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« Reply #4050 on: 19:49:42, 09-11-2008 »
Handel, Ariodante
Lorraine Hunt
Juliana Gondek
Lisa Saffer
Jennifer Lane
Nicolas Cavallier
Rufus Müller
Jörn Lindemann
Wilhemshavener Vokalensemble
Freiburger Barockorchester
Nicholas McGegan

[edit] This time I'm listening to it the right way round. Yesterday I listened to the acts in the order that I found them in the box: 3, 2, 1. I didn't notice until I got to the end and thought 'that sounds a bit odd for an ending'. I have heard it before as well... [/edit]
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« Reply #4051 on: 20:57:58, 09-11-2008 »
In preparation for my visit to the ENO this week



Lovely stuff, but not much sense of characters or dramatic situation.

It was Jonathan Keates BAL recommendation some ten years ago, when he looked at ALL Handel operas, IIANM.*  Can't see that happening nowadays.


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« Reply #4052 on: 21:02:01, 09-11-2008 »
Barbara Benary (b.1946) - a CD entitled Sun on snow after one of the pieces, although Aural Shoehorning is a rather more interesting piece. Downtown New York meets Javanese gamelan - she was a founder member of the New York gamelan group Son of Lion ("Benary" is Hebrew for "Son of Lion") and Aural Shoehorning features contradictory tuning systems, amongst other things.
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« Reply #4053 on: 13:52:57, 10-11-2008 »


which I just intercepted from Errol, our most excellent postman (intercepted since the package was address c/o a neighbour).

I have skipped Oiseaux exotiques and gone straight into the Catalogue d'oiseaux (RSJ).
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« Reply #4054 on: 14:00:13, 10-11-2008 »


Respect.
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« Reply #4055 on: 14:08:47, 10-11-2008 »
Jurg Frey - Klaviermusik 1978-2001

Slow, quiet, sparse, middle register, tonal. There are some pieces which would (more or less) fit that description which I would enjoy. These, however, seem very dull, pointless even. Anyone care to tell me what I'm missing?

(The performer, incidentally, is John McAlpine whom I regard as a first-rate pianist)
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« Reply #4056 on: 14:43:14, 10-11-2008 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 14:00:13, 10-11-2008
Respect.

Would it be awfully rude of me to ask whether perhaps a tiny bit more detail might be politely requested?
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« Reply #4057 on: 14:52:45, 10-11-2008 »
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Respect.
Would it be awfully rude of me to ask whether perhaps a tiny bit more detail might be politely requested?
How DARE you, Sir!

Oh, all right.

I think it's fair to say that when putting on a recording of a piece for seven pianos one might feel entitled to expect certain sonorities to be explored. And that when listening to a piece by Mathias Spahlinger one might feel entitled to expect a certain amount of audacity in certain matters, coupled with a certain seriousness of purpose.

I can only say that this piece Does What It Says On The Tin*. Very compellingly. For three quarters of an hour. What is not there, though: any kind of preparation, retuning or electronics. But there is (of course?) a lovely section where everyone just plays one note (C# or perhaps it's Db just below the bass stave) for almost too long (until all you really hear is the fifth and seventh partials). It's hard not to cheer when they finally get off it!

*Or if you prefer: drin steckt, was drauf steht.
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« Reply #4058 on: 15:04:05, 10-11-2008 »
Summer from Viv's 4 seasons.  Regularly interrupted by "Thank you for continuing to hold - an agent will be with you shortly."  Yeah right.  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #4059 on: 16:52:10, 10-11-2008 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 14:52:45, 10-11-2008

I can only say that this piece Does What It Says On The Tin*. Very compellingly. For three quarters of an hour. What is not there, though: any kind of preparation, retuning or electronics. But there is (of course?) a lovely section where everyone just plays one note (C# or perhaps it's Db just below the bass stave) for almost too long (until all you really hear is the fifth and seventh partials). It's hard not to cheer when they finally get off it!
Yes, it's pretty much all notated as D-flat.

There's also an homage to t.m. and an homage to f.c. and a passage that's to be played "wie ein mann" -- those are the only things in the piece that REALLY don't remind me of Spahlinger.
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« Reply #4060 on: 19:48:47, 10-11-2008 »
Quote from: Turfan Fragment on 16:52:10, 10-11-2008
Quote from: oliver sudden on 14:52:45, 10-11-2008

I can only say that this piece Does What It Says On The Tin*. Very compellingly. For three quarters of an hour. What is not there, though: any kind of preparation, retuning or electronics. But there is (of course?) a lovely section where everyone just plays one note (C# or perhaps it's Db just below the bass stave) for almost too long (until all you really hear is the fifth and seventh partials). It's hard not to cheer when they finally get off it!
Yes, it's pretty much all notated as D-flat.

There's also an homage to t.m. and an homage to f.c. and a passage that's to be played "wie ein mann" -- those are the only things in the piece that REALLY don't remind me of Spahlinger.

Lovely CD. Lovely piece. Wish I had the time and space and brain to listen to it more than I have already.

Now spinning here are some Bach cantatas. BWV 80-2 to be precise.
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« Reply #4061 on: 23:53:09, 10-11-2008 »
Quote from: Stanley Stewart on 17:49:00, 06-08-2008
After a few hours of gardening and a sudden downpour of rain, I'm now spinning Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony from Claudio Abbado's, Berliner Philharmoniker, 5 CD set of The Symphonies, Nos 1-8, apparently their first release on CD.  Previously released on DVD, they were recorded live in Rome, in 2001.    Sym No 9 has been retained and re-edited from the older Berlin set and includes the Swedish Radio Choir and soloists, Karita Mattila, Violeta Urmana, Thomas Moser and Thomas Quasthoff - I recall reading reviews which considered this to be the crowning achievement of one of the most involving cycles of the modern era.

Abbado writes in the liner notes:   "There are many reasons for releasing this new edition, above all musical ones.   After many performances of the cycle, our interpretative vision had matured, becoming more natural and shared.  The concerts in Rome marked significant advances in terms of style, spirit and technique."    This new cycle replaces his Berlin set issued by DG in 2000 - now no longer available.

I see that this set is being offered free as the bait for subscribing to the BBC Music Magazine. Tempting.
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« Reply #4062 on: 00:30:14, 11-11-2008 »
Quote from: Il Grande Inquisitor on 23:53:09, 10-11-2008
Quote from: Stanley Stewart on 17:49:00, 06-08-2008
After a few hours of gardening and a sudden downpour of rain, I'm now spinning Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony from Claudio Abbado's, Berliner Philharmoniker, 5 CD set of The Symphonies, Nos 1-8, apparently their first release on CD.  Previously released on DVD, they were recorded live in Rome, in 2001.    Sym No 9 has been retained and re-edited from the older Berlin set and includes the Swedish Radio Choir and soloists, Karita Mattila, Violeta Urmana, Thomas Moser and Thomas Quasthoff - I recall reading reviews which considered this to be the crowning achievement of one of the most involving cycles of the modern era.

Abbado writes in the liner notes:   "There are many reasons for releasing this new edition, above all musical ones.   After many performances of the cycle, our interpretative vision had matured, becoming more natural and shared.  The concerts in Rome marked significant advances in terms of style, spirit and technique."    This new cycle replaces his Berlin set issued by DG in 2000 - now no longer available.

I see that this set is being offered free as the bait for subscribing to the BBC Music Magazine. Tempting.

Is this the burgundy set (as opposed to the blue)? I have the blue one, which I would describe as 'okay'. Pristine playing, of course, but not necessarily all that involved or involving. That said, I'm finding the modern orchestral sound increasingly to be a barrier to enjoyment of Beethoven - so much so that right now I feel a little bit burned out on these nine pieces.
When I feel a bit more receptive to the Beet symphs, and have a bit more money (see below), I think I shall be in the market for a decent HIP cycle.

Payday came, and I had rather a spree. Some of it is winging it's way towards me from Amazon (such as the Tavola Cromatica disc, Biber's Arminio, the Liget Project box, and Jack Gibbons playing Alkan), but also bought MAK's box of Bach Brandenburgs, Orchestral suites and chamber music (amazing), Diabolus in Musica doing Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame and the new Hervé Nicquet/Concert Spirituel Proserpine of Lully, and the Beethoven piano concerti 3+6 performed by Arthur Schoonderwoerd (also pretty amazing). All of these to be spun in the coming days.

But now spinning:


(Well, two discs in, anyhow).

This is fantastic playing, and is almost perfectly suited to being
Quote from: Evan Johnson on 19:48:10, 05-11-2008
a straightforward down-the-middle sort of set that gets periodically supplemented by more idiosyncratic recordings of individual sonatas (both interpretationally and instrumentally).
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« Reply #4063 on: 00:45:15, 11-11-2008 »
Gosh, that's quite a haul, Robert! Happy listening.

I have the double disc of MAK's Brandenburgs, which are hugely entertaining. The Schoonderwoerd disc always appears to be out of stock at HMV (still the best price here) so I keep putting off the purchase, but I love the first disc of Nos.3 and 4, so this shall surely follow.

We're rather spoilt with HIP Beethoven cycles, IMO; Norrington and the LCP is a firm favourite, but Immerseel's cycle with Anima Eterna has made quite an impression on me. What I find fascinating about Abbado is the way he's been influenced by the HIP movement.  
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« Reply #4064 on: 01:12:58, 11-11-2008 »
NS: an album of Children's Music by a group called "Music Together"

These people are enormously clever, Okazaki Fragment eats it up!
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