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  • Quarky
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    • Dec 2010
    • 2660

    #16
    Originally posted by Rosie55 View Post
    Good to hear that again. I thought the chat was well done too.
    I'm more for soprano/piano than oboe/percussion I must confess.
    Any other thoughts?
    Claire Booth is certainly my favourite soprano for contemporary music. I see Claire will be performing at Wigmore Hall in March with composers Birtwistle Goehr, PMD in tow. Whether that will be broadcast? I might break my fast and actually go to that concert.

    An excellent programme, and Milton Babbitt an added bonus. I know we've already discussed this, but I was getting impatient with all the chat. At one point a musician compared the composition process to the science of physics - hang on, aren't we supposed to enjoy music? Physics is deadly serious.

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      #17
      Originally posted by Oddball View Post
      hang on, aren't we supposed to enjoy music? Physics is deadly serious.
      So is Music.
      Both are highly enjoyable.
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • Rosie55
        Full Member
        • Oct 2011
        • 121

        #18
        I couldn't agree more re Claire Booth.
        I liked the NMC Songs and the Hoddinott most.

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          #20
          A very enjoyable programme - the Hoddinott cycle the highlight of the concert, but I also thought the Cardew and Skempton pieces fascinating. I do not quite share Oddy & Rosie's enthusiasm for Clair Booth: I didn't like her wide vibrato on louder notes, and the ends of some of the longer notes "drooped" in pitch. Barbara Beardsley in Babbitt's Philomel (the best work in the programme for me) was closer to my own "ideal", or, better still, Anu Komsi:

          Anu Komsi sings György Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre at Pražské jaro 2007. Sakari Oramo conducts the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.


          ( ... showing, incidentally that the type of singing rather disparaged by Ms Booth in her talk is still beautiful singing given the right voice and intellect.*)

          MANY thanks to Rosie, both for pointing out this event and for the Hoddinott links: a disgracefully marginalized composer whose work deserves much greater prominence in the R3 schedules.

          EDIT: * = Mind you, I wouldn't want her costume to become a concert "norm"!
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • Quarky
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            • Dec 2010
            • 2660

            #21
            "Mind you, I wouldn't want her costume to become a concert "norm"! "

            Clearly well equipped for keeping unruly members of the audience under firm control!

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            • Rosie55
              Full Member
              • Oct 2011
              • 121

              #22
              Haha indeed!
              Happy to point this out - I'd enjoyed the concert as I mentioned so thought I'd spread word.
              The Hoddinott piece is a find and I thought Booth's pianist really got to the guts of it - indeed I was most impressed with him. A fine duo

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              • ahinton
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 16122

                #23
                Originally posted by Oddball View Post
                Claire Booth is certainly my favourite soprano for contemporary music
                Should I assume from this that you've never heard Sarah Leonard, then?(!)

                That said, Claire Booth is indeed wonderful.

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                • Rosie55
                  Full Member
                  • Oct 2011
                  • 121

                  #24
                  I cannot warm to Sarah Leonard's voice. I have an excellent NMC CD of Joe Cutler (very good composer) and I heard a young Scottish soprano sing the songs at the Park Lane Group in a more affecting performance than I hear on this CD.
                  I'm afraid Booth is in a different league for me.
                  Just my opinion...I also admire Lore Lixenberg and Anna Dennis singing new music very very much

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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37691

                    #25
                    The greatest female interpreter of avant-garde music for me will always be Dorothy Dorrow.

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      #26
                      All excellent performers who deserve respect and gratitude for their services to new Music.

                      And let's not forget Barbara Hannigan, here singing, acting and conducting. (The last four minutes of the twelve minute clip is audience applause!):

                      "Mysteries of the Macabre" (György Ligeti)Avanti! Chamber OrchestraSoprano & Direction, Barbara HanniganFestival "Présences 2011" (Directeur artistique, René...
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • Roehre

                        #27
                        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                        The greatest female interpreter of avant-garde music for me will always be Dorothy Dorrow.
                        That makes two of us

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                        • Rosie55
                          Full Member
                          • Oct 2011
                          • 121

                          #28
                          Thank you for Dorothy Dorrow info - I shall investigate!

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                          • Quarky
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 2660

                            #29
                            Anja Silja.

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                            • MrGongGong
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 18357

                              #30
                              Linda Hirst ?
                              wonderful and inspirational

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