There is still hope, brother ....

[cloughie]

Regarding the Robert Saxton: as has happened with other CDs, when I inserted it into the 'tower' (or whatever it's called) of my PC, a different cover image popped up - I'm assuming it's the one on the original release, one of those EMI Classics on which the list of contents irritatingly blocks out part of the cover image. The EMI Angel CD is presumably the re-release - or is it t'other way round?
I shall give the Schoenberg Fantasia a listen. I really enjoy Schoenberg's 'reductions' of Strauss waltzes, and can listen to all of Verklaerte Nacht without suffering a violent reaction of the sort that the Siegfried Idyll invariably triggers.

Probably t’other way round - I think that some early EMI CDs came out under the Angel logo but I may be making assumptions. I think the old HMV logo with the intently listening Nipper had already gone to a certain record store chain but the American ‘Angel’ was used internationally.

What is your aversion to Siegfried Idyll?

[french frank]

I'm still waiting for the penny to drop with Janacek and I'm not sure that Pierrot Lunaire will ever open up to me

Pierrot Lunaire, yes, I agree with you there - but Janáček's piano music? On an Overgrown Path, In the Mists?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnZY2Xpv9kM

[Mandryka]

I was going to say I'm not musically trained either,.

A-ha!

[Mandryka]

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but I firmly believe that it will help me to keep going, especially where music is concerned!

What do you think of this? (Just happen to be enjoying it this morning.)

[Mandryka]

- Boulez and Birtwistle for example - :

I'll just mention some Birtwistle which I thought was lovely, his songs! They were one of my most enjoyable discoveries last year. The 9 settings of Nerine Niedecker -- there a recording of it by Alice Rossi, and I like her voice. And Bogenstrich, inspired by Rilke’s Liebes Lied, including two settings of the same poem and quite a variety of instrumental pieces for cello and piano in between - has a seriousness which makes me think of Brahms. Roderick Williams has recorded it with Adrian Brendel on his cello, even the poem is beautiful


As far as Boulez is concerned, I love Pli selon Pli -- but probably not in any commercial releases. There was a concert with Matthias Pinscher conducting in 2015 which turned me on to it, I can let you have a recording if you send me a private message.

[LMcD]

Probably t’other way round - I think that some early EMI CDs came out under the Angel logo but I may be making assumptions. I think the old HMV logo with the intently listening Nipper had already gone to a certain record store chain but the American ‘Angel’ was used internationally.

What is your aversion to Siegfried Idyll?

I'm afraid that, to my admittedly untrained ear, it's one of those pieces that seems to go on and on without actually going anywhere - I DO like to feel that I've been on a journey when a piece concludes. Bewildering and irrational as that may sound, I have a friend who feels exactly the same way about The Lark Ascending.
Let's face it - everybody's weird to a greater or lesser degree!

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm afraid that, to my admittedly untrained ear, it's one of those pieces that seems to go on and on without actually going anywhere - I DO like to feel that I've been on a journey when a piece concludes. Bewildering and irrational as that may sound, I have a friend who feels exactly the same way about The Lark Ascending.
Let's face it - everybody's weird to a greater or lesser degree!

They way I would put it consists in The Lark Ascending being more in-the-moment, non-goal orientated, present-centred consciousness-based in conception than Siegfrieds Idyll, which had definite intentions involved!

[LMcD]

They way I would put it consists in The Lark Ascending being more in-the-moment, non-goal orientated, present-centred consciousness-based in conception than Siegfrieds Idyll, which had definite intentions involved!

All I know is that one is a lot higher - in more ways than one - by the end of the Lark whereas the Idyll leaves you still stuck at the bottom of the stairs.

[cloughie]

I'm afraid that, to my admittedly untrained ear, it's one of those pieces that seems to go on and on without actually going anywhere - I DO like to feel that I've been on a journey when a piece concludes. Bewildering and irrational as that may sound, I have a friend who feels exactly the same way about The Lark Ascending.
Let's face it - everybody's weird to a greater or lesser degree!

I definitely resemble that remark. Then I like both Siegfried Idyll and Lark Ascending, the former by Solti in the scaled down chamber forces version. Mind you, and don’t let on to anyone else on the forum I also like Copland’s Rodeo.

[LMcD]

I definitely resemble that remark. Then I like both Siegfried Idyll and Lark Ascending, the former by Solti in the scaled down chamber forces version. Mind you, and don’t let on to anyone else on the forum I also like Copland’s Rodeo.

Your secret is safe with me

[oddoneout]

I definitely resemble that remark. Then I like both Siegfried Idyll and Lark Ascending, the former by Solti in the scaled down chamber forces version. Mind you, and don’t let on to anyone else on the forum I also like Copland’s Rodeo.

Bucking the trend there pardner?