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« Reply #1200 on: 15:17:51, 06-09-2007 » |
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...Just think of the millions the BBC & Buffalo Uni Library must have lost out on with Sam Beckett & Morton Feldman's work  |
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« Reply #1201 on: 15:28:23, 06-09-2007 » |
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I'm glad the BBC stepped in here, otherwise we might miss the opportunity to regularly see performances of Beckett and Pinter on publicly funded TV.
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« Reply #1202 on: 15:34:53, 06-09-2007 » |
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I think I agree with your sentiments, Tim, although I can't actually remember the last time I did see any Beckett on publicly-funded TV ... (Maybe that's just cos I don't watch much TV.)
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« Reply #1203 on: 15:38:54, 06-09-2007 » |
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Quite - now we can't even watch it on the web  < back on topic > Not spinning at the moment, but it was last night - the Ockeghem Requiem CD recommended upthread. And very fine it was too - thanks for the tip, Richard! |
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« Reply #1204 on: 16:00:59, 06-09-2007 » |
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I think I agree with your sentiments, Tim, although I can't actually remember the last time I did see any Beckett on publicly-funded TV ... (Maybe that's just cos I don't watch much TV.)
To be fair, there was quite a healthy bucketful on the BBC around the time of the centenary last year. Much of it is now available on DVD which might, I suppose  , have something to do with their not wanting it freely available elsewhere. |
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« Reply #1205 on: 16:22:18, 06-09-2007 » |
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Not spinning at the moment, but it was last night - the Ockeghem Requiem CD recommended upthread. And very fine it was too - thanks for the tip, Richard!
That's been spinning recently here, too. As have: The Clash, London Calling - not dated at all IMHO, despite what's been said elsewhere, although I don't remember noticing before how much they sound like Buddy Holly (!); Prince and the NPG, Diamonds and Pearls (a little underwhelming, or am I missing something?); and - almost a week ago now, but I'm still feeling the shockwaves - Kondrashin's Mahler, Nos 7, 9, 3 and 5 so far. Saving 1, 4 and 6 up for a future date. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #1206 on: 16:54:43, 06-09-2007 » |
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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..) I rather agree; I didn't know that he had worked on it for so long. :/ I spent much of yesterday evening, and a chunk of this morning listening to Martin Jones' recordings of Percy Grainger
Is that on the same label where Jones plays the complete Mendelssohn? What do you think of the piano sound? They also have some interesting recordings of Vlado Perlemuter, a performer I only paid attention to because he actually worked with Ravel... but I like his Chopin Etudes too (same label again) Nimbus! That's it. Very bright and lucid piano sound, though some might say overly bright. Good for Mendelssohn, arguably not as good for Ravel... Yes, I think so. I quite like the acoustics for the Grainger myself. |
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« Reply #1207 on: 18:43:39, 06-09-2007 » |
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Thanks 'repatio -- I can't imagine the Nimbus treatment would be good for string ensembles, I rather imagine it would become a Stratocumulus treatment, but for piano in certain repertoires it can be apt.
And I don't think, richard, that M. Jones misses all that many notes in his Mendelssohn recordings. I think he does extremely well, especially in the neoclassical (?!?!) works.
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« Reply #1208 on: 00:26:27, 07-09-2007 » |
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NS Pettersson's Fifth -- I'm not sure I like this yet.
Urbana's School of Music library has a good number of recordings, but only scores of 5,6,7,8, and 12th Symfonis ... I really wanted to see/hear the ninth.
Life gives me lemons.
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« Reply #1209 on: 00:29:54, 07-09-2007 » |
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NS Pettersson's Fifth -- I'm not sure I like this yet.
Urbana's School of Music library has a good number of recordings, but only scores of 5,6,7,8, and 12th Symfonis ... I really wanted to see/hear the ninth.
Why the ninth in particular? |
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« Reply #1210 on: 00:44:41, 07-09-2007 » |
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Quite - now we can't even watch it on the web < back on topic > Not spinning at the moment, but it was last night - the Ockeghem Requiem CD recommended upthread. And very fine it was too - thanks for the tip, Richard! While I appreciate Richard's endoresment I did actually have it spinning and was the initial recommender my good man...!  Jesting... |
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« Reply #1211 on: 03:05:12, 07-09-2007 » |
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Why the ninth in particular?
That recommendation was one of the dim perks... |
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« Reply #1212 on: 09:44:29, 07-09-2007 » |
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lemons.
...is a word that, in James Joyces' Ulysses, appears ONCE only, directly in the middle in fact -the same number of words being installed BEFORE AND AFTER, making it the central word of the whole book. now spinning: A.Berg, Lyrische Siute, Lasalle Quartet, despite the intonation making a small mockery of the symmetries |
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« Reply #1213 on: 14:12:07, 07-09-2007 » |
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DC, you are a true poet of the medium.
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« Reply #1214 on: 14:20:44, 07-09-2007 » |
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watcha, CD, cheers, mate!
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