KoechlinLes Heures Persanes for piano. There’s also an orchestrated versionLes chants du nectaire. A three-hour work for solo flute. He’s a composer worth exploring… an eccentric of diverse interests and influences.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 12 June 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
can someone explain to a dummy (not me, of course) what the "s" in s-tier stands for?
― alpine static, Monday, 14 June 2021 07:52 (two years ago) link
I'm not sure except that I remember when I played Devil May Cry on the PS2 some 20 years ago, the highest ranking you could get was S (A was second to S), and I started noticing that S-tier (and SS-tier, SSS-tier) was a specific way of suggesting super-superlativity on usually Japanese-developed shooting and dancing games
― what's fgti up to these days? nothing. she's fake (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 14 June 2021 11:35 (two years ago) link
it's apparently derived from some japanese academic grading systems and made its way into english via video games
― ufo, Monday, 14 June 2021 12:28 (two years ago) link
some of my favorite Buxtehude:
Sonata in G Minor, BuxWV 261Toccata in G Major, BuxWV 165Prelude in E Minor, BuxWV 143Chaconne in C Minor, BuxWV 159
― eisimpleir (crüt), Monday, 14 June 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
My favorite B-tier composers, choral edition
Howells (Requiem)Harris (Faire is the Heaven)Martin (Mass for double choir)Tavener (Song for Athene, The Lamb)Thompson (Alleluia, The Best of Rooms)Durufle (Ubi caritas)Josquin (Deploration sur la mort d’Ockeghem)Milhaud (Psalm 121)Ockeghem (Missa “Mi-Mi”, particularly the Agnus Dei)
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 14 June 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
milhaud is great and so his les six compadre francis poulenc
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, 14 June 2021 14:12 (two years ago) link
ah shit I meant to include Poulenc
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 14 June 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
btw, my Spotify Release Radar playlist threw this movement from a symphony by Louise Ferranc; I had never heard of her but I like this a lot
https://open.spotify.com/track/70WG7tXKMQGcyLLG8PVVJ3?si=b39342cfb99b48ff
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 14 June 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
Awesome DJP I can’t wait to listen to all this tonight
― what's fgti up to these days? nothing. she's fake (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 14 June 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
KoechlinLes Heures Persanes for piano. There’s also an orchestrated versionLes chants du nectaire. A three-hour work for solo flute. He’s a composer worth exploring… an eccentric of diverse interests and influences.Co-sign both versions of Les Heures PersanesAlso unmissable: Offrandre Musicale sur le Nom de BACH; the Law of the Jungle and Spring Running movements of The Jungle Book, Paysages et Marines (solo piano or chamber versions) and the Seven Stars Symphony (each movement dedicated to a different silent film star)
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 18 June 2021 04:17 (two years ago) link
Thanks for this, was listening to different versions of each this orning. It's amazing how differently organists interpret the keyboard works. 143 was subdued and almost melancholy in the Bryndorf version, but brassy and assertive when played by Koopman. Koopman's liner notes specifically state there is little information how Buxtehude would have played his own works "so do what feels right for you."
I'm a little on the fence about Koopman's playing/interpretation anyway, but my feelings for him are complicated by him complaining in an interview about electric power windmills.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 22 May 2023 16:37 (eleven months ago) link