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I've been listening to the Sawallisch Meistersinger, as we are travelling in Bavaria, and I am amazed to find it exciting, beautiful and wonderful, even without following the words. Bit of Germanic heaviness, I suppose, but hey swings and roundabouts. I remember once agreeing with Robin Holloway that it was the opera Brahms never wrote (not that that would commend it to everyone, of course ...). That reminds me of Chris Dench facetiously declaring that his favourite Verdi opera was Der fliegende Holländer... NS: Biber Violin Sonatas of 1681, performed by Andrew Manze and Romanesca. Unfortunately not so sublimely recorded as his Rosary sonatas set, but I just love his Biber. |
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It quotes (or 'seems to recall') Brahms Op. 5 at one point (I read).
Now spinning- Brahms' 3rd Piano Sonata!
Misreading of the day:- Swallisch Meistersinger with Emma Kirkby
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« Reply #3467 on: 15:59:46, 06-09-2008 » |
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I'm listening to a load of random stuff from ubuweb. So far I've had some Meredith Monk, Robert Ashley, Walter Zimmermannn, Laurie Anderson, Alvin Lucier, Ezra Pound and Adolf Wölfli. |
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« Reply #3468 on: 16:22:09, 06-09-2008 » |
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A rainy day in South Wales, the Romantic in me comes to the fore, spurred on by the Are You Up for It? So at the mo it is breathy Marilyn Monroe.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #3469 on: 16:49:17, 06-09-2008 » |
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Listening to the voice of Ezra Pound intoning Canto XVII. This is a canto that I (and a few others) recited one sunny afternoon last summer in my garden under the shadow of the Jerusalem artichokes. We did not read it like this... And I think I'm quite glad that there is no prescription as to pitching and rhythm provided in the text because this is entirely at odds with those imagined sonic facets that attract me to his work.
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« Reply #3470 on: 20:05:18, 06-09-2008 » |
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Novak - The Storm.
Again.
It really is an exceptionally fine piece.
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« Reply #3471 on: 20:24:13, 06-09-2008 » |
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I've spent most of today listening to music, most recently Stanford's First Symphony - great stuff!
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Best regards,
Jonathan
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #3472 on: 02:30:48, 07-09-2008 » |
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Listening to the voice of Ezra Pound intoning Canto XVII. This is a canto that I (and a few others) recited one sunny afternoon last summer in my garden under the shadow of the Jerusalem artichokes. We did not read it like this... And I think I'm quite glad that there is no prescription as to pitching and rhythm provided in the text because this is entirely at odds with those imagined sonic facets that attract me to his work.
Where does one obtain this recording? I'd be interested to find out whether Pound recites his own poetry in anything like the way my internal ear hears it. |
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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 #3473 on: 02:36:12, 07-09-2008 » |
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« Reply #3475 on: 14:25:49, 07-09-2008 » |
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I am sitting in a room
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« Reply #3476 on: 14:41:39, 07-09-2008 » |
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I am sitting in a room
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« Reply #3477 on: 15:09:27, 07-09-2008 » |
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It didn't make the room spin, no!
Actually the room in which Alvin Lucier was sitting could have been spinning for all I know.
I'll be interested to make a recording of that piece. Perhaps it could be a document to represent every flat I have in Edinburgh over the next few years!
Now I'm listening to Feldman's For Bunita Marcos played by John Tilbury.
It occurs to me that this isn't exactly that to which I want to be listening right now, but since I haven't written the piece I want to hear, I'll settle for this.
I feel like I have a need for music to quiet the mind today. I can feel another headache on its way.
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« Reply #3478 on: 15:21:36, 07-09-2008 » |
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Oh I had forgotten just how beautiful this is...
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« Reply #3479 on: 15:48:15, 07-09-2008 » |
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tin, you can find a lot on youtube I just looked.Hear the poet reading his poem the way he meant it to be heard by clicking here. The pain and agony in his voice ring true; usury is such a curse that no man should be unmoved at hearing this poem. Why must you sinners reject the Law of your Maker, YHWH? Bank loans are death. Lending at interest, even if only 1%, is death. Obey YHWH and live!  |
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