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« Reply #3915 on: 03:16:41, 28-10-2008 » |
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Burgmüller of The Skaters fame? I have no problem with that. He could certainly write a fetching ditty.
pseudo-Nash writes:
I know this ditty
May be sh*tty
But I won't rewrite it,
(More's the pity.)
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« Reply #3916 on: 04:49:27, 28-10-2008 » |
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Now spinning: Reinhard Keiser, Die Großmütige TomyrisiTunes does not have tracking info in its CD database, and coincidentally the same is true for other Keiser discs from other labels (just checked out 3 operas and a passion from our Uni Music Library). A strange coincidence, as I rarely spin commercial discs that the database doesn't recognise. The Linde Consort accompanies Christophe Prégardien, Gabriele Fontana (in the title rôle), and others. I am inspired to this by the Baroque Opera thread, but also by rb's comment that one of these operas contains an aria lifted from Akhnaten. Perhaps I can find the one he means without asking which opera he's thinking of. Here's a picture of richard after reading this:  |
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« Reply #3917 on: 05:24:46, 28-10-2008 » |
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I'm very fond of Croesus, and think I shall give it a spin later.
I am currently listening to a disc of Marenzio madrigals performed by the Consort of musicke.
I'm enjoying this, but not nearly as much as I had hoped. I also have the La Venexiana recording of Il nono libro dei Madrigali, which is pleasant enough. I think I'm just not as into Marenzio as I am into, say, Monteverdi ca 7th/8th books. There is something appealing about the weirdness, but the weirdness seems somehow 'studied', rather than natural.
I can imagine this being very enjoyable to sing, though...
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« Reply #3918 on: 10:23:15, 28-10-2008 » |
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Magnard's 3rd Symphony which seems to have come up in conversation in TOP. I'd forgotten how good it is!
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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 #3919 on: 14:38:00, 28-10-2008 » |
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I am inspired to this by the Baroque Opera thread, but also by rb's comment that one of these operas contains an aria lifted from Akhnaten. Perhaps I can find the one he means without asking which opera he's thinking of.
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« Reply #3920 on: 15:17:57, 28-10-2008 » |
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Ok, after the Magnard it was Liszt's Transcendental Etudes, played by Jando on Naxos (really good stuff) and then Taneyev's Piano Concerto - such a shame he didn't write a finale for it as it is a most impressive work. Not sure what to listen to next...
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #3921 on: 16:46:40, 28-10-2008 » |
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I have just played the RNCM Wind band's cd of Percy Grainger's transcriptions for wind orchestra. Very interesting this recording. Its on the Chandos label. Has Grainger's transcription of Franck's Choral No.2 included from a collection called Gems for Wind Band.
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« Reply #3922 on: 20:25:25, 28-10-2008 » |
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Now spinning Schumann Symphony 2
love the contrast between the bustling outer movements and the very dreamy slow one - bliss !
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« Reply #3923 on: 21:31:55, 28-10-2008 » |
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 Now that's what a bassoon should sound like. Oh my. |
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« Reply #3924 on: 21:33:34, 28-10-2008 » |
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Now that's what a bassoon should sound like. Oh my.
I trust you're talking about Azzolini's playing, not Westermann's. Or do you mean that a bassoon should sound like the young Pirelli-calendaresque lady on the cover? |
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« Reply #3925 on: 21:39:14, 28-10-2008 » |
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Now that's what a bassoon should sound like. Oh my.
I trust you're talking about Azzolini's playing, not Westermann's. Or do you mean that a bassoon should sound like the young Pirelli-calendaresque lady on the cover? Yes, indeed. I do not think a bassoon should sound like that oboe, though an oboe certainly should. What the lady on the cover sounds like I can only begin to conjecture and "bassoonish" would probably not be an adjective I would use. Man, though, this is one wailing bassoon.  |
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« Reply #3927 on: 22:37:41, 28-10-2008 » |
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 Purchased not from Russian DVD but from Saturn yesterday for a derisory price. Specifically spinning is the "Andante pour le Cor Anglais F-Dur". It's just too gorgeous and slushily early-Romantic for me not to recommend it to the present company. Instruments d'époque of course. Wooden flute and grunty bassoon and chromatic scales on a natural horn and all those other things on from which history thought it had passed. Ha! ...and it's just finished spinning. Those cor anglais pieces are simply gorgeous and they cop some of the most ravishing wind playing I've heard on record. Wonderful stuff. Hear it if you can. |
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« Reply #3928 on: 18:20:14, 29-10-2008 » |
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I think I would like that Vivaldi CD and I'd enjoy the Reicha probably to some degree too.
NS however: Stockhausen Telemusik. Not one of his more famous pieces, but right up there among the best ones.
Preceded by Mahler/Cooke - Symphony no.10 conducted by Michael Gielen, yet again. Somehow I prefer his previous recording of the Adagio (before he was convinced about doing the rest). I haven't really worked out why.
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« Reply #3929 on: 05:11:16, 30-10-2008 » |
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I am inspired to this by the Baroque Opera thread, but also by rb's comment that one of these operas contains an aria lifted from Akhnaten. Perhaps I can find the one he means without asking which opera he's thinking of.
I was thinking of that very one you're listening to in fact. Have you found it yet? No. The closest I could find was "Amor, fache nicht die Flammen", Tomyris's first aria of the second act. I doubt you mean that one though; I certainly wouldn't immediately describe it in those terms. Interesting, that the German translator of the Italian libretto (used previously by T Albinoni) left a few of the arias in the Italian language, but not all of them. I imagine there are precedents for this? NS: Aeolian String Quartet plays Haydn op. 20/4 -- I shake my head in disbelief. Always good to get back to these pieces when the going gets tough. |
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