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Thank you for another, so very interesting post. I have printed off a copy and put it with the CDs.
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martle Would you people stop writing vaguely off-topic asides in small print, please??! I HAVE to read them , and the only way to do it with my eyesight is to hit 'quote' and see them in normal size. Interesting - my software overrides all background colours and fonts on internet pages, showing them all as white background with Arial font! Susan |
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« Reply #1416 on: 10:58:47, 22-09-2007 » |
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Back on topic: I'm listening to the 3CD set of concert recordings from the "Tage Alter Musik in Herne 1995" while pottering about domestically. I think I went on about these recordings a bit back at TOP. This is an annual festival of early music (from the middle ages up to 1800 or so) sponsored by the WDR, and each year out come three CDs of stuff performed at the previous year's festival. The performances (by most of the early-to-classical-period specialists, plus lesser-known newcomers) are generally more lively than one generally hears on recordings of this kind of music, owing no doubt to the presence of a festival audience. The repertoire is generally unfamiliar - currently playing is music of the "Stadtmusikanten" of Stockholm in the 17th century - and the CDs aren't very expensive (but, as they say in Holland, op is op - they don't get reprinted once they're out of stock). More information: http://www.tage-alter-musik.de/tam_doku.html |
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Maxwell Davies - Aves Maria Stella. I'm liking the overall picture, but it sure is hard to get a handle on some parts of this
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Maxwell Davies - Aves Maria Stella. I'm liking the overall picture, but it sure is hard to get a handle on some parts of this Interesting - it's a long time since I listened to that piece, though I actually suspect I might have fewer doubts about some aspects of it now. Finnissy - Contretanze Seen the new Sinfonietta season brochure?  |
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"Seen the new Sinfonietta season brochure?"
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I reckon Ave maris stella is one of PMD's very best works, but that recording hasn't aged well. Time for someone to do another one really.
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Murail: Désintégrations for 17 instruments and tape
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Gérard Grisey: L'Icône paradoxale (Hommage à Piero della Francesca) for 2 female voices and large orchestra (divided into 2 groups) - now spinning, since I'm not going to manage to hear it live this evening in Warsaw.
Fantastic, stunning. If this isn't a masterpiece I don't know what is.
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