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Yes Biroc, and can be found even cheaper, with a bit of searching, but as has been discussed here and at TOP, they STILL have not sorted out the approx 45 seconds missing from the remastering of the "Movements for Piano and Orchestra", and clumsy edits elsewhere, too; and where is "a propos ..."? Still, it remains one Hell of a bargain. |
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« Reply #842 on: 09:21:13, 28-07-2007 » |
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There has always been controversy over that recording of Le Sacre, with arguments suggesting that despite the composer's name on the sleeve, the sessions were actually conducted by Craft. It's certainly a noticeably different interpretation to his 1940 Philharmonic-Symphony of New York readings, with rather a refined, almost chamber approach: leaner, lither, with the rhythms rather more 'sprung', and in marked contrast to the brutal bombast of much of the recorded competition.
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« Reply #843 on: 09:52:01, 28-07-2007 » |
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I'm also fond of Craft's recording with the Orchestra of St Luke's from the 80s, which is a sort of hyperrealistic digital revisit of the kind of analytical recording techniques that Columbia used for the original Stravinsky recordings. No real orchestra ever sounded like that though.
I must get that box soon.
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« Reply #844 on: 10:05:29, 28-07-2007 » |
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The revenge of Veronika? There's a box? I have the Vol II disc with (Pulcinella Suite/Symphony in C/Russian Choruses/Svadebka) but I can see that I'll have to do a bit of surfing.
Incidentally, r, Gawain's journey should hopefully have brought him to Uxbridge by now....
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« Reply #845 on: 10:21:53, 28-07-2007 » |
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I meant the big Stravinsky box, not the (hypothetically) smaller Craft box.
Thanks for the news about Gawain. My own journey will take me there around the middle of next week.
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« Reply #846 on: 10:37:14, 28-07-2007 » |
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I meant the big Stravinsky box, not the (hypothetically) smaller Craft box.
Hypothetical indeed, apart from the first volume of the set (not to be confused with the later Koch recordings, now subsumed into the Naxos cycle) which is a box: they're all hard to get hold of, and mostly not at all cheap. |
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« Reply #847 on: 11:29:03, 28-07-2007 » |
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The xylophone in the Druschetzky piece: the programme note writer suggests something like what you've shown there, opilec. The part has one chromatic octave Bb to Bb plus three more diatonic notes below. What instrument the chap's actually using I can't quite tell. It's certainly not what you'd call resonant which might have to do with the lack of resonators but might also have to do with the fact that he's playing it with wooden timpani sticks... same with the glockenspiel for that matter. Still, I don't think it would all sound any less weird if the instruments sounded nice.  |
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« Reply #848 on: 12:54:13, 28-07-2007 » |
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Psalm 24, Psalm 129, Vielle Priere Bouddhique and Du Fond de l'abime by Lili Boulanger and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms by the LSO and Monteverdi Choir. Anyone know what else there is available of Lili Boulanger's music ?
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« Reply #850 on: 13:20:15, 28-07-2007 » |
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Thanks Ronaldo.
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« Reply #851 on: 14:50:23, 28-07-2007 » |
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There was some mention of Helle Nacht and Ignis noster a while back. I just found that disc in a bargain bin for €5 and thought "I can find a good home for that" so I bought it. Anyone here interested?
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« Reply #852 on: 15:47:48, 28-07-2007 » |
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PM Davies, St. Thomas Wake: Foxtrots for Orchestra w/ Louisville Orchestra/Duffallo, courtesy of whatever presumable candidate for beatification is responsible for the Avant Garde Project. |
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« Reply #853 on: 19:32:37, 28-07-2007 » |
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Yes Biroc, and can be found even cheaper, with a bit of searching, but as has been discussed here and at TOP, they STILL have not sorted out the approx 45 seconds missing from the remastering of the "Movements for Piano and Orchestra", and clumsy edits elsewhere, too; and where is "a propos ..."? Still, it remains one Hell of a bargain. Bryn, have you seen this review? I wondered whether perhaps you'd written it? http://music.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,2135506,00.htmlHeh, heh. I wonder if he's been reading the discussions here, over at TOP, or the old customer reviews on Amazon.com? There again, perhaps he discovered the problem through his own listening? I did try submitting a review, raising the editing issues, to Amazon.co.uk, but it has not appeared. Perhaps my suggestion that people bought it, then returned it as faulty, did not go down too well? |
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« Reply #854 on: 20:17:07, 28-07-2007 » |
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All the same: Whatever the minor shortcomings, though, this is the 20th-century's greatest composer conducting all his own works. 20th century's greatest composer, well, maybe, although not for me. But the box doesn't have all his works and there's a reasonable amount of stuff he doesn't conduct. I wonder if that could have been more accurately phrased? |
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