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At under fifteen quid, I think you should go for it.....it may never become your favourite recording of Parsifal, but it's still powerful stuff.
Many thanks, S_K. I was apprehensive about the stage noises mentioned in that online review, but can cope with a few swishing swords!  I will be interested to hear Domingo and Meier, but particularly to sample the work of Christian Thielemann, who does tend to divide opinion from what I've read. I have just placed an order with HMV. Yes, I had my doubts about Thielemann, too. However, I think a lot of the negative press he attracts has more to do with his perceived political stance, rather than his conducting abilities. On the evidence of this Parsifal, though (and an ROH Rosenkavalier some years back), I'd say he was firmly in the central Germanic tradition of conductors, neither radical or self-indulgent. |
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...so flatterten lachend die Locken....
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Ordered one of these Tuesday night (along with a couple of XLR leads and a pair of phono to jack adaptors to make up the overall cost to over €199 to get free p&p). It's now on its way from Germany. Once it gets here and I have played around with it for a while, I will have to splash out $50 on software to convert the 4 channels to DTS '5.1' for burning to CD-R for playback via the digital output of a cd player and decoding in suitable amplifier. |
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The credit card didn't even have a chance to get itchy when I noticed this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000U6YJZ6/sr=1-1/qid=1195595295/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1195595295&sr=1-1&seller= Regular readers may be aware of my attachment to Panufnik's symphonies, the Sinfonia Sacra in particular. It's another work where I'm awaiting a modern version which does the work justice, so fingers crossed: the four antiphonal trumpets have been crying out for an SACD recording. The timings suggest that the final movement of the Sacra will be on the expansive side, but at least it's two minutes shorter than the Schwarz reading, where he breaks the momentum's back completely. (P.S. MDT are out of stock of the Maxim/Prague set of the complete Shostakovich cycle for £20, but the offer has been extended into January.) |
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Il Grande Inquisitor
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« Reply #93 on: 19:21:56, 22-11-2007 » |
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(P.S. MDT are out of stock of the Maxim/Prague set of the complete Shostakovich cycle for £20, but the offer has been extended into January.)
I ordered mine yesterday - no word on availability yet. |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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Stanley Stewart
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« Reply #94 on: 14:27:07, 24-11-2007 » |
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A couple of DVDs on MDT Classical Newsletter for December caught my eye:
NIELSEN Maskarade - Royal Danish Choir & Orchestra/Michael Schonwandt. Dacapo DVD NTSC
RACHMANINOV The Bells, Symphonic Dances and Sym No 2.
Sinfonieorchester Koln/ Semyon Bychkov. Documentaries and performances directed by Enrique Sanchez Lansch. Arthaus Musik DVD NTSC
An extensive list of CDs made further browsing too much to think about - for now!
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« Reply #95 on: 00:51:12, 25-11-2007 » |
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NIELSEN Maskarade - Royal Danish Choir & Orchestra/Michael Schonwandt. Dacapo DVD NTSC
RACHMANINOV The Bells, Symphonic Dances and Sym No 2.
Sinfonieorchester Koln/ Semyon Bychkov. Documentaries and performances directed by Enrique Sanchez Lansch. Arthaus Musik DVD NTSC
I have the SACD of The Bells and the Symphonic Dances which I assume are the same performances as appear on this DVD, Stanley - very good performances, and having been at the RAH for his BBCSO Rach 2 this season, I may well investigate further. The Nielsen could also make it onto my Christmas wish-list. |
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« Reply #96 on: 12:10:27, 25-11-2007 » |
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Thanks, IGI. Perhaps I'll stretch my budget for both items; well, just once more!
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I've always struggled to like Birtwistle opilec. I've got quite a lot of his music on tape but none of it has ever gripped me at all. However I did come to like The Triumph of Time - I heard Rattle and the CBSO perform it at a concert I went to, then I recorded it when they performed it at the Proms on 14/8/98 and listened to that recording quite a bit. I've just discovered that I've also got a recording on tape of CBSO/Rattle live from Snape Maltings 21/6/91.
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The real revelation, however, was revisiting The Triumph of Time, the greatness of which hadn't really struck me with such force before. I've never really got into that piece either, opilec - must give it another spin some time. (Do I remember right, is it on the old Collins CD coupled with An Imaginary Landscape, or was that Antiphonies? If the latter, I may not actually have The Triumph of Time: will have to check.) I got that CD of wind & percussion music recently too, but I haven't listened yet. Looking forward to that: I have heard Verses for Ensembles on the radio once, and I suspect I might like For O, for O, the Hobby-Horse is Forgot too. The EMI disc is wonderful, although I must be too used to Boulez's recording of Tragoedia as I don't find it as eclipsed by the old reissued Foster one as everyone else I know seems to. The music on the other two discs strikes me as less 'important', though I'd be interested to know what you think of the Niedecker settings (which Birtwistle apparently describes as 'like a bunch of flowers'). |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #103 on: 20:03:06, 26-01-2008 » |
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 Exquisite! In slendro and pelog, I trust? |
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Exquisite! In slendro and pelog, I trust? I will let you know! I actually amn't too concerned with the precise scale myself; I'll be able to have plenty of fun getting used to it whatever it be  |
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