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« Reply #4155 on: 18:22:12, 15-11-2008 » |
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Alright then, clever clogs!!
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« Reply #4156 on: 18:28:17, 15-11-2008 » |
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Currently spinning PMD's 1st symphony (Rattle, Philharmonia Orchestra) on my iPod (which seems to have recovered from its hard-disk related crisis earlier this year, fingers crossed). I'm so glad that I have this recording. It makes me very happy to listen to it. I think that has something to do with the colours, but also the fluidity of the rhythmic and structural language. I love this period of his orchestral music.
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« Reply #4157 on: 18:35:26, 15-11-2008 » |
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I love that piece too very much, hh. Partly (but only partly) because it was the first piece of 'advanced'-sounding music by a living composer that I got to know very well; and partly because (I think) it's a fantastic piece.
A Mirror of Whitening Light (for chamber orchestra - single strings) is also very fine, also from the period before the tuned percussion and climactic high trumpets became a mannerism, and more than the symphonies it seems to do what PMD thinks it does structurally, especially with the big plainchant in the horn at the climax. Do you know that piece?
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« Reply #4158 on: 18:40:44, 15-11-2008 » |
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Do you know that piece?
I don't but I should. I also have a very soft squidgy spot for Worldes Blis. |
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« Reply #4159 on: 20:52:35, 15-11-2008 » |
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Now spinning The Black River by Gavin Bryars - Sarah Leonard soprano i love this piece - very good if stressed up - very tranquil and soothing  |
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« Reply #4160 on: 20:59:41, 15-11-2008 » |
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 I love the Janacek quartets -- particularly how they are trying to wring things out of the instruments, both technically and affectively, of which they are quite clearly not capable. It's a constant state of failure. Delicious. |
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« Reply #4161 on: 21:13:00, 15-11-2008 » |
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You are a golden boy of late aren't you, Evan?
I don't have any of those reissues apart from the Bernarda Fink Frauenliebe und -leben. I passed a stand in a record shop the other week and noticed quite a few desirable-looking things that must be more recent additions to the series, but I somehow resent paying the full amount for discs I would have been able to get cheap if I still worked for the label (not that I'd want to, so I know I should accept it as part of the trade-off ... but anyway, any logic that keeps me from spending money on CDs is probably good logic at the moment).
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« Reply #4162 on: 21:18:33, 15-11-2008 » |
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You are a golden boy of late aren't you, Evan?
I don't have any of those reissues apart from the Bernarda Fink Frauenliebe und -leben. I passed a stand in a record shop the other week and noticed quite a few desirable-looking things that must be more recent additions to the series, but I somehow resent paying the full amount for discs I would have been able to get cheap if I still worked for the label (not that I'd want to, so I know I should accept it as part of the trade-off ... but anyway, any logic that keeps me from spending money on CDs is probably good logic at the moment).
I suppose I am, of late, yes... although this one I've had for awhile, soon after they launched the line I think. Besides, they look fancy. |
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« Reply #4163 on: 21:38:05, 15-11-2008 » |
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I love the Janacek quartets -- particularly how they are trying to wring things out of the instruments, both technically and affectively, of which they are quite clearly not capable. It's a constant state of failure. Delicious. What do you or anyone think of Smetana's e minor String Quartet? I can't get on with it at all. It seems enormously overwrought. What am I missing? I know, it has very little to do with Janacek. |
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« Reply #4164 on: 21:57:32, 15-11-2008 » |
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I also have a very soft squidgy spot for Worldes Blis.
Now for me that's one of the great orchestral works. (Yes, that sentence was supposed to end there.) |
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« Reply #4165 on: 22:42:13, 15-11-2008 » |
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Bother. This has just tipped me over the edge.
I've got £100 worth of CDs heading my way now.
Damn you all.
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« Reply #4166 on: 22:43:45, 15-11-2008 » |
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Stockhausen concert just about to start on Hear & Now: Drei Lieder beginning now ...
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« Reply #4167 on: 22:56:52, 15-11-2008 » |
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I wish I could sit and listen to that, but I have to transcribe some interviews with students. I'll have to Listen Again tomorrow maybe.
If I don't do these interviews tonight, I'll never do them.
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« Reply #4168 on: 23:45:14, 15-11-2008 » |
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These Star Signs are really lovely, hh: do iPlay them tomorrow! (They'd be suitable for background listening if you're short of time.) |
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« Reply #4169 on: 13:11:11, 16-11-2008 » |
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Sorry Tinners but I'm shocked  , shocked to the core! Stockhausen background music? Pleeeeease. Here I am taking down notes from Guru Worby, devoting days, yes days to the study of Klang and the history of post-war German Modernism and you say "background music" What next an agreement between Mr Ferneyhough and Mr Otis? I'm going to have a little lie down; now where did I put that nice cd by Mr Jenkins? |
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I've got to get down to Sidcup.
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