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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  So do I. If you enjoy that piece you'll really like the Sixth Symphony I think. |
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« Reply #3271 on: 21:42:02, 16-08-2008 » |
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« Reply #3272 on: 21:53:53, 16-08-2008 » |
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Thirded, and I'd put in a word for the 4th symphony too; although after those three works, and perhaps a tiny handful of others, I really find him hard going. Any further recommendations, anyone?
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« Reply #3273 on: 22:03:19, 16-08-2008 » |
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I really like the 1st Symphony, especially the second movement Allegro. I have the BIS set conducted by Neeme Järvi, which I'm sure I've read somewhere is being reissued at budget price by Brilliant.
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« Reply #3274 on: 22:07:23, 16-08-2008 » |
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Thirded, and I'd put in a word for the 4th symphony too; although after those three works, and perhaps a tiny handful of others, I really find him hard going. Any further recommendations, anyone?
Most certainly: Symphony no.3 Toccata e due canzoniConcerto for violin, piano and orchestra Piano Concerto no.4 Double Concerto for two string orchestras Julietta, I don't know much about his other operas though The Epic of Gilgamesh
Memorial to LidiceFor the rest, there are masses of pieces which I cherish for just one or two arresting moments (eg. the end of the slow movement of the Sinfonietta La Jolla). the BIS set conducted by Neeme Järvi, which I'm sure I've read somewhere is being reissued at budget price by Brilliant.
Yes it is, and to my mind it was worth full price, so there's no excuse for not having the reissue. |
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« Reply #3275 on: 22:17:01, 16-08-2008 » |
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(the end of the slow movement of the Sinfonietta La Jolla) Oh, yes: that's a lovely piece, Richard! The first movement is also very good. The slow movement reminds me a bit of the slow movement from Ives's Fourth Symphony. Now isn't that odd? |
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« Reply #3276 on: 22:18:26, 16-08-2008 » |
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Yes, martle: there is an awful lot of it, and some is of a lesser quality, but if you don't know the Double Concerto For Two String Orchestras and Timpani, that's worth a try, as is the Field Mass, and The Epic of Gilgamesh. I'm a fan of the operas I know well - Julietta and The Greek Passion, though I'm aware there's a whole slew of his works I have yet to hear. I'm not a huge fan of the Järvi symphonies: they're competent enough, but to me his sixth compared to the première recording by the Boston under Charles Münch is a little like a Jansons DSCH compared to a Kondrashin, Rozhdestvensky or Mravinsky, just skating the surface.
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« Reply #3277 on: 22:20:55, 16-08-2008 » |
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Is anyone else listening to the "music" of the wind turbines? Fascinating programme on R3 at the moment with all the different sounds of the windmills.
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« Reply #3278 on: 22:29:01, 16-08-2008 » |
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Julietta is a particular favourite of mine. Charles Mackerras conducted some superb performances with the ENO in the late '70s. I have a recording form Radio 3 FM of one such performance, though it was not taped under ideal circumstances. Opera North did it a few years ago, too. I was not so taken with the broadcast of that production, but it was still very much worth hearing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucfEVtD8kzc |
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« Reply #3279 on: 22:34:12, 16-08-2008 » |
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a little like a Jansons DSCH compared to a Kondrashin, Rozhdestvensky or Mravinsky  However, to someone like me who doesn't hear Jansons' Shostakovich in exactly that way, it is the most convincing of the complete sets, the ones that I've heard anyway, though that doesn't include one that came out a few months ago on Supraphon conducted by Vladimir Válek (whoever he may be), strangely, given that Bělohlávek and the Czech Philharmonic seem to have got no further in their cycle on that same label than a single disc of nos. 3 & 4 (which is excellent, as you'd expect). I was brought up on Ančerl's no.6 and don'te xpect to hear anyone else do it with that degree of intensity. |
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« Reply #3280 on: 22:43:50, 16-08-2008 » |
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I've just dug out a copy of the Double Concerto which is coupled with a suite from the ballet Špalíček, which is probably too buffo-rustic mode for Richard, but has oodles of charm and the faintest whiff of Petrushka and Pulcinella about it (Mackerras/Brno State Phil, Conifer CDCDF 202; like most Conifers, long out of print..... however....) |
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« Reply #3281 on: 22:54:07, 16-08-2008 » |
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Probably a good point to revisit this Youtube link of Martinů's Fantasie for theremin, oboe, string quartet and piano, taken from this dvd . I keep meaning to add this to my dvd rental list, so this has prompted me to do so. |
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« Reply #3282 on: 18:59:25, 18-08-2008 » |
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Just bought the old Decca Solti recording of Verdi's Aida and Tullio Serafin's Puccini La Boheme. Fantastic recordings. £7 apiece.
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« Reply #3283 on: 19:01:14, 18-08-2008 » |
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Just bought the old Decca Solti recording of Verdi's Aida and Tullio Serafin's Puccini La Boheme. Fantastic recordings. £7 apiece.
Is that the Aida with Leontyne Price? That recording of La Bohème was the very first CD I bought, and has a fabulous cast; a favourite listen. |
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« Reply #3284 on: 19:07:30, 18-08-2008 » |
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Just bought the old Decca Solti recording of Verdi's Aida and Tullio Serafin's Puccini La Boheme. Fantastic recordings. £7 apiece.
Is that the Aida with Leontyne Price? That recording of La Bohème was the very first CD I bought, and has a fabulous cast; a favourite listen. Indeed it is, IGI. Just approaching the final scene!! Great music making. What a cast as you say. Have to play the Puccini tomorrow methinks. |
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