he was standing in at short notice for Tennstedt.) The audience sounds pretty bronchial - a shame they don't include the applause at the end. With a playing time of 48:19 it's not like there isn't room! But what a performance! And what a way to go ... Anyone know what the rest of the programme was? |
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« Reply #2186 on: 19:05:36, 19-02-2008 » |
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No, I don't know what the rest of the programme was, opilec, but I'll try to find out. I would love to hear the performance. Please tell me: is the brass playing very good? I'm a great fan of the old NDR Symphony Orchestra and I think its brass section was one of the finest in Europe at that time. Hans Schmidt-Issersted really knew how a brass section should sound! Listen to his live recording of the Dvorak's New World Symphony, for instance. Other interesting features: Beethoven by Monteux, Igor Markevitch's Ravel and Sinopoli's Maderna (recorded years after Schmidt-Issersted died but the brass playing is excellent in this highly complicated music).
Is this Kondrashin recording still available?
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« Reply #2187 on: 19:17:15, 19-02-2008 » |
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pim, all the playing - including the brass - is excellent. The brass not quite so "characterful" (if you know what I mean ) as on KK's Moscow Phil recording, but I don't think you'd be disappointed with it!  This recording doesn't seem to be in the catalogues now, but pops up from time to time on ebay. Mine arrived today from a seller in Taiwan (all of 11 UK quids including postage), and it's also been offered recently by a seller from Hong Kong. These things seem to be kept available for much longer in southeast Asia. |
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« Reply #2188 on: 19:27:14, 19-02-2008 » |
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Yes, I know that the brass in those old Russian recordings is unbeatable. Mavrinsky's recording of Sibelius's Seventh Symphony is a fine example of excellent Russian brass playing. The short symphony turns out be a masterpiece after all!
I would love to add this Kondrashin recording to my collection. I'll look out for it.
I remember now that David Oistrakh also died in Amsterdam.
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