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The Medtner quintet - great stuff !
Is it? Well, it certainly sets out to be, for sure. I yield to less than no one in my admiration and respect for Medtner, yet I cannot help but find this quintet - that preoccupied him on and off for around 45 years - a desperate disappointment (albeit partly because my expectations of it were so very high, as his best large scale works, not least the third violin sonata, had led me to assume). It's a fine work, without doubt, but, I fear, far from Medtner at his ultimate best (and I so wish that it were otherwise! - so very much promise and all that..) Best, Alistair |
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This Gosh! is a Sir Richard Barrett word, copyrighted by him some time ago I'm afraid it isn't; it's a George Benjamin word I unwittingly stole, as t_i_n himself pointed out. I think I should perhaps change it to Gauche! |
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Or "Gash!"...
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« Reply #1188 on: 23:34:46, 05-09-2007 » |
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This Gosh! is a Sir Richard Barrett word, copyrighted by him some time ago I'm afraid it isn't; it's a George Benjamin word I unwittingly stole, as t_i_n himself pointed out. I think I should perhaps change it to Gauche!I apologise for my gross ignorance here (and, for the record, that's 144 times as bad as ordinary ignorance). As an alternative, what about Gauss? And, while we're at it, do you suppose that the word "spinet" is in any sense a derivative (sorry to mention them in this highly volatile financial market situation") of "spinning" (as in "now...ditto") and "quintet"? Barrettsche(n) am spinnrade, anyone?... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #1189 on: 23:38:24, 05-09-2007 » |
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Rameau - Les Fêtes d'Hébé / Les Arts Florissants, Christie  Good fun. Not sure if I'd say much more about it than that. |
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It isn't Rameau at his best if you ask me. For that you'd have to go to Castor et Pollux, Zoroastre, Les Boréades, or, in a lighter vein, Platée, Les Paladins or Les indes galantes. I like it all though.
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« Reply #1191 on: 00:18:41, 06-09-2007 » |
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haven't got any CD playing at present, just discovered this website, and if you must know, am currently viewing Ah-jeng Sanjo improvisation by Kim Byong-ho, 1966. http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/kiosk/media.html(might be of interest to some), contains film-clips of traditional musics that the author filmed between 1966-82. Robert Garfias : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Garfias -I know about the http://www.ubu.com/site already, but if anyone else has websites with similarly fascinating musicological archive material, I'm all eyes/ears |
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Many thanks Tim-RJ, I hadn't known about those 2 sites you quoted. Also looks like I'm going to have to explore the other-minds website much more, I've been at the Ubu site quite a bit lately. Just heard a few examples off the asian classics, and it lives up to name. recently checked out this film: http://www.ubu.com/film/schneeman.html ...which, as well as being a film of James Tenney having a shag,  , might also serve as a stern warning to any composer before dating film/video artists... Don't quite know how they get away with all the rights to having all that archive material on there, I suppose they fulfill the function of being a media library, just so long as those films can't be downloaded... (hackers ??) |
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Don't quite know how they get away with all the rights to having all that archive material on there, I suppose they fulfill the function of being a media library, just so long as those films can't be downloaded... (hackers ??)
It's not terribly difficult to download films like that (Google for things like "download flash video"). Copyright law being what it is, Ubu have no legal right at all to host most of the material that they do, but I assume they get away with it through the tacit consent of the artists involved. http://www.ubu.com/resources/faq.html#6(For the record, I broadly agree with their policy of "if it's out of print, it's fair game; if it's in print we won't touch it", but legally that ain't worth squat.) |
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« Reply #1196 on: 13:59:22, 06-09-2007 » |
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Ha! I'd not seen that before!
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« Reply #1197 on: 14:24:28, 06-09-2007 » |
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not wanting to wake a sleeping dog..., but ...I'm surprised Anthology haven't clicked with this...
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« Reply #1198 on: 15:03:48, 06-09-2007 » |
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Shame seems a little strong, no? More like silliness, especially when the artist has died. No use in acting all proprietary then.. |
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