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« Reply #2250 on: 15:52:56, 24-02-2008 » |
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I do indeed hear the violone playing an octave below the cello, but this is a fairly minor issue I think. Still not entirely sure about the solo singing, but I really don't know whether that's because I'm too inured to later stylistic accretions. For example, Matthew Brook sings Jesus with more of the biblical character's apprehension than the constant gravitas which is more usual for interpretations of the Bach work, and which no doubt has more to do with what was thought of as piety in the 19th century than with Bach's own time. Alongside all I've said about the performance, I should say that its most important aspect is the way it eschews overinterpretation in favour of drawing the listener's attention to Bach's vision (in so far as this can be attempted) rather than anyone else's.
Trans was the Stockhausen work I listened to with a friend and fellow longtime KS enthusiast as our farewell to the composer. I can't think of many 20th century orchestral pieces which strike as deep with me as that.
Back to the Bach now I think.
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« Reply #2251 on: 20:22:36, 24-02-2008 » |
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Trans was the Stockhausen work I listened to with a friend and fellow longtime KS enthusiast as our farewell to the composer. I can't think of many 20th century orchestral pieces which strike as deep with me as that.
Richard, I'm beginning to feel the same way, having listened to it lots recently. Although more detail inevitably emerges in the studio recording, I'm very glad to be able to experience something of the frisson of the first performance too. Thanks for your further thoughts on the Bach. I seem to have found more to enjoy in the McCreesh version than I think you did (IIRC), but it does sound like this new recording might have more to offer and will challenge more preconceptions of the work. I can certainly hear in the McCreesh, for all its supposed "authenticity", many of the "givens" that attached themselves to Bach in the 19th century. |
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« Reply #2252 on: 22:12:39, 24-02-2008 » |
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Glass Dracula... which reminds me that I bought Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest and Other Stories from a charity shop a year ago and I haven't read it yet.
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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 #2253 on: 22:33:25, 24-02-2008 » |
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Yesterday when I was listening to Sinfonia, I had Radio Wandelweiser playing on my Mac in the next room. It was playing the Wolff Exercise no. 15 and occasionally a swell of music would penetrate the Berio in a rather beautiful way. I had actually forgotten that it was on (it was in the middle of a track with an ENORMOUS silence at the time) but I enjoyed it so much that I left them coexisting and interpenetrating for my listening pleasure.
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« Reply #2254 on: 12:47:49, 25-02-2008 » |
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Two CD arrivals awaiting judicious selection in their playing order:
Mozart Symphonies 38 - 41 S C O Charles Mackerras
The art work on the inner/outer sleeves, Reception at a Freemason's Lodge in Vienna, ascribed to Ignaz Unterberger, is exquisite. Fascinated, too, that the figure seated on a bench, in the foreground, is assumed to be Mozart.
Britannia Atlanta S.O. Donald Runnicles:
Peter Maxwell Davies An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
Mark-Anthony Turnage Three Screaming Popes
James MacMillan Britannia
Benjamin Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
The CD is topped-and-tailed with Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance Marches 4 & 1
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« Reply #2255 on: 13:09:08, 25-02-2008 » |
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Two CD arrivals awaiting judicious selection in their playing order:
Mozart Symphonies 38 - 41 S C O Charles Mackerras
The art work on the inner/outer sleeves, Reception at a Freemason's Lodge in Vienna, ascribed to Ignaz Unterberger, is exquisite. Fascinated, too, that the figure seated on a bench, in the foreground, is assumed to be Mozart.
The Prague now spinning.  Yes, the SACDs are well presented in the package. |
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« Reply #2257 on: 21:01:03, 27-02-2008 » |
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Anybody heard of Derek Bourgeois? As far as brass bands are concerned, a very top notch composer. Playing at the moment "Bourgeois in Bras". I supose a rather ubquitus title but the cd and recording is very good.
Features works like:
Apocalypse, op187(one of the most challenging pieces of brass band music ever!)
Sonata for Trombone and BB, op156b
Blitz, op65
Concerto Grosso for BB, op61a
A worthwhile composer to investigate I think. Quite acessible at times but then quite thought provoking and controversial as well.
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« Reply #2258 on: 21:57:21, 27-02-2008 » |
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Playing at the moment "Bourgeois in Bras".
The mind doth truly boggle . . . |
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« Reply #2259 on: 08:04:40, 28-02-2008 » |
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Anybody heard of Derek Bourgeois? As far as brass bands are concerned, a very top notch composer. Playing at the moment "Bourgeois in Bras". I supose a rather ubquitus title but the cd and recording is very good.
Hmm, will check him out! |
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« Reply #2260 on: 08:12:15, 28-02-2008 » |
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Anybody heard of Derek Bourgeois?
Yes, although I've heard nothing about him for ages. I remember years ago he wrote a piece called A Wine Symphony and the inevitable and all too predictable cru bourgeois gags very soon became exceedingly tiresome, though fortunately I don't ever remember any critic remarking on its textural claret-y... |
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« Reply #2261 on: 08:48:54, 28-02-2008 » |
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I believe the Honolulu Symphony once programmed it as the result of a telephonic misunderstanding.
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« Reply #2262 on: 08:50:58, 28-02-2008 » |
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Mr. Sudden, please retrieve your coat!
Tommo
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« Reply #2263 on: 09:53:04, 28-02-2008 » |
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 I like those old Collingwood recordings. |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #2264 on: 19:01:47, 28-02-2008 » |
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Oops sorry folks!! You know I should have said 'Bourgeois in Brass'!! Not one s but 2'ssss!!!!
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