Rolling Classical 2012

yeah I need to finally listen to him

I'm afraid of heart attack inducing dynamics tho, like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okD2VSTEWyM

Warning, do not listen to this in the dark.

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.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdGDlMeNyoQ

http://i43.tinypic.com/33xyn1u.jpg

^^^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.

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.

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

Nice haul!

I was looking for Messaien but was screwed before I got to "M".

Lately been enjoying these:
Andras Schiff - Bach: Two and Three Part Inventions
Alban Berg Quartett - Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76: No. 2-4

>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

Man, that is no fun for anyone. =(

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

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

another one just because I love this guy's music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hegtu7bSLZE

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

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.

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

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...

i like skalkottas and radio 3 should be commended for not just doing delius or handel or whatever for the millionth time

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

http://www.otherminds.org/shop/Rugglesdisc.html

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

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7182/6939551135_01552d5157.jpg

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.

http://c3.cduniverse.ws/MuzeAudioArt/Large/11/1098211.jpg

This is killing me right now.

Weird, wrong image - it's this one
http://c3.cduniverse.ws/MuzeAudioArt/Large/88/1142288.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj_dPwmfpAI

intrigued by the guarineri

really into bussotti's bergkristall atm

from 2011, Novak's 24 Preludes & Fugues is pretty remarkable imo

Whoa, never heard of that composer.

Ooh that sounds fascinating.

On a similar scale of contempo piano massiveness, does anyone know James Dillon's 'Book of Elements'?

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?

Sounding good so far.

I don't know it yet! Been considering buying it for quite awhile, based on reviews in Fanfare.

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

cool man, report back!

(do you get hooked up w/free eMu creds for writing columns? If so, jealous!)

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

Leo Ornstein?

yes! thank you

i am currently digging the hell out of roussel's 3rd symphony

Born ca. December 2, 1893
Kremenchuk, Poltava, Russian Empire
Died February 24, 2002 (age 108)
Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States

that's ornstein

roussel doesn't seem too familiar to me.....i don't think i know french interwar modernism well

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...

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

and koechlin is indeed brilliant

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!"

yeah koechlin i know (via present company)

i hope that writer never got to hear ustvolskaya

i still love alkan alkan alkan