The Cooke Book

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Scion7

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January 30, 2016, 06:44:12 PM
There's at least one gasp left for this thread.
I would like to have his piano chamber pieces recorded and issued.
When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

Christo

#41
January 31, 2016, 11:37:16 AM
Lyrita will release these two premiere recordings of symphonies No. 4 and 5 in one or two weeks: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arnold-Cooke-Symphonies-Nos-E-Flat/dp/B019CK9ZPO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454272551&sr=8-1&keywords=arnold+cooke
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

vandermolen

#42
January 31, 2016, 01:56:10 PM
Quote from: Christo on January 31, 2016, 11:37:16 AM
Lyrita will release these two premiere recordings of symphonies No. 4 and 5 in one or two weeks: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arnold-Cooke-Symphonies-Nos-E-Flat/dp/B019CK9ZPO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454272551&sr=8-1&keywords=arnold+cooke
Have ordered this already.  8)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Scion7

#43
October 13, 2021, 06:14:00 AM
Well, the Pleyel Ensemble has rewarded us with several chamber piece CD's over the past few years.

My question is: has anyone hear ever heard a radio broadcast or live performance of a string quartet by him?
What was your impression?

These seem to be completely unavailable.
When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

calyptorhynchus

#44
June 07, 2025, 12:52:57 PM
To answer your question four years later, Toccata Classics is releasing a disc of the String Quartets 2 and 4 in September.
'Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth.' Robert Burton

'...is it not strange that sheepes guts should hale soules out of mens bodies?' Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing

Symphonic Addict

#45
June 07, 2025, 01:28:32 PM
Great news! I was expecting that release to complete the whole cycle.
The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied.
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