This promises to be a lively, culturally rich exploration:
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Thanks ff. Very much looking forward to this - it should make up for lack of her music's coverage in this country. I read somewhere that Erik Satie almost thought of her as his daughter.Originally posted by french frank View Post -
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Some examples. I very much look forward to hearing more of her works.
Ballade pour piano et orchestre (1920)
Piano Trio
Partita, per pianoforteLast edited by doversoul1; 09-04-15, 20:52.Comment
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Very much enjoyed what I've heard this week, especially yesterday's gorgeous sonata for harp.
It's about the first time I've ever heard anything by a female classical composer and wanted to rush out and buy the CD. Prices on Amazon are a bit steep but I guess I can stretch the
budget ...Comment
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I was left with a huge lump in the throat at the sad life she led and the manner in which she managed to disguise this fact in the sunny disposition of the bulk of her music, and much touched by her friendship with Poulenc, the flavour of whose later music came eventually to inform her own.
Did I hear Donald McLeod refer in today's programme to French student demonstrations in 1957? Something was fast mentioned en passant about her joining then leaving the French CP: would these have been against the Soviets' occupation of Hungary? P'raps I should listen again...Comment
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I heard en passant 1968, which would make more direct sense perhaps...Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
I've been slightly underwhelmed by what I've been able to catch of her music. But then I don't go a bundle on that strand of French music that involves solo flute and solo harp being droopy and wistful or quirkily cheery.
I did like the song cycle Paris Sentimental however....
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Been a week of very welcome opening of eyes. Thx, R3.Comment
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Try this for the harp sonata: I bought it for the Hindemith!Originally posted by Lancashire Lass View Post
PS: I haven't checked the playlist to see which recording was played.
PPS: Now I have. Looks like it will be the same performance. The link might be to a reissue on a cheaper label than the one you searched for.Comment
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Managed to listen to Thursdays programme. Very much like this composer!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Cheers Pulcinella, looks a lot more reasonable than the other CDs I found!Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostTry this for the harp sonata: I bought it for the Hindemith!
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Kate makes her entry with a timely renewed look at Tailleferre, launching her week with a piano piece I would have taken to be a "missing" work from John Ireland's Decorations. The woodwind piece that follows shows her closer in its pastoral feel to the bitonal Milhaud of 1918, its year of composition, but it is clear that Bliss had heard Jeux de pleine air when he composed his own two-piano, French-titled Masques a few years later.
Vraiment, music de pleine air.
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Enjoyed Episode One ……Comment
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Episode 2 - just as good. Ms Molleson hosts the programme much as did her predecessor, inviting "experts" in, asking pertinent questions, albeit rather more extrovertly.Originally posted by antongould View PostComment
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