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« on: 21:21:03, 09-07-2007 »
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« Reply #1 on: 21:31:54, 09-07-2007 »
What a very strange selection this week! Undecided

We got some movements from the Christmas Oratorio (in July! Cheesy ) but not the lovely Introduction. I have a Swedish (!) LP of this work, combined with Respighi's Lauda per la Natività del Signore. The very young Anne Sofie von Otter is one of the singers in this recording.

I also don't understand why we don't get the final movement from the Piano Quintet in A. I think it's the finest movement. The Ensemble Musique Oblique (see Friday's episode) recorded the piece very well.
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« Reply #2 on: 22:00:30, 09-07-2007 »
Just heard the extract from Urbs Roma - jolly little piece, anticipations of Offenbach...

Looking forward to other bits of M Sans-Seins - but not I hope the Septet which I listened to last week after it was mentioned on the d'Indy thread - I really didn't enjoy it at all, I'm afraid (ok, I got briefly interested at the start of the 3rd mt, but that waned quickly.) There was one tune in the 2nd mt that I mentally labelled a "frank melody" (not Franck) and that in turn made me think of a Poulenc /Moeran concert that could be entitled Frank and E(a)rnest - I actually saw a Britten/ Byrd one advertised last month as Bill and Ben... I would love to juxtapose Reformation church music with early 20th century Czech stuff: Suk and Blow.

Meanwhile, back to the thread...
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« Reply #3 on: 22:46:57, 10-07-2007 »
If we may be allowed, might we once again suggest to our fellow members that M. Saint-Saens is incontrovertibly a first rate composer, and that evidence for this is no more clearly encountered than in his admirable Le Carnaval des Animaux ?

We are given to understand that he 'dashed it off' in 1886, on a visit to an Austrian village, henceforth forbidding its performance during the remainder of his lifetime. A wise decision! For does it not eloquently satirise the panjandrums and louche habituees of his home and his times? We so contend. More specifically, we clearly perceive in the amusing movement, 'Asses' a reference to Schoenberg and his school - cleverly anticipating the then 12-year-old's musical abberation some 22 years later. Another example might be the thinly-disguised thumbnail sketch of the 24-year-old seventh-rater de Bussy manifest in 'The Aquarium', replete as we perceive it to be with all manner of sardonic acquatic and 'impressionistic' references! This demonstrates consummate skill and wit, does it not?

We would like to think that those members who have snootily derided the supreme efforts of this first-rater may agree to think again in light of our observations!
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« Reply #4 on: 22:50:50, 10-07-2007 »
 Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy *wipes away tears*  Cheesy
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« Reply #5 on: 00:11:38, 11-07-2007 »
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Quote from: martle on 22:46:57, 10-07-2007
If we may be allowed, might we once again suggest to our fellow members that M. Saint-Saens is incontrovertibly a first rate composer, and that evidence for this is no more clearly encountered than in his admirable Le Carnaval des Animaux ?

We are given to understand that he 'dashed it off' in 1886, on a visit to an Austrian village, henceforth forbidding its performance during the remainder of his lifetime. A wise decision! For does it not eloquently satirise the panjandrums and louche habituees of his home and his times? We so contend. More specifically, we clearly perceive in the amusing movement, 'Asses' a reference to Schoenberg and his school - cleverly anticipating the then 12-year-old's musical abberation some 22 years later. Another example might be the thinly-disguised thumbnail sketch of the 24-year-old seventh-rater de Bussy manifest in 'The Aquarium', replete as we perceive it to be with all manner of sardonic acquatic and 'impressionistic' references! This demonstrates consummate skill and wit, does it not?

We would like to think that those members who have snootily derided the supreme efforts of this first-rater may agree to think again in light of our observations!
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« Reply #7 on: 22:19:20, 11-07-2007 »
Quote from: ahinton on 08:03:11, 11-07-2007
No one can startle
Like martle
When brewing
Some Grewing
Or sending up Sydney
(Or those of his kidney)...

Best,

Alistair


Nice, Alistair. Just don't tell Mort about this kidney business.  Cheesy
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« Reply #8 on: 22:36:18, 11-07-2007 »
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