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« Reply #1695 on: 15:22:13, 31-10-2007 » |
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Thanks, Pim - you've given me an idea!
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« Reply #1696 on: 15:26:23, 31-10-2007 » |
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Thanks, Pim - you've given me an idea!  |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #1697 on: 17:30:55, 03-11-2007 » |
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Following a busy and stressful time lately, I rewarded myself by finally getting hold of Keilberth's Götterdämmerung. Rather than leap straight into it, I decided to give the complete cycle a spin this weekend. Now playing: Das Rheingold, scene 2.     This cycle has won great praise in some quarters, and a fair amount of criticism in others. On the whole, I'm with the first group. Yes, there are other great recordings from Bayreuth in the 50s, and there are later ones with better sound. But to have this line-up of singers in their prime and in what is for the most part very vivid and acceptable early stereo, and in such a vital overall interpretation, is a real treat. It joins Böhm at the top of the pile for me; and, once I've got hold of his Rheingold, I expect Haenchen will join them!  |
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« Reply #1698 on: 21:34:31, 03-11-2007 » |
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This live studio recording was made at the Klaus von Bismarck Saal of the West German Radio, Cologne, on 31 August 1959. Mahler 7 in that little hall?!?  Cripes. |
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« Reply #1699 on: 11:21:07, 04-11-2007 » |
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This live studio recording was made at the Klaus von Bismarck Saal of the West German Radio, Cologne, on 31 August 1959. Mahler 7 in that little hall?!? Cripes. Yes! And the sound isn't bad for a live radio recording from 1959.  |
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« Reply #1700 on: 15:32:40, 04-11-2007 » |
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Well, well, well. I know that hall reasonably well. It's not very big - it's a lovely chamber hall (seats around 1000 I think) and the acoustic is great but I'm amazed anyone in their right mind would try to play a Mahler symphony in there. |
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« Reply #1701 on: 16:23:18, 04-11-2007 » |
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Now, now, now, Ollie. You know full well that it isn't a matter of size...!  |
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« Reply #1702 on: 16:35:11, 04-11-2007 » |
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Correction: we're talking of Mahler 6 here! |
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« Reply #1703 on: 17:36:40, 04-11-2007 » |
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OoooH! Anyhow, "idea" fulfilled, today, on this side of the North Sea, Pim.  |
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« Reply #1704 on: 17:42:09, 04-11-2007 » |
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Correction: we're talking of Mahler 6 here! Aha! Reply 1692 was where I had the impression it might have been the 7th. On the other hand the 6th is certainly no smaller. Indeed, Stanley, size isn't everything - on the other hand I've experienced acoustic overload in the KvB-Saal with an ensemble of 15 so imagining Mahler 6 in there is a very strange thought... |
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« Reply #1705 on: 19:11:01, 04-11-2007 » |
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Hmmmm. I did once arrange the first movement for about 12 instruments . . .
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« Reply #1706 on: 22:57:11, 04-11-2007 » |
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Hmmmm. I did once arrange the first movement for about 12 instruments . . .
What? ALL of it? (as Rossini is said to have exclaimed when someone stopped him on a Paris boulevard late in life and told him that William Tell was about to be revived); I wouldn't mind seeing that! Fascinating! Actually, many years ago, I arranged (or deranged, or what you will or won't) the music that, for better or worse, we might call "Alma's theme" from that very movement, for string quartet, albeit only to try to demonstrate how short a distance it seemed to be from there to what Schönberg was doing at the time (I didn't retain that derangement, which has long since been binned along with a load of my own "original" stuff from that time and before)... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #1707 on: 02:42:08, 06-11-2007 » |
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Ponder Nothing, for solo clarinet, by Ben Johnston
To be followed by Frescobaldi's Fiori Musicali (just some selections)
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« Reply #1708 on: 19:28:09, 06-11-2007 » |
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Ponder Nothing, for solo clarinet, by Ben Johnston
To be followed by Much Ado by William S. Speare? |
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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 #1709 on: 22:41:16, 06-11-2007 » |
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Now spinning, some Malipiero; 'Sinfonie del silenzio e de la morte'. I'm enjoying listening to it, though not exactly taken aback |
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