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I had a phase where i was really into Tangerine Dream -i dont really know how to describe their music - but listening reminds me of some style of classical music - minimalist maybe - best album to recommend imo is Rubycon but all their albums good - not too sure about the connection to Xenakis though  |
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« Reply #3631 on: 22:58:07, 15-09-2008 » |
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NS: Poulenc, Sonata for Flute and Piano. Haven't heard this for a long time, and was a bit thrown by what for a moment sounded like 'Glitter and Be Gay' at around 1'00" into the first movement!
Poulenc spinning here too: the Sonata for Oboe and Piano - from the Nash Ensemble box. Gorgeous. (I've heard one or two too many creditable shots at the Flute Sonata by over-earnest Grade 8 students at school concerts in the last few years. Must revisit it properly in a proper performance). |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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I'd stick with the Oboe Sonata, PW. Of the three, IMO it's easily the best. Why the other two are done so much to death I have no idea!
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« Reply #3633 on: 23:06:32, 15-09-2008 » |
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Working my way through Prokofiev Piano Sonatas.  It's a wonderful journey. Currently at number eight. Dimitriew was quite young when he made these recordings, and I confess he's not otherwise known to me, but then neither were the pieces themselves. I guess one might sometimes wish for a slightly weightier imterpretation in one or two places, but overall it's a lively and inspiring account. The pianists amongst you may have your own preferences, but I've no complaints with this set. |
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« Reply #3634 on: 23:08:52, 15-09-2008 » |
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I'd stick with the Oboe Sonata, PW. Of the three, IMO it's easily the best. Why the other two are done so much to death I have no idea!
I think that if there were as many oboists floating around as there are flautists and clarinettists you'd hear it as much. The oboe sonata's really rather moving. Would I feel the same way if I'd heard it as many times as the flute sonata? (and by the way the clarinet sonata's a lot of fun to play... that could have something to do with it) |
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« Reply #3635 on: 23:12:35, 15-09-2008 » |
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I'd stick with the Oboe Sonata, PW. Of the three, IMO it's easily the best. Why the other two are done so much to death I have no idea!
The first movement of the Flute Sonata is, I believe, a set piece at Grade 8, which may account for its ubiquity. |
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(and by the way the clarinet sonata's a lot of fun to play... that could have something to do with it)
An ex-oboist writes: So's the oboe sonata! But you're probably right about all that. |
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« Reply #3637 on: 23:15:08, 15-09-2008 » |
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I'd stick with the Oboe Sonata, PW. Of the three, IMO it's easily the best. Why the other two are done so much to death I have no idea!
I quite agree that the oboe sonata's the best. But alas the clarinet ones are the only ones I can play! Although I might try it on clarinet in C one day. Worked for Coloratura... |
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« Reply #3638 on: 23:15:23, 15-09-2008 » |
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I'd stick with the Oboe Sonata, PW. Of the three, IMO it's easily the best. Why the other two are done so much to death I have no idea!
The first movement of the Flute Sonata is, I believe, a set piece at Grade 8, which may account for its ubiquity. As is the first movement of the Clarinet Sonata (Grade VIII), whilst the second movement Romanza is Grade VII. |
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« Reply #3639 on: 23:17:50, 15-09-2008 » |
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« Reply #3640 on: 23:41:23, 15-09-2008 » |
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I'd stick with the Oboe Sonata, PW. Of the three, IMO it's easily the best. Why the other two are done so much to death I have no idea!
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« Reply #3642 on: 02:23:41, 16-09-2008 » |
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Re Poulenc, I like the Flute Sonata, but I hate it too. It's a weird combination of difficult yet easy that I don't think suits the flute. Does that make any sense? And it's of course played FAR too often. And the first theme is too square, especially for Poulenc, who I know isn't incorrigibly wired to be so glib.
What I really detest is the more trivial solo+piano pieces by Darius Milhaud. What a senseless waste of talent and ink those are.
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What I really detest is the more trivial solo+piano pieces by Darius Milhaud. What a senseless waste of talent and ink those are.
Ah, now here's where I'll stick up for the clarinet one - that Sonatine is a very fine thing indeed. Although it's not so much a Sonatine for clarinet and piano as a collection of extremely crunchy piano harmonies with diatonic clarinet accompaniment. |
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« Reply #3644 on: 09:43:58, 16-09-2008 » |
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A little behind the curve here, but NS: Previn RVW. I've listened to 1 and 2, and have listened to the first movement of 3. All I can really say is thanks to Ollie, Ron and IGI (from the other thread) on whose authority this set comes highly recommended. I had always been one of those who had written of RVW, on the basis that the 'English-pastoral'-ness always sounded rather dishonest, rather naive, and frankly not very interesting. I think I mentioned in the other thread that I wasn't very familiar with these works, and was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt (I was only really familiar with the Haitink recordings on any intimate level). Previn and LSO seem to understand implicitly the subtleties in this music (and I'd hitherto been unaware that there were any...). It's a humbling experience when music that you had previously written off is revealed to you as a masterpiece, and seems to me to be a tremendous gift. Thank you.  I still don't like the Sea Symphony, though. I'd need to listen again before formulating it in any kind of objective (or even subjective) way, but I just don't like it.  |
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