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« Reply #2910 on: 16:08:00, 26-05-2008 » |
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Now spinning Mahler Symphony no.7(Lucerne Festival/Abbado)
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« Reply #2911 on: 22:15:35, 26-05-2008 » |
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Gouvy Many thanks for mentioning the name of Gouvy on this message board, John. I like his music, especially his lovely chamber works. |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #2913 on: 10:07:28, 27-05-2008 » |
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NS  One of my favourites, Turfers. Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #2914 on: 12:40:21, 27-05-2008 » |
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I am agog.  The Rapsodie a sept is one of the most imaginative pieces I've heard in a long time. A good dose of the Épithalame for "vocal orchestra" in 12 parts as a remarkable follow-up. Have we had a Jolivet thread? Has anyone else heard this disc? Does Rarissimes mean 'most rare' as well as 'most strange' (as the Latin might suggest), or does the French word not include that connotation? A little package has just arrived from Berkshire Record Outlet, containing not only this, a Telarc SACD including the Robert Shaw recording of Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis, but also a DVD of John Adams's Doctor Atomic from De Nederlandse Opera on Dutch TV last year, which has claimed precedence for first audition - fabulous looking production, brilliantly realised for tv, from a view of the first ten minutes or so. All four discs (the Jolivet being a double) including postage for less than £18. Comment on the Jolivet later.... |
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« Reply #2915 on: 13:54:15, 27-05-2008 » |
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One of my favourites, Turfers.
Tommo
Ah yes? Don't you enjoy the idea of a "Rhapsody Concerto"? There ought to be more pieces with that designation... Ron, hope you enjoy the Jolivet, and look forward to your concurrance that the Rapsodie a Sept is at least a very cool piece if not "the most imaginative etc" What is it with Rhapsodies today? I don't normally wax rhapsodic. Must be the distinct lack of sleep. |
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« Reply #2916 on: 14:12:49, 27-05-2008 » |
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The teasing twitch of insatiable curiosity, Ron, on seeing the availability of John Adams's 'Doctor Atomic' on DVD. I need a catharsis after several late nights steeped in Broadway musicals.
However, on a new learning curve - I wonder why? - I'm now spinning with the joy of discovery and surprise, Yvonne Loriod's recording of Messiaen's Vingt regards. Quietly sensational. Again, heartfelt thanks to 'the kindness of strangers' on these MBs.
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« Reply #2917 on: 14:41:38, 27-05-2008 » |
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TF, just to double-check: you are aware that there's another work between the Rhapsodie and the Epithalame, aren't you? (The Suite delphique, complete with a barking ondes Martenot part - barking in the sense that the o M appears to be imitating a dog in places. I'd assumed that its short movements are derived from incidental music which Jolivet composed during his tenure as Director of Music at the Comédie Française, a post he held from 1945-59, but further research suggests that it's an arrangement of a work for larger forces written in 1943.)
My immediate reaction to the Rhapsodie was why does it remind me of L'Histoire du Soldat as if it had been written by Varèse? The answer was soon obvious - identical scoring (Vln-CB-Clar-Bassoon-Trpt-Tromb-Perc) - and though it goes to very different places to the Stravinsky, the identicality of colour is rather distracting at first, and there are moments were this is further brought to mind when the percussion parts are all but a straight steal. That being said, its actual construction is very different to Stravinsky's piece, being much closer in technique to that of his teacher Varèse, which answers the second part of the question. It's certainly original, and demands another listen soon. The Epithalame is pretty virtuosic writing for 12 solo voices, too, isn't it.
Now I have both sets before me, I can see that the concerto for flute and both of those for trumpet are duplicated, although the EMI set has earlier mono recordings. Bbm should note that the French booklet points out that the Trumpet Concerto is a C20th classic, but doesn't clarify which of the two it actually means. I'll return to this later - still wrestling with the PC, meanwhile.
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« Reply #2918 on: 16:18:17, 27-05-2008 » |
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Sibelius: Kurlervo Symphony, the Sir Colin Davis recording on LSO Live.
RVW: Flos Campi: Christopher Balmer(viola), RLPO & Choir, Handley
Symphnoy no.5 in D: RLPO, Handley.
Tippett: A Child of our Time,; Cynthia Hayman , Damon Evans, LSO & Chorus, Hickox.
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« Reply #2919 on: 16:24:07, 27-05-2008 » |
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TF, just to double-check: you are aware that there's another work between the Rhapsodie and the Epithalame, aren't you?
Well, I almost never drop a CD in and let it run all the way through, I skipped the Suite because I wasn't yet interested in it. Shall return to it later. Hot finger on the button sometimes. |
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« Reply #2920 on: 21:51:50, 27-05-2008 » |
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Bruckner S 6 at this moment in time-last movement.Bavarian State/Sawallisch.Earlier Bruckner S 4 followed by Bruckner S 9 Cleveland/Dohnanyi.I used to play Bruckner a lot but lately not so much for some unknown reason!I started to like Bruckner in the late 60's when I got hold of one LP of a 2LP set of the 4th-I think it was by the Columbia SO conducted by Bruno Walter.From memory the slow movement was the piece that got me hooked on Bruckner.I have just checked on my list and I have not got that version on CD which is very suprising as I was under the impression that I had got hold of it long ago!I remember,I think, that it was on the CBS label and the label was coloured light blue.
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« Reply #2921 on: 12:54:24, 28-05-2008 » |
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Over the past 24 hours, I've been relishing this set properly for the first time:  Sparkling, invigorating performances...just No.9 to go at some point this afternoon. [Ed. And pretty impressive it was too!] |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #2922 on: 18:17:15, 28-05-2008 » |
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I'm still waiting for that box to arrive... In the meantime:  Good grief. Now there's a sound. Although just calling it Biber without even a little attrib in small print and brackets seems a bit steep to me. Oh look, there's a close relative of a board member in the cast list... |
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perfect wagnerite
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« Reply #2923 on: 14:22:17, 30-05-2008 » |
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NS here:  Never heard it before (and not heard much Stockhausen, in truth). Absolutely transfixed and astonished by it - not least by the sheer scale and grandeur. |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #2924 on: 17:09:59, 30-05-2008 » |
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Now spinning, as it has been several times in the past couple of days: Bach's Chaconne from the Partita for Violin, BWV 1004. This was prompted (my spinning it, not Bach's writing it) by the discussion over on the 'Crackpot' thread started by Ollie and taken up by Strina and others. Look, I know I often come across as a tiresome star-struck groupie but I'm going to say it anyway. It really is a privilege and joy to come here and eavesdrop on real expert practitioners talking about this sort of stuff. I don't know anywhere else where it would happen (not where I'd be allowed in for free anyway  ). So thank you. I now know so much more about the piece than I did three days ago. The recording I have been listening to is Rachel Podger's by the way and she comes in to the paddock, glowing elegantly, at 13' 36".  |
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