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errm, I've listened to nothing so far today, other than the distant sound of the sea, the kettle, the tapping of the keyboard and footsteps upstairs.
Snap Ron - at first anyway - then I became interested in Peter Grimes. Emergency music for me is the Brouwer Concerto Elegiaco. The opening few bars are unusual and grab my attention straight away thus taking my mind off anything else. On the same cd is the Rodrigo Fantasia para un Gentilhombre so if I listen all through it's very pleasant. Julian Bream. It may sound trivial to the purists but it works for me. |
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« Reply #17 on: 10:16:41, 07-07-2007 » |
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Milly, Ron,
If I could hear the sea every morning I don't think I would ever be stressed, a walk on the beach..... wonderful.
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When what I think will be my new recorder arrives next month, I'll go down to the beach and capture some sounds which can go onto CD for those of you who need it...
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Milly, Ron,
If I could hear the sea every morning I don't think I would ever be stressed, a walk on the beach..... wonderful.
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When what I think will be my new recorder arrives next month, I'll go down to the beach and capture some sounds which can go onto CD for those of you who need it...
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Milly, Ron,
If I could hear the sea every morning I don't think I would ever be stressed, a walk on the beach..... wonderful.
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(Milly, I am predictably outraged that Martin Handley chose the Vickers recording. How can you choose an interpretation that the composer himself hated? I'm with him on Heather Harpers's Ellen, though - so was Britten.)
I'm guessing that he's coming to this from a younger person's perspective, Mary; he finds the style 'dated', so I'm even wondering whether he grew up with the Davis/Vickers set. The Pears and Vickers sit side by side on my shelves, with the earlier Pears excepts next to them. On this morning's showing, even bearing in mind the anorak completist that I am, I can't say that I'm desperate to add any more recordings any time soon. |
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« Reply #23 on: 10:57:46, 07-07-2007 » |
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I did also grow up with the Vickers and (as Mary and Ron I think you both know) it's become for me a bit of an example of how the composer doesn't necessarily delimit the valid interpretative boundaries of a piece... but we've been there! |
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« Reply #24 on: 10:59:51, 07-07-2007 » |
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I must look out for a cheap Salomon recording!!
( I prefer to play them myself really!!) Playing them myself isn't an option of course... Oh dear. Neither, it appears, is a cheap Salomon recording. Just been off to Brazil to find that the Salomons' Haydns are all out of print and when they're available at all cost between €20 and €91.43 per disc. Time for a probably pointless letter to info@hyperion-records.co.uk... Perhaps I can make a copy.  |
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« Reply #25 on: 11:04:53, 07-07-2007 » |
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Yes - no point in going over it all again, but I suspect people who can't find Grimes in Pears grew up with Vickers' distortion. (Vickers and Winslade both make me wince.)
Oh dear, it's difficult for me not to go over it all again. This certainly isn't the place. Grimes does not exactly reduce stress.
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« Reply #26 on: 11:15:10, 07-07-2007 » |
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I'm a Bach man - unaccompanied violin/ cello music, Goldbergs, 48... (not so much the choral/ orchestral stuff).
For the human touch of friendship, Chopin, Ravel, even some Poulenc (he had been there, he knew what it was like, and it shows. It mightn't be the greatest music, but it comes from the heart.)
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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 #28 on: 11:22:23, 07-07-2007 » |
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Poulenc (he had been there, he knew what it was like, and it shows. It mightn't be the greatest music, but it comes from the heart.)
Quite right. For me the best Poulenc (songs, Concert Champêtre, Figure Humaine, Dialogues, La Voix humaine...) is absolute magic. Actually as far as I'm concerned if music can do what his does then either it's 'great' or the word 'great' is a bit pointless. Er, tinners, I thought I was the homesick Aussie around here? I'm going to have to start calling you tinnies.   ...gorgeous if you're on the other side of the planet from the real thing. |
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« Reply #29 on: 11:26:52, 07-07-2007 » |
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Ollie, I hope I never gave the impression that I didn't like Mozart. I did manage to almost completely avoid him during 2006, which had the desired effect, in so far as the Gran Partita (or whatever you prefer to call it, but you know the piece I'm talking about) had me open-mouthed with admiration this morning (courtesy of Ensemble Zefiro).
Otherwise, my emergency music probably tends oftener to be by Bach or Mahler or Xenakis or me (the latter not because it's any good, but because it sometimes helps me remind myself that I do generally manage to get through whatever crisis or paralysis might be holding things up, although it can also backfire when one thinks to oneself "how could I let thatrubbish out into the world"). But most often Bach.
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