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NS:  Ordered this blind based on the recommendations upthread (where it was disguised as Ockeghem's Requiem). Quite a revelation. I don't know much pre-Josquin music beyond wot I did in University (which did cover Machaut of course), but I've never any of it sound like this. No kidding. Get their Ockeghem Requiem too if you don't have it, and their "Chant Corse" record for fun. I haven't yet heard their various pre-Gregorian chant recordings on HM "musique d'abord" but I intend to rectify that shortly. I am quickly becoming rather obsessed with Monsieur Peres and his ensemble. |
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« Reply #3826 on: 15:02:00, 10-10-2008 » |
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I have the Ock Req already (again on a recommendation from this board - rb describing at his "favourite thing ever" or some such seemed like a good tip). That is a wonderful thing and knocks the previous recording I had (Edward Wickham/The Clerk's Group) into a cocked hat. That Chant Corse record sounds worth pursuing.
Opi - I don't remember PhW mentioning Ensemble Organum to me: all my Early Music tuition came from PWr.
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« Reply #3827 on: 18:29:58, 10-10-2008 » |
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NS here:  which is pretty amazing, not least the Walstein and Appassionata. Seems like I'll be getting more of this series, which I know others here have been enthusing about. Absolutely!  |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #3828 on: 22:38:37, 10-10-2008 » |
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I've been spinning lots of Monteverdi today.
Fourth book of madrigals while at work, and then the Vespers tonight.
I've also got two acts into watching Orfeo but then had to have a lie down.
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« Reply #3829 on: 23:51:04, 10-10-2008 » |
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Just finished spinning...  ...and I'm still reeling. This is what SACD was invented for! There's a review in this very thorough survey of Aho's work here. It was composed to be performed at the foot of the mountain by an orchestra (the Lahti in this case) and a chamber orchestra behind the audience, halfway up the mountain and other performers, including brass, percussion and saxophones spread around the aural picture. |
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« Reply #3830 on: 20:36:04, 11-10-2008 » |
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Corde by the Swedish composer Kent Olofsson (b. 1962), a new CD on Phono Suecia. This is a sort of guitar concerto, although the soloist (the brilliant Stefan Östersjö) plays charango, MIDI guitar, 11-string alto guitar, banjo and a "glissentar" (a kind of electric oud manufactured by the innovative electric guitar maker Godin). The piece never really settles down stylistically through the course of its 32 minutes or so, and the soloist's constant changing of instruments doesn't help in this regard. The way the virtuoso solo part interacts with its (often a bit generic-new-music) orchestral "environment" is often strikingly beautiful and quite original though.
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 NS Davidsbündlertänze from the above. I don't think music gets more honest than this. This is a brilliant performance of it. |
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« Reply #3832 on: 02:12:59, 12-10-2008 » |
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I don't think music gets more honest than this.
Robert Schumann would be pleased at your assessment; in a letter to Clara he writes: " Davidsbündlertänze is to Carnaval as a face is to a mask." |
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« Reply #3833 on: 17:54:42, 12-10-2008 » |
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Monteverdi, Piangn' e sospira from the 4th book of madrigals.
I've got the recording of Concerto Italiano singing these and this one in particular is just amazingly wonderful and gorgeous.
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« Reply #3834 on: 18:20:47, 12-10-2008 » |
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 Apparently the first Soviet recordings of these works. So far, The Rite is very impressive. |
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« Reply #3835 on: 18:33:07, 12-10-2008 » |
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Various recordings from the Pianothon (in Manchester) including my own performance...
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« Reply #3836 on: 20:30:55, 12-10-2008 » |
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Various recordings from the Pianothon (in Manchester) including my own performance...
Ooh. Is this the recording available from Radio 3's front page? If so, I'll have to have a look at that later. I'm currently spinning a disc of Earle Brown's music that I found here. I like some of this, and would like to hear more. Any suggestions as to where I look next? |
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« Reply #3837 on: 20:55:49, 12-10-2008 » |
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« Reply #3838 on: 21:01:25, 12-10-2008 » |
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Oh! I'd forgotten about that. [doh!]
I may even have it somewhere around here...
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Various recordings from the Pianothon (in Manchester) including my own performance...
Ooh. Is this the recording available from Radio 3's front page? If so, I'll have to have a look at that later. Indeed it is hh, just follow the links for Pianothon and it's easily found - happy listening! |
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