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« Reply #900 on: 15:46:22, 05-08-2007 » |
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Ronald Stevenson Piano Conerto 1 (Faust Triptych).
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« Reply #901 on: 22:09:29, 05-08-2007 » |
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More info on Ronald Stevenson's concerto would be welcome. Any good ?
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« Reply #902 on: 08:49:10, 06-08-2007 » |
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ligeti 'lontano' - vpo/welser-most.
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« Reply #903 on: 09:56:54, 06-08-2007 » |
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More info on Ronald Stevenson's concerto would be welcome. Any good ?
a/h: I dug out my old Olympia CD of both his piano concerti last night (the recording recently reissued on Regis: MacLachlan/Cheetham's SO/ Clayton), and promptly nodded off during the first: I'll have to give it another try later today. At a tangent, I notice that the list of players (from 1993) may well include two future conductors: there's a Jason Lai leading the cello section, whilst at the bottom of the trumpet list sits the name Daniel Harding... |
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« Reply #904 on: 10:47:34, 06-08-2007 » |
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the recording recently reissued on Regis Ooh, really?? I think a shopping trip may be in order (no point buying Regis online, the postage would be half the cost again!) ... |
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« Reply #905 on: 11:54:03, 06-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #906 on: 12:32:03, 06-08-2007 » |
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I believed you, Ron! I just meant that it seemed a bit pointless to pay £1.25 shipping online for a £5 CD when I could stop by a CD shop on the way home and have Ronald Stevenson in my hands before the day's out! I don't know much of his big piano music actually, and I don't always like that kind of thing, but I have a feeling I might find him better than some others (dare I mention Sorabji?  ). There's a lovely disc of his songs on Delphian called A'e gowden lyric. |
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« Reply #907 on: 12:37:58, 06-08-2007 » |
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I posted the Regis list as much as anything so that I could refer back to it myself: there are some right little bargains tucked away there.
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« Reply #908 on: 12:42:42, 06-08-2007 » |
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More info on Ronald Stevenson's concerto would be welcome. Any good ?
Ron's filled you in with most of the info AH, but I'd personally say that I prefer the first concerto to second - the 1st is an interesting little piece for it's time (more Busoni than Sorabji) but the 2nd attempts to integrate a variety of "world musics" in a fairly superficial way which doesn't hang together as far as I'm concerned... |
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« Reply #909 on: 12:50:28, 06-08-2007 » |
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Ron's filled you in with most of the info AH, but I'd personally say that I prefer the first concerto to second - the 1st is an interesting little piece for it's time (more Busoni than Sorabji) but the 2nd attempts to integrate a variety of "world musics" in a fairly superficial way which doesn't hang together as far as I'm concerned...
Hmm ...  Thanks Biroc. I think I'll buy it anyway, but it sounds like I may have to be prepared for a not entirely positive reaction. |
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« Reply #910 on: 17:49:43, 06-08-2007 » |
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Die Legende von der Heiligen Elisabeth by Liszt.
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« Reply #911 on: 18:31:09, 06-08-2007 » |
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Good choice tonybob! Which recording?
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« Reply #912 on: 19:11:25, 06-08-2007 » |
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it's a live performance, jonathan, with the Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St. Clair conducting, featuring Melanie Diener, Renatus Mészár and Dagmar Pecková.
i think, and this is after 4 or 5 listens, that it is far superior to gerontius.
i can't remember the last time i was as impressed by a completely unfamiliar work.
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« Reply #913 on: 20:31:28, 06-08-2007 » |
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Hmm ... Thanks Biroc. I think I'll buy it anyway, but it sounds like I may have to be prepared for a not entirely positive reaction. I listened to the first one and was ok with it. The I put on the second one, but it opened with the DCSH motive and I was all like "F**k that Ronald; I've had enough of you and your DCSH's for the time being", having just listened to the passacaglia the week prior. So I've put it off for the time-being myself.... Over the weekend when I was away, I listened through the Brahms sextets several times. It's taking a while, but I'm growing especially fond of the opening movement of the second sextet. |
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« Reply #914 on: 22:18:57, 06-08-2007 » |
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Martin, Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke. Stotijn, Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur, Jac van Steen.
Far canal!
An hour-long song-cycle for contralto and orchestra. Text is a weird kind of heraldic story although the hero doesn't have any particularly triumphal moments; he gets appointed flagbearer (which is roughly what a Cornet is, as far as I can tell), rides for a bit, frees a girl who's tied to a tree, gets seduced by a countess, the castle gets set on fire by the enemy, he rides out to meet them and gets the chop. (The death scene is very Freudian indeed!)
The poetry is one stunning image after another, the music is one gorgeous moment after another. Very heady stuff. Feels like a heck of a lot less than an hour.
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