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Listening to Port Arthur: In Memoriam. Gorgeous.

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Now listening to The Fifth Continent narrated by the composer. Cool work.

[Madiel]

Granados

Goyescas

Eduardo del Pueyo (via youtube)

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Really enjoy this, and don't have to resort to youtube to listen to it... sound quality is rather excellent for a 1950s recording.

Thread duty: Symphony No.5

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[kishnevi]

Now listening to The Fifth Continent narrated by the composer. Cool work.

Curious as to why they chose for a CD specifically linked to Australia  a cover image which is apparently a picture of bare ruined choirs in Britain?  Are there any textual references in the work to justify it? Or any details on the cover image?

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First time I've ever listened to the complete opera, as this is the first complete recording I've ever gotten. And it's good enough to remain the only recording I want, even if Callas wasn't vocally optimal here, in the second (1959) recording. (which supposed defect doesn't show very much).  Interesting trivia notes: she performed Lucia only for a short number of years, and La Scala and the Met tie for the most performances in a single house (seven each);  the conductor who conducted her most often in this opera was Karajan (two in Berlin, three in Vienna, and, perhaps surprisingly, all the La Scala performances).

And that was my 5000th post.

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Curious as to why they chose for a CD specifically linked to Australia  a cover image which is apparently a picture of bare ruined choirs in Britain?  Are there any textual references in the work to justify it? Or any details on the cover image?

Who knows? I'll have to look at the inside of the booklet....

[Bogey]

A wonderful 6 while driving down through the Rockies tonight.

[Madiel]

Curious as to why they chose for a CD specifically linked to Australia  a cover image which is apparently a picture of bare ruined choirs in Britain?  Are there any textual references in the work to justify it? Or any details on the cover image?

It's the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. That looks very much like south-eastern Tasmania, and quite possibly Port Arthur.  SE Tasmania has a marked tendency for fooling people familiar with Europe into thinking it's Europe.

[Todd]

A couple works from my favorite modern set of the complete cycle.

[kishnevi]

It's the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. That looks very much like south-eastern Tasmania, and quite possibly Port Arthur.  SE Tasmania has a marked tendency for fooling people familiar with Europe into thinking it's Europe.

It's the apparent ruins that intrigued me:  is there anyplace in Tasmania with something that looks like the ruins of a English Gothic abbey?

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OVPP Vivaldi concertos==concertos as chamber music!  Like it very much, and can see why Annie didn't.

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It's the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. That looks very much like south-eastern Tasmania, and quite possibly Port Arthur.  SE Tasmania has a marked tendency for fooling people familiar with Europe into thinking it's Europe.

Now that makes, especially since Sculthorpe's birthplace is Launceston, Tasmania.

[Madiel]

It's the apparent ruins that intrigued me:  is there anyplace in Tasmania with something that looks like the ruins of a English Gothic abbey?

EDIT: A general Google of 'Port Arthur' images will show, from different angles, buildings that look extremely similar to the CD cover. It looks to me very much as if they've taken that shot from behind one of the ruins near the top of the hill.

[kishnevi]

We were apparently doing the same thing at the same time....(Paging Navneeth!)
(Second edit, to insert photos found at another link. ) One of them is the building seen at the bottom of the cover image (I'm pretty sure), and the other, if my identification is correct, is the church seen in the background center of the cover image.



Article, with links to the images I posted here:
http://www.burildawaters.com.au/articles/history-and-heritage/
Certainly you're correct about how many possibilities there are in the Port Arthur area, and the landscape in the Port Arthur photos certainly matches the CD cover image.

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Mesmerizing. That's all that needs to be said right now.

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Listening to Symphony No. 18. Sounds great so far. I haven't listened to this symphony in quite some time.

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music from Malta
CAMILLIERI: Maltese Dances, Mediterranean Dances    GALEA: Ggantja (Suite)
PULVIRENTI: Impressione Sinfonica
Slovak Radio New Philharmonic Orch.,  Michael Laus, cond.

[Que]

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OVPP Vivaldi concertos==concertos as chamber music!  Like it very much, and can see why Annie didn't.

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I'm curious why, didn't he complain about the quality of the recording? Or are you thinking of something else?

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Enjoying my Chistmas vacation. 

This is a persuasive and very stylishly-executed collection of German instrumental music (keyboard and plucked strings) from the fifteenth century. Swiss born Corina Marti plays a claviciterium (an upright, vertically strung, precursor of the harpsichord) by Emile Jobin after a late 15th century original – unknown maker. Polish Michal Gondko plays both a six-course lute in A by Szymon Gasienica and Marcus Wesche after pictorial sources; and a four-course gittern (a small precursor of the guitar – gut-strung and plucked with a quill, originating a century earlier) in C by George Stevens after Hans Ott, mid 15th century.

Full review HERE.

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[milk]

This is just to keep up with the folks on this site. I'm just listening to the Shostakovich tonight. I say: wow!

This is another step in my trying to appreciate Bach's partitas on the piano. This was pretty enjoyable. I feel the piano is at a
disadvantage here - it can't quite provide the sonic intensity...kind of like playing the Ramones on a banjo. Well, maybe it's not quite like that. Anyway, she does it elegantly.
She has good taste and a good sense of momentum. I'm going to listen again. 

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Mesmerizing. That's all that needs to be said right now.

The best opera. Ever.

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Great disc, and one of Weinberg's best symphonies:

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