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« Reply #930 on: 21:39:47, 09-08-2007 » |
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Spinning the Esa Pekka Piano Concerto again from last week.
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« Reply #931 on: 12:04:16, 10-08-2007 » |
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Five Pieces for Piano op 2 by Maxwell Davies, performed by John Ogdon.
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"Believe nothing they say, they're not Biroc's kind."
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« Reply #932 on: 12:22:58, 10-08-2007 » |
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Ooh! Where'd you get that then?
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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 #933 on: 21:06:13, 10-08-2007 » |
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yes, for me its always been Persepolis > La Legende d'er. Not I. Now playing here- Terry Riley: Shri Camel, performed by the composer in 1976 on a just-intoned electric organ with "computerised delay" - I've never worked out exactly what he did and how, because if it was really a real-time solo performance it has a remarkable degree of sophistication compared to anything else anyone's done with only delays, certainly back then. I find the stuff he was doing in the 1970s mostly very impressive, after which he seems to have declined into an insipid New Age kind of noodling. Unless there's something important I've missed. |
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« Reply #934 on: 22:31:08, 10-08-2007 » |
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Bach Chromatic Fantasy - Rivka Golani, Viola
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #935 on: 22:02:47, 11-08-2007 » |
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Brahms 2, Mackerras/SCO. I think the Karajans are destined to remain on the shelf in future, pretty much.
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« Reply #936 on: 23:02:09, 11-08-2007 » |
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Brahms 2, Mackerras/SCO. I think the Karajans are destined to remain on the shelf in future, pretty much.
Quite right too. The Mackerras set is certainly all the Brahms symphonies I need. But then I'm not that fond of Brahms. I mean I like it well enough, and appreciate its ingenuity, but it doesn't generally get me excited and involved, apart from some of the chamber music from time to time. I'm not spinning anything just at the moment, but earlier I was listening to David Bowie's Low. I don't know if is was mainly nostalgia, but I found it very involving, not least on account of its strange soundworld, strange lopsided song-forms and general atmosphere of tension and foreboding - a fully-realised piece of work, in fact (and certainly not one that needs a bad orchestrator to turn it into a "symphony"). |
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« Reply #937 on: 23:18:53, 11-08-2007 » |
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Richard, this is a tense situation. Don't you mean "(and certainly not one that need ed a bad orchestrator to turn it into a "symphony")"?  |
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« Reply #938 on: 23:24:44, 11-08-2007 » |
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I think the Karajans are destined to remain on the shelf in future, pretty much.
You flatter them. |
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« Reply #939 on: 23:26:44, 11-08-2007 » |
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Aren't they flat enough already ?
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« Reply #940 on: 23:33:20, 11-08-2007 » |
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Pretty sharp actually if I remember right. Now spinning chez Sudden: Ionisation. On large bass drum, cowbell, suspended cymbal and small tam-tam: O. Sudden.  |
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« Reply #941 on: 10:26:58, 12-08-2007 » |
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An Italian Madrigals disc (ensemble pan).
Having a listen to some of Fausto Romitelli's stuff - playing his piece Audiodrome.
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« Reply #942 on: 23:36:05, 12-08-2007 » |
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Wordsongs, perhaps Cleo Laine's best album, recorded in 77/78.
Sixteen Shakespearean settings, including 'The Compleat Works' in 1 min 10 secs! This is followed by John Dankworth arrangements of T S Eliot, John Donne, W M Thackeray, Thos Campion, a quite exquisite O Tell Me The Truth About Love by WH Auden, Thos Hardy, John Betjeman, Rupert Brooke, e e cummings, Thieving Boy by Alun Owen and two contributions by Spike Milligan.
The jazzy back-up by Dankworth, Paul Hart, Pete Morgan, Daryl Runswick, Kenny Clare, Allan Ganley and Tony Kinsey is in a class by itself.
Anyone who saw Dame Cleo in her Spring Collection concerts at QEH in the first half of the 70's will recognise these names and the sheer quality of their work.
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« Reply #943 on: 23:50:29, 12-08-2007 » |
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At least Cleo sang Where the Bee SUCKS, at the Proms a few days ago, as I presume she always has done elsewhere. So often I have heard bowdlerized versions of this sung by "ladies" as Where the Bee LURKS.
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« Reply #944 on: 23:56:08, 12-08-2007 » |
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Don't suppose anyone here has heard Cleo Laine's Pierrot lunaire? Now that's a curiosity-exciting prospect...
Here: Mahler 5, USSR State SO / Kondrashin. I don't think I can describe it really but I'm always grateful to hear Mahler off the beaten track...
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