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11-28-2020, 08:02 PM
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 Kremer Plays Schnittke - Concerto grosso No. 1 / Quasi una sonata / Moz-Art a'la Haydn / A Paganini
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11-28-2020, 10:57 PM
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Quasi Una Sonata is an orchestral re-orchestration of the original piano and violin arrangement which (imo) improves with repeated listens. The polystylism movement is not one I'm familiar with but can appreciate with someone as committed as Kremer. 
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12-01-2020, 03:47 PM
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Watching and Listening to this one - the best doc on Beethoven I've ever seen: Phil Grabsky's In Search of Beethoven. It's the best in his In Search of... series of major classical composers, imo. Never stays on YouTube long. Enjoy it (free) while you can.
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12-03-2020, 05:02 PM
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 True Stories & Rational Numbers Chris P. Thompson (2020, Bandcamp) Perfect minimalist piano music for my current mood. Spotify edition |
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12-04-2020, 02:30 PM
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 Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (attributed to Pergolesi): Concerti Armonici 1-6 Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Conducted By Neville Marriner (1983, Argo) Spotify edition Listening to the disc. Not crazy about the lack of movement breakdowns on the Spotify edition. But it's a nice sampling of this relatively obscure composer. Last edited by ando here; 12-04-2020 at 02:35 PM. |
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12-05-2020, 08:08 AM
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JOHNSTON,BEN
Ruminations: Settings of Rumi & Billie Holiday I just cannot seem to develop an appreciation for spoken word or almost any type of language based vocals in contemporary classical music. There’s an exception here or there but almost always it just annoys me. I’m like STFU!
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12-05-2020, 06:14 PM
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 Or it could be that you just don't like the approach of contemporary classical singers. And it's funny you should mention the subject as I was just musing to myself about the need for singers of the English language to embellish their delivery with rolling Rs and unduly elongated vowels. Something about the "art song" must lend itself to this kind of thing. To wit, Ian Bostridge singing the second movement aria from early 20th century composer Gerald Finzi's Dies Natalis (1938): Rhapsody (Recitativo Stromentato) Will you see the infancy of this sublime and celestial greatness? I was a stranger, which at my entrance into the world Was saluted and surrounded with innumerable joys My knowledge was divine. I was entertained like an angel With the works of God in their splendour and glory Heaven and Earth did sing my Creator's praises And could not make more melody to Adam than to me Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious Apprehensions of the world than I All appeared new, and strange at first Inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful All things were spotless and pure and glorious The corn was orient and immortal wheat Which never should be reaped nor was ever sown I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting The green trees, when I saw them first, transported and ravished me Their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap And almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things O what venerable creatures did the aged seem! Immortal cherubims! and the young men glittering and sparkling angels And maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty! I knew not that they were born or should die But all things abided eternally I knew not that there were sins or complaints or laws I dreamed not of poverties, contentions or vices All tears and quarrels were hidden from mine eyes I saw all in the peace of Eden Everything was at rest, free and immortal Gerald Finzi, lyrics by Thomas Traherne None of that artful approach is in this rendition of Kurt Weil's Alabama Song from the OPERA, The Rise & Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930) - Audra McDonald, Cast
Well, show me the way To the next whisky bar Oh, don't ask why Oh, don't ask why Show me the way To the next whisky bar Oh, don't ask why Oh, don't ask why For if we don't find The next whisky bar I tell you we must die I tell you we must die I tell you, I tell you I tell you we must die Oh, moon of Alabama We now must say goodbye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey, oh, you know why Oh, moon of Alabama We now must say goodbye We've lost our good old mama And must have dollars, oh, you know why, yeah Well, show me the way To the next little girl Oh, don't ask why Oh, don't ask why Show me the way To the next little girl Oh,… Last edited by ando here; 12-05-2020 at 06:19 PM. |
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12-05-2020, 08:39 PM
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I don’t think I’m likely to develop an appreciation for that stuff.
I like for example St Luke Passion (Penderecki) but it’s in Latin so I’m distracted by whatever the **** they’re saying. And there’s Lejaren Hiller as a rare example of a composer who can pull it off but only in a very surreal context.
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