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« Reply #2206 on: 12:36:25, 22-02-2008 » |
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Spinning all morning - lots of 40s nostalgia and swing stuff. I'm putting together some compilations to play at my grandparents' diamond anniversary, and I'm enjoying listening along much more than I expected to. Can't say I've made any earth-shattering new discoveries, but there are some great (and crazy) details in Doris Day's arrangements, and you forget how tight these bands were too.
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« Reply #2208 on: 12:52:26, 22-02-2008 » |
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Thanks SS - I shall!
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40s nostalgia and swing stuff
Last week I was listening to my wonderful collection of red (!) LPs issued by the Franklin Mint Records Society in the 1970s. Marvelous recordings by Will Bradley and his Orchestra (what a pity that this band existed for only three years), Glenn Miller (exciting 8 minute-version of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" made for the 20th Century Fox film "Sun Valley Serenade") but also material from the late 1920s, early 1930s: Paul Howard and his Orchestra with Lional Hampton.  |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #2210 on: 17:07:37, 22-02-2008 » |
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Bartók quartets, the new Belcea recording. Don't want to give too much away since someone's paying me to do that elsewhere but I think if I say I'm groping for superlatives that might give you enough of an idea. |
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Bartók quartets, the new Belcea recording. Don't want to give too much away since someone's paying me to do that elsewhere but I think if I say I'm groping for superlatives that might give you enough of an idea. I would not argue with that at all, Ollie. I am quite bowled over by them. They are up there with the Takacs and Fine Arts, for me. |
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« Reply #2212 on: 17:22:29, 22-02-2008 » |
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You know, Bryn, I have a funny feeling I might even go a little further than that.
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« Reply #2213 on: 22:24:08, 22-02-2008 » |
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Carl Maria von Weber. Not at all well, 1825. Died, 1826.
Well, not him obviously, but his clarinet concertos.
Jozef Luplacik on clarinet with the Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ondrej Lenard.
I think this was a Christmas present from my parents. Unfortunately I was really struggling with the first movement of one of these (I seem to have wiped the memory of exactly which one it was from my brain) at the time and having a major reaction against all Weber that lasts to this day. I have to teach Der Freischütz in a few days, and I made some rather disparaging comments about him today and our head of performance challenged me on them... I'm quite enjoying it now (though I have such bad associations with the last movement of the 1st - one of the first clarinettists in our county music service orchestra used to play it really loudly while everyone was warming their instruments up - don't you just hate show-offs like that?).
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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 #2214 on: 22:38:15, 22-02-2008 » |
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Ok. Yet again this board is forcing me to go back and re-encounter something I've not thought about much for ages, if ever really - in this case, Freischütz. Thanks guys. Amazing performance on that clip, Ollie!  Interesting synchronicities at work... |
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« Reply #2215 on: 22:52:31, 22-02-2008 » |
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Weber spinning here too, partly as a result of the discussions on these boards:  For me, one of the seminal works of the nineteenth century, by one of its greatest composers; after this, music really was never the same again. |
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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 #2216 on: 23:01:14, 22-02-2008 » |
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after this, music really was never the same again.
Really? But isn't that the case to a greater or larger extent with every single piece of music ever written? I'm not being difficult. Really! Well ok, I'm not trying to be difficult. I suppose my Weberphobia was so deeply ingrained by the time it came to studying the 19th century so I'd better start reading for my lecture in three weeks' time! |
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« Reply #2217 on: 23:01:51, 22-02-2008 » |
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PW, do you particularly recommend that recording? I'm on the case now. Weber, though... What did t-p call the Duo Concertante?
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« Reply #2218 on: 23:13:32, 22-02-2008 » |
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PW, do you particularly recommend that recording? I'm on the case now. Weber, though... What did t-p call the Duo Concertante?
I certainly do - as did Richard Barrett on the opera dialogue thread. after this, music really was never the same again.
Really? But isn't that the case to a greater or larger extent with every single piece of music ever written? I'm not being difficult. Really! Well ok, I'm not trying to be difficult. I suppose my Weberphobia was so deeply ingrained by the time it came to studying the 19th century so I'd better start reading for my lecture in three weeks' time! In terms of both the range of sensibilities Weber explores, and the phenomenal orchestration, yes. Freischutz is in many ways where romanticism in opera begins, and certainly paves the way for Wagner (Wagner liked to present himself as a fully-formed genius from the moment he left the womb - but even he acknowledged his debt to this music), not to mention Berlioz. And Euryanthe is even more radical - although hampered by a dreadful libretto; a fully through-composed music drama pushing into new orchestral and emotional territory. I'm not sure that the rest of the world caught up at least until Lohengrin. |
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« Reply #2219 on: 23:18:48, 22-02-2008 » |
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Thanks pw. Good sense tempers youthful iconoclasm yet again.
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