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« Reply #2700 on: 22:48:50, 14-04-2008 » |
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Gosh! I just got swept away by this:  |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #2701 on: 22:50:03, 14-04-2008 » |
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Yesterday over dinner - Marc-Andre Hamelin's newest CD "In a state of jazz" - excellent, jolly stuff!  Some more impressions of individual pieces, Jonathan? A couple of the featured composers are unknown to me. I've not heard the CD yet, but I do have the radio broadcast he did of the sonata by weissenberg; the first movement did absolutely nothing for me on first listening, and the second moment did almost too much: it's become more balanced now, though the third, bluesy, movement, doesn't really work too well on repeated hearings I feeeel. |
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« Reply #2702 on: 23:45:23, 14-04-2008 » |
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Gosh! I just got swept away by this: I've heard the broadcast, though not the CD. Didn't find it quite as gobsmacking as the Kondrashin recording, but then, that would be difficult!  Must give the Gergiev another go some time. |
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« Reply #2703 on: 09:34:54, 15-04-2008 » |
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Gosh! I just got swept away by this: Not surprised, IGI. It was a great performance. Looking forward to his Sleeping Beauty at the Proms. |
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« Reply #2704 on: 11:42:33, 15-04-2008 » |
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Not surprised, IGI. It was a great performance. Looking forward to his Sleeping Beauty at the Proms.
Yes, indeed. I remember a concert performance he gave of the complete ballet with the Kirov Orchestra at the RFH and it made me realise just how fine a score it is - musically, probably the best of the Tchaikovsky ballets, though not my favourite on stage. |
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« Reply #2705 on: 12:09:21, 15-04-2008 » |
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Simple pleasures - RVW Folk Songs from Somerset by Vernon Handley
Being brought up in Devon, I had a sense that Somerset was nearer to metropolitan sophistication (cocktails start at Wiveliscombe) but being born in Gloucestershire, for RVW Somerset meant going away from the centre.
They are fun.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #2706 on: 13:07:42, 15-04-2008 » |
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I am an admirer of Maestro Wit, though I haven't heard his Messiaen. I think it was Bryn who placed his recording of Eclairs at the top of the pile.
No richard, not my first choice, though it was the first CD version I bought. On CD my first choice remains Porcelijn, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, though I do wish the BBC, the LSO and Warner would get together and issue the first UK performance, (LSO/Nagano), which for me even pips Porcelijn. I think Wit goes at the first movement with too much haste, and he misses the subtlety of the triangle's colouration in the finale, too. I know his Turangalîla is much praised, but I think his theme statue sounds like the statues came out of a jelly mould. Re Des Canyons aux Étoiles, I concure with Gavin Argent's comment. It's de Leeuw, your misgivings notwithstanding, who leads the best on commercial disc. |
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« Reply #2707 on: 13:12:10, 15-04-2008 » |
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Great music there, DB!!!
Have spinning now:
Black Dyke: Call of the Cossacks(all music, either composed or arranged by Peter graham, including the title track)
Cory band: This land of Ours.(Marvellous recording this, in all manners of the production.
Grimethorpe: 'Grimethorpe' (This cd was produced soon after the great sucesss of that very good film brassed off, which features some of the tracks from the film.
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« Reply #2708 on: 13:54:37, 15-04-2008 » |
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Yesterday over dinner - Marc-Andre Hamelin's newest CD "In a state of jazz" - excellent, jolly stuff! Some more impressions of individual pieces, Jonathan? A couple of the featured composers are unknown to me. I've not heard the CD yet, but I do have the radio broadcast he did of the sonata by weissenberg; the first movement did absolutely nothing for me on first listening, and the second moment did almost too much: it's become more balanced now, though the third, bluesy, movement, doesn't really work too well on repeated hearings I feeeel. Right, back again. I thoroughly enjoyed the disc - the Gulda pieces are especially fun, espeically the Play, piano Play pieces. I wasn't bowled over by the Prelude & Fugue (played incidentally by SMP this morning) but I like Kapustin so that was ok! The Antheil I found a bit brutal by quite fun. The Weissenberg pieces are interesting but on the whole, I prefered the Gulda and Kapustin to these. |
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Best regards,
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« Reply #2709 on: 18:31:45, 15-04-2008 » |
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I know a few recordings of this. I don't know a better one.
And I'm mightily tempted to say the same of this, which is now spinning again in honour of the Ančerl Centenary:  Concerning the Mackerras box, the only drawbacks are that there are no libretti and that John Tyrrell's detailed and hugely informative notes have also been dropped. But the recordings are certainly in a class of their own. Probably one of the landmark projects in the history of recording. |
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« Reply #2710 on: 18:44:36, 15-04-2008 » |
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David Bedford: Alleluia Timpanis/ Symphony No 1/ Recorder Concerto/ Twelve Hours of Sunset BBCSO/Piers Adams /van Steen/Brabbins NMCD 049
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« Reply #2711 on: 19:14:47, 15-04-2008 » |
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Ah yes, David Bedford. Ive heard a few of his compsitions. In my collection I have his Requiem, that is very good, for brass band!!
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« Reply #2712 on: 04:28:34, 17-04-2008 » |
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At this very moment, this:  Also a lot of Sibelius lately, and some Dvorak. |
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« Reply #2714 on: 00:35:34, 18-04-2008 » |
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Moeran: Symphony in G minor
Ulster Orchestra / Handley
This is one of the CDs which got me temporarily overdrawn somehow. I really have listened to it far too many times. But it's irresistible, despite some iffy bits structurally.
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