dave2010
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« Reply #525 on: 12:38:39, 17-05-2007 » |
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Beethoven - Symphony 8. Blomstedt+Dresden Staatskapelle, Brilliant
Listening out of curiosity to see if it's any good, and the recording is as bad as someone elsewhere has reported. It's really not bad for a large scale performance, and the recording is acceptable.
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Bryn
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« Reply #527 on: 23:16:57, 17-05-2007 » |
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Blimey, this variation 31 gives a new meaning to "idiosyncratic", but I like it!
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Bryn
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« Reply #528 on: 23:08:22, 21-05-2007 » |
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 It uses the same instrument as for the Nancarrow studies on MDG. |
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« Reply #529 on: 19:06:31, 23-05-2007 » |
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Something I just bought:  A mix of original pieces for harp and other music transcribed for harp. The harpist is Sarah Hill (I'm afraid I've never heard of her). Not something I would normally look for, but it caught my eye and was cheap. It's... er... nice... I think I need more concentration to really appreciate the music. I love the sound of the harp but it's too "soft" for me to listen to a whole hour of without my attention wandering  |
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Allegro, ma non tanto
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #530 on: 21:06:07, 23-05-2007 » |
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I bought the 20th Anniversary Box from Naxos last weekend. I'd got a couple of them already but six CDs for £14.95 from HMV still seemed a very good buy. I'm currently listening to  The Chichester Psalms are very good. On the Waterfront and On the Town are OK but I prefer the versions I've got conducted by Bernstein and Previn respectively. |
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martle
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« Reply #531 on: 21:44:15, 23-05-2007 » |
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Tony
That's a good recommendation - thanks. On the Waterfront is one of my favourite film scores (and one of LB's best pieces of work, I reckon).
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Green. Always green.
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martle
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« Reply #532 on: 22:23:54, 23-05-2007 » |
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Whoopee! Right, credit card out...
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Green. Always green.
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Bryn
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« Reply #533 on: 01:28:53, 25-05-2007 » |
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Whoopee! Right, credit card out...
HMV online seem to be offering a good deal on Punch and Judy. |
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Bryn
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« Reply #534 on: 01:43:16, 25-05-2007 » |
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Passacaglia for Cello by Nikolai Korndorf (mp3). There's a downloadable mp3 of his Hymn I, "Sempre tutti" too, but it's very hissy. The BBC have the original in their archive (hopefully). It would be good to hear a rebroadcast of that.
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« Reply #535 on: 05:49:02, 25-05-2007 » |
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Ah, Korndorf. Any good, Bryn ?
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Bryn
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« Reply #536 on: 07:09:16, 25-05-2007 » |
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I rather like the noise his music makes, autoharp. I was taken with it when I first heard the 'Sempre tutti' at the time of its first broadcast on Radio 3, back in the late '80s. I think Richard Taruskin's review of the later Hymn II (still just about available on CD), is pretty fair. You can listen to lo-fi versions of some of his works here. There again, I share much of Howard Skempton's enthusiasm for Gorecki's work. BTW, have you picked up the file I posted on YouSendIt for you? |
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« Reply #537 on: 07:23:53, 25-05-2007 » |
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Very many thanks, Bryn. Haven't had time (really !) in the last few days to investigate the prezzy - will do at the weekend.
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« Reply #538 on: 11:07:33, 25-05-2007 » |
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There again, I share much of Howard Skempton's enthusiasm for Gorecki's work. Erm ... so do I! Does 'there again' mean every other intelligent person thinks we're fools? Now I know why no one in the contemporary music world takes me seriously.  |
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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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Bryn
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« Reply #539 on: 13:01:28, 25-05-2007 » |
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Bruckner 7 - NYSO(?), Toscanini. It sounds like it was taken from an acetate of an AM broadcast. Lot's of strange noises along the way.
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