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« Reply #3975 on: 17:17:04, 01-11-2008 » |
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Another thing that is almost inevitable is that this Fallas chap will get the obligatory slagging that CD Reviewers attract at TOP.  So far, nothing on TOP. Is hostility preferable to apathy? |
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A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #3976 on: 17:48:30, 01-11-2008 » |
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Looking forward especially to Dum Transisset Sabbatum having made my little choir sing it a few years ago. I think I enjoyed it more than they did...
Now this is a rather obvious point to make, but there are an awful lot of them singing this (sixteen, I'd imagine). When we sang it, we were 1-2 voices per part, and it makes it sound so much leaner and less formal. |
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« Reply #3977 on: 11:38:56, 02-11-2008 » |
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Yesterday I went on to listen to the Taverner Choir singing Taverner's Missa Gloria tibi Trinitias which I preferred (and I feel that the solo sections are very lovely things) but I still can't help feeling that there's a Tudor choir gloss on the way that the music is being performed. This may well just be the music and I may have to just accept that, but I feel that I'm missing something about the music because there's this generic soundscape which gets in the way of any of the more muscular lines. I suppose the only solution is to organise a choir to sing some of this myself.
Glad I've got that off my chest.
I'm now spinning disc 4 of Rzewski plays Rzewski: The Road, parts I & II.
So far, the highlight of the set has been the North American Ballads. I haven't much liked the more 'Classical' pieces, even though I think they've been well constructed. Not terribly impressed by the piano that he's playing either.
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« Reply #3978 on: 12:10:51, 02-11-2008 » |
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So far, the highlight of the set has been the North American Ballads.
Yes, they really are terrific. They're on my list of pieces to learn (if I ever have time to do any learnin'). |
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« Reply #3979 on: 12:14:14, 02-11-2008 » |
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I'm enjoying The Road so far. I think that you have to enter into the spirit of the thing, and even though there's something about the gigantic Romantic conception of it that makes me cringe a little, it does communicate and invites you to enter into its world.
But I can see that once I've listened to the whole of The Road, I'll have to listen to some more Taverner before going back to listen to the last two discs in the set.
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« Reply #3980 on: 12:25:06, 02-11-2008 » |
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I'm enjoying The Road so far. I think that you have to enter into the spirit of the thing, and even though there's something about the gigantic Romantic conception of it that makes me cringe a little, it does communicate and invites you to enter into its world.
If it were done any less brilliantly, I'd cringe at the 'Romantic conception' too, but it isn't (to my taste, anyway): in fact, it's having taken that risk that allows Rzewski to make the kind of 'visionary' statements he's after. |
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« Reply #3981 on: 14:51:47, 02-11-2008 » |
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Technological problems have necessitated a change of plans  No more Taverner or Rzewski for the moment, but I'm now spinning this:  My gratitude for the recommendations of Gesualdo recordings knows no limits.  I'm probably going to order the Concerto Italiano recording soon as well (I just can't get enough) on the recommendation of Fabrice Fitch. |
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« Reply #3982 on: 18:23:06, 02-11-2008 » |
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NS here:  More sprecifically, the fifth movement: Demeurer dans l'amour. Utterly, totally exquisite. |
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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 #3983 on: 18:43:33, 02-11-2008 » |
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NS: Horatiu Radulescu - Return to the Source of Light - Piano Sonata no.6  I don't think I'm going to last 17 minutes with this. |
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« Reply #3984 on: 18:49:06, 02-11-2008 » |
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 For me not quite as happening as vol VII but still pretty happening. |
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« Reply #3985 on: 18:53:15, 02-11-2008 » |
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« Reply #3986 on: 18:56:08, 02-11-2008 » |
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...and now the Beethoven last three sonatas on a Graf with this chap:  That on the other hand is about as happening as it gets. |
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« Reply #3987 on: 18:58:19, 02-11-2008 » |
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That on the other hand is about as happening as it gets.
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« Reply #3988 on: 19:00:20, 02-11-2008 » |
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Hm. The original is but I thought I'd resized it...
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« Reply #3989 on: 21:26:08, 02-11-2008 » |
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 I'm getting on much better with this. This could be because I have the volume turned up quite high, but also I think the music on this CD is possibly better suited to more voices. |
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