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« Reply #3870 on: 23:01:03, 18-10-2008 » |
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I am still trying to get to grips with Roger Norrington (stop giggling at the back)
So am giving his Beethoven symphony 9 a whirl which actually seems quite good.
It is so difficult to know what to spin for that last half hour before you fall into the arms of Morpheus isn'it it?
Would that be the one with the London Classical Player, or that with the Stuttgarters? I particularly like the way he handled the 'village band' in the last movement with the LCP. It's the London Classical Players Bryn. I hope that meets with your approval?  Village Band? I do not know the symphony so that is a new one on me. |
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« Reply #3871 on: 23:16:18, 18-10-2008 » |
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I must be so thick, I am playing it again, what village band?  |
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« Reply #3872 on: 23:20:12, 18-10-2008 » |
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It's the "Allegro assai vivace. Alla Marcia" section, but Norrington says he thinks of it as Beethoven portraying a village band. In that recording it always makes me think of Leonora 4, with the Happy Wanderers turning up. I think it will be Track 8 on your CD. Norrington takes it at Beethoven's marked tempo, i.e. much slower than most 'modern' performances, for once.
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« Reply #3873 on: 23:35:36, 18-10-2008 » |
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I'm of to the land of nod, now. However, all this talk of Norrington has made me think of his recording of Elgar's 1st, so I will spin that to lull me to sleep, well, not the Norrington, actually, but Karg-Elert's transcription for piano, played by Mark Bebbington. Still, it's talk of Norrington that put me in mind of it.
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« Reply #3874 on: 23:40:10, 18-10-2008 » |
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Oh Buglar Bryn, I just did a long reply to you about Norrington and it disappeared,
So it'll be Gossamer Bynon tucking into lambs kidneys and chips or TTN on R3? No contest.
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« Reply #3875 on: 12:06:21, 20-10-2008 » |
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My posts sometimes disappear to Antheil. I suppose we might press the wrong thingey that does the job for us!
At the moment spinning brass band music by Arthur Butterworth. Played by Black Dyke Band, conducted by Nicholas J Childs.
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« Reply #3877 on: 00:59:07, 21-10-2008 » |
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V2 was off school with a cold today and I had a rare chance to take things relatively easily too, so this afternoon I thought she might be interested in watching a bit of the recently-arrived DVD of The Rake's Progress from the 1979 Glyndebourne production, which I'd seen at Sadler's Wells in the early 1980s and of which I had very precise memories, which turned out to be completely accurate. Picture and sound quality are not that good but most of the time this is of little consequence. I think, in the absence of seeing it on stage, this film is the best way of getting to know this opera (which I'm beginning to come to feel is one of Stravinsky's best works, certainly of the "neoclassical" ones which I'm generally not very keen on). Much of the credit must go to David Hockney's sets, but all the main roles are beautifully sung (I would like to single out Felicity Lott as Anne Trulove but she isn't that much better than the others) and the LPO under Haitink have exactly the right mid-20th-century-Mozart-through-a-prism sound.
How long did it retain V2's interest? For the entire 2 hours and 20 minutes (with a break). I did of course have to explain regularly what was going on, but still.
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« Reply #3878 on: 08:43:21, 21-10-2008 » |
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Funny, I remember that production extremely vividly too. It was the first complete opera production I'd ever seen live, which would account for some of its durability in my mind; but aspects of both the music and the Hockney sets/costumes have stayed spookily alive in my mind all this time. I remember being particularly gobsmacked by the auction scene - everything black and white checks, except the autioneer's costume which was brilliantly multi-coloured. I think I'll have to get that DVD.
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« Reply #3879 on: 09:04:33, 22-10-2008 » |
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Thats a marvellous achievement there Richard! My goodness. The only time Ive ever been remotely sucessful with my son, as far as introducing him to the pleasures of classical music, is talking about John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera', because he did that at school. He rather likes acting really!
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Bantock *Sappho, Prelude and nine Fragments for Soprano and Orchestra; # Sapphic Poem, for Cello & Orchestra.
*Susan Buckley(m-s), #Juilian Lloyd Webber(Cello), Royal PO/Vernon Handley.
Someone was saying are we likely to see the music of Bax again now that Todd has died. I would say about the others as well, eg Bantock.
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« Reply #3880 on: 20:53:50, 22-10-2008 » |
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Now spinning
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berlin symphony orchestra - kurt sanderling
never heard of berlin symphony before but imo this pretty special
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« Reply #3881 on: 21:18:51, 22-10-2008 » |
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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 #3882 on: 13:59:09, 23-10-2008 » |
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Amongst other pieces played by The Cory band, conducted by Robert Childs, is the conductors transcription of Elgar's Organ Sonata.
This makes the third version of this work I have. The other two ofcourse being the orchestra one and the original.
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« Reply #3883 on: 15:23:09, 23-10-2008 » |
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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 #3884 on: 15:27:43, 23-10-2008 » |
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Thomas Adès: TevótIs it a joke? Still haven't heard it, tinners. Howdyawhatcha mean? |
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