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  • Don Petter
    • Dec 2024
    #1

    Torke needs good home

    The only thing of interest at this morning's boot fair was an Argo CD of chamber works by Michael Torke. Not my taste (confirmed by a listen) but couldn't leave it among the Pavarottis and Garretts. Some one would like it, I'm sure, so PM me if you are he/she/they.


    Full details as on this site:

    performed by London Sinfonietta under K. Nagano & D.A. Miller - The Yellow Pages - Rust - Vanada, Etc. / Original Release / CD / FLAC / Lossless : Michael Torke : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
    http://archive.org/details/wcd_performed-by-london-_michael-torke_flac_lossless_29966258?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=feed
    Michael Torke – The Yellow Pages · Rust · Vanada · Slate · Adjustable WrenchLabel:Argo Records – 430 209-2Format:CD, Album...


    Cost is minimal, maybe even nothing if the PO's not too greedy.

    Don.
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  • teamsaint
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 25225
    #2
    Don, I don't know Torke's music at all, so was interested to take a listen to "Adjustable Wrench".

    very enjoyable, and sounds fairly typical of his work if reviewers comments are anything to go by.
    Thanks for a good steer !!
    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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    • gurnemanz
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 7405
      #3
      I bought that CD when it came out and remember enjoying it. I had almost forgotten I had it and you have given me a nudge towards giving it another spin some time soon.

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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37812
        #4
        Iirc "Adjustable Wrench" was first performed over here at the 1988 Huddersfield New Music Festival. There was an interval discussion involving 3 composers, one being the now-departed David Bedford. Comparisons with John Adams and Aaron Copland were being made, and I remember Bedford make the remark that listening to much of what was now called Minimalist music left one with an image of opening credits to a Western, in which one waited in vain for Tex Avery to come resplendant on a white charger over the Arizona skyline to the accompaniment of a wonderful melody, neither of which would come about!

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        • teamsaint
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 25225
          #5
          whatever else, " Adjustable Wrench " is a great title for a piece of music.
          Would people say this is typical of Torke's work.
          I am tempted to seek more out, but relentlessly upbeat, if that is really what he writes, might be too much to take !
          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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          • Stephen Smith
            #6
            I heard this a week ago, played by our local orchestra (St Albans Symphony Orchestra) and thought it was worth a second hearing. Must look on Spotify for it...

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            • Dave2002
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 18034
              #7
              Were there any takers in the end? I have been partial to a bit of Torke in the past.

              PS: Ha, ha. Try typing in "adjustable wrench Torke" to a search engine!

              I missed that one.

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              • Don Petter
                #8
                Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                Were there any takers in the end? I have been partial to a bit of Torke in the past.

                PS: Ha, ha. Try typing in "adjustable wrench Torke" to a search engine!

                I missed that one.

                Only one member showed an interest. Perhaps the others who like Torke already had the item?

                It has gone to a good home, with a charity benefitting by a contribution.

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                • Wensleydale Blue
                  #9
                  Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                  Only one member showed an interest. Perhaps the others who like Torke already had the item?

                  It has gone to a good home, with a charity benefitting by a contribution.
                  I have his various colour related suites. Not bad but I always got the feeling that while he seemed able to torke the torke he could never quite worke the worke

                  I'll get my coat.........

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