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« Reply #15 on: 16:35:40, 22-03-2007 » |
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(richard barrett: Peter Grimes on your hard drive?....what would Veronika say?)
She didn't say anything, but I think I'll have to wear sunglasses for a few days. please tell me it's the original Britten/Pears recording. I'm always horrified at the idea of someone getting to know Grimes or any other major Britten-work (Is this the first time you will listen to Grimes on disc?) through the more recent recordings of them I'm afraid it isn't, it's the Covent Garden/Haitink one, but then Pears' voice is one of the things that's previously put me off Britten's music, and I did get a lot out of Haitink's recordings of the RVW symphonies, to which my reaction was pretty much the opposite of yours: the first thing that really had me listening closely was the Sixth. So if I come out of listening to Grimes wondering what all the fuss is about, the Brittenites out there can just tell me I haven't really heard it. |
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Ian Pace
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« Reply #16 on: 16:43:21, 22-03-2007 » |
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(I am a slow listener) Is it possible to listen slowly? |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #17 on: 16:49:55, 22-03-2007 » |
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Bizet - Carmen (oh, and The Pearl Fishers) (Why did he only write two major operas? He was quite good at it...  ) The fact he died three months after the premiere of Carmen may have had something to do with it ?  |
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« Reply #18 on: 17:39:47, 22-03-2007 » |
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So if I come out of listening to Grimes wondering what all the fuss is about, the Brittenites out there can just tell me I haven't really heard it. Be sure to let 'us' know then... (I am a slow listener) Is it possible to listen slowly? What I meant was that I haven't listened to practically anything when I compare myself to the members of this board... When I have discovered with delight a new Mahler symphony, you are already juggling with 16 different recordings and 4 different versions, so to speak... And when I apply myself to get to know the major works in the repertoire, I find that they grow so slowly on me... I need a lot time to appreciate a piece of music... that's why I'm a slow listener, can't do a new symphony every week... Bizet - Carmen (oh, and The Pearl Fishers) (Why did he only write two major operas? He was quite good at it... The fact he died three months after the premiere of Carmen may have had something to do with it ? Oops!  Slow and dimwitted...  Regards Y |
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Jonathan
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« Reply #19 on: 18:27:08, 22-03-2007 » |
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How about Sinding and "Rustle of Spring"? Having said that, his 4 symphonies are excellent (especially nos. 1 and 2) and his piano cconerto is out on Hyperion next month (and I have it on preorder  ) |
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John W
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« Reply #20 on: 19:09:00, 22-03-2007 » |
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How about Richard Addinsell, and his Warsaw Concerto? His concerto?? I think he must have had Rachmaninov PC No 2 pinned on his wall as he wrote.  AND I've just read that someone named Roy Douglas orchestrated it  I don't like the 'concerto' anyway, so what can the rest of his work be like |
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #21 on: 19:22:25, 22-03-2007 » |
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I think to be fair to Addinsell he was writing music to order. The film makers wanted something that sounded like Rachmaninov or Tchaikovsky so he could hardly do anything else. I think he pulled it off.
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John W
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« Reply #22 on: 19:32:39, 22-03-2007 » |
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I think to be fair to Addinsell he was writing music to order. The film makers wanted something that sounded like Rachmaninov or Tchaikovsky so he could hardly do anything else. Yes, reading wiki it does say that. I think he pulled it off.
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« Reply #23 on: 19:41:17, 22-03-2007 » |
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Hi harrumph - I'm not sure if you're after composers who "hit the bulls eye once" ie only wrote one decent piece - or composers who are only famous for one piece. I'd have to disagree on Bloch - the early piano quintet and 1st violin sonata (1st movement in particular) are winners as far as I'm concerned and in a rather different style than Schelomo. Isaac Stern's performance of the violin sonata is worth getting your hands on.
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« Reply #24 on: 23:07:34, 22-03-2007 » |
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But maybe by that measure one would have to extend the list to include Berlioz as well?
Wait, what?! That's quite a bizarre comment, Ian. Surely there's 'one big work' in his case, but ... there are dozens of -rather- important, influential, and downright stunning works beyond S.F. |
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #25 on: 23:11:15, 22-03-2007 » |
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Since Aaron's here I feel I can mention Roy Harris and his Third Symphony...
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #26 on: 23:16:49, 22-03-2007 » |
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How about Litolff and that one movement from a Concerto Symphonique (?).
We could also add Dukas. We know that he was very self-critical and destroyed some of his work.
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Ian Pace
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« Reply #27 on: 23:25:59, 22-03-2007 » |
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But maybe by that measure one would have to extend the list to include Berlioz as well?
Wait, what?! That's quite a bizarre comment, Ian. Surely there's 'one big work' in his case, but ... there are dozens of -rather- important, influential, and downright stunning works beyond S.F. I totally agree, but few that have achieved anything like the same degree of popularity - maybe a few of the wider public know Harold in Italy, but I would imagine to them Berlioz is a one-work composer. Not that I agree, though I still don't think he ever topped the S.F. ( Romeo et Juliette comes close). |
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« Reply #28 on: 23:33:16, 22-03-2007 » |
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Not that I agree, though I still don't think he ever topped the S.F. (Romeo et Juliette comes close).
You can have the Symphonie Fantastique as long as you leave me L'Enfance du Christ, please. |
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #29 on: 23:36:08, 22-03-2007 » |
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Warlock and Boccherini. All this might sound harsh but perhaps there are some composers looking down on this middle earth who wish they could be remembered for one work.
(I've just re-read my previous post above and I'm beginning to sound like Sydney Grew, with the royal we.)
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