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A close-run thing, but I think the Taneyev Piano Quintet, recorded by Vadim Repin and friends.
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« Reply #16 on: 15:23:21, 29-12-2007 » |
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Just one, autoharp?! Cruel task-master!!  In that case I shall just have to block out the rest of the year for now and mention a current Christmas-related obsession that has added happily to the last few days. Schutz's Motet: Ein Kind ist uns geboren, SWV 384. I don't think I had heard it before, at least not to take notice of, but I managed to catch it twice over the Christmas period and it just knocked my little socks off. A seemingly modest little thing but absolutely packed with interest. How does he do it? Any recommendations for a recording gratefully received. |
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« Reply #17 on: 15:45:44, 29-12-2007 » |
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Gosh, I didn't think I could think of anything in particular to contribute to this thread, until I remembered that this time last year I hadn't so much as heard a teency bit of Purcell. So that certainly marks a big enough event that it *might* be a candidate for no. 1, were I to draw up a list of all of my discoveries and were I to be able to put them all in a line from best to worst. And I haven't even started on his religious music yet.
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« Reply #18 on: 22:16:40, 29-12-2007 » |
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I hadn't so much as heard a teency bit of Purcell.
But you're so young, inky... If love's a sweet passion, why does it torment?
How blest are shepherds, how happy their lasses,
While drums and trumpets are sounding alarms.[
Let not a moon-born elf mislead ye
Haste,haste to town There are lots of technical bits in Purcell that I understand musicians admire, and I am not in a position to judge. You might like to know that while I find some of his secular songs (as above) wonderful, I am a bit ho hum about his religious music (pleased though I am that he wrote it, of course.) Are you still in the Near to Middle East, or have you returned to the green shores of Erin? |
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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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« Reply #19 on: 23:16:11, 29-12-2007 » |
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Auto, I like the new threads, btw.  One work only? Well out of Szymanowski Violin Concerto No.1, Martinu Epic of Gilgamesh, and Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus, I think the one that will have lasting impact is the Szym. Thanks for all the recommendations everyone. 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.
Would that be courtesy of the ASV recoring "Songs from the Ghetto"? I've had this recording since it came out in 2003 and have only just noticed it has Member Powell as a performer, and one of the driving forces of getting the music to disk. Jolly good I must say, with some very fine playing. I really like Elegie, Jewish Melody, Poeme-Quatuor, and Jewish Sketches Thank you Jonathan Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #20 on: 23:46:13, 29-12-2007 » |
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Well, it may seem a bit strange for me to come out with this after finding that "Solodevilsdance IV" got a bit sacharine for my taste, but I took the plunge and ordered the Brilliant Classics complete music for multiple pianos and it arrived today. Now in know I have encountered Simeon ten Holt's music before, but this time I find myself drawn in far more than I expected, so I think it counts and effectively a discovery for me that is currently ranking number 1 as far as 2007 is concerned. That's not a matter of ranking in the SGCrew sense. It's just that nothing else I can remember hearing this year has come as such surprise.
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« Reply #21 on: 07:56:35, 30-12-2007 » |
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I'd be interested to hear how you get on with that, Bryn.
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« Reply #22 on: 12:09:56, 30-12-2007 » |
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Composers I discovered in 2007 were Graupner and Enescu (OK, I knew Enescu's Romanian Rhapsodies, but that was it until I explored the Arte Nova discs; I hadn't even heard of Graupner until the threads here!)
The No.1 musical discovery, however, was Massenet's Cléopâtre, an opera which should be far more widely known.
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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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« Reply #23 on: 14:42:50, 30-12-2007 » |
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Very late Liszt. Not that I've really "discovered" it yet, just recently heard a little in passing and, since I really quite dislike his music,it certainly made me sit up; very strange stuff. There does not seem to be too many recordings around or even every much of interest written about it - not much that is easily accessible at anyrate. Where was his music heading? Music to investigate in the new year.
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« Reply #24 on: 15:39:42, 30-12-2007 » |
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Very late Liszt. Not that I've really "discovered" it yet, just recently heard a little in passing and, since I really quite dislike his music,it certainly made me sit up; very strange stuff. There does not seem to be too many recordings around or even every much of interest written about it - not much that is easily accessible at anyrate. Where was his music heading? Music to investigate in the new year.
Ted - I do recommend Via crucis, a late and austere religious work which was, incidentally, my introduction to Liszt. Useful info is probably more accessible than you think. Having said that, a couple of useful introductory articles I possess ( Franz Liszt: Historic or Intrinsic by Alan Walker in the magazine Composer no. 36, Summer 1970; and Humphrey Searle's The unknown Liszt) aren't probably easy to find these days. There are some knowledgable board members who may well give you a few hot tips! |
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« Reply #25 on: 16:14:42, 30-12-2007 » |
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Thanks autoharp have taken your advice and ordered 'vai crucis', although not the sort of music I'm into (the pieces I heard were for solo piano), the cd was cheap and, who knows, it might convert me to Catholic church music.  |
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« Reply #26 on: 16:17:40, 30-12-2007 » |
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That was suppose to be a smiley!
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« Reply #27 on: 16:56:41, 30-12-2007 » |
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That was suppose to be a smiley!
Ted, for the simple smiley just click the image above the text box We also have a good selection in the Archived R3boards Photobucketand the other R3okforum Photobucketyou copy an image with one click and then paste.  |
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« Reply #29 on: 17:56:32, 30-12-2007 » |
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Ted - I do recommend Via crucis, a late and austere religious work which was, incidentally, my introduction to Liszt.
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