Originally posted by Thropplenoggin
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Record Review: non-BaL discs reviewed, etc.
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Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View PostIndeed, soileduk. A nice idea for a CD 'programme', I thought. If you do purchase, please let me know how you get on with it.
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I quite fancied this, what with it being a premiere 'n all.
Its a terrific work, a real favourite of mine. Lucky enough to see the dynamic KP perform it at the RFH recently.
If you don't have the Britten , the Stravinsky etc this might be a great value set if its as good as you suggest, when the price eases a few quid.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Any suggestions?
'Waiter, there's a girl on my piano' was as far as I got....
Actually the Legrand-Dessay disc from which extracts were played on yesterday's CD Review tempted me as a bit of a Legrand fan - perfect in the car when motoring through France, it struck me.
http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/1...l-legrand.html
'Let's remake je t'aime!'
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The CD by which I've been most impressed in recent weeks, based on extracts heard on R3, is the new Edward Gardner Mendelssohn album http://www.theclassicalshop.net/deta...er=CHAN%205132
Having heard the 3rd movement of the Italian on the 'Breakfast Chart' podcast from a few weeks ago, I was gripped by the last movement on CD Review this morning. It sounds to be a tremendous recording, aiding and abetting a wonderful performance - lovely phrasing, a real sense of shape and structure, but also virtuosic playing and detail.
I can't quite believe it - I'm about to buy a recording of Mendelssohn's 'Reformation Symphony'...
Anyone bought this one yet?"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Anyone bought this one yet?
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Originally posted by verismissimo View PostGosh, how good Jurowski is in Brahms...
Interesting that AMcG who praises recordings which omit audience applause failed to mention that it's been left in on these recordings. Something which would seriously annoy me on repeated listens.
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What the hell was old McGregor on this weekend?
First he tells us that impromptu is French, literally for "offhand" (a translation, incidentally that only Wiki offers). Then, that Biber composed his Mystery sonatas about 1760, and finally that Wasserflut should be translated as the Flood.
Go figure.
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostWhat the hell was old McGregor on this weekend?
First he tells us that impromptu is French, literally for "offhand" (a translation, incidentally that only Wiki offers). Then, that Biber composed his Mystery sonatas about 1760, and finally that Wasserflut should be translated as the Flood.
Go figure.
Perhaps you've reached your anecdotage?
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Does Andrew McGregor think we all have short-term memory loss? We got three 'coming up later today...'s in the space of ten minutes: once with Martin Handley at 8.55, once before the news at 9.00, and just in case we'd forgotten, another one after the first piano piece he played at 9:05.It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius
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Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View PostDoes Andrew McGregor think we all have short-term memory loss? We got three 'coming up later today...'s in the space of ten minutes: once with Martin Handley at 8.55, once before the news at 9.00, and just in case we'd forgotten, another one after the first piano piece he played at 9:05.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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