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« Reply #285 on: 16:57:07, 06-11-2008 » |
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« Reply #286 on: 00:45:30, 07-11-2008 » |
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Bugler here too. Bryn told me about this at Ollie's concert tonight, but I hadn't been on the forum since yesterday afternoon and seem to have missed this. Of course, if anyone did order one for Richard and has a spare copy, I'd be most interested ...  |
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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 #287 on: 00:49:54, 07-11-2008 » |
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Damn - I nearly ordered multiples with the intention of passing them on. But multiple trans-Atlantic voyages seems unnecessary... How was Ollie's concert? I understand that the Dench didn't quite make it in time... |
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« Reply #288 on: 01:05:27, 07-11-2008 » |
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The Dench was indeed delayed in transit, but we had a rather moving Kagel encore to make up for it. (I should have known that Ollie would exploit his famed counter-tenor register for the ending.  ) The rest of the concert was very fine too, although I wasn't as amused by Adam de la Cour's piece as the composer appeared to be. I'd venture to cite the Barrett and Finnissy as particular highlights, and I have a personal soft spot for the late-60s student modernism of Jonathan Harvey's Transformations on 'Love Bade me Welcome'. Prof Butler's piece also profited immensely from the careful attention given it by performers one perhaps normally associates with something harder-edged; the precision set off its expressive warmth very nicely indeed. |
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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 #289 on: 01:11:51, 07-11-2008 » |
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(I should have known that Ollie would exploit his famed counter-tenor register for the ending. ) is the direction, so indeed that's what I do.  I was pleased to have the chance to perform that piece for Kagel at his 75th birthday festivities at the Universität zu Köln at the beginning of 2007. There was a rather stunned silence at the end, finally broken by Kagel exclaiming 'mein Gott'! I'm told that this evening I was a whole-tone higher than I was back then. I was less pleased to perform it (unscheduled) in Kraków recently on the day he died. That was a truly horrible day although the chance to play the piece did redeem it just a tiny bit. Thanks tinners for your presence this evening and for your kind words. |
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« Reply #290 on: 01:13:25, 07-11-2008 » |
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Oh, I see. 'Delayed in transit'. Is that what they're calling it these days...  I have actually seen the first two pages of this piece, which looks interesting, and (I guess) characteristically 'Dench-y', but couldn't really 'hear' it over the Vaughan Williams that was blaring in the CD shop at the time. Are you able to elaborate on what some of the pieces were... er... 'like'? I really wanted to be at that concert. I have la jalousie. This might be better off in another thread. |
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« Reply #291 on: 09:12:31, 07-11-2008 » |
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This seems as good a place as any to post thanks to Libra Duo for the excellent concert last night. Thanks also to t-i-n-'s post above identifying the Kagel encore. I was probably the only one there not to know what it was and didn't quite catch Mark's spoken introduction. But that knowledge now adds a retrospective poignancy to the performance. The other piece I wasn't 100% sure of the identity of was the Cecil Taylor meets Scott Joplin meets Charles Ives solo piano effort which I now presume was the Adam de la Cour.
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« Reply #292 on: 09:28:54, 07-11-2008 » |
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And I would like to add another large thumbs-up to the performers, whose mutual rapport (among much else) is an absolute joy to behold.
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« Reply #293 on: 09:36:48, 07-11-2008 » |
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Odd place to be reviewing, but since everyone else is…
Member Sudden and Mr. Knoop desported themselves admirably last night. It was quite a programme, but no signs of flagging anywhere to be seen. Wonderful playing, and they created what I thought was a really pleasant, relaxed and excited atmosphere in that normally miserable place on Theed st.
I can report that Mr Butler is more than happy. The Harvey and Finnissy both had wonderful things in them, but the knockout was Mr Barrett’s effort, by a long way IMO. I’m not sure whether he’d feel embarrassed or slighted if I said I think ‘Flechtwerk’ is the most striking and effective piece of clarinet&piano music that I know of since the Brahms sonatas, so I won’t. A superhuman performance, too. Almost literally.
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« Reply #294 on: 15:28:07, 07-11-2008 » |
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Any reactions to the work by Digby? One- or five-word answers only please.
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« Reply #295 on: 00:32:44, 08-11-2008 » |
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Any reactions to the work by Digby? One- or five-word answers only please.
OT, surely. Dug by whom? However, to get back to the thread's topic, I have just had confirmation of dispatch of the Decca Messiaen Piano and Organ set. That will cheer me up after the sad failure of HMV to bite the bullet and honourably pay for their mistake re. the Vivaldi operas set. |
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« Reply #296 on: 19:59:46, 09-11-2008 » |
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Any reactions to the work by Digby? One- or five-word answers only please.
I liked it. |
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« Reply #298 on: 15:20:32, 10-11-2008 » |
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Hmm. Universal seem to think their recording of Oiseaux Exotiques, (Thibaudet/RCO/Chailly), pretty special.
And is it? Not listened to it yet, nor is it that high on my list of priority items for an earing[sic], from either box. Well, it turns out there is another duplication from the very recently released DG 32 CD Messiaen edition, namely "O sacrum convivium!" (St. John's/Guest). Strangely though, they have omitted their recording of Ogdon and Lucas playing Visions de l'Amen. Now if they had left out the duplicated Oiseaux exotiques and O sacrum convivium, (neither of of which particularly fits the bill of "Piano & Organ Music", and jiggled thing around a bit, they could surely have squeezed Visions de l'Amen in. Not a particularly well thought through compilation, I would venture to say. Oh, by the way, I have now listened to the recording of Oiseaux exotiques. Can't say I am much taken with it. Sounds too much like Avant-garde music and too little like exotic birds to my ears. Much prefer Loriod/BRSO/Rickenbacher (or even with Boulez at the helm) to this Thibaudet/RCO/Chailly recording. |
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« Reply #299 on: 11:44:51, 13-11-2008 » |
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Just a little bit of info omitted from the DG booklet; the Sextuor Jeanne Loriod comprised of Jeanne Loriod, Christine Clement, Valerie Hartmann-Claverie, Dominique Kim, Philippe Raynaud and Pascal Rousse-Lacordaire on the 1980 analogue recording included in the DG box.
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