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« Reply #646 on: 20:56:51, 06-07-2007 » |
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The abbreviated version of Cardew's "The Great Learning, Paragraph 7, (the DG Emil Berliner Studios transfer - far superior to that on the Organ of Corti CD).
I presume neither of these is anything to do with with the horrible old DGG recording of Paragraph 7 ? More info, please Bryn ! That's exactly the recording I was listening to, autoharp. A mutual friend had e-mailed me concerning the content of the various LP and CD issues of those recordings of abbreviated versions of Paras 2 and 7. The DG (Emil Berliner Studios) transfer is better than the organ of Corti version, but I agree, the original was and is horrrble. The School Raids in the morning of the day of that recording session was the far better Scratch activity that day, I think. |
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« Reply #647 on: 21:29:24, 06-07-2007 » |
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NS Chez ac (again, unfortunately, as mere background as I continue my Finale work), last Saturday's Hear & Now.
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« Reply #648 on: 22:37:44, 06-07-2007 » |
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Now spinning at the house of the twofold harmony is Alec Roth's Scene from 'The Tempest' played by the English Gamelan Orchestra (which is a bit cheeky because the composer hasn't heard this or any recording of this piece for about 25 years).
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Now spinning at the house of the twofold harmony is Alec Roth's Scene from 'The Tempest' played by the English Gamelan Orchestra (which is a bit cheeky because the composer hasn't heard this or any recording of this piece for about 25 years).
![]() 22/10/83 Durham ? Seems strange he hasn't heard it . . . |
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« Reply #650 on: 10:06:59, 07-07-2007 » |
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He's heard it, but he told me that he hadn't heard it since then. Do you have a recording of that concert then? He seemed to think that there wasn't one floating around - he certainly didn't have one.
I spent an afternoon transferring from the original reel-to-reel tapes to the computer (which is a problem because it comes from that batch of Ampec tapes that degrade over time - play for five minutes, clean the machine with alcohol, play for five minutes, etc.) and I'm just about to post him the 22 minutes that it took us 2.5 hours to salvage.
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« Reply #651 on: 10:32:07, 07-07-2007 » |
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I do have a recording (on cassette) of this and other English Gamelan orchestra concerts.
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« Reply #652 on: 11:41:57, 07-07-2007 » |
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I don't really have the time to spend transcribing the whole recording at the moment, but we're hoping that it will be available at some point in the near future (possibly even commercially but that will depend on copyright agreements as well as the time to transcribe it).
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« Reply #653 on: 16:02:02, 07-07-2007 » |
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Having mentioned two American symphonies in the past few days, I'm astounded to see just how many there are on my shelves (around 50), and not a little amazed to see how many are still in wrappers (mainly from splurges at Berkshire Record Outlet last year). So I'm having a wee voyage of discovery this afternoon: Persichetti's Fourth (coupled with a striking Passacaglia by Benjamin Lees), and Aaron J Kernis's Second; all going straight onto the 'listen again soon' pile...
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« Reply #654 on: 16:06:41, 07-07-2007 » |
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Schuman 3 ordered. Thanks for the tip, Ron.  |
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« Reply #655 on: 16:20:00, 07-07-2007 » |
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It's my pleasure, martle: I'll just keep my fingers crossed that it works even half as much for you as it does for me. I'm all but sure it will....
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« Reply #656 on: 16:46:53, 07-07-2007 » |
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play for five minutes, clean the machine with alcohol, play for five minutes, etc. I know some brass players like that. |
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« Reply #657 on: 16:50:32, 07-07-2007 » |
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(as I said in the Happy Room) Liszt - Transcendental Etudes, played by Alfredo Perl - very, very good.
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Best regards,
Jonathan
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #658 on: 20:31:25, 07-07-2007 » |
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Still tranqillized after spinning the Barenboim:Mahler 9, Staatskapelle, Berlin; a couple of hours ago.
A bit wary about buying this recording as I'm inclined to reach for Solti/CSO or Tennstedt/LPO when I want to play this symphony, both of whom I heard during the 80's at the RFH.
Before hearing Mahler 9, I always get the same frisson as attending yet another production of "Hamlet". The opening lines:
Bernardo: Who's there?
Francisco: Nay, answer me: stand and unfold yourself.
A case of mentally placing the 'Der Abschied' from 'Das Lied' in the mind before the work starts or, as the notes tell me (VERY Mahlerian that) Willem Mengelberg considered the Ninth as an "Abschied from all that he loved - and from the world - and from his art, his life, his music."
Additionally, I wondered whether my hi-fi; a Class A Technics amp and CD player would cope with the nuances between full orchestral tuttis and the chamber-like intimacy in the work. I was most impressed and this must now be my finest recording of the work Totally engrossed for almost 80 mins (one CD)and the dying fall also brings me back to Hamlet.
Horatio Now cracks a noble heart.
Goodnight, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
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« Reply #659 on: 20:53:18, 07-07-2007 » |
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Abbado, Berlin, September 1999 for me, as far as Mahler 9 goes, at the moment. Would like to check out that Barenboim though.
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