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« Reply #3255 on: 22:45:21, 13-08-2008 » |
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Samuel Beckett, Cascando, Rough for Radio II, Words and Music from this set of CDs which I recommend highly:  These are the original BBC recordings, but I find Cascando highly disappointing: the voices are too theatrical, the music (specially written by Marcel Mihalovici) anonymous. John Beckett's music for Words and Music is much more appropriate and memorable. I don't think I'd heard Rough for Radio II before, knowing it only from the page - it seems to have been an inspiration for Pinter's One for the Road, made very obvious here by the fact that Pinter himself plays the part of a sort of interrogator. (Beckett's play is much less specific in this regard than Pinter's, however.) Shortly after the Beckett ended, Captain Beefheart's Strictly Personal began (being after Beckett in iTunes), which gave me quite a shock, but I kept it on, not having listened to it for ages. It's the only CB album where the production is really as detached from everyday prosaic musical reality as the lyrics. Excellent. |
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« Reply #3256 on: 23:11:47, 13-08-2008 » |
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Ensemble Al-Kindi, Parfums ottomansArabic-Turkish court music Get your Arabic-Turkish court music here[/i] |
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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« Reply #3257 on: 23:59:19, 13-08-2008 » |
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Get your Arabic-Turkish court music hereDone. I mean doing. Part 1 anyway. My word, that file is LARGE for an mp3. |
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« Reply #3258 on: 12:12:40, 14-08-2008 » |
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Now spinning here however is something I bet no other r3ok member is currently spinning. In fact I bet few r3ok members have ever knowingly spun or been spun it.
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The obvious comparison would be with Björk I suppose, but this is much more subtle, delicate and intriguing, to me anyway: it doesn't wear its eccentricity on its sleeve (and Ms Nordenstam has a very strange-sounding voice indeed, somewhere between Jane Birkin and Olive Oyl). In fact I think I might spin it again once it's over. Time 2 has another of her albums, Memories of a Color. About to spin here now. He also tells me one of her songs was used in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet film. |
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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 #3259 on: 12:34:18, 14-08-2008 » |
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Time2 has another of her albums, Memories of a Color. About to spin here now.
I find that one a bit more ordinary (it's her first one), the orchestrations get more original in later records. |
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« Reply #3260 on: 12:40:16, 14-08-2008 » |
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Actually I'm afraid I found her a slightly more ordinary version of Björk (whose self-conscious extraordinariness I admit is sometimes a bit much, but still, there's a difference between not being self-conscious about it and not really having it at all). Oh, just read Richard's response. Fair enough then - I'll look out for the second one!Now spinning:  Hmmm ... this is beginning to feel a bit like a procession of stylistic pastiches (well enough done in themselves, I suppose). |
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« Reply #3261 on: 15:01:01, 15-08-2008 » |
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Shostakovich Cello Concertos No 1 & 2; Daniel Muller-Schott/Yakov Kreizberg/Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks on the Orfeo label. Several fine recordings since 1959/66 with Rostropovich taking pride of place but DM-S delivers a performance of compelling intensity. Additionally, he has written informative liner notes on the concertos and the political background in Russia from the early thirties, including Pravda's 'Muddle instead of music' slur.
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« Reply #3262 on: 15:05:11, 15-08-2008 » |
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Stanley,
Have you read Shostakovich and Stalin by Solomon Volkov?
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #3263 on: 15:47:28, 15-08-2008 » |
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Hi, Anty! I have a copy of Testimony - The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich (1979) as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov. A good read but somehow more controversial re its authenticity over the years. However, some real meat in the sandwich! I've added a few comments about Russian cinema in the Double Bill thread in cinema.
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« Reply #3264 on: 17:18:57, 15-08-2008 » |
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Das Wohltemperiate Klavier bk 2. Andrass Schiff, paino.
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« Reply #3265 on: 17:23:00, 15-08-2008 » |
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Das Wohltemperiate Klavier bk 2. Andrass Schiff, paino.
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« Reply #3266 on: 17:26:03, 15-08-2008 » |
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I recorded that on cassette from the radio decades ago and listened to it often until I no longer had a machine to play it on. Not sure whether I'd like it so much now though.
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« Reply #3267 on: 18:16:50, 15-08-2008 » |
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« Reply #3268 on: 18:49:21, 15-08-2008 » |
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Now I like this, but I'm not convinced by its sectionality. It feels like there needs to be either more space between the texts or some sort of overlapping. I may be missing the point of the piece here (and I realise it's somewhat different in the context of Donnerstag) but if this is a concert piece then I think there are some formal things not quite adding up here. Also, these gaps are going to be on the tape. If it was a live choir then there would be pauses between movements, but this is just going to roll on in the concert hall as well as on the CD. I've got to go back to the notes evidently, but I'm also planning a trip to Durham next week so I'll have a peek at the score and try and make more sense of it. |
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« Reply #3269 on: 20:55:28, 16-08-2008 » |
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Now playing Martinu 'Frescoes of Piero Della Francesca'- first time really listened to this and really good Martinu quite underrated composer i think  |
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