Daphnis et Chloe Centenary

[teamsaint]

I'm going through a phase of DSCH's 1st Piano Concerto, with Martha Argerich & Sergei Nakariakov...

Sounds great.
I am thinking Viola sonata.. might set up a nice east European feel for the up coming footy !

[Nick Armstrong]

Sounds great.
I am thinking Viola sonata.. might set up a nice east European feel for the up coming footy !

Age of Gold, mate, Age of Gold. Anyway red card to me for wandering way off-topic.

[BBMmk2]

That recpordiong is something specia! I will be playiong the Montreal SO and CharlesDutoit's recordiong of Daphnis et Chloe today!

[Beef Oven]

I'm going through a phase of DSCH's 1st Piano Concerto, with Martha Argerich & Sergei Nakariakov...

Have you heard the composer's own performance of the 'No hands' Version of the 1st Concerto?

[teamsaint]

Age of Gold, mate, Age of Gold. Anyway red card to me for wandering way off-topic.

don't know it....novice alert !!
Will try to find some bits to listen to...between D an C spins obviously. (to keep it on topic !)

[Beef Oven]

I would never diss the great man.....a genius composer who loved his football? What's not to love...but there may have been lonely moments while struggling with the 7th, perhaps, or mental blocks when trying to both compose and deal with the harsh political realities......


anyway, off topicc, and i shall pop something DSCH ish on the player today..after all the french and the russians were always good mates..and my D and C homage is done already !!

Have you noticed how he nicked the tune for the first movement of the 7th from Bartok's Concerto For Orchestra?

[Nick Armstrong]

don't know it....novice alert !!

The Golden Age (or Age of Gold) (Russian: Золотой век, "Zolotoi vek"), Op. 22, is a ballet in 3 acts, 6 scenes by Dmitri Shostakovich, follows a Soviet football team in a Western city where they come into contact with many politically incorrect bad characters (the Diva, the Fascist, the Agent Provocateur, the Negro and others). The team fall victim to match rigging, police harassment, and unjust imprisonment by the evil bourgeoisie. The team are freed from jail when the local workers overthrow their capitalist overlords and the ballet ends with a dance of solidarity between the workers and the football team.

[Nick Armstrong]

Have you heard the composer's own performance of the 'No hands' Version of the 1st Concerto?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The Montreal/Dutoit was my first digital purchase - the CD I bought on 1.03.83. It still sounds amazing.

[cloughie]

Yes Munch, yes Monteux, but for an authentically-voiced French version the Cluytens complete stereo version is hard to surpass. Best heard on the Toshiba 1400 series reissue (14088, but I would say that wouldn't I)... Almost forgotten these days after his tragic early death, Eduardo Mata with the Dallas SO is marvellous, first on Navigator, palpable improvements on RCA Sound Dimension 24/96. It may still be out there somewhere...

Did anyone else get the Manuel Rosenthal box on Accord? Very good, very French Daphnis in there too, with the Orchestra of the Paris Opera...

Played and recorded to death really, isn't it? Why not give Earth Dances a spin instead...

Pondering which to play - your reminder to me of the Cluytens (mine is the Testament reissue) - thanks, isn't it beautifully Gallic in sound!

[Pabmusic]

I'm very fond of the recording by Raphael Frübeck de Burgos and the Philharmonia (or NPO, actually). He's a conductor whose reputation seems to have faded.

On a different point, the two ballet suites shouldn't be forgotten. I don't know if they were Ravel's work, or whether he left them to others, but they do make more satisfactory items for live programmes that the complete ballet, which is great on CD.

[teamsaint]

The Golden Age (or Age of Gold) (Russian: Золотой век, "Zolotoi vek"), Op. 22, is a ballet in 3 acts, 6 scenes by Dmitri Shostakovich, follows a Soviet football team in a Western city where they come into contact with many politically incorrect bad characters (the Diva, the Fascist, the Agent Provocateur, the Negro and others). The team fall victim to match rigging, police harassment, and unjust imprisonment by the evil bourgeoisie. The team are freed from jail when the local workers overthrow their capitalist overlords and the ballet ends with a dance of solidarity between the workers and the football team.

Well THAT is on my list.
Thanks Cali.....
(lets hope gary lineker doesn't get to hear about it....)

[Beef Oven]

The Golden Age (or Age of Gold) (Russian: Золотой век, "Zolotoi vek"), Op. 22, is a ballet in 3 acts, 6 scenes by Dmitri Shostakovich, follows a Soviet football team in a Western city where they come into contact with many politically incorrect bad characters (the Diva, the Fascist, the Agent Provocateur, the Negro and others). The team fall victim to match rigging, police harassment, and unjust imprisonment by the evil bourgeoisie. The team are freed from jail when the local workers overthrow their capitalist overlords and the ballet ends with a dance of solidarity between the workers and the football team.

Interesting. I am familiar with the music because it seemed to be tacked onto so many CDs I bought, but I didn't know the story. Based in Turkey is it?

[teamsaint]

Have you heard the composer's own performance of the 'No hands' Version of the 1st Concerto?

The "Golden age" of British comedy !
At my first proper place of employment, we had a mirror like that.
Happy days.

[cloughie]

The "Golden age" of British comedy !
At my first proper place of employment, we had a mirror like that.
Happy days.

I don't know why, but there it is.