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the metropole orchestra of haarlem In fact, it's the Metropole Orchestra of Hilversum, marbleflugel. It still is a Dutch radio orchestra, although I think most Dutch radio network managers would love to demolish it.  (one of my favourite recordings of the Metropole Orchestra) |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #3136 on: 10:23:33, 25-07-2008 » |
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Mic Spencer - Selected works
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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 #3137 on: 12:48:23, 26-07-2008 » |
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Philipp Blume: selected works
It's amazing what you can pick up at a Ferienkurse...
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« Reply #3138 on: 01:12:01, 27-07-2008 » |
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And to think you didn't need to go to Ferienkurse to get it!
NS here in Nuevo Jersey: Children's Songs by Maria Elena Walsh
The young one is very taken with them.
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« Reply #3139 on: 09:57:16, 29-07-2008 » |
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Hearing on R3(just finished), Dong Hyek-Lim's recent recording of the Busoni transcriptions of JS Bach's Chaconne in D minor from Partita, BWV1004. As Rob Cowan, maybe the best transcription we are likely to get. I think he is right. If that's the way Lim plays the Chaconne, the Goldberg must be rather special to. I might just invest in this cd and hear the whole of it, just to hear this track.
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« Reply #3140 on: 14:33:48, 30-07-2008 » |
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 Just arrived, and sounding even fresher than I had hoped. [Richard, et al, you really must get hold of tis set. Robert Schumaker has done an amazingly good job with the transfers. The sound really sparkles. Amirkhanian's and Tenney's notes from the original LP issues are included, though Tenney's are from the same source as his notes for the Wergo set.] |
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« Reply #3141 on: 19:46:11, 30-07-2008 » |
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Courtesy of MRK Klassisk, Parsifal from Bayreuth, a repeat broadcast of performance on July 25th. Conducted by Gatti - I had misgivings, but it's actually rather good. If anyone's interested, here is a Live 320kbps WMP stream link. |
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"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set"
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« Reply #3142 on: 19:36:59, 31-07-2008 » |
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Assorted stuff from my iPod - just had The Capture of Kars by Mussorgsky and now it's Pabst - Fantasy on Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa played by Oleg Marshev...
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Best regards,
Jonathan
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #3143 on: 21:16:46, 31-07-2008 » |
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Messiaen - La Transfiguration ... , Loriod, Welch, Davis, Mariner, Percy, Carrington, Jackson, LS Chorus, LSO, Nagano.
[Barbican, September 1998, I think.]
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« Reply #3144 on: 21:34:38, 31-07-2008 » |
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Corelli, Concerti Grossi op. 6
Tafelmusik directed by Jean Lamon
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« Reply #3145 on: 23:28:56, 31-07-2008 » |
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I've long been meaning to buy this, and did so yesterday when I spotted it on sale in HMV. Seriously good recorded sound captured by Linn here and impressive performances; Gilchrist's diction is superb. The liner notes make some interesting observations about VW's writing for string quartet and the influence Ravel's teaching had on him. I was surprised to learn that Ravel was the pianist in the French permiere of On Wenlock Edge.  On to Warlock's The Curlew now, a haunting composition, as is Bliss' Elegiac Sonnet, to words by Cecil Day Lewis written in memory of the pianist Noel Mewton-Wood who had committed suicide in 1953. |
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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 #3146 on: 02:23:12, 01-08-2008 » |
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Today's Festspielhaus performance of Siegfried in the hours of darkness. Albert Dohmen's performance of Der Wanderer is tremendous, really very weighty. Gerhard Siegel's Mime (whether in Siegfried or Rheingold) always contains sounds resembling a cat, and here he takes the "comedy" a bit too far. Stephen Gould as Siegfried was showing signs of tiredness from the start, but he hasn't done any forging yet, so how it develops will be interesting.
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« Reply #3147 on: 02:43:08, 01-08-2008 » |
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On to Warlock's The Curlew now, a haunting composition, as is Bliss' Elegiac Sonnet, to words by Cecil Day Lewis written in memory of the pianist Noel Mewton-Wood who had committed suicide in 1953. |
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« Reply #3148 on: 07:51:31, 01-08-2008 » |
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Many thanks for posting that news cutting, Sydney. It is a sad tale and one which Philip Lancaster describes in his excellent liner notes to the CD. Mewton-Wood performed the Bliss Piano Concerto several times and the composer wrote a piano sonata for him in 1952. The first performance of the Elegiac Sonnet was given by Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten and the Zorian Quartet in 1954. Cecil Day Lewis' words hint at the reasons for Mewton-Wood's suicide:
A fountain plays no more: those pure cascades
And diamond plumes now sleep within their source.
A breath, a mist of joy, the woodsong fades -
The trill, the transport of his April force.
How well those hands, rippling from mood to mood
Figured a brooding or a brilliant phrase!
Music's dear child, how well he understood
His mother's heart - the fury and the grace!
Patient to bear the stern ordeal of art,
Keyed to her ideal strain, he found too hard
The simple exercise of human loss.
He took his grief away, and we are less.
Laurels enough he had. Lay on his heart
A flower he never knew - the rose called peace.
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« Reply #3149 on: 13:47:18, 01-08-2008 » |
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Hey IGI, I just saw the recording on the British Music Society label, how coincedental! On Penguin Guide 2008. Any good? ATM, I have the Philip Fowke version on Uni Kan.
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