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Record Review: non-BaL discs reviewed, etc.
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by richardfinegold View PostI didn’t know that Ehnes played the viola. How common is that to see violinists doubling on their neglected big brother?
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Originally posted by Zucchini View PostOnce upon a time Vengerov recorded the Walton Viola C
"Viola Player" was one of Hans Keller's mischievous "fake professions" - claiming that there's no greater difference in technique between violin and viola playing than between flute and piccolo playing.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by Bert Coules View PostI have a 1985 privately-issued CD of "Winter Journey" as it's there titled: baritone Peter Allanson and pianist Kenneth Mobbs, translation by Leslie Minchin. It's a good while since I played it but I recall a decent performance if a touch undemonstrative from the singer. The website given in the sleeve notes, www.mobbsearlykeyboard.co.uk, appears no longer to exist.
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by teamsaint View PostIts on spotify.
Just listening, and I’d definitely buy it.
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostI've bought it and am greatly enjoying it, chiefly for Roderick Williams's ravishingly beautiful voice, and Christopher Glynn is excellent. I don't know German, and am used to following the literal translations of the texts (or, in the case of the DFD-Brendel DVD, following the on-screen translation), so there seeems to me to be a clear trade-off between the beauty of the German and comprehensibility. Some of them sound a bit doggerelly, the fault I daresay of the rhymes, but I have no idea how the German words sound to a German speaker - presumably they come across as great poetry, which the English translations don't - or do they?
I really enjoy following German texts with an english translation to hand, but my german is limited to the teams in the Bundesliga, varieties of sausage, and Berlin S and U Bahn stations. It is a hard work process, worth the effort, but a chance to hear a good English rendition feels a combination of lazy, luxurious, and overdue.
These settings aren ‘t perfect, but we are two hundred years and half a continent away, and who can say if Schubert set everything to perfection ? Although I doubt that humans can do much better.
And, on a slightly different tack, we English speakers do bring to Lieder a set of expectations ( not least of exoticism)that german speakers might , naturally, not really recognise.Last edited by teamsaint; 02-05-18, 21:09.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 richardfinegold View PostI didn’t know that Ehnes played the viola. How common is that to see violinists doubling on their neglected big brother?"...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 Bryn View PostI am not in the market for it (I have most of the Sony Salonen recordings I would want from it)"...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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Hello there,
Really enjoyed today's Record Review particularly the Salonen retrospective. I still have Salonen's recording of Lutoslawski 3 / Les Espaces du Sommeil which was coupled with Messaien's Turangalila - one of the first CDs I bought.
I was quite impressed by the excerpt from Magnus Lindberg's "Fresco" too ...and the Haydn !
Best Wishes,
Tevot
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Originally posted by Tevot View PostHello there,
Really enjoyed today's Record Review particularly the Salonen retrospective. I still have Salonen's recording of Lutoslawski 3 / Les Espaces du Sommeil which was coupled with Messaien's Turangalila - one of the first CDs I bought.
I was quite impressed by the excerpt from Magnus Lindberg's "Fresco" too ...and the Haydn !
Best Wishes,
Tevot
Also, I liked John Adams' 'Absolute Jest'.
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