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Thanks for sharing that, JP. We've had a few owners lose their much loved pets over the past year or so, and it's always a desperate time. The fact that she was not the only cat in the house might be some small solace, but there'll still be that aching sense of loss. The very appropriateness of the music, will, as you say, hope to keep her memory alive.
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« Reply #3316 on: 12:38:11, 22-08-2008 » |
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Courtney Love - The Art of David Munrow.
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« Reply #3317 on: 12:43:18, 22-08-2008 » |
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Neil Young - Zuma
Just playing Cortez the Killer for a 2nd time.
I don't know that one, Anty. Actually, I only really know the Harvest album (it's the only one I own), which I like very much from time to time. George, you are particularly mischievous these last couple of days, are you not? |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #3318 on: 12:49:40, 22-08-2008 » |
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George, you are particularly mischievous these last couple of days, are you not?
Yes. I've come to learn it's usually a bad sign  . Time for a bit of Haydn to get me back on the straight and narrow. |
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« Reply #3319 on: 14:00:52, 22-08-2008 » |
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Martinů: Fantaisies Symphoniques (Symphony No.6) in the première recording by its dedicatee , Charles Munch, made with the Boston SO a little over a year after they'd given the first performance: a very early stereo recording, from 1956. I mentioned this version recently, and a CD copy has arrived today. It may not be quite as fresh sounding as Järvi's, but, just as I remembered, makes his performance sound a little pedestrian by comparison. It's fleet and literally fantastic: nearly two minutes faster overall, which increases its fluidity and emphasises the quicksilver nature of the composer's inspiration: for me, a far richer experience than the modern recording.
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« Reply #3320 on: 14:10:25, 22-08-2008 » |
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I was listening to that piece just yesterday as it happens, Ron (also inspired by recent mentions around here), although the only recording I know is the modern one I have: not by Järvi but Jiri Kout and the St Gallen Symphony Orchestra on Arte Nova. I don't remember why I bought this except that it was cheap, I was probably working in a CD shop at the time and someone told me it was good, or I read a good review. Movement timings 9', 7½' and 11', if that's of any interest.
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« Reply #3321 on: 14:14:18, 22-08-2008 » |
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Järvi: 8:25, 7:34, 11:08; Munch: 8:13, 7:08, 10:12, t.
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« Reply #3322 on: 06:52:24, 23-08-2008 » |
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Thats quite interesting Ron. Is there a much to chose between each version.
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« Reply #3323 on: 05:25:39, 24-08-2008 » |
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Hell Destroyer by Cage. It's super fun, if you want a whole album of every imaginable heavy metal cliche in existence delivered with disarming panache.
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« Reply #3324 on: 19:15:36, 24-08-2008 » |
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I have just finished listening to this:  This is not the latest Philips release, but a new one from Pentatone who have remastered the original quadraphonic recordings Philips taped, presenting it in 4 channel surround-sound. I had come to think that this 1969 recording was starting to show its age, but the results here are quite something. I understand that Pentatone was set up by a trio of former Philips executives who obviously know where the riches are to be found. |
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« Reply #3325 on: 23:41:15, 24-08-2008 » |
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Thats quite interesting Ron. Is there a much to chose between each version.
I was rather hoping that I'd already made that clear, bbm: three messages above yours.... |
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« Reply #3326 on: 04:15:37, 25-08-2008 » |
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Terje Rypdal: Lux Aeterna
Rather lovely concentration music for a day spent chained to the computer finishing freelance work.
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« Reply #3327 on: 13:34:39, 25-08-2008 » |
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 This is very enjoyable indeed (all 6 discs of it). While JCB's symphonies can tend to be somewhat bland and predictable, these pieces, all with between two and five instruments added to the orchestra, are inexhaustibly colourful and surprising, their eccentricities often reminiscent of early Haydn but with more varied textures and a smoother sense of flow (which is the only thing holding some of the collage-like movements together). Nicely played too, in a mostly understated kind of way. |
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« Reply #3328 on: 22:41:15, 25-08-2008 » |
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Just spun (for the second time today): Richard Barrett, NO for orchestra.
I like this more every time I hear it.
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« Reply #3329 on: 07:36:20, 26-08-2008 » |
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Bantock:Saphic Poem. Julian Lloyd Webber, Royal PO, Handley.
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