Btw, if you're not aware of it, the CBC now has an online music service including 10 different classical stations:http://music.cbc.ca/
(Hopefully, this will survive the budget cuts.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdGDlMeNyoQ
― tanuki, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 05:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://i43.tinypic.com/33xyn1u.jpg
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Monday, 16 April 2012 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
^^^great album. One of the very few listenable vinyl-to-CD transfers I ever achieved, when I was trying to do such things, was that LP.
― tales from endoscopic oceans (Jon Lewis), Monday, 16 April 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
It's a great recording - wonder why there has been no whiff of a CD reissue. No idea what the market for Ives stuff is like...
Now listening to Tallis Anthems. Hearing the fragment used by V. Williams in his 'Fantasia...' for the first time is a real trip.
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
Big vinyl pull today:
"Music for three pianos in sixths of tones", a collection of piano stuff by Ivan Wyschnegradsky and Bruce Mather. Brilliant gestures hidden in otherwise tedious stuff.
A DG Ligeti compilation: 2nd string quartet (LaSalle), Lux Aeterna, Volumina. Got it for Etude Nr. 1 "Harmonies" for solo organ, really something:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3gVRPmx9cI
David Oistrakh playing Khachaturian, for a dinner tonight
Bernstein/NYPhil playing Elliot Carter Concerto for Orchestra and William Schuman In Praise of Shahn-- so cool, that Schuman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxXnaRFivhE
Bernstein doing Les Noces and Mass, bleah, but I don't have the Mass on vinyl and his version is OK.
Lorand Fenyves and Anton Kuerti playing Bartok, Sonata #1 and 2nd Rhapsody.
Three Ives LPs:
http://www.nonesuch.com/files/imagecache/section-albums-coverart/albums/coverart/degaetani-kalish-ives-songs.jpg
http://991.com/newGallery/Charles-Ives-Symphony-No-1-483950.jpg
http://ring.cdandlp.com/pgraux/photo_grande/113989522.jpg
And fuck it I got this too:
http://i.imgur.com/cFfc5.jpg
Happy record store day
― poxen, Saturday, 21 April 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
Nice haul!
― aluminum rivets must not be proud of their plastic bosses (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 21 April 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
I was looking for Messaien but was screwed before I got to "M".
― poxen, Saturday, 21 April 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Lately been enjoying these:Andras Schiff - Bach: Two and Three Part InventionsAlban Berg Quartett - Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76: No. 2-4
― o. nate, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
>It's a great recording - wonder why there has been no whiff of a CD reissue. No idea what the market for Ives stuff is like...
Columbia's keeping the spate of centennial Ives recordings off the market -- it's some kind of real crime. The John Kirkpatrick Concord, the Gregg Smith 'Music For Chorus' record, those are both top 10 maybe top 5 Ives records
― Milton Parker, Monday, 23 April 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
Man, that is no fun for anyone. =(
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 08:35 (eleven years ago) link
HIYA
does anyone have any current classical guitar/spanish guitar recommendations? it's for my mother so nothing too avant garde, she has fairly traditional tastes
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Friday, 27 April 2012 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
a little leftfield but only a little, but you might look into Ralph Towner albums - he's a guitarist from a 70s band called Oregon, remarkable technique, and his solo stuff is incredibly good unaccompanied guitar compositions, and they're beautifully recorded (they're on ECM). His albums Time Line and Ana are both in this style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb3d9j5Tex4
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 27 April 2012 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
another one just because I love this guy's music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hegtu7bSLZE
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 27 April 2012 12:17 (eleven years ago) link
that is quite gorgeous
has anyone heard of this one? http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=526115
stumbled upon it via reviews etc - know nothing more but i thnk the piece is more in line with her tastes + i think a chinese performer will go down well with her
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Friday, 27 April 2012 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
I've really enjoyed what I've heard of Radio 3's Skalkottas programmes (Composer of the Week). I'd urge anyone who has access to iplayer to listen to those. He's someone to listen to more, clearly.
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 27 April 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
lex, I don't know that performer but EMI's a solid label for classical & the Concierto de Aranjuez is a completely solid piece in the classical guitar repertoire, I would go for it
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 27 April 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
You might also look for a 2-guitar version of Albeniz's Iberia solo piano cycle. I'm pretty sure it's been arranged for guitar duo a couple of times. Sund4r to thread...
― bit.ly sno cone maker (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
i like skalkottas and radio 3 should be commended for not just doing delius or handel or whatever for the millionth time
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
donald mcleod sez nobody he talked to while preparing for the programmes even recognised skalkottas' name
kinda wonder what bawheids are walking around the radio 3 offices
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.otherminds.org/shop/Rugglesdisc.html
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Saturday, 28 April 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/10/debussy-martyre-saint-sebastien-review/print
ha so we were discussing le martyre, and now there's a recording with....isabelle huppert
― www.tumblr.com/tagged/jerome-boateng (nakhchivan), Thursday, 10 May 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7182/6939551135_01552d5157.jpg
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on-book-tickets/music/apartment-house-facing-beauty
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on-book-tickets/music/mark-knoop-artificial-environments
Couple of recitals that are worth going to.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 9 June 2012 12:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://c3.cduniverse.ws/MuzeAudioArt/Large/11/1098211.jpg
This is killing me right now.
― Turangalila, Sunday, 15 July 2012 08:05 (eleven years ago) link
Weird, wrong image - it's this one http://c3.cduniverse.ws/MuzeAudioArt/Large/88/1142288.jpg
― Turangalila, Sunday, 15 July 2012 08:07 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj_dPwmfpAI
― Turangalila, Monday, 16 July 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
intrigued by the guarineri
really into bussotti's bergkristall atm
― clouds, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
from 2011, Novak's 24 Preludes & Fugues is pretty remarkable imo
― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
Whoa, never heard of that composer.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
Ooh that sounds fascinating.
On a similar scale of contempo piano massiveness, does anyone know James Dillon's 'Book of Elements'?
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
I don't but it's on Naxos Online. Would it come across well enough on built-in PC speakers at the reception desk of an office?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
Sounding good so far.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know it yet! Been considering buying it for quite awhile, based on reviews in Fanfare.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
man oh man this Novak, Book Two, Prelude 10, "Elijah" - it makes me wish I could write music like this - it's atypical of the cycle, more melodic, lyrical in an almost traditional way but still very open - so so good
gonna get that Dillon from eMusic
― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
cool man, report back!
(do you get hooked up w/free eMu creds for writing columns? If so, jealous!)
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
trying to remember the name of a composer whose name i have forgotten
in my mind he is filed with antheil.....sort of an eccentric american modernist with an emphasis on piano who lived for a long time iirc
― Claude Parfait Ngon A Djam (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
Leo Ornstein?
― timellison, Friday, 17 August 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
yes! thank you
― Claude Parfait Ngon A Djam (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
i am currently digging the hell out of roussel's 3rd symphony
― clouds, Friday, 17 August 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
Born ca. December 2, 1893Kremenchuk, Poltava, Russian EmpireDied February 24, 2002 (age 108)Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States
― Claude Parfait Ngon A Djam (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
that's ornstein
roussel doesn't seem too familiar to me.....i don't think i know french interwar modernism well
― Claude Parfait Ngon A Djam (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
king of french interwar modernism for me is Koechlin, seek anything he wrote for orchestra.
Roussel went through some quite distinct phases iirc. I only own a disc from his early impressionist-exotica phase (the Spider's Feast and the Padmavati suite) as I have a deep weakness for that particular strain of CM...
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCdeaAiuCrk
he was of an older generation, so any contemporary influences were filtered through whatever language he had developed to that point, but it has a surprising fierceness and an admirable structural reflexiveness.
xp
― clouds, Friday, 17 August 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
and koechlin is indeed brilliant
― clouds, Friday, 17 August 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
I wrote a paper that discussed Ornstein once. There was this quote from, if I remember correctly, a concert notice from really early, maybe the 1910s:
"I do bewail the murderous means with which Leo Ornstein patrolled the piano. He stormed its keys, scooping chunks and slag and spouting scoria like a vicious volcano. Heavens!"
― timellison, Friday, 17 August 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah koechlin i know (via present company)
i hope that writer never got to hear ustvolskaya
― Claude Parfait Ngon A Djam (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
i still love alkan alkan alkan
Enjoyed the Roussel.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 17 August 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
<3 this, reissued as "Istikhbars & Improvisations" this year.
http://weirdorecords.com/zen/images/13600.jpg
Mustapha Skandrani - "Musique Classique Algérienne - Stikhbar" [Pathé Marconi, 1965]Really amazing music from Algerian pianist Mustapha Skandrani – music that effortlessly links up European traditions and North African roots – in a blend that's completely sublime, and unlike anything else we can think of! At many points, Skandrani plays with a complex, virtuostic quality that's right up there with Glenn Gould – but the overall setting is a lot freer, too – with these long, drawn-out tunes that are half improvisations – piano lines stretching forth, based on Algerian vocal modes (even though the set is just piano) – in ways that almost illustrate the same sort of African influence that Randy Weston explored with his 60s piano – yet expressed here by Mustapha in a completely different way! Titles include "Mode Araq", "Mode Raml Maya", "Mode Moual", "Mode Zidane", and "Mode Sika" – plus a number of untitled improvisations.
― Turangalila, Saturday, 18 August 2012 09:07 (eleven years ago) link