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I'm very pleased with my ebay buy of Ferneyhough's "Transit" on vinyl. Why the fook mthey don't release it on CD I don't know...
NMC were going to re-release it paired with the BBC Sniggers in Missa Brevis but Decca pulled out of the whole thing and refused to give permission. Are you serious?! What a bunch of poopyheads. |
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« Reply #31 on: 10:52:35, 03-07-2007 » |
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I'm very pleased with my ebay buy of Ferneyhough's "Transit" on vinyl. Why the fook mthey don't release it on CD I don't know...
NMC were going to re-release it paired with the BBC Sniggers in Missa Brevis but Decca pulled out of the whole thing and refused to give permission. Are you serious?! What a bunch of poopyheads. He's right, Evan.  On the up-side, a Musical Times report of the whole sorry saga got me intrigued enough at the age of 16 to buy every other Ferneyhough CD then commercially available, which is more or less what moved me on from Vaughan Williams! |
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I don't suppose it's ever been out on CD in Japan, has it? If it has, it might just turn up on something like Explore Records.
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« Reply #33 on: 11:00:01, 03-07-2007 » |
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I'm very pleased with my ebay buy of Ferneyhough's "Transit" on vinyl. Why the fook mthey don't release it on CD I don't know...
NMC were going to re-release it paired with the BBC Sniggers in Missa Brevis but Decca pulled out of the whole thing and refused to give permission. Are you serious?! What a bunch of poopyheads. Economics 101 according to record companies:
Audience: We demand you reissue Transit on CD!
Record company: We could do that.
Record company: But we won't.
Audience: Boo! We'll just have to find other ways to get it then.
Record company: Piracy is killing music.
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« Reply #34 on: 11:08:28, 03-07-2007 » |
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Tim, you left out one important step:
Audience: We demand you reissue Transit on CD!
Record company: We could do that.
----------over a decade passes----------
Record company: ...but we won't.
Audience: Boo! We'll just have to find other ways to get it then.
Record company: Piracy is killing music.
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« Reply #35 on: 11:35:53, 03-07-2007 » |
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On the up-side, a Musical Times report of the whole sorry saga got me intrigued enough at the age of 16 to buy every other Ferneyhough CD then commercially available, which is more or less what moved me on from Vaughan Williams!
Trying to set up a Ferneyhough sanctuary eh? ; ) That just reminds me; I have a cd of some flute stuff by him I haven't listened to yet... |
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« Reply #36 on: 11:38:37, 03-07-2007 » |
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It's not the Icelandic player on Bridge is it? I haven't got round to hearing it yet either, but the liner notes would have failed a 1st-year undergraduate exam.
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It's not the Icelandic player on Bridge is it? I haven't got round to hearing it yet either, but the liner notes would have failed a 1st-year undergraduate exam.
... not that it matters, because after looking at the cover you will be too blinded to read. The performances on that disc are quite good, although an hour of solo flute (yes, yes, seven minutes of which involve piano in an uncharacteristically Webernian early piece and ten minutes of which involve more flutes, on tape...) is too much for me to handle at once. |
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« Reply #38 on: 20:08:31, 03-07-2007 » |
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I've had that disc for about a year now, and have still only listened to Superscriptio. It's that cover, I'm sure. Quite, quite horrendous.
Even the yelow, red and black on the back of the booklet make a tacky impression.
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« Reply #39 on: 20:12:09, 03-07-2007 » |
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Hmm, Alexis Napoliello*, a name to look out for, and avoid, I think.
*Design and colorisation[sic].
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« Reply #40 on: 15:41:39, 04-07-2007 » |
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Well, it's hardly exceptional: Bridge booklets are, in general, some of the tackiest and most tasteless things I've ever seen (and that usually, though not invariably, extends to the quality of the booklet note, including a spectacular contribution to the first-there's-a-high-note-and-then-a-coupla-low-'uns-and-ooh-ain't-that-pretty-by-the-way-I-love-my-mum school of writing on music in one of their Davidovsky discs).
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« Reply #41 on: 11:45:32, 06-07-2007 » |
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It's not the Icelandic player on Bridge is it? I haven't got round to hearing it yet either, but the liner notes would have failed a 1st-year undergraduate exam.
Yes, yes it is. And yes, now that I've digitized it I keep the disk and its box kept safely inside a radioactive containment unit. Haven't listened to it yet though...probably over the weekend... |
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« Reply #42 on: 15:13:01, 13-07-2007 » |
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Listened to the Ferneyhough CD last night; solo stuff wasn't unpleasant, and overall I quite enjoyed it. Good for kneeding bread or baking to, maybe.
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« Reply #43 on: 16:14:56, 13-07-2007 » |
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an hour of solo flute (yes, yes, seven minutes of which involve piano in an uncharacteristically Webernian early piece and ten minutes of which involve more flutes, on tape...) is too much for me to handle at once.
Then try the complete flute work of Sciarrino. Afterwards, you have to collect your brain from the floor with a squeegee.  |
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« Reply #44 on: 17:15:54, 13-07-2007 » |
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That's nothing, Chafer. Koechlin's Chants de Nectaire for solo flute has 96 movements which total about three hours, and it's all... so... orientalist!!!!!!
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