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three months pass...
I’m in Paris when Radio France is doing their weekend Xenakis festival. Have tickets to the two orchestral concerts of the series cause no American orchestra ever does.
Also seeing Kurtag’s Fin de Partie at the Opera Garnier.
― Otto Insurance (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 13 March 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
six months pass...
Went to the Oresteia at Oslo City Hall last week; my second time attending this work in this city, the first being iirc in the 90s with the master attending.
1) Generally good stuff under the baton of Christian Eggen, who really should get some sort of international recognition for his relentless work in the space between repertoire curiosity and tradition;
2)the scary Eumenide parts could do with being a bit louder and scarier for my taste;
3) the Kassandra – and this is by some distance my least favourite part of the work per se – totally smashed it, surpassing every recording and/or youtube rehearsal thingy I've heard. Seth Carico, I've now googled her name as being. Damn. Going outside afterwards, I heard random audience members holler Kassandra-like lines into the night, not kidding.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 12:20 (one year ago) link
btw: I fell off the main course of this thread at least a couple of times for various personal reasons, last around the middle of 2021 it seems. The thread is an astonishing trove of reactions, knowledge, lore, musings, etc. There is no doubt I'll pick up the entire project at some time and pretend I was there with you. Sincere thanks, Sund4r; missing pom.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
Oh it was my pleasure, glad you enjoyed it. The live experience sounds great. I finally got around to buying the Apex 2CD set with the Ensemble Intercontemporain on disc 1 (Phlegra, Jalons, etc) and all the harpsichord pieces by Chojnacka on disc 2. Love having all those harpsichord pieces in one place - a great listen.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 23 September 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link