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« Reply #555 on: 21:32:42, 27-05-2007 » |
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OK. Le Bal Miro is completely different. But there's still this slightly aimless quality to it all. It's a bit like early Max (it's an aimless quality that I quite like) without the structure. Or it could just be that I need to really sit down and listen to it rather than doing so while I'm writing my commentary... Bergkristall is several times the length of the Lorenzaacio Symphony (actually a suite taken from an opera) and, as I remember, is much more eventful and tends more towards sounding like a skeleton of romantic music overlaid with several layers of atonal texture (one of its movements actually consists of the same music played several times with different layers "missing" each time). I did find the Lorenzaccio piece a little underwhelming in comparison. The Rara Requiem however is wonderful, I think.
I think that I could usefully intersperse them with other music so that I'm aware of them as separate pieces. At the moment, the language is sufficiently similar for them to melt into one another. I'm saving the Rara Requiem till tomorrow. |
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« Reply #556 on: 21:52:51, 27-05-2007 » |
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The aimlessness is part of the decadent style, I think, though I don't find the Requiem aimless. Actually my favourite Bussotti orchestral piece is one called Il catalogo e questo (with solo flute) which takes the smudged-tonality idea much further.
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« Reply #557 on: 10:21:14, 28-05-2007 » |
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Mimaroglu's "Tract" (not on AGP, I think) is a wodnerful piece - politically charged electronics/concrete/blah at its best.
Will try "Daphne of the Dunes". Have similar problems with Partch, or at least I feel I need to see one of those theater pieces once.
Still making my way through the Bussotti - I found the orchestral piece I've had a listen to yesterday a little aimless but it went to a cpl of unexpected places...will 'spin' some more of these later.
Now its Holliger's "Concert pour violon".
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« Reply #558 on: 10:45:15, 28-05-2007 » |
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Socrate over a late breakfast.
I've put Daphne on my list for later on today.
Putting on a production of some Partch theatre pieces is a long term career goal.
All I need now is some funding to make some duplicate instruments...
Back to Bussotti, Scelsi and Zambian secret society music.
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« Reply #559 on: 17:06:02, 28-05-2007 » |
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These really are some wonderful performances of Partch.
The rhythms seem comfortable and almost a bit laid-back but at the same time the whole thing is very taut.
Thanks Richard! This wouldn't have been high on my list of priorities if you hadn't mentioned it.
I still don't like the adapted viola tune though! But I must say that Daphne of the Dunes is a big improvement on Windsong.
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« Reply #560 on: 09:45:10, 29-05-2007 » |
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Now spinning here, however, is Schoenberg's Herzgewächse (Schäfer/Boulez). Shame it's so tantalisingly short.
That's very spooky, Richard, because the same piece in the exact same recording was spinning chez t_i_n less than 24 hours later (and I haven't been online all weekend so hadn't read your post in the meantime). Actually, what I really enjoyed was the Ode to Napoleon which followed it. And Kol Nidre, which I then dug out on a different CD and which I don't think I'd ever listened to properly before. |
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« Reply #561 on: 10:42:42, 29-05-2007 » |
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Now spinning here, however, is Schoenberg's Herzgewächse (Schäfer/Boulez). Shame it's so tantalisingly short.
That's very spooky, Richard, because the same piece in the exact same recording was spinning chez t_i_n less than 24 hours later (and I haven't been online all weekend so hadn't read your post in the meantime). Actually, what I really enjoyed was the Ode to Napoleon which followed it. And Kol Nidre, which I then dug out on a different CD and which I don't think I'd ever listened to properly before. Hmm. Actually what I had wanted to listen to was Pierrot, but I couldn't get involved in it. I normally avoid the Ode to Napoleon but left it on this time, and for the first time wasn't repelled. Might come back to that CD again later today. |
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« Reply #562 on: 21:21:37, 30-05-2007 » |
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The Vai issue of the première of Billy Budd picked up with a clutch of other goodies* from the excellent Yarborough House in Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, well worth a visit (they don't do mail order).
* Petersson's 12th Symphony and Frankel's 2nd and 3rd on CPO, the Collins Classics singles of Hugh Wood's Piano Concerto and Benedict Mason's Lighthouses.... two deleted Heiner Goebbels ECM cds, a live Bliss Morning Heroes, and discs of H.K. Gruber, Alan Bush, Turnage chamber music, Jehan Alain's organ works, symphonies by (William) Schumann, Piston and Hovhaness amongst others.
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« Reply #563 on: 21:58:31, 30-05-2007 » |
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Let me second Ron's recommendation of Yarboro House - altho it's a couple of years since I was last there, every trip I've made has lightened my wallet considerably and added much weight to my shelves... Parking on that hill almost destroyed my handbrake though!!!
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« Reply #564 on: 23:16:26, 01-06-2007 » |
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Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante - Rostropovich / Sargent / RPO (1959) I think this may become a favourite work and recording..........  Tommo |
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« Reply #565 on: 23:56:10, 01-06-2007 » |
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Ah yes, I remember it well, but do try the original concerto, it's much better, to my ears. I do wish Radio 3 would dig out the Rohan de Saram/BBCPO/Edward Downes studio recording they broadcast back in the late '70s or early '80s. Much better than the commercial recordings I have heard.
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« Reply #566 on: 22:03:09, 15-06-2007 » |
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A disc with the title Pisne a tance stredoveke (sorry, I can't do all the accents) and if anybody can tell me what it means I would be very grateful It's by a Czech early music group calling themselves Gothien. I don't know how "authentic" they are but they say they play The instrument names are given in Czech so I can't really work out what they are playing  When I saw them in concert the other night they had a lute, shawms, percussion, a bagpipe, and something that I think might have been a chalumeau (looks like a clarinet?) |
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« Reply #567 on: 16:17:32, 16-06-2007 » |
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A disc with the title Pisne a tance stredoveke (sorry, I can't do all the accents) and if anybody can tell me what it means I would be very grateful It's by a Czech early music group calling themselves Gothien. I don't know how "authentic" they are but they say they play The instrument names are given in Czech so I can't really work out what they are playing When I saw them in concert the other night they had a lute, shawms, percussion, a bagpipe, and something that I think might have been a chalumeau (looks like a clarinet?) means songs and dances of the medieval period. I want this CD. Please just put it in an envelope and mail it to me. |
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« Reply #568 on: 23:29:40, 16-06-2007 » |
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Pisne a tance stredoveke means songs and dances of the medieval period. I want this CD. Please just put it in an envelope and mail it to me.
Sorry, I'm enjoying it too much But thanks for the translation. |
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« Reply #569 on: 23:35:59, 16-06-2007 » |
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IRF, how about you send it to me instead? It'd be cheaper. Sounds wonderful... |
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