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richard barrett
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« on: 20:48:38, 22-01-2008 »
Unusually I ended up listening to the radio on my way home today. It was a very pleasant surprise to hear Finnissy's Red Earth in what sounded to me a more focused performance than the one on the CD. The pieces by Judith Weir did nothing for me: although I found the instrumental sonorities in the first choral piece quite attractive, they seemed to be incongruously combined with choral parts of a rather bland and harmonically flabby sort of Britishness.

Any Weir experts out there? What am I missing?
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martle
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« Reply #1 on: 22:46:35, 22-01-2008 »
I know exactly what you mean, Richard. I'm certainly not an expert, nor am I an utter Weir nut. But I found 'The Art of Touching the Keyboard' for example, performed during the Schubert Ensemble concert on Saturday, to be fresh and compelling, and I think it stands for the best of what her music is about. You can LA to it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/judithweir/pip/38w0q/
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