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« Reply #3450 on: 19:22:58, 03-09-2008 » |
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Karg-Elert piano works, volume 4. Very odd music, worth a listen IMHO!
I'd welcome a few more comments, if possible, Jonathan. Isn't one of those pieces about cannibalism? |
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« Reply #3451 on: 20:30:41, 03-09-2008 » |
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Hi autoharp, Er, no cannibalistic links as far as i can find out according to the linear notes! However, i may be wrong. There are another 3 volumes which may contain the piece you are thinking of (this is the first CD of his music i've bought and probably the only music of his i've heared as well so i am a newcomer to his soundworld). The Exotische Rhapsodie, Op.118 is the first piece on the disc, it often sounds like Debussy but not as tightly constructed. I got the impression it rambled a bit actually but it was ok, not a masterpiece but worth the listen. The earlier pieces are more conventional and more to my taste. I'll follow with more comments when i have listened to the whole thing (Heather has just come in)  |
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« Reply #3453 on: 18:59:55, 04-09-2008 » |
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Hi Autoharp, yes that's the one! I found the reference to cannibalism as well. You do learn something new every day! Further thoughts at the weekend when i have time to listen properly...
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« Reply #3454 on: 23:21:37, 04-09-2008 » |
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Jonathan,
I know these Prokofiev transcription kind of well. I played a few from different ballets while studying in college. My teacher liked to give them to his students.
I know nothing about Sigfrid KARG-ELERT. In fact even his name is not familiar to me.
May be one day I will investigate this music.
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« Reply #3455 on: 16:57:59, 05-09-2008 » |
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"Elogio per un'ombis" on ECM. A programme of music by Tartini-Dallapiccola-Petrassi-Berio-Carter and Rochberg Played by Michelle Makarski. An hour of perfect wet-afternoon-music
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« Reply #3456 on: 22:36:45, 05-09-2008 » |
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I've been listening to the Sawallisch Meistersinger, as we are travelling in Bavaria, and I am amazed to find it exciting, beautiful and wonderful, even without following the words. Bit of Germanic heaviness, I suppose, but hey swings and roundabouts.
Could this be because I've just had my hair cut?
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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 #3457 on: 22:38:45, 05-09-2008 » |
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Haircut. I need one of those.
Just a bit shaggy at present.
I'm listening to Tye's viol music.
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« Reply #3458 on: 23:00:57, 05-09-2008 » |
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I've been listening to the Sawallisch Meistersinger, as we are travelling in Bavaria, and I am amazed to find it exciting, beautiful and wonderful, even without following the words. Bit of Germanic heaviness, I suppose, but hey swings and roundabouts.
Could this be because I've just had my hair cut?
But less Germanic heaviness in this performance than many - IMO Sawallisch is an absolutely top Wagner conductor, who (to misquote Roger Norrington) never fails to play Wagner as if it were music. (NS here - Mozart concert arias: Emma Kirkby, Academy of Ancient Music, Hogwood) |
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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 #3459 on: 23:11:38, 05-09-2008 » |
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I'm listening to Tye's viol music.
I've posted about this CD before but it's just lovely. It's Jordi Savall with Hespèrion XX and the playing is just so fluent and matter-of-fact that it comes across so beautifully even when you've got the crazy metrical circus going on. I may have to listen to Moreschi after this finishes. |
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« Reply #3460 on: 23:23:09, 05-09-2008 » |
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I'm also very fond of that Tye CD. Listening to Moreschi makes me feel a bit queasy though. My Mahler/Gielen box arrived today but I haven't had a chance to spin it yet (and actually I've had Mr Sudden's copy on my shelves for some considerable time so it isn't unfamiliar territory). It annoys me somewhat that the box is about half as deep again as it needs to be.
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« Reply #3461 on: 23:46:33, 05-09-2008 » |
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What annoyed me when I got my set was that it arrived without the booklet, and the supplier denied all responsibility. Fortunately, Hänssler quickly sent one when I raised the problem with them.
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« Reply #3462 on: 01:03:49, 06-09-2008 » |
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I've been listening to the Sawallisch Meistersinger, as we are travelling in Bavaria, and I am amazed to find it exciting, beautiful and wonderful, even without following the words. Bit of Germanic heaviness, I suppose, but hey swings and roundabouts. I remember once agreeing with Robin Holloway that it was the opera Brahms never wrote (not that that would commend it to everyone, of course ...). |
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« Reply #3463 on: 01:31:05, 06-09-2008 » |
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I remember once agreeing with Robin Holloway that it was the opera Brahms never wrote It quotes (or 'seems to recall') Brahms Op. 5 at one point (I read). The Sawallisch is the recording I picked up last year from Gloucester Road Oxfam for less than a promming ticket. It's very good, but the libretto text size is huge, so the booklet is huge as well. I always need the text, since I still don't know it that well, and the scenes at the end of Acts 1 and 2 present a challenge to follow! |
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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 #3464 on: 02:38:58, 06-09-2008 » |
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NS: Pete Seeger's album of children's songs
Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes: Little & Big
Parents take note! This is really pretty awesome.
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