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Roy Hart also does some incredible things as the soloist in Henze's Versuch über Schweine, although they often have a fairly tangential relationship to the score. I wonder if anyone else has actually performed that piece? It specifies vocal multiphonics and all manner of vocal extensions which these days are the fairly exclusive preserve of Phil Minton.
Now spinning: Schütz Auferstehungs-Historie directed by Manfred Cordes. I rate all of his Schütz recordings very highly, especially this one and the Kleine geistliche Konzerte. Cordes plays up the "Italianate" qualities of the music (without making it in any way "operatic") and makes a lot of other performances sound rhythmically stodgy. A couple of Akademia recordings of Schütz are about to drop through the letterbox at any moment (I hope) so that will be an interesting comparison.
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« Reply #2566 on: 12:02:01, 01-04-2008 » |
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How is that recording, PW? The only one I know is the somewhat old Böhm one with Hilde Güden in the title role, which vocally is fantastic but orchestrally sometimes a bit sour and recordingwise shows its age. I wish I could remember who was performing in the concert version I saw (RFH I think, would have been early 1990s).
It's very good - Lucia Popp is perfectly cast, the other singers are generally excellent, and the orchestral playing is very fine. The sound can be a bit recessed and homogenous in that Herkulensaal way, but Haitink keeps things moving and one never forgets that, for all the bucolic euphony, this is essentially a tale of the casual brutality of Gods behaving badly (IIRC in the Opera North production Apollo was a dinner-jacketed hooray whose first act on arriving on stage was casually to throw away his fag end - a very 1980s image). |
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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 #2567 on: 12:08:37, 01-04-2008 » |
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« Reply #2568 on: 12:15:23, 01-04-2008 » |
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Enjoy, Ron! I recommend a cold shower afterwards though.
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« Reply #2569 on: 12:25:47, 01-04-2008 » |
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I'm afraid I'm getting a second fix of the last half already: it's just one of the most outrageous pieces I've ever heard, blessed with an exemplary performance. Even though I know what's coming, the final bars still raise the hairs on the back of my neck and make my eyes moisten.... Great to have this old friend back in circulation.
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« Reply #2570 on: 12:47:22, 01-04-2008 » |
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 This their second vinyl album which I found a while back. The image is a front folded insert that I scanned/clipped/cropped for my CD burn. Enjoyed the album slightly less because of the intrusive percussion, bass and guitars, but still many great moments by the duo of violinists. With Grappelli/Menuhin I do particularly enjoy the Gershwin numbers. |
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« Reply #2571 on: 13:05:25, 01-04-2008 » |
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Shostakovich 8 (Kondrashin)
Then I should really get back to work. If I still can.
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« Reply #2572 on: 13:06:52, 01-04-2008 » |
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Putting some Liszt paraphrases on while i eat lunch (this should be my 999th posting)  |
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Best regards,
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #2573 on: 13:14:15, 01-04-2008 » |
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Gongrats Jonathon, looking forward to many more (I need someone to shift me OFF the Top 10 Posters list  |
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« Reply #2574 on: 13:20:36, 01-04-2008 » |
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I'm doing what I can, John, but I'm not sure it's enough!  4962 and counting |
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« Reply #2575 on: 14:40:59, 01-04-2008 » |
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Final Alice, David del Tredici's trippy take on Lewis Carroll. Thanks, Ron 
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« Reply #2576 on: 14:44:06, 01-04-2008 » |
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It's working for you, then, Dan? Excellent.
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« Reply #2577 on: 15:20:26, 01-04-2008 » |
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It's working for you, then, Dan? Excellent.
It certainly is. What a riot. Would be a real show stopper at the Proms, don't you think? |
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« Reply #2578 on: 15:40:06, 01-04-2008 » |
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It certainly would, although finding a narrator who could manage it half as well as Hendricks could cause difficulties. I have a broadcast from the South Bank, mid 80s, where the missing ten minutes are restored, and the spoken and sung narration is split between two performers, Claire Bloom taking the spoken part, which certainly takes some of the strain off the soprano - it's one heck of a sing, even without the speech. Huge orchestra, lots of fun - sounds like a job for the NYO to me.  BTW, did you know that there are several related works...? |
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« Reply #2579 on: 17:27:51, 01-04-2008 » |
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Ron
Yes, very hard work for the singer. No, I wasn't aware there are related works. You mean also based on Alice?
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