Chez Stravinsky

[ChamberNut]

Any liner notes included with this box set?  Not that big of a deal, just curious.

[karlhenning]

Any liner notes included with this box set?  Not that big of a deal, just curious.

22-pp booklet, performer info on all the works. 

[ChamberNut]

Thanks Karl.  I believe I shall order it (have it shipped at work). 

[karlhenning]

And, of course, Ray, you'll want a better Agon than the "Los Angeles Festival Symphony Orchestra"  0:)

[karlhenning]

Grumble noted 

[Franco]

And, of course, Ray, you'll want a better Agon than the "Los Angeles Festival Symphony Orchestra"  0:)

Yes, you keep complaining about this recording - but have yet to fully explain your problem other than a vague mention of mistakes.  I just purchased the score and would be interested in a discussion of it (it is one of my favorite Stravinsky compositions).

A GMG Agon critical listening party anyone?

[karlhenning]

Yes, you keep complaining about this recording - but have yet to fully explain your problem other than a vague mention of mistakes.

Yes, but I may have mentioned that I am playing a recital tomorrow  0:)

. . . I just purchased the score and would be interested in a discussion of it (it is one of my favorite Stravinsky compositions).

A GMG Agon critical listening party anyone?

Sure.

[ChamberNut]

Thanks Karl.  I believe I shall order it (have it shipped at work). 

Less than $2.50 CDN a disc.  Can't wait!  Should arrive next week. 

[karlhenning]

Excellent!

[ChamberNut]

Now, the most difficult decision will be:  What the hell do I listen to first?  I'll either just start the boring way...with Disc 1 all the way to 22, or do random disc selections and leave it to chance. 0:)

[ChamberNut]

Or you could try to answer my question that everyone ignored:

What do these pieces have in common?

Violin Concerto
Renard
Cantata
Card Party

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Perhaps I can attempt an answer once I've heard the Renard and Cantata pieces. 

[Guido]

What a un-Hobson-like choice this is; no way to go wrong.  I find myself listening to periods and places, esp. in the transitions. Like the stuff toward the end of the Diaghilev period, the odd and ends he put out at the same time comprise a wild spectrum, the musical offspring of a sort of wandering musical promiscuity: huge ballets, peasant songs, short-lived dabblings with pianola and parlor piano and cimbaloms, often tinged with a Russianness that sometimes seems like marketing and sometimes seems like homesickness.

Or the smaller scale exploratory things and rewrites after the move to LA.

Don't know the answer to your question sorry. Could you be specific about some of the pieces you're talking about above?

I loved both of your stories above by the way - the violin concerto one and the concerto for two pianos one (what a marvellous piece that and the double piano sonata are!!)

[Franco]

I think you should start with the Ballets Vol. II set.  It is the second group of three disks.

[Guido]

Cheers - I'll have a go with them.

Good addendum and I wish you all the best with your meeting.

esp. if he brings up Carmina Burana or the question of whether music IS a language

Now you've piqued my interest again!

[karlhenning]

Love, love, love that Concerto for two pianos.  Heard it first in a class where we were analyzing it.

[karlhenning]

A GMG Agon critical listening party anyone?

I do think this a lovely idea, Franco;  I'll start a specific thread . . . .

[karlhenning]

. . . here.

[karlhenning]

I know...in any event that recording alone was enough for me to totally fall in love with that piece, and take my appreciation of the composer to a whole new level!

That's okay;  even a lesser recording (and in all events, this recording does benefit from the composer's presence) is sufficient to inspire love for a great music.  I have no quarrel with that.

[Franco]

I know...in any event that recording alone was enough for me to totally fall in love with that piece, and take my appreciation of the composer to a whole new level!

I hope you join the listening thread - the more the merrier.

[karlhenning]

By all means!