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  • Beef Oven!
    Ex-member
    • Sep 2013
    • 18147

    Originally posted by Daniel View Post
    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!!

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    • teamsaint
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 25190

      Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
      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.
      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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      • Beef Oven!
        Ex-member
        • Sep 2013
        • 18147

        Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
        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?

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        • Daniel
          Full Member
          • Jun 2012
          • 418

          Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
          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.

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          • Beef Oven!
            Ex-member
            • Sep 2013
            • 18147

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

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            • Bryn
              Banned
              • Mar 2007
              • 24688

              Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
              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.

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              • Beef Oven!
                Ex-member
                • Sep 2013
                • 18147

                Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                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?

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                • Beef Oven!
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                  • Sep 2013
                  • 18147

                  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.

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                  • Beef Oven!
                    Ex-member
                    • Sep 2013
                    • 18147

                    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.

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                    • teamsaint
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 25190

                      There is a Briliant Classics reissue of that Maderna disc a s well,with a very nice cover.
                      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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                      • Beef Oven!
                        Ex-member
                        • Sep 2013
                        • 18147

                        Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                        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?

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                        • EdgeleyRob
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12180

                          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).

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                          • Beef Oven!
                            Ex-member
                            • Sep 2013
                            • 18147

                            Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
                            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.

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                            • teamsaint
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 25190

                              Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                              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.
                              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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                              • EdgeleyRob
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                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12180



                                Luton: As seen in crap towns.

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