2020 favourites in retrospect

[Bryn]

Had a go at this one yet?
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/be.../aef4n2zvn176b

Listening again, in better circumstances. I still find a general lack of poetry but do find much to admire in the performance of Op. 31/2, especially the phrasing. Oh, and yes, the instruments sound very fine. As to the 'Moonlight' (silly imposed soubriquet), I could listen to it Night and Day. (I'll get me coat).

[Richard Barrett]

Mauro Lanza & Andrea Valle, Systema Naturae. Didn't know quite what to make of this. It seems to be algorithmic-based computer music. Probably more of concern to those working in the field, than the interested listener?

This interested listener was just intrigued about its sounds and forms without worrying too much about how it was made, but no, in fact it doesn't contain any computer-generated sounds, only various mechanical contraptions made of found objects and actuated by a computer program, playing alongside more conventional instruments, as you can see in this video excerpt from a live performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp1mtWT6NOg

[Quarky]

This interested listener was just intrigued about its sounds and forms without worrying too much about how it was made, but no, in fact it doesn't contain any computer-generated sounds, only various mechanical contraptions made of found objects and actuated by a computer program, playing alongside more conventional instruments, as you can see in this video excerpt from a live performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp1mtWT6NOg

Many thanks for the correction / clarification. Well, the live performance was hugely enjoyable, and the music made a lot more 'sense'. I don't think I would have got there just by listening to the sound recording. In fact the thought crossed my mind on a first listen, that it might be part of a multimedia project.

[Richard Barrett]

the live performance was hugely enjoyable, and the music made a lot more 'sense'.

I'm very happy to hear that. I think it's one of the more original things I've heard in recent years. I had read about it before hearing it for the first time so I already knew what was going on, but it sounded better than I was expecting it to. I find it a fascinating idea, realised with great artistry and precision (and indeed humour).

[Dave2002]

The more serene inspirations among Bruckner's choral music have become a feature of this year for me, especially the Mass No.2; but this anthology of less well known items has a soft, glowing aura of spirituality amid a deep and wonderfully apt acoustic spaciousness.....

A couple of the very few pieces I ever sang in during my adult life. I remember Locus Iste - not sure what the other one was.

[akiralx]

The more serene inspirations among Bruckner's choral music have become a feature of this year for me, especially the Mass No.2; but this anthology of less well known items has a soft, glowing aura of spirituality amid a deep and wonderfully apt acoustic spaciousness.....


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Sigvards Klava, Latvian Radio Choir
Ondine 11/2020, QOBUZ 24/96

They didn't fit the choir in that church did they? There doesn't look to be room to swing a cat...

[jayne lee wilson]

They didn't fit the choir in that church did they? There doesn't look to be room to swing a cat...

It is all about Time And Relative Dimensions In Space, a concept with which Bruckner was very familiar....

[cloughie]

It’s a Latvian tardis - it is bigger than all of us!

[Bryn]

It is all about Time And Relative Dimensions In Space, a concept with which Bruckner was very familiar....

That's just the lift entrance. The recording venue is in the cavern below.

[crb11]

They didn't fit the choir in that church did they? There doesn't look to be room to swing a cat...

Oh dear. Have we reached one-voice-per-part Bruckner now?

[silvestrione]

Had a go at this one yet?
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/be.../aef4n2zvn176b

No, I'm still not on Qobuz, so that would be a big commitment. I am really looking forward however to hearing the 'Moonlight' on a historical piano (I've gone off the term 'fortepiano': it still has negative connotations for me)). Perhaps pay for a Brautigam download...

[Bryn]

No, I'm still not on Qobuz, so that would be a big commitment. I am really looking forward however to hearing the 'Moonlight' on a historical piano (I've gone off the term 'fortepiano': it still has negative connotations for me)). Perhaps pay for a Brautigam download...

If you can find a stream or download of the Binns, it has a really fruity bass register. It was a real revelation for me. There again, there are numerous performance on YouTube, just search for "Beethoven", "Moonlight" and your dreaded "fortepiano".