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My startup music will, in a minute or two, be Carter's Boston Concerto,
Do you think that this will really be a good idea? Might there not be a risk that even more sounds of rain might add to the real ones and make for an even more potentially depressing morning than you might otherwise have? (only joking, of course! - I went to the UK première of this delightful work at the Proms back in 2004). Glad at least that you've at last managed to find and unpack your CDs, anyway! Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #811 on: 10:25:20, 26-07-2007 » |
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Glad at least that you've at last managed to find and unpack your CDs, anyway!
Actually it's on my iPod and I'm not at home at the moment... |
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« Reply #812 on: 10:25:40, 26-07-2007 » |
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Now, the crucial question; is it the mono or 2 channel mix you are listening to.
..Oh no, Bryn, the sun was shining, i was about to set out to work and now this crucial question has totally ruined my morning. the initial tape i had eventually got eaten alive , soon replaced by the 1994 CD release 3 or 4 years ago... this recording seems to be the 2 channel mix i'm afraid, both speakers having a somewhat different signal. does this banish my CD to the abyss of total pretence ?? |
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« Reply #813 on: 15:47:01, 26-07-2007 » |
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My startup music will, in a minute or two, be Carter's Boston Concerto,
(I went to the UK première of this delightful work at the Proms back in 2004). (I was at the Boston premiere, and, through a very funny and completely accidental twist, ended up sitting right behind Carter. In the first half of the concert, my friends and I had been stuck behind a pole (and behind a large group of school kids on some sort of field trip!) at the back of the hall, so we decided to steal better seats at intermission. As the lights were going off to start the 2nd half, we ran to the best seats we could find, which turned out to be in the middle of the hall in the second row behind the middle isle. Toward the end of the piece, the man sitting in front of me got up and started walking away .... Aaron, utterly outraged, thinks to himself, 'who the hell does this guy think he is, getting up and walking out during the piece? what an asshole!' ... until Aaron (duh) realizes that the guy sitting in front of him is the only person in the audience who knows that the piece is about to end, and he's in fact heading towards the stage (slowly, slowly) to take his bows. He was nice enough to sit and chat w/ us for a few minutes after the concert. (Good concert, btw ... Metzmacher, BSO, Mahler, Ives, Bartok, Carter.)) |
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« Reply #814 on: 15:58:44, 26-07-2007 » |
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John Palmer - Koan Anyone else here know his work? It's pretty good. |
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« Reply #815 on: 18:37:40, 26-07-2007 » |
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Now, the crucial question; is it the mono or 2 channel mix you are listening to.
..Oh no, Bryn, the sun was shining, i was about to set out to work and now this crucial question has totally ruined my morning. the initial tape i had eventually got eaten alive , soon replaced by the 1994 CD release 3 or 4 years ago... this recording seems to be the 2 channel mix i'm afraid, both speakers having a somewhat different signal. does this banish my CD to the abyss of total pretence ?? I regret to say that I am in a similar position. I too only have the 2 channel version, (on cassette). It's a strange animal, isn't it? Not what you might call stereo (if it's the same mix as mine) but two quite distinct channels with next to no common sounds. With my Don Van Vliet anorak hat on, I am rather pleased to have the mono mix of "Safe as Milk" and "Mirror Man" on CD, but I have never yet come across the mono mix of "Strictly Personal". |
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« Reply #816 on: 20:54:43, 26-07-2007 » |
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Decidedly O.T., but I think this is the second best place to post it, (I have already posted on the subject at TOP.
On Radio 3's Classical Collection this morning, SW introduce Satie's "Parade" with a few words relating how the 'sound effects', (typewriter, gun-shot, siren, etc., were not his work, but were added, against Satie's wishes, by Cocteau. Does anyone here know of a recording which omits these 'sound effects'? Please, no piano versions.
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« Reply #817 on: 09:30:44, 27-07-2007 » |
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the london concert/derek bailey/evan parker recorded on concert at wigmore hall, 1975 ...so far this is the best i've heard, - also by that duo, i'm currently searching for other derek bailey recordings that are as good as this, any suggestions  |
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the london concert/derek bailey/evan parker recorded on concert at wigmore hall, 1975 ...so far this is the best i've heard, - also by that duo, i'm currently searching for other derek bailey recordings that are as good as this, any suggestions My current favourite DB CD is Ore (duos with Eddie Prévost). |
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« Reply #819 on: 14:04:01, 27-07-2007 » |
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dot-commie:
The Sign of Four with Derek Bailey, Pat Metheny (!), Paul Wertico, and Greg Bendian -- simply magnificent 4-disc set. It's almost as good as Coltrane's Ascension (which I know you like) though in a completely different vein.
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« Reply #820 on: 14:41:16, 27-07-2007 » |
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Listening to a CD of rags by Albright at the moment; I think I can safely say he had a much greater (in that it is consistent) mastery of the rag as a genre than Bolcom (though he has a few gems, I will admit).
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« Reply #821 on: 14:43:30, 27-07-2007 » |
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dot-commie:
The Sign of Four with Derek Bailey, Pat Metheny (!), Paul Wertico, and Greg Bendian -- simply magnificent 4-disc set. It's almost as good as Coltrane's Ascension (which I know you like) though in a completely different vein.
Seconded - an amazing set of discs. |
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« Reply #822 on: 15:01:49, 27-07-2007 » |
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After a perusal of Gruppen with library score, what else to follow but Couperin? Rousset playing the fourth book, to be precise.
Has anyone got the Brilliant box set of Borgstede's complete Couperin harpsichord works? I've read a lot of good reviews, and am leaning towards it but haven't pulled the trigger yet...
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« Reply #823 on: 15:41:31, 27-07-2007 » |
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Aah!!! Christophe Rousset!!! ... <sigh>  |
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« Reply #824 on: 16:02:26, 27-07-2007 » |
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Aah!!! Christophe Rousset!!! ... <sigh> Yes, yes, and it is a mite dull - although he looks so pensive on the cover! - which is why I asked about the Borgstede! I hope also to get this in the mail today or tomorrow:  ... the exposure to a piece off of which was the only good thing about the horrendously lame film L'Humanité, in which Bruno Dumont does much worse and with much more self-satisfaction what people like Catherine Breillat and Michael Haneke have been doing for years. |
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