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« Reply #3720 on: 08:47:35, 27-09-2008 » |
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I must dig the EMI recording of Tippett's The mask of Time soon. Something of a Beethoven fest today.
Symphony no.1; Piano Concerto no.4; Triple Concerto; Choral Fantasia in C; Piano Con no5(Emperor); Symphony no.3. The Nikolaus Harnoncourt cycle of Beethoven's orchestral music box set.
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« Reply #3721 on: 08:49:51, 27-09-2008 » |
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Good Lord!! <thud> Well I never . Now on order. Thanks, IGI. On a somewhat more serious note, it's a shame that Sony have never issued Boulez's Beethoven Opus 67 (LSO) on CD. I hope I still have a playable CBS LP of that in the loft. |
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« Reply #3722 on: 10:32:52, 28-09-2008 » |
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Having some cds of the Black Dyke Band today, old and recent. I counted how many 'Dyke' cds I have. i was astonished to find that I've 43!!
'The Complete Champions'. Contest Music(Wilfred Heaton; Royal Parks(George Lloyd); Salute to Youth(Gilbert Vinter); Cloudcatcher Fells(John McCabe). Major Peter Parkes.
This recording was published early in 1986. Very interesting one as well. It all started with the now defunct contest BBC Band of The Year, held in January. They won that one with a performance of the Heaton piece.. Then came the National BB Championships of GB Regionals, Yorkshire Area, again the set piece was the Heaton. In this the solo cornet player has to hold top C# above the stave for 15 seconds(all artisically created by the music), all the way down to a 12th!!!. Then the next contest was on 4th May that year, The European Championships, in Copenhagen. They played the George Lloyd piece. They played off the dreaded number one slot, all cold(!). They didnt have to worry, they won!! They have own choice and set in that contest, the Lloyd was the set piece. Next the band had the famous British Open Contest, which was the Vinter. They won that one too!! Then they said, we will give London a crack!! The National Finals! The set piece was the John McCabe. Again they did it. Infact they are the first band in the whole of the history of the BB Movement to achieve the fist hat-trick for the European, the first band and conductor to achieve three doubles Open and Nationals, all this adding up to a total of 16 majors in 10 years!!
Other Dyke cds are The Trumpets of the Angels. Featuring the music of Edward Gregson, including the title track. Very good composition from the pen of this composer. Currently Professor of Music at the RNCM. This is conducted by Nicholas J Childs, the current incumbent MD of this great and fine band.
On a lighter side, the third disc is Black Dyke plays Beatles. It was this band that was the brass band who played 'Yellow Submarine'! Conducted again by Nicholas J Childs.
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« Reply #3723 on: 16:20:51, 28-09-2008 » |
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Bach Motet O Jesus Christ, meins Lebens Licht BWV 118b If there is a jukebox in paradise, surely this must be on it. The performance I am listening to is from this recording:  |
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« Reply #3724 on: 16:25:29, 28-09-2008 » |
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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 #3725 on: 16:33:30, 28-09-2008 » |
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Be one of the things on it!!
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« Reply #3726 on: 18:06:47, 28-09-2008 » |
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About a year ago I played in the premiere of theatrum:figurae, for oboe, clarinet/contrabass clarinet, bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone and percussion. (ELISION ensemble, Warsaw Autumn.) A very fine thing it was too.
I've just seen that a third book of Traumwerk is being broadcast on the Bayern 4 programme Horizonte next week, which I am looking forward to. |
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« Reply #3727 on: 22:22:33, 28-09-2008 » |
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Good Lord!! <thud> Well I never . Now on order. Thanks, IGI. On a somewhat more serious note, it's a shame that Sony have never issued Boulez's Beethoven Opus 67 (LSO) on CD. I hope I still have a playable CBS LP of that in the loft. One can only second that. (Both of your sentences.  ) His Handel I can probably wait a little longer for. Isn't there some CPE Bach? Or did I dream that? He did apparently conduct some Perotin once upon a time. I wonder if that will ever turn up somewhere... |
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« Reply #3728 on: 02:57:08, 29-09-2008 » |
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Boulez dirige Perotin? The mind boggles. NS: Tristan Murail: Winter FragmentsUne frissonne en hiver.  |
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« Reply #3729 on: 12:43:48, 29-09-2008 » |
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BLIMEY. Extraordinary. What that man could do with his voice is quite frankly disturbing and rather wonderful. I hadn't believed it was possible to actually sing chords like this before listening to this recording. There are a number of departures from the score (octave too high, some bizarre pitching) but I'm so glad that I ordered this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention! |
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« Reply #3731 on: 17:01:14, 29-09-2008 » |
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Une frisson en hiver. frisson was masculine last I checked...  Now fixed. But spinning sth else. Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales. Louis Lortie, pf |
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« Reply #3732 on: 18:01:27, 29-09-2008 » |
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BLIMEY. Extraordinary. What that man could do with his voice is quite frankly disturbing and rather wonderful. I hadn't believed it was possible to actually sing chords like this before listening to this recording. There are a number of departures from the score (octave too high, some bizarre pitching) but I'm so glad that I ordered this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention! Note: octave TOO HIGH. Let's think about that for a minute, those of us who have seen the score.  (And, er, those of us who've sat through performances where the range was reduced to that of a common-or-garden baritone plus a couple of falsetto notes.) Even Eastman sings the last word of 'like a starless night' to a completely different note from the written one (D above the treble stave as opposed to the A above middle C)... |
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« Reply #3733 on: 19:08:14, 29-09-2008 » |
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Even Eastman sings the last word of 'like a starless night' to a completely different note from the written one (D above the treble stave as opposed to the A above middle C)...
You don't mean the other way round, do you? Not that I've listened to it for ages or anything, and I've never seen a score, but just wondering ... |
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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 #3734 on: 19:32:50, 29-09-2008 » |
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Even Eastman sings the last word of 'like a starless night' to a completely different note from the written one (D above the treble stave as opposed to the A above middle C)...
You don't mean the other way round, do you? Not that I've listened to it for ages or anything, and I've never seen a score, but just wondering ... He does indeed sing a(n inhaled and quite, well, I would say breathtaking but it would look silly) high D as opposed to the (relatively lame) A in the score. Anyone else seen the published piano reduction? It has some rather wacky stuff in it - a written-out realisation (not by the composer but I've forgotten by whom) of the 'collapsing ensemble' moment near the beginning for example. |
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