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« Reply #4080 on: 01:08:52, 12-11-2008 » |
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This arrived today:  These are pieces for harp, violin, viola da gamba and theorbo (this is Lawes' specified instrumentation and each instrument has a written-out part, though skeletal in the case of the theorbo part which Lawes would have played himself). As always with Lawes' instrumental music: labyrinthine, melancholy, completely captivating. |
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Robert Dahm
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« Reply #4081 on: 01:16:53, 12-11-2008 » |
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Ooooh! I love that disc!
This was my first introduction to these pieces.
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« Reply #4082 on: 01:25:27, 12-11-2008 » |
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As always with Lawes' instrumental music: labyrinthine, melancholy, completely captivating.
The only Lawes I have is this:  I must listen to it again some time. I'm not quite sure where it is, owing to the complete incoherence of my system for cataloguing my Baroque and early music CDs. |
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« Reply #4083 on: 01:44:05, 12-11-2008 » |
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I find the Phantasm recordings of Lawes a bit ordinary in comparison with Hesperion XXI. This  is one of the most-often played CDs I have. |
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« Reply #4084 on: 08:47:07, 12-11-2008 » |
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Arghh! STOP IT!
My credit card is halfway out of my wallet before I even have a chance to think about it!
Can someone talk about some boring music that I don't want to buy, for a change please?
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« Reply #4085 on: 14:00:56, 12-11-2008 » |
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Having an Elgar session right now.
Sea Pictures(Janet Baker, LSO, Barbirolli); Symphony No.2(Halle Orchestra/Barbirolli); Piano Quintet in A minor(John Ogdon, Allegri Quintet); St Qt in E minor(Music Group of London).
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« Reply #4086 on: 14:19:04, 12-11-2008 » |
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More Liszt, I think today - yesterday it was vol.3 of the Chandos Symphonic Poems with Noseada (excellent) and Joo with other orchestral works followed by the complete works for violin and piano.
Maybe piano solo today? Ciccolini's box set methinks!
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« Reply #4087 on: 14:20:00, 12-11-2008 » |
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Arghh! STOP IT!
My credit card is halfway out of my wallet before I even have a chance to think about it!
Can someone talk about some boring music that I don't want to buy, for a change please?
By all means. Someone once told me I'd like Jean-Luc Ponty so I bought a CD. They were wrong. If anyone wants it they're welcome to it!  |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #4088 on: 14:55:45, 12-11-2008 » |
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Maybe we should start a "Don't Buy This" thread.  NS: Gesualdo, Quinto libro with La Venexiana. I believe hh already has a copy of it. |
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« Reply #4089 on: 14:59:58, 12-11-2008 » |
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Which Ponty CD would that be then. I get on with his King Kong disc (Zappa), but that's about it, really. I do have a Ponty/Grappelli CD somewhere, but that was quite a disappointment.
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« Reply #4090 on: 16:14:17, 12-11-2008 » |
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I think the only Jean-Luc Ponty recording I have is this:  |
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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 #4091 on: 16:22:40, 12-11-2008 » |
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Which Ponty CD would that be then. I get on with his King Kong disc (Zappa), but that's about it, really. I do have a Ponty/Grappelli CD somewhere, but that was quite a disappointment.
It's Cosmic Messenger. I might tolerate it if it was playing in a gift shop that sold dragons and incense, during the 70s, with ear muffs on, but it really is cheese from hell. Sometimes I think it can't possibly be that bad and put it on again, only to turn it off within three and a half seconds. Ponty/ Grappelli sounds interesing. Well, the Grappelli bit.  |
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« Reply #4092 on: 16:28:57, 12-11-2008 » |
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Maybe we should start a "Don't Buy This" thread. Your apparent implication that such a thread might be inaugurated with the example that you cite here may suggest that there could be a case for a "Don't Even Accept This As A Gift" sub-thread... |
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« Reply #4093 on: 16:36:21, 12-11-2008 » |
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Can someone talk about some boring music that I don't want to buy, for a change please?
Having an Elgar session right now.
Was this intended as a response?  Poor Edward! |
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« Reply #4094 on: 20:18:03, 12-11-2008 » |
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. . . meanwhile, back at the thread . . .
2 CDs of orchestral works by Fartein Valen. 6 pieces each lasting less than 8 minutes, plus 3 symphonies and a violin concerto. Lots of understated dissonant counterpoint, exquisitely scored, consistent and individual. Not sure yet whether there's a huge variety of music there, but it's intriguing stuff especially the 1st + 3rd symphonies.
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