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« Reply #2640 on: 23:15:22, 08-04-2008 » |
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I hope you heard my groan of a couple of seconds ago, Member ahinton... it was certainly loud enough.  I think that we all heard it, wherever we were at the time - in fact, we were all thinking that, had your perfectly understandable groan been delivered via a heavily amplified contrabass clarinet, its decibel level could hardly have been less. I regreat to admit that there are others where that one came from, not least Dumb Bartók Notes, A C Symphony, Oedipus Wrecks, etc. - and, by the way, did you know that Schönberg's infamously barbed remarks about having escaped his native city to participate in WWI to get abit of peace was the principal inspiration for Histoire du Soldat? (and is it any wonder that Schönberg later responded with Kleine Modernsky?)... |
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« Reply #2641 on: 23:21:39, 08-04-2008 » |
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(Don't know what you're paying for it but I found mine for €9 at fnac St-Lazare last week... it seems our paths nearly crossed! Please don't tell me you were at the OPRF Messiaen concert on Friday or I'll be dreadfully embarrassed...)
Unfortunately I wasn't there, ollie: that was the evening of the conference dinner, and it seemed politic to go as I'd skived off the previous evening's reception for Boulez in order to hear Aimard and the CEO. The meal was quite fun; but I think if I'd known about the Messiaen I might well have gone to that instead. And the Cocteau was under six of your Earth quids from an amazon seller. (I didn't spend nearly as much on CDs as I thought I would in Paris because of the disadvantageous exchange rate ...) |
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« Reply #2642 on: 23:30:17, 08-04-2008 » |
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I always go a bit silly on CDs in Paris what with the selection being just that little bit different from what it is at home and of course the exchange rate from euros to euros is pretty constant...  Don't know if you saw my new Paris 2nd hand CD shopping traps, er, tips as posted elsewhere! If not it's probably a good thing. |
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« Reply #2643 on: 23:36:26, 08-04-2008 » |
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Don't know if you saw my new Paris 2nd hand CD shopping traps, er, tips as posted elsewhere! If not it's probably a good thing.
No, ollie, I must've missed that. But I found La Chaumiere and Gibert Joseph - both very close to where I was staying, though didn't have nearly enough time (or money  ) to do them justice. |
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« Reply #2644 on: 19:28:39, 09-04-2008 » |
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I hope you weren't actually in either of them when I was. That would (again) have been just too silly. Now spinning (at Château Knoop): Bruckner 6. OPRF under Marek Janowski.  I would defy anyone hearing this for the first time to name the orchestra. French bands aren't supposed to be able to do this sort of thing. It's as precise and rich-toned as anyone (despite being live!) but with just a little of that French tanginess. (And bassons of course although Bruckner being Bruckner you don't hear them much...) |
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« Reply #2645 on: 22:37:41, 09-04-2008 » |
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And now, after another spectacular dinner (thanks to the ingenuity of Lurker Knoop):  Now I really must find a way to do more of this chap's stuff. |
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« Reply #2646 on: 23:17:38, 09-04-2008 » |
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I've been meaning to get that for a while. I take it it's as good as everyone else has been telling me? Hello (wave!!), by the way. You must be all of 2 miles down the road. If you hoon loud enough I might hear you, although since I'm just about to spin some H.-J. Hespos I guess you might be a little, um, overborn on. |
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« Reply #2647 on: 23:22:03, 09-04-2008 » |
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Now I really must find a way to do more of this chap's stuff.
You need at least a soprano and a cello. Or you can play the solo recorder piece. Also very fine is a piece needing 2 pianos, another clarinet, two saxophones, a contrabass and a cello. Or... what did you mean by 'do' ?  |
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« Reply #2648 on: 23:26:45, 09-04-2008 » |
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I've been meaning to get that for a while. I take it it's as good as everyone else has been telling me?
Hello (wave!!), by the way. You must be all of 2 miles down the road. If you hoon loud enough I might hear you, although since I'm just about to spin some H.-J. Hespos I guess you might be a little, um, overborn on.
So you can't hear the Spahlinger from there? It's just finished. Don't know what everyone else has been telling you about it but I'm telling you it's quite amazing and you should waste no time in getting it. I'm told the CD bears no comparison with what it's like in concert but even so the CD's great. (The disc is an SACD hybrid but neither I nor Lurker Knoop have SACD gear.) TF, I've been thinking of 128 erfüllte augenblicke and indeed do have a fantastic cellist in mind although I'm not sure who'd sing it. Also thinking of gegen unendlich of course with said cellist, Lurker Knoop and Mr Digby. I don't know if my recorder playing would be quite up for nah, getrennt although I should probably get hold of the dots and confirm that impression... or even better confound it of course. |
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« Reply #2649 on: 12:51:24, 10-04-2008 » |
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I've been meaning to get that for a while. I take it it's as good as everyone else has been telling me? Yes. (Unless I'm alerady a member of the esteemed company of "everyone else," in which the above is of course entirely redundant. Has the new Tempo come out yet in the UK?) |
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« Reply #2650 on: 13:31:36, 10-04-2008 » |
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Roberto Gerhard: Symphony No.4 - the Lyrita reissue of the BBCSO/Colin Davis premiere recording on Argo, which HMV has taken ages to deliver, having its first spin. A little less upholstered than the Chandos recording (now out of print), it still makes a stunning case for this most colourful and dynamic of serial symphonies. (Or maybe it's just that it's another much loved and much played LP transferred to CD for the first time: both that and Final Alice within a month after having to wait for over twenty years; definitely a red-letter month.)
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« Reply #2651 on: 18:07:09, 10-04-2008 » |
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Having a sequence, hopefully in this order:
VW: Flos Campi(RLPO/Handley)
Elgar: Symp 1(BBCSO/Boult)
VW: Oboe Con(Jonathan Small, RLPO/Handley)
Mahler: Sym 4(Judith Raskin, soprano, Cleveland O, Szell)
Songs of a Wayfarer(Frederica von Stade, LPO, Andrew Davies)
VW Symp 5(RLPO/Handley).
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« Reply #2652 on: 18:08:03, 10-04-2008 » |
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« Reply #2653 on: 18:59:36, 10-04-2008 » |
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That's some conducting!
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« Reply #2654 on: 19:22:05, 10-04-2008 » |
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TF, I've been thinking of 128 erfüllte augenblicke and indeed do have a fantastic cellist in mind although I'm not sure who'd sing it. Also thinking of gegen unendlich of course with said cellist, Lurker Knoop and Mr Digby. I don't know if my recorder playing would be quite up for nah, getrennt although I should probably get hold of the dots and confirm that impression... or even better confound it of course.
The one I referred to above (for those who don't know) is aussageverweigerung-gegendarstellung - two "contra-contexts" for double quartet. |
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