Off The Beaten Track

[Beef Oven!]

I must have missed (or forgotten) the Deserts, there was a pretty good performance of Ameriques in that year's Proms with the NYO and Pappano*. But I agree, I wish there was more.

*Just found it on youtube, and in the first few seconds of the video there's already been a clip of David Soul conducting Barber's Adagio for Strings. <deafening sound of FOR3 forumistas stampeding towards youtube>

I daren't look! The thought of David 'Don't Give Up On Us Baby' Soul conducting Barber is hideous!!

[teamsaint]

I daren't look! The thought of David 'Don't Give Up On Us Baby' Soul conducting Barber is hideous!!

When I read that, I thought that there must be a Soul Barber in Harlem, Detroit or somewhere.
But the only one I could find is in Glasgow.

[Beef Oven!]

When I read that, I thought that there must be a Soul Barber in Harlem, Detroit or somewhere.
But the only one I could find is in Glasgow.

Aerosols?

[Daniel]

I daren't look! The thought of David 'Don't Give Up On Us Baby' Soul conducting Barber is hideous!!

Ha ha, no matter how many Starsky and Hutch episodes I watched in my callow delinquency, the moment I hear David Soul's name, it's always that song, that comes careering back into my now adult delinquency.

Even as I type, my inner DJ's winked at me and turned up the volume, I'll need to get myself re-programmed.

[Beef Oven!]

Morton Feldman - String Quartet #2 (1983)
The Flux Quartet
Listening to parts 1-6.

[Bryn]

Morton Feldman - String Quartet #2 (1983)
The Flux Quartet
Listening to parts 1-6.

Straight through the audio DVD version is the way to listen to that, though Morty was known to have fallen asleep during performances he attended (and those being of shortened versions of the score favoured by some quartets). I have only heard it live once, a four and a half hour version by the Smith Quartet in Glasgow a couple or so years ago.

[Beef Oven!]

Straight through the audio DVD version is the way to listen to that, though Morty was known to have fallen asleep during performances he attended (and those being of shortened versions of the score favoured by some quartets). I have only heard it live once, a four and a half hour version by the Smith Quartet in Glasgow a couple or so years ago.

I don't think that I can listen straight through. One Saturday afternoon a few years ago, fortified with a couple of bottles of Sancerre, I did play it through in one hit, but I dozed at several points and couldn't take it all in.

At the Sorabji gig discussed on here a couple of years ago that three of us attended, the time flew and an hour felt like ten minutes. How was the MF gig in Glasgow?

[Beef Oven!]

Alexander Zemlinsky - String Quartet #2 (1915).
Lasalle Quartet - Deutsche Grammophon

I've owned this set for quite a few years now. I really enjoyed collecting DG's 20th Century Classics series. Great covers too.

Although #2 is considered his string quartet masterpiece, #3 was always my favourite. Not sure anymore.

[Beef Oven!]

Bruno Maderna
Quadrivium (1969)
Aura (1972)
Beogramma (1972)

A treasured jewel in my CD collection. I love the artwork on the Deutsche Gramophone 20th Century Classics releases.

[teamsaint]

There is a Briliant Classics reissue of that Maderna disc a s well,with a very nice cover.

[Beef Oven!]

There is a Briliant Classics reissue of that Maderna disc a s well,with a very nice cover.

Yes, and it's cheap too!

There's also a DG rerelease on their 20/21 series.

Not forgetting the original CD release.......or is it the LP?

[EdgeleyRob]

Gorecki

String Quartets 1 to 3.

Royal String Quartet of Warsaw.

1. Already it is dusk. (Just beautiful).
2. Quasi una Fantasia. (listen out for some Ibizaesque hypnotic repetition in the 2nd movement).
3. Songs are Sung. (At just under an hour a bit overlong IMO).

[Beef Oven!]

Gorecki

String Quartets 1 to 3.

Royal String Quartet of Warsaw.

1. Already it is dusk. (Just beautiful).
2. Quasi una Fantasia. (listen out for some Ibizaesque hypnotic repetition in the 2nd movement).
3. Songs are Sung. (At just under an hour a bit overlong IMO).

I'm not familiar with Gorecki's SQts. I like his frank subtitles.

[teamsaint]

I'm not familiar with Gorecki's SQts. I like his frank subtitles.

Perhaps ER was a consultant on the SQs.


They are like those straplines on Town signs.
Nuclear free Crawley.
eastleigh: Fighting Climate Change.
Trowbridge. Not as bad as Melksham.

[EdgeleyRob]

Luton: As seen in crap towns.