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« Reply #2190 on: 19:39:16, 19-02-2008 »
Many thanks, opilec!  Smiley
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« Reply #2191 on: 19:43:57, 19-02-2008 »
An online review here:
http://inkpot.com/classical/emikondmah.html
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« Reply #2192 on: 00:47:05, 20-02-2008 »
Quote from: harmonyharmony on 08:29:56, 19-02-2008
Quote from: increpatio on 00:58:50, 19-02-2008
Gosh, does that strike anyone else as being rather ... labial a cover? 

Ah. Not just me then.
It's funny the things we connect over, eh?
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« Reply #2193 on: 10:10:03, 20-02-2008 »
Schoenberg - The book of the hanging gardens with Alison Wells + Firebird conducted by Barrie Webb. Put out by UH recordings.

The accompaniment has been very effectively arranged by Howard Burrell for the combination of instruments used in Pierrot Lunaire - which is also on the CD.

OK, he's a mate of mine! But he's done a great job. It was done in memory of Alison's late husband Martyn Parry (some members may have known him) who used to accompany her in performances of this work.
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« Reply #2194 on: 21:12:11, 20-02-2008 »
Yes,going back tpo the sound of Russian brass. There is nothing quite like it. So unique. British brass is as well but the way the Russians do it well, there is no describing that sound.
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« Reply #2195 on: 16:58:34, 21-02-2008 »
Spinning yesterday and today:

Wagner:   The Ring, An Orchestral Adventure
              (arranged by Henk de Vlieger)       Siegfried Idyll      CHANDOS
               Royal Scottish N.A. - Neeme Jarvi

Wagner:   Opera Arias & Duets: Birgit Nilsson & Hans Hotter
              Philharmonia Orch: Leopold Ludwig
              A 1958 recording; EMI; Great Recordings of the Century series

The former a Super Audi CD in spectacular sound and a shimmering performance to match in symphonic character.   The latter a reminder as to why the 1950s was a special era for Wagnerian performances.

The bleeding chunks also prompted me to return to the 2003 Ring production by Scottish Opera.   It was broadcast in September in the lull after the Edinburgh Festival had ended in August and The Proms had also finished.   Discounting a weakness in "Siegfried", this is a fine production of the Ring cycle.   I recorded it on MD at the time as I rather expected a CD recording to follow but Scottish Opera may have been pursued by the bailiffs due to mounting financial difficulties.   I started to do my own transfer from MD to CD-R, last year,(sic) but listening to the 'spinning' CDs, and encouraged by the inclement weather, I've applied myself to finish the job. and it sounds even better than I remembered.   Perhaps with a positive move towards financial stability, Scottish Opera/(BBC) may yet decide to redress the omission and give particular pleasure to Wagnerians - a companion to the Covent Garden 'Ring'/Kempe (1957) due from Testament this year?    Wink
                                                                     


                                                                                     
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« Reply #2196 on: 17:21:16, 21-02-2008 »
Mucous in Twelve Parts
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« Reply #2197 on: 17:28:40, 21-02-2008 »
Quote from: harmonyharmony on 17:21:16, 21-02-2008
Mucous in Twelve Parts

Which recording?
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« Reply #2198 on: 17:44:34, 21-02-2008 »
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Quote from: harmonyharmony on 17:21:16, 21-02-2008
Mucous in Twelve Parts

Which recording?

I don't recall (and I don't actually own the CDs... this is playing from my iPod and I ripped it in the days before I could be bothered to enter all the info/consult the gracenote database thingy)
Sorry!
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« Reply #2199 on: 17:58:52, 21-02-2008 »
Quote from: harmonyharmony on 17:44:34, 21-02-2008
Quote from: Bryn on 17:28:40, 21-02-2008
Quote from: harmonyharmony on 17:21:16, 21-02-2008
Mucous in Twelve Parts

Which recording?

I don't recall (and I don't actually own the CDs... this is playing from my iPod and I ripped it in the days before I could be bothered to enter all the info/consult the gracenote database thingy)
Sorry!

Well, is there a noticable change of acoustic and performance between Part 6 and Part 7? The earlier set was made up of two distinct recording projects, undertaken twelve and a half years apart. Wink
 
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« Reply #2200 on: 18:11:30, 21-02-2008 »
Quote from: Bryn on 17:58:52, 21-02-2008
Quote from: harmonyharmony on 17:44:34, 21-02-2008
Quote from: Bryn on 17:28:40, 21-02-2008
Quote from: harmonyharmony on 17:21:16, 21-02-2008
Mucous in Twelve Parts

Which recording?

I don't recall (and I don't actually own the CDs... this is playing from my iPod and I ripped it in the days before I could be bothered to enter all the info/consult the gracenote database thingy)
Sorry!

Well, is there a noticable change of acoustic and performance between Part 6 and Part 7? The earlier set was made up of two distinct recording projects, undertaken twelve and a half years apart. Wink
 

Oh. I think it's the later one anyway.
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« Reply #2201 on: 19:04:59, 21-02-2008 »
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 2 in C minor, op 17
Arensky: Variaitions on a theme of Tchaikovsky, op35A
Balakirev Tamara

BBCPO/Noseda/Anissimov/Yuasa

Scriabin Symp no2 in C minor,op29
Tchaikovksy: Hamlet, op67

Philedelphia O/Muti

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe

Montreal SO/Dutoit
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« Reply #2202 on: 21:12:05, 21-02-2008 »
I listened to Cosi fan tutte last night and this morning.  It does not wow me, but gosh it is wondful - beautiful but not soppy.
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« Reply #2203 on: 23:26:13, 21-02-2008 »
Steve Reich - Music for Mallet instruments, Voices and Organ, performed by "Steve Reich and musicians"

Telemann - Oboe sonata in Bb ( can't find details of the performers unfortunately)
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« Reply #2204 on: 08:05:54, 22-02-2008 »
Beethoven 3rd, Ensemble 28 / Daniel Grossman. Ensemble 28 because it was premiered with that many players (strings 4.4.2.2.2).

Prompted to acquire it by Cristofori's recording of the 4th and 5th piano concertos which has a similarly lean setup and which for me is the most interesting offering in this repertoire purely in terms of orchestral approach for far too long (I find it pretty glum the way that the period ensembles seem to have mostly settled down into conventional chamber orchestras in these pieces, I'm afraid - there's still so much more to explore...).

The funeral march takes 11'11" which is apparently a new record (so to speak) - this chap has made a list of timings whose other extreme is 19'14".

I can't say it's in the Cristofori league for insight - they have a particularly individual chamber music sound where Ensemble 28 do still tend in the orchestral direction (I imagine something quite different from this, and from everything else I've heard so far, for the early fugal gropings in the finale for example) even though the orchestra is a pretty small one. (Ensemble 28 are conducted and Cristofori aren't - don't know if that's the whole story though.) Still, they've let the nature of the setup influence certain tempi rather than simply mapping old-new interpretations onto new-old instruments... if that makes any sense.
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