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« Reply #2295 on: 22:01:14, 06-03-2008 » |
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 Sorry, back on-topic. NS: Sibelius 3rd symphony, having caught a bit of it on R3 yesterday and having forgotten what a peach it is. All the ingredients for the later symphonies are there, but it connects too with the (to my ears) slightly faux nationalistic rhetoric of 1 and 2 as well, so a fascinating transitional work and an invigorating rediscovery!  |
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« Reply #2296 on: 22:54:30, 06-03-2008 » |
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Over at tOP, where they're carrying on about 1st and 5th symphonies, nobody has though to look at the place of the third in a cycle: Beethoven, Sibelius, RVW - it's the point at which they feel the ability to flex their muscles and make something new, and even if I tend to be a 4th man rather than a 3rd (RVW apart), there is something very compact and almost cuddly about Sibelius 3: it's a very homely work compared to its immediate neighbours.
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« Reply #2297 on: 23:19:00, 06-03-2008 » |
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there is something very compact and almost cuddly about Sibelius 3: it's a very homely work compared to its immediate neighbours.
Sibelius 3 is a lovely work. I confess that the second movement often makes my eyes mist over...  not that it's particularly sad, but just so beautiful. Now spinning...Daniel Vettori down in Hamilton! An absorbing Test. |
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« Reply #2298 on: 23:39:29, 06-03-2008 » |
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NS: Sibelius 3rd symphony, having caught a bit of it on R3 yesterday and having forgotten what a peach it is. Isn't it just. N.S. here too. I can never get enough of that opening. In fact I've just played it three times in a row before going on with the rest of it. Not a very grown up and musical thing to do but it's made me happy. (Off topic: A goldfish in a sealed plastic bag will eventually die of lack of oxygen, won't it?) |
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« Reply #2299 on: 00:08:37, 07-03-2008 » |
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The plastic bag isn't sealed, George, it's open at the top. I have to confess I did eventually succumb to the temptation to drop some food into it (probably a good thing since the poor things' owner arrived home shortly afterwards but I haven't seen him make any move to feed them all evening).
I do now know what they're for, roughly, but it's quite complicated to explain. And I'm beginning to wonder what happens to them after they've served their porpoise.
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« Reply #2300 on: 00:16:57, 07-03-2008 » |
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Well, goldfish aside, I've got Late Junction on at the moment and I'm "quite" enjoying it. I also heard Sibelius 3 on R3 on Wednesday and I "quite" enjoyed that too. What a "quite" enjoyable time I've been having  |
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« Reply #2301 on: 11:23:36, 07-03-2008 » |
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Delius: Florida Suite/Paris - Song of a Great City/Brigg Fair(Bournemouth SO/Hickox
VW Five Mystical Songs(John Shirley Quirk); O Clap Your Hands(Ch of king's Coll. Cambridge, Willcocks);
Holst A Choral Fantsiia(Janet Baker); Psalm 86(Ian Partridge, Purcell Singers English CO, I. Holst)
Finzi: Dies Natalis(Wilfred Brown, English CO, Christopher Finzi
Dyson Nebuchadnezzar(Mark Padmore, Neil Davies, BBC Chorus & SO, Hickox
I expect a lot of people would like the Beecham recordings of the Delius, I do to but I also like the Hickox as well.
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« Reply #2302 on: 11:36:48, 07-03-2008 » |
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« Reply #2303 on: 12:10:45, 07-03-2008 » |
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Don't laugh now...  Picked up for little over £1 on Amazon martketplace, following the appearance of an Alfvén clip from Tony in the Snatch Test. The third disc is a delightful selection which serves as a sampler really of the Naxos Scandinavian catalogue and they're not all the obvious ones - Grieg's Morning Mood is there, but then a clutch of Swedish composers - Alfvén, Larsson, Berwald, Svendsen etc. |
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« Reply #2304 on: 12:32:45, 07-03-2008 » |
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I picked my copy up from Poundland in Reading a few months after its release, IGI: a great little set, although it appears to be hiding in the stores along with all my important opera videos and the transfer kindly made for me by a friend of the LP of Del Tredici's Final Alice, which I was given just before my move, and heard just once before it disappeared, which is why this is some of the best news I've had in yonks. |
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« Reply #2305 on: 12:59:41, 07-03-2008 » |
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It's made my morning too - thanks, Ron! - especially after a rather grumpy-making incident half an hour ago, which I suppose I'd better pop across to the other room with. By the way, if there's any other DDT you don't have (or have inadvertently stored away), let me know today or tomorrow and I'll see what I can do for Sunday. I think I have most other things, including some recent stuff you may not have heard ( Paul Revere's Ride for chorus and orchestra, the string quartet, two or three recent song cycles with piano, etc.). |
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« Reply #2306 on: 13:18:50, 07-03-2008 » |
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Likewise, tinners.
Separate PM to follow.
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« Reply #2307 on: 17:32:18, 07-03-2008 » |
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Respighi: Church Windows; Brazillian Impressions/Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon
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« Reply #2308 on: 18:14:31, 07-03-2008 » |
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I don't think I've ever been underwhelmed by a Brazilian impression. Although some of them are disappointingly transitory, I confess.
Ici, juste maintenant, 'Les mains de l'abîme'.
Gosh! (I bet that's what the fish are thinking too.)
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« Reply #2309 on: 20:24:31, 07-03-2008 » |
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Beethoven Symphonies 1 & 3, Plenev. What is this guy on? Did his driving instructor never teach you don;t just alternate between the accelerator and the brake?
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