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« Reply #330 on: 23:32:53, 14-04-2007 » |
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Not entirely unconnected therewith, now spinning here is a recent issue to the small discography of songs by Gilles Binchois:  Some (one at least to my knowledge) of you might have heard this group's previous CD in which they wail and groan their way through a mass by Ockeghem and thought that's quite enough thank you, but this new one has no shouting, although the principle of quite individualised voices is retained (and there are some rather weird vocal/instrumental textures). Maybe I'll bring it along with me to Cologne if I happen to be passing. |
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« Reply #331 on: 23:33:39, 14-04-2007 » |
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Does this mean you've got your computer up and running again, r? And are you feeling better?
Shostakovich 4: Leipzig/Kegel (live, 1969) at the moment...
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« Reply #332 on: 23:34:27, 14-04-2007 » |
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Doh! Now look here, Sudden. Just when I was beginning to get within hailing distance of the end of my 'R3OK-recommended must-have' list.....  . One of which, now spinning (actually I find I have to force myself to say 'now spinning': that one just then was a first).... Rebel: Les Elemens, Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel. Bonkers and wonderful. |
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« Reply #333 on: 23:36:38, 14-04-2007 » |
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Does this mean you've got your computer up and running again, r? And are you feeling better?
Yes thanks very much, Ron, although the computer repair was hideously expensive, which in itself almost brought me out in hives. |
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« Reply #334 on: 10:50:28, 15-04-2007 » |
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Bonkers and wonderful.
Ah, well, speaking of which:   Sorry, couldn't find a better pic of the one on the right but that's Forqueray/Meyerson as well. Wonderfully intoxicating evocations of the hypertrophied French fin de baroque. Here is a pic of Ms Meyerson. Don't let it either deter or encourage you.  I should also have mentioned for the sake of pure fairness that I first came across the Frescobaldi, Tavola Cromatica and Pescodd Time discs in the pages and on the cover CD of the French CD mag Diapason. (I then had the pleasure of reviewing at least two of them for the readers of IRR.) Diapason is another of my long-term plugs here but only because it has been for me the source of so much that is wonderful.  |
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« Reply #335 on: 11:30:52, 15-04-2007 » |
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That shows just how good I am at 'close reading' and forensic textual analysis in the French style  It was this bit about the Handel that I had marked up as having its natural home in Diapason or IRR above the Sudden signature. "This means the orchestra has to play very small major thirds to fit with the harmonic series of the brass. The oboes are built strictly from a Stanesby model, without a double hole for the right hand first finger, which means the F# fingered thus is as low as the F# from the trumpets and horns. And having assembled the most historically accurate instruments they could, they make music with their possibilities rather than bending the instruments to fit their preconceptions." I bowed the knee in admiration (well, let's be honest, envy actually) at how much content that last sentence packed into so few words and with such elegantly balanced phrase lengths too. I would doff the cap as well if I weren't so worried about falling over and spoiling the effect. Anyway, it's now on the list which has just expanded again. |
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« Reply #336 on: 12:13:59, 15-04-2007 » |
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 Why thank you, sir. Oddly enough the Handel isn't one I did for IRR... indeed oddly enough it's also one I didn't discover in Diapason but at the home of an Australian Baroque oboist who played it to me to demonstrate how horribly out of tune it was. Au contraire, I found myself thinking. "...whereupon he sent word that her ears were out of tune" will of course be the words springing to the lips of all Tye fans out there.
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« Reply #337 on: 12:19:55, 15-04-2007 » |
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Not technically 'spinning' but I don't know if we have a 'now on the wireless' thread as such ... Anyway, just noticed that the performance of Sib 5 about to be used in Private Passions is Celibidache's deleted and extremely hard-to-track-down reading, which is absolutely fantastic and the most exciting performance I've ever heard.
Do tune in, anyone reading this!
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« Reply #338 on: 12:55:31, 15-04-2007 » |
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Thank you time_is_now. I caught your post in time to tume in. The performance of Sibelius is close to the end now. It is absolutely astonishing. Why they deleted this and from where?
Thank you for your post (and other interesting posts).
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« Reply #339 on: 17:16:39, 15-04-2007 » |
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t_i_n, I read your post JUST in time to hear it. (Shame it was only the last movement.) I had thought that I couldn't ever be more excited by that work than I habitually am every time I hear it; but that performance was something else! The sheer restrainst of the last 5 minutes - I mean in terms of holding back tempi, judging the extent and nature of rallentandi etc. - was astonishing. And the clarity of textures! Wow. Thanks for the heads-up! Will try to get hold of it - is it so hard to find?
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« Reply #340 on: 18:24:27, 15-04-2007 » |
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Incredibly so, m! I finally tracked down a copy last year on a deleted 4-disc DG 'Celibidache Collection' from Berkshire Record Outlet, but have never seen that set, never mind a more affordable single-disc issue, listed anywhere else.
On the other hand, I am seeing you on Thursday, aren't I ...
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« Reply #341 on: 18:27:54, 15-04-2007 » |
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You would earn my undying gratitude, plus a packet of Walkers (any flavour!), t_i_n. |
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« Reply #342 on: 18:33:44, 15-04-2007 » |
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Ollie, that Handel was recommended to me 3 or 4 years ago by a microtonal composer friend (if you see what I mean!) who'd heard it in a shop and been extremely impressed by how the strings were actually making the effort to fit in with the wonderful weirdnesses of the wind tuning. Agree with George about your perfect sentence! Also love this: "... whereupon he sent word that her ears were out of tune" which reminds me of something I read last night - August Kleinzahler suggesting that the following, from Fulke Greville, could be reapplied to Thom Gunn: 'For my own part I found my creeping genius more fixed upon the images of life, than the images of wit, and therefore chose not to write to them on whose foot the black ox had not already trod, as the proverb is, but to those only that are weather-beaten in the sea of this world, such as having lost the sight of their gardens and groves, study to sail on a right course among rocks and quicksands.' |
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« Reply #343 on: 18:36:55, 15-04-2007 » |
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