Off The Beaten Track

[Beef Oven!]

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.

Catford - twinned with Beirut.

[MrGongGong]

Catford - twinned with Beirut.

Chelmsford - twinned with the moon (no atmosphere)

[soileduk]

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.

Does it have the prominent 'earth loop' hum that spoils the Brilliant re-issue?

[Beef Oven!]

Does it have the prominent 'earth loop' hum that spoils the Brilliant re-issue?

I think I know what you're referring to, yes it does. I noticed it more when I purchased the CD over a quarter of a century ago - my hearing has deteriorated somewhat since then!

[Beef Oven!]

Nicholas Maw - Odyssee

At about 1 hour 36 minutes, it's a long listen. Indebted to Rattle for making it happen

[Bryn]

Nicholas Maw - Odyssee

At about 1 hour 36 minutes, it's a long listen. Indebted to Rattle for making it happen

Even if in the revised (shortened) version. Surely the BBC still has the BBCSO/Bernas performance of the complete original version tucked away in the vaults? That would be well worth the digging out for a re-broadcast (the original broadcast was on 8 April 1989).

[Beef Oven!]

Luciano Berio - Sequenzas II Trombone , X Guitar , XI Viola, VII Oboe.
Members of Ensemble Intercontemporain

[Beef Oven!]

Earlier this evening

Hans Werner Henze - Symphonies Nos 5 &6
BPO & LSO respectively, conducted by the composer. Deutsche Grammophon.




P.S. #6 is wacky!

[Roehre]

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.

The very first recordings of these quartets, with no.2 the only ADD, being the first one to be recorded.
Zemlinsky's time has come....

[Roehre]

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?

This is the original LP

[Roehre]

Earlier this evening

Hans Werner Henze - Symphonies Nos 5 &6
BPO & LSO respectively, conducted by the composer. Deutsche Grammophon.




P.S. #6 is wacky!

Henze recomposed parts of it, now available on Wergo IIRC.
The original two orchestra-concept with aleatorical elements have been replaced by completely composed passages.
No.6 was released on one LP, while the nos.1-5 filled a 2LP set. The only Henzes which were composed and available from the early 1970 onwards (and the only ones on DGG) before he entered composing the seventh in the early 1980s.

[Beef Oven!]

Henze recomposed parts of it, now available on Wergo IIRC.
The original two orchestra-concept with aleatorical elements have been replaced by completely composed passages.
No.6 was released on one LP, while the nos.1-5 filled a 2LP set. The only Henzes which were composed and available from the early 1970 onwards (and the only ones on DGG) before he entered composing the seventh in the early 1980s.

Thanks Roehre. For now, I'm going to resist the recomposed Wergo release - I love it as it is!

I also have Rattle's 7 and Ingo's 9, but I don't have 8. Might check some of this out on Apple Music.

[Beef Oven!]

On the basis of a recent most enjoyable experience listening to DSCH's symphony #12, I am now going off the beaten track again to give symphony #11 another go. I do remember struggling with this work.

Again, it's the trusty Barshai WDR cycle that I bought for about £13 new on Brilliant over 10 years ago, IIRC. This time I'm being lazy and listening from that most excellent service 'Apple Music'.

[Beef Oven!]

Pierre Boulez -Le marteau sans maître (1955)
Hilary Summers, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez. Deutsche Grammophon.

A setting of the surrealist poetry of René Char (1907-1988) for contralto and six instrumentalists.

Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics Podcast - here

Podcast description: "Sir Harrison Birtwistle singles out Pierre Boulez's 1950s cycle for voice and mixed ensemble, and describes encountering the score for the first time, while Paul Griffiths explains how the composer employed............"

[Roehre]

Pierre Boulez -Le marteau sans maître (1955)
Hilary Summers, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez. Deutsche Grammophon.

A setting of the surrealist poetry of René Char (1907-1988) for contralto and six instrumentalists.

Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics Podcast - here

Podcast description: "Sir Harrison Birtwistle singles out Pierre Boulez's 1950s cycle for voice and mixed ensemble, and describes encountering the score for the first time, while Paul Griffiths explains how the composer employed............"

...and even Stravinsky was impressed by that score