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« on: 15:43:26, 25-12-2007 » |
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Nominate one piece only!
It may be a by a composer you'd never heard/heard of before. Or by a composer who had not particularly impressed previously, as in my case . . .
Sibelius - Tapiola
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Andy D
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« Reply #1 on: 16:20:30, 25-12-2007 » |
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That's a tricky one autoharp! Your post directs us towards "classical" composers but it's difficult to pin things down to the last 12 months. So I'll go for:
David Torn with the Tim Berne trio
Track: AK
Album: Prezens
Heard this only a few days ago on the Jazz on 3 programme of 7/12 but it so impressed me that I played it several times straight off. Don't know anything else by David Torn so I shall have to investigate further when I get the chance. A set by Led Bib which was on Jazz on 3 on 28/9 also really impressed me but I couldn't pick out a single piece to nominate.
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #2 on: 16:26:30, 25-12-2007 » |
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I would have to say it's not a piece or even a composer but the Lehman hypothesis concerning Bach's tuning system. Regardless of whether he's spot on or not I can't hear that music the same way again and it's hardly what you'd call unimportant music...  That's changed my ears forever, I think. If it had to be a composer it would probably have to be Graupner. He would never have registered on my radar until this year but there are plenty of his pieces that do things I'd never experienced before. And if it absolutely has to be a single piece then probably Frank Martin's Der Cornet, funnily enough. Ask me tomorrow and you might get quite different answers. Not for the first category though. |
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #4 on: 21:01:35, 25-12-2007 » |
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Handel's Susanna
'Tis not age's sullen face.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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autoharp
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« Reply #5 on: 21:45:04, 25-12-2007 » |
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And if it absolutely has to be a single piece then probably Frank Martin's Der Cornet, funnily enough.
Hmm. Have to look out for that - as I'm a bit of a Martin fan. I didn't mean to limit the choice to a classical composition. Good for Andy + Ollie for taking the initiative! |
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« Reply #6 on: 22:55:14, 25-12-2007 » |
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Roslavets Chamber Symphony.
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Dreams, schemes and themes
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Andy D
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« Reply #7 on: 11:19:58, 26-12-2007 » |
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On a slightly less serious note, this is one of my discoveries of 2007. Not a new composer or song but the singer and pianist are new to me Those of you who haven't listened to this before, give it a go, it's wonderful.  VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES, piano!! GERALD MOORE singer!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y47pyTfSrCQ |
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Chichivache
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The artiste formerly known as Gabrielle d’Estrées
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« Reply #8 on: 12:49:19, 27-12-2007 » |
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Britten - Turn of the Screw (and Death in Venice) - bugger, how did that second one slip in? Saw both of these at ENO this year, absolutely wonderful.
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wotthehell toujours gai archy
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« Reply #9 on: 13:24:31, 27-12-2007 » |
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Prompted by a thread on here, an exploration of late Stravinsky (everything post Rake's Progress which I'm afraid for me still comes under the mental blocks thread). Much I hadn't heard, or had only heard once or twice, and that a long time ago. Hardly anything I found less than intriguing and stimulating, and a great deal that I found addictive. Can't possibly pin it down into one piece (mainly because my favourite of all these works wasn't a discovery...Requiem Canticles...) but if you have three minutes to spare then do listen to the T S Eliot Introitus - a 'bigger' piece than its duration might lead to to believe. and I do like Canticun Sacrum too...
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Bryn
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« Reply #10 on: 13:37:27, 27-12-2007 » |
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roslynmuse, if you have yet to get round to the Movements for Piano and Orchestra, do bear in mind that there are severe editing problems withthe Sony recording of Charles Rosen, et al. At least, there are in all the CD issues of the recording. It was complete on LP, but a significant section was chopped out for the CD release. For a recording of the complete work, try Richter: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0002DRGWU/ref=dp_olp_2/002-7625748-3096804 |
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Sydney Grew
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« Reply #11 on: 13:51:44, 27-12-2007 » |
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Perhaps the symphonies of Yun. While he does display what is to us an inexplicable fondness for unpitched percussion, there is nevertheless a good deal of worthwhile material therein. And contrary to what we often read they are not to us at all eastern or exotic, despite his remote origin. What an exciting life he has led! Much more than Beethoven or Brahms has it not been. We wonder whether all those events in some way influenced his general tone . . .
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roslynmuse
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« Reply #12 on: 13:56:40, 27-12-2007 » |
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roslynmuse, if you have yet to get round to the Movements for Piano and Orchestra, do bear in mind that there are severe editing problems withthe Sony recording of Charles Rosen, et al. At least, there are in all the CD issues of the recording. It was complete on LP, but a significant section was chopped out for the CD release. For a recording of the complete work, try Richter: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0002DRGWU/ref=dp_olp_2/002-7625748-3096804Many thanks for the reminder, Bryn, it was lodged in my subconscious somewhere! I actually have a very old tape of the Rosen Movements - complete - which I shall dig out. Sydney - am intrigued by your recommendation: not what I would have expected! Maybe there is more substance to these works than I had hitherto suspected... |
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« Reply #13 on: 15:24:13, 27-12-2007 » |
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My discovery has been the songs and chamber music of Khrein, which I didn't know at all until fellow-boarder Jonathan Powell thrust them into my hands (for which, once again, many thanks!). Excellent stuff, and well worth anyone's time.
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Donna Elvira
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« Reply #14 on: 13:45:59, 28-12-2007 » |
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A few months ago, I came across Haydn's piano trios and they are fantastic. He really was a master of humour in music!  |
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