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What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostI 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.
And that's a great alternative title!
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post...the minimal epic......
John Adams
Naive and Sentimental Music.
Royal Scottish NO/Oundjan. Chandos SACD 2018.
Reich
The Desert Music.
Chorus Sine Nomine/Tonkünstler-Orchester/K-Jarvi. Chandos SACD 2011.
"Say to them:
[Humankind] has survived hitherto because [they] were
too ignorant to know how to realise [their]
wishes. Now that they can realise them, [they]
must either change them or perish."
(Apologies for update to WCW...but somehow I think he'd be OK with that...)
Composer contemporary music new music modern music 20th century music twentieth century music orchestral opera Dance contemporary dance repertoire news programme notes soundclips Bote & Bock Simrock Anton Benjamin composing books recording CD scores libretto biography performing programming broadcasting library student journalism press hire synopsis premiere compositeur
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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.
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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.
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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
Dutton Epoch
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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.....
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post....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.....
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Originally posted by Joseph K View PostThe Carter is indeed a very fine piece...
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.
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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostAs is the Reich Triple Quartet though I don't know this version. . .
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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
Video showing Vienna Horns in F and Wagner Tuben, they are correctly called Wagner TUBEN (TUBE singular) (as in TUBES) and not TUBAS actually. Time and the n...
... historic (?1965) recording of Solti in rehearsal ... This has real drama, emotional impact and fizz ...
3: Scherzo
Chopin Etude Op10 No1 - Evgeny Kissin
Evgeny Kissin playing 8 of Chopin's Etudes from op. 10 and op. 25, live in Moscow in 2009. This recital was in memory of Yevgeny Svetlanov, and at the end Ki...
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.
VOCES8 sings Pavel Tschesnokoff's 'Spaséñiye, sodélal' (Salvation is created) in the ornate Cathedral Basilica in St Louis, MO.The video forms part of the gr...
5: Rondo Finale
Gert van Hoef improvises on the Henry Willis & Sons organ in Liverpool Cathedral.
website http://www.gertvanhoef.nl/.Opname: 13 augustus 2015Gert van Hoef verkent het Henry Willis & Sons organ in Liverpool.Geniet van de majestueuze klanken...
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 all
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