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« Reply #3150 on: 14:10:50, 01-08-2008 » |
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Hey IGI, I just saw the recording on the British Music Society label, how coincedental! On Penguin Guide 2008. Any good? ATM, I have the Philip Fowke version on Uni Kan.
Are you referring to the BMS recording of Bliss' Piano Concerto, bbm? If so, I don't know it, I'm afraid. I've collected some Naxos discs of Bliss chamber music and see that Peter Donohoe has recorded the concerto and sonata for them, which I may investigate in time. |
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« Reply #3151 on: 14:33:47, 01-08-2008 » |
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Robert Wylkynson: Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum
Possibly one of my new favouritest things in the world.
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« Reply #3152 on: 14:43:29, 01-08-2008 » |
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Possibly one of my new favouritest things in the world.
Oh ... Except that I think I've now fallen in love with the 24-part canon Qui habitat attributed to Josquin.  |
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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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Hey IGI, I just saw the recording on the British Music Society label, how coincedental! On Penguin Guide 2008. Any good? ATM, I have the Philip Fowke version on Uni Kan.
Are you referring to the BMS recording of Bliss' Piano Concerto, bbm? If so, I don't know it, I'm afraid. I've collected some Naxos discs of Bliss chamber music and see that Peter Donohoe has recorded the concerto and sonata for them, which I may investigate in time. Yes I was IGI. Peter Donohoe's recording should be very good one to buy I would think!! Especially on Naxos. |
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« Reply #3154 on: 21:02:57, 01-08-2008 » |
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Hi IGI
mention of The Curlew - a haunting work as y say - reminded me what a strange characteur Peter Warlock was
Remember reading his biography and his bohemian lifestyle and his tragic death. I guess lots of The Curlew would have been taken from his own life !
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« Reply #3155 on: 21:55:09, 01-08-2008 » |
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Not too long ago, offbeat, I saw the latter part of a film on SkyArts about Warlock's life which seemed very good. I was intrigued as amongst the composers represented in the cast were Bernard Van Dieren, Lord Berners and E.J. Moeran. A little googling reveals it was called Peter Warlock - Some Little Joy and is being released at the end of August. |
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« Reply #3156 on: 12:16:30, 02-08-2008 » |
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Stravinsky, Concerto for Piano and Winds, with Nikita Magaloff and NDR Sinfonieorchester under Günter Wand - fabulous recording. The beginning of the second movement, this time, struck me as equally appropriate music to be accompanied by the lighting of a cigar, and a voice over saying 'Happiness is a cigar called.....' whilst someone is in a situation of adversity.
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #3157 on: 12:23:07, 02-08-2008 » |
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Spinning this morning chez t-i-n: just finished Vol III of the Selected Works of Michael Spencer. I think my favourites on a first spin were Message from Aiwass V (brass sextet + live elecs) and the surprising but rather lovely Diptyque for choir. Last night: time(1) and time(2) tried to watch the BelAir Classiques DVD of Hindemith's Cardillac, largely because the stills on the back of it showed the sets to be quite stunning, which they were, but unfortunately they were complemented by bad acting, messy directing and awful make-up, all of which got time(2) quite worked up, and a rather generalised neo-Baroque chugging with wrong notes and grey harmony which time(1) was finding quite trying, plus a libretto which after 10 minutes still hadn't managed to establish anything resembling a convincing dramatic situation, which we both found quite trying, so we gave up and watched one of time(2)'s favourite films instead, which I hadn't seen before: the opening sequence can be viewed here. Recommended, for those who enjoy the comedy and drama of gesture and facial expression. |
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Not too long ago, offbeat, I saw the latter part of a film on SkyArts about Warlock's life which seemed very good. I was intrigued as amongst the composers represented in the cast were Bernard Van Dieren, Lord Berners and E.J. Moeran. A little googling reveals it was called Peter Warlock - Some Little Joy and is being released at the end of August. Thanks for that tip, IGI. |
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« Reply #3159 on: 12:56:28, 02-08-2008 » |
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Spinning this morning chez t-i-n: just finished Vol III of the Selected Works of Michael Spencer. I think my favourites on a first spin were Message from Aiwass V (brass sextet + live elecs) and the surprising but rather lovely Diptyque for choir.
You have Vol III? I was only granted Vols I+II. sniff |
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« Reply #3160 on: 12:57:43, 02-08-2008 » |
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... and I didn't even have to leave the country for them!   |
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« Reply #3161 on: 13:06:54, 02-08-2008 » |
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tinners, just watched part 1 of Le Bal, Ettore Scola, then part 2, on to part 3 now. I sincerely hope YouTube has all of it!  |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #3162 on: 15:50:15, 02-08-2008 » |
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Thoroughly enjoyed the 'Le Bal' excerpts, tinners. Rather like a garish version of the hookers in "Sweet Charity" (1968). Maddened trying to recall the second musical s/t excerpt - very Ravel - until I realised that I have a Judy Garland recording, using the English translation called "What Now My Love? - now that it's over.......only the last goodbye." The sheer potency of cheap music again! Works a treat. Thanks.
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« Reply #3163 on: 12:43:03, 03-08-2008 » |
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# 3162 Yes, it was Gilbert Bacaud's "What Now, My Love?" in one of Garland's high definition performances.
As a consolation for a postponed post-Proms visit to the Highlands of Scotland, I'm now spnning Ardnamurchan Point by Judith Weir, played by Petra Casen and William Howard, pianos; on CD 2, suitably titled Distance and Enchantment and other works. So refreshing. A liner notes quotes from a Judith Weir interview in 1996:
"Although this is an entirely abstract composition, something of the bleached
quality of the western Scottish seashore seems to emerge from the music,
which is a continuous variation of a short fragment of Hebridean melody
(from the waulking song 'Am bron binn', collected in Benbecula by Francis Collinson)
heard at the outset...."
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« Reply #3164 on: 14:26:23, 03-08-2008 » |
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I like the comment about Ardnamurchan Point symbolising a place you never quite get to, Stanley. Isn't that in the same liner note?
Glad you enjoyed Le Bal (and Anty too)! I'd be more than happy to provide a full watching copy on DVD if you'd like to see it complete.
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