What CD, book, DVD etc are you waiting for?

[EdgeleyRob]

Heading this way,very excited,hence the big picture !

[Beef Oven!]

Heading this way,very excited,hence the big picture !

Wow! No wonder you're excited - great picture!

[EdgeleyRob]

Wow! No wonder you're excited - great picture!

If you think the picture is great,you should hear the music !

[Beef Oven!]

If you think the picture is great,you should hear the music !

Has it arrived then?

[EdgeleyRob]

Has it arrived then?

Not yet,but it's so close I can almost taste it.

[Beef Oven!]

Not yet,but it's so close I can almost taste it.

[teamsaint]

I rather assumed that because The composer was Russian, ER could almost taste the Red Red Wein.

Edit: Enjoy, ER, you are a great advocate for his work.

Its on my wish list.

[Bryn]

Robert Ashley: Atatanta (Acts of God) Part II

I have been putting off ordering this, due to it either bearing an excessive price if supplied from the U.K., or still rather pricey, and carrying import and Royal Mail handling charges if ordered from across The Pond. Anyway, this evening I toured round amazons .fr, .es, .it and then, with little expectation, .de. Behold, they were offering the handsomely packaged double CD set for £30.08 including p&p (and, of course, no customs charges). Still no bargain basement price, but around 56% of what amazon.co.uk are asking.

[Oops. Just cancelled that order. I found somewhere even cheaper, i.e. Soundohm, who are only charging €26.50 (including priority mail).]

[Beef Oven!]

Brandenburg Concertos

Gardiner

Hogwood

[EdgeleyRob]

Has it arrived then?

It has now,that's my bank holiday weekend listening sorted.

[Beef Oven!]

It has now,that's my bank holiday weekend listening sorted.

life's little pleasures are often the best.



I'm waiting for an Il Giardino Armonica collection, hoped it'd be here today :sad face: Still, got tomorrow, so might still get here for the weekend.

[Bryn]

Robert Ashley: Concrete



Ordered from ReR Megacorp, who appear to offer the best price (with 'free' p&p included).

[Beef Oven!]

Robert Ashley: Concrete



Ordered from ReR Megacorp, who appear to offer the best price (with 'free' p&p included).

I have never heard of RA, sounds very interesting. Does this work include electronics and stuff?

ReR Megacorp also new to me, tons of interesting works there.

I couldn't see Concrete, did you download the last one?

[Bryn]

Try the opening section of yourself, via YouTube:

Here's the URL for the double CD of Concrete at ReR Megacorp:

http://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RM&Product_Code=LCD1010&Category_Code=EL

I think the first Robert Ashley performance I heard was his "Wolfman Motor City Review" at the Music Now festival at the Round House, Chalk Farm, shortly prior to its official opening as a music venue in 1969. We used to perform his "She was a visitor" quite often in the Experimental Music Class run by Cornelius Cardew at Morley College. Probably his best know work is the television opera "Perfect Lives", all 7 episodes of which are, I think, to be found on YouTube, though not in the definition available on the DVD version, of course, though it's still pretty good. Chapter 1 here, for instance.

[Bryn]

The 4th of Peter Greenaway's Four American Composers was devoted to Robert Ashley. It offers a good overview: