Originally posted by jayne lee wilson
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I know that The Desert Music has come in for much disparagement since its composition but I have always thought it served its text well, and indeed, WCW ist der Dichter. I will have to revisit the Adams. I did not take to it at the time of its premiere but that was a fair old time ago. -
Aways very fond of it - lovely music for strings and much else.....Originally posted by Bryn View Post
And that's a great alternative title!
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Text of The Desert Music here (courtesy of a link in the BBC MM CD of a 1985 Proms performance, issued as Vol 25 No 1):Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
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Missa Solemnis cond. Klemperer with the Philharmonia and quite possibly the best Chorus around at the time. If you want something to brighten your day and enliven you, try the Gloria from the Philharmonia Chorus tenors entry on Quoniam tu, astounding intensity and the performance utterly gripping and incredibly powerful right to the final shout of 'Gloria'. What a stunning piece.Comment
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Earl Wild
The Romantic Master
Virtuous Piano Transcriptions
Super stuff“Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor StravinskyComment
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Boulez - orchestral Notations - Orchestre National de Lyon/RobertsonComment
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I rather like this CD, classic Adams.Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostDon’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Very much enjoying the Eloquence reissues of Campoli's Decca recordings from the 1950s. So far have heard the Tchaikovsky concerto (last mvt), Lalo Symphonie Espagnole, Sarasate Zigeunerweisen, Saint-Saens concerto 3 and the two well known shorter pieces, and the Beethoven concerto (with Krips). There's also a pair of discs of encores. All beautifully done and really well remastered. One can quite see why, when Campoli visited the USSR, he was spoken of in the same breath as Oistrakh.Comment
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Sonya Yoncheva - Handel
Arias from Giulio Cesare, Alcina, Theodora, Rodelinda, Agrippina & Rinaldo
Bonus track: Purcell aria When I am laid in earth from Dido and Aeneas
Sonya Yoncheva (soprano)
Academia Montis Regalis / Alessandro de Marchi
with Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano)
Recorded 2016 Academia Montis Regalis, Mondovi, Italy
Sony
Bridge
‘Songs and Chamber Music’
Phantasie Piano Quartet, H94
Phantasie Piano Trio, H79
Scherzo for cello & piano
Souvenir for violin & piano
8 songs with piano
3 Songs with viola
Ivan Ludlow (baritone); Tom Dunn (viola)
London Bridge Ensemble
Recorded 2007, Wathen Hall, St. Paul’s School, London
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....Three Threesomes....
Reich Three Movements for Orchestra
Tonkünstler-Orchester/K-Jarvi. Chandos SACD 2011.
Elliott Carter A Symphony of Three Orchestras.
NYPO/Boulez. Sony CD 1995, rec. 1977..
Reich Triple Quartet (version for 36 Strings).
O.N de Lyon/Robertson. Naive CD 2004.
Forgotten what a fascinating, often texturally beautiful instrumental drama the Carter is....with a stunningly explosive, elemental ending...the recording is excellent in its 3D display of the evolving blend and separation the three groups. Must repeat soon!
The middle movement of the Reich Quartet is one his loveliest creations.....Comment
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As is the Reich Triple Quartet though I don't know this version.Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
Disc 3 of the Nonesuch retrospective is really fabulous.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.Comment
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It was the string orchestra version of Different Trains that is also on the disc jlw referred to is what eventually dragged me to some appreciation of that work. I still do not find the way the sampled speech is used particularly convincingly but the body of the strings orchestra melded better with the train sounds, I think. I also may have rebelled against the argument that it was good because of its subject. My reaction was "No! It'a how it serves that subject that matters". To me, the weight and timbre of a string orchestra more directly communicates with the ear. That said, I have since come to find considerable depth in the Smith Quartet's performances of the work.Originally posted by teamsaint View PostComment
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The singing, not the ritual. And NOT the Card Arch.Comment
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More music to soothe the savage beast. A selection from recommendations from secretary of the local music society. His notes, not mine :
1: Trauermarsch
Siegfried’s Trauermarsch - “Götterdämmerung” Wagner - Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti
... historic (?1965) recording of Solti in rehearsal ... This has real drama, emotional impact and fizz ...
3: Scherzo
Chopin Etude Op10 No1 - Evgeny Kissin
What can I say to those of you that haven’t yet done their morning piano practice on C major right hand arpeggios - get to it! This post gives you 8 of the Etudes in one hit.
4: Adagietto
Pavel Chesnokov - Salvation is Created - sung by Voces8 in the fabulously ornate Cathedral Basilica in St Louis, Missouri.
5: Rondo Finale
Gert van Hoef improvises on the Henry Willis & Sons organ in Liverpool Cathedral.
This extraordinary young Dutchman has posted a number of improvisations on Youtube. Improvisation is much more of a skill in Europe - particularly France viz. Pierre Cochereau, Jean Langlais, Daniel Roth and Olivier Latry ... Here we have a 13 minute Mahlerian piece culminating in what is an entirely appropriate and instantly recognisable theme played (from about 9.00).And the tune ends too soon for us allComment
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