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More detail;s please JK!
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Tasmin Little is the soloist, BBC SO under Matthias Bamert.Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View PostMore detail;s please JK!
It's a nice work - Saxton has a distinctive compositional voice... I didn't listen to any other works on the disk but he definitely has a recognisable harmonic language, from what I recall. There's dance like elements. It's good if unadventurous, somewhat Bartokian but basically his own, like I say.Comment
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... the older, COLLINS release is available at a cheaper price:
The only work by this composer that I've ever taken any pleasure from/in - mainly, I feel, because it's more like Lutoslawski than Saxton.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
Perhaps I ought to acquaint myself better with Lutoslawski.Comment
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Isn't the Collins jsut a single CD though? The NMC has a whole lot more Saxton on its two well filled discs, though that may partly be your point.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Posthttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Saxt.../dp/B0002VYF0I
... the older, COLLINS release is available at a cheaper price:
The only work by this composer that I've ever taken any pleasure from/in - mainly, I feel, because it's more like Lutoslawski than Saxton.
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostIsn't the Collins jsut a single CD though? The NMC has a whole lot more Saxton on its two well filled discs, though that may partly be your point. 
- the thought had occurred. You're right - the NMC double CD release also contains the chamber opera Caritas, and the Music to Celebrate the Resurrection of Christ (which were previously spread out over three Collins discs).
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Always a good idea, I find.Originally posted by Joseph K View Post Perhaps I ought to acquaint myself better with Lutoslawski.
But no call for you to - it has been many years since I exposed myself to Saxton's Music (at the time when the Collins discs were first issued) and found myself regretting the encounter. Your own more immediate reactions are probably a lot more valuable than my memories of my responses - and memory might well have changed the Violin Concerto into a completely different work from what you played today. 
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Panufnik
Arbor Cosmica; Violin Concerto.
Robert Kabara/Sinfonia Cracovia/Michniewski. DUX CD 1995.
Why it took me, a devoted fan of Panufnik, until 2018 to discover Arbor Cosmica, a physical and spiritual hymn to trees (their shapes, spirits and movements) in 12 movements for 12 solo strings, I've no idea; I saw mention of it in the CPO notes to another release and followed it up: a deeply serious, philosophical work of great depth and beauty almost 40 minutes long, wide-ranging originality in its moods and textures. Easily among his greatest works and - like Symphonies 5,6 and 9 - in multiple short movements which broadly-speaking alternate slow/fast throughout, all based on a single 3-note motif.
This CD includes a searingly intense version of the marvellous Violin Concerto as well, using a very small string orchestra to great expressive effect; the only minor drawback being a very high recorded level, in the concerto especially; standby attenuation, then.
(So it's a very good idea to acquaint yourself better with Panufnik too...!)Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 13-03-18, 21:15.Comment
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Schoenberg's violin concerto.
Liking it very much.
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostAlways a good idea, I find.
But no call for you to - it has been many years since I exposed myself to Saxton's Music (at the time when the Collins discs were first issued) and found myself regretting the encounter. Your own more immediate reactions are probably a lot more valuable than my memories of my responses - and memory might well have changed the Violin Concerto into a completely different work from what you played today.
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Originally posted by Joseph K View PostSchoenberg's violin concerto.
Liking it very much. - Hahn's performance is miraculous. (Salonen's conducting is pretty damn find, too - but Craft gets even more out of the orchestral Music, I think.) Wonderful piece.
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Must get back to playing Schoenberg again.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post - Hahn's performance is miraculous. (Salonen's conducting is pretty damn find, too - but Craft gets even more out of the orchestral Music, I think.) Wonderful piece.
Andrej Panufnik
Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto; Piano Concerto.
Alexander Sitovetsky(violin), Raphael Wallfisch(cello),
Ewa Kupiek(piano), Konzeertorchester Berlin, Lukosz Boroweicz.Last edited by BBMmk2; 14-03-18, 11:22.Don’t cry for me
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Mozart
‘Salzburg Sacred Music’
Vesperae solennes de confessore in C major, KV 339
Missa solemnis in C major, KV 337
(includes the Church or Epistle Sonata No. 17 for organ, KV 336
Regina coeli in C major, KV 276 (circa 1779)
Cornelia Samuelis, soprano
Ursula Eittinger, alto
Benoît Haller, tenor
Markus Flaig, bass
Christoph Anselm Noll, organ
Kölner Kammerchor
Collegium Cartusianum/Peter Neumann
Recorded 2004 Trinitatiskirche, Köhn
MDG Gold
Hans Pfitzner
Piano Quintet, Op. 23
Sextet for piano, strings and wind, Op. 55
Ensemble Ulf Hoelscher
Recorded 2003/04 Kammermusikstudio, SWR Stuttgart
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Now:
Bela Bartok: Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor
plus the two Rhapsodies too!
Kyung-Wha Chung (Vln)
CBSO conducted by Simon Rattle
EMI CDC 754 211-2
Great stuff
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Just finished listening to Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande - VPO/Abbado.
What I weird story. I am reminded of Breton's Nadja.Comment
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