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« Reply #1290 on: 11:28:38, 12-09-2007 » |
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...no it's the third movement of Tippets' Sonata for Horn Quartet
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« Reply #1291 on: 17:38:25, 12-09-2007 » |
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,that's all it says here I'm afraid, CD is a copied version, so there are no credits or other general info, but sounds like period instruments. Don't know what it is with this music that gives its performers the right to obscene degrees of heavy breathing.
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« Reply #1292 on: 18:31:34, 12-09-2007 » |
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Cheers Bryn,. that's a great link, I hadn't noticed the Universe Symphony before, all othe references state that it was unfinished.
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Well, yes, Ives did leave it very much uncompleted, but invited others to have a go. Larry Austin is another to have done such, but his version is more like a sort of fantasia on ideas and sketches by Ives, whereas Reinhard sought to bring Ives's plans to fruition. Both are interesting in their different ways (the col legno CD of the Larry Austin is to be prefered to the earlier recording by Cincinnati staff and students, I think). |
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« Reply #1293 on: 21:46:03, 12-09-2007 » |
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« Reply #1294 on: 21:48:46, 12-09-2007 » |
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Messiaen again. Des canyons aux étoiles, (Ensemble Modern, George Benjamin, Proms 2004), on DVD-R.
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« Reply #1295 on: 21:53:01, 12-09-2007 » |
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How is it, Bryn? Up with Constant? (BTW have you got your étoiles and your orioles mixed up?  ) |
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« Reply #1296 on: 22:07:01, 12-09-2007 » |
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Randy Newman, "Louisiana 1927." Ostensibly because it has prominent inverted triads in it, but my god, is it a heartbreaking little song. My god.
I'm not sure I've ever proclaimed my spinning of any flavor of pop music on here. It doesn't happen as often as it should. (The spinning, that is, not the proclaiming.)
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« Reply #1297 on: 22:18:48, 12-09-2007 » |
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Evan, that's quite ok. I'll look that up.
Continuing a mini retrospective of Weather Report tracks, in memoriam Joe Z. Right now, one of the best albums, 'Mysterious Traveller', on which there is an exquisite duo between Zawinul and Shorter called 'Blackthorn Rose' that makes me go gooey every time I hear it.
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« Reply #1298 on: 22:22:36, 12-09-2007 » |
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How is it, Bryn? Up with Constant? (BTW have you got your étoiles and your orioles mixed up? ) Etiolated. Sounds a bit off-topic to me! |
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« Reply #1299 on: 22:29:51, 12-09-2007 » |
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Evan, that's quite ok. I'll look that up.
Continuing a mini retrospective of Weather Report tracks, in memoriam Joe Z. Right now, one of the best albums, 'Mysterious Traveller', on which there is an exquisite duo between Zawinul and Shorter called 'Blackthorn Rose' that makes me go gooey every time I hear it.
For Newman newbies (like myself) I strongly recommend the Randy Newman Songbook, vol. 1, which includes not only the aforementioned "Louisiana 1927" but lots of other absolutely stunning songs, another favorite of mine among which (?!!) is "In Germany Before the War," which displays a constructive sense and a feeling for detail that proves Newman's utter genius. This album is just Newman, voice and piano, playing old songs from the 60s and 70s with his more recent, gravelly voice. One of my most treasured non-classical records. |
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« Reply #1300 on: 22:36:54, 12-09-2007 » |
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I played the DVD of the Warner Bros film version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1935) as I was curious to hear the Mendelssohn score adapted by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and it was also fun to identify the snippets from other Mendelssohnian works. A delightful choral adaptation of the Scottish Symphony when Theseus lays claim to the hand of Hippolyta.
The film, in black and white chromium images, has been lovingly remastered so that Max Reinhardt's original production has much more substance than sheer spectacle. An array of Warner contract players cope well with the text and experienced theatre actors, Victor Jory as Oberon and Ian Hunter as Theseus appreciate the verse without giving us an elocution lesson in the process. Mickey Rooney, still in adolescence, played Puck with a sense of energy, charm and mischief. James Cagney enjoys the bravura of Bottom and a much loved actor, Joe E Brown ("ah, well, nobody's perfect") gave complete authenticity to the mechanicals, as Flute, in a wood outside Athens. Text and music provide their own magic throughout.
"The Dream" is part of an odd box set, Region 1. The MGM 1936 version of "Romeo & Juliet" - Leslie Howard & Norma Shearer, staid and middle aged as the lovers, - is all a bit precious. The bucks have been spent on a handsome production but, otherwise, are nowhere to be seen in Verona!
Olivier's "Othello" (1965) hasn't traversed the years with credit. It is still rewarding to see the performances of the National Theatre company of the day. I was lucky to see Olivier, early in the run, at The Old Vic, before his performance morphed into 'pure Pearl Bailey'.
I've yet to see the DVD of Kenneth Branagh's 'Hamlet' but remembering its cinema debut in 1996, it fully deserves a belated distribution on DVD.
However, I'm likely to 'spin' the DVD of the Reinhardt 'Dream' production more often for its innate charm and the music of Mendelssohn, adapted by Korngold - and it all looks really splendid.
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« Reply #1301 on: 22:37:53, 12-09-2007 » |
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How is it, Bryn? Up with Constant? (BTW have you got your étoiles and your orioles mixed up? ) No Ollie, just my digits. It was a pretty good performance, I reckon. Some of the ensemble is not a tight as is might be, especially at the start of Les ressuscités et le chant de l'étoile Aldébaran. However, it was a live performance, after all, (unlike the Constant). Notre-Dame de Liban was probably a rather more acoustically friendly recording environment, too. ;-) |
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« Reply #1302 on: 22:53:39, 12-09-2007 » |
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Tye: Sit Fast
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« Reply #1303 on: 22:54:15, 12-09-2007 » |
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The new Naxos CD of Sullivan's Symphony in E and Pineapple Poll (RLPO and David Lloyd-Jones) came in the post the other day. Normally I'd welcome anything to make the symphony more widely known but this is disappointing, largely because of the way it was recorded. I've been to many concerts in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, but I've never heard as much echo as is present here. The violins sound distant sometimes and much of the detail of the inner parts is lost.
But the players and conductor are not blameless either. Sometimes the strings scoop up to their notes - which sounds out of place in this sort of music - and the string tone often sounds thin. The pizzicato violins in the third movement sound very weak.
The Pineapple Poll lacks the sparkle that Mackerras brings to it when he conducts it.
At least I only paid £3.99 for it by ordering directly from HMV and it will remain a curiosity but those who are tempted to explore it because of its budget price will not be inspired to listen to it very often or investigate further.
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« Reply #1304 on: 23:04:22, 12-09-2007 » |
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I played the DVD of the Warner Bros film version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1935) as I was curious to hear the Mendelssohn score adapted by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and it was also fun to identify the snippets from other Mendelssohnian works. A delightful choral adaptation of the Scottish Symphony when Theseus lays claim to the hand of Hippolyta.
Stanley, the score (or an hour's worth of it) is available on a recommendable CPO disc, conducted by Gerd Albrecht: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mendelssohn-Korngold-Midsummer-Nights-Dream/dp/B00000J8XN/ref=sr_1_1/203-4994897-1606365?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1189634413&sr=8-1There are a few stills from the film in the CD booklet. |
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