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#60
February 05, 2012, 08:54:35 AM
Couple of really cool looking concerts coming up at the end of February.

There's a rare chance to hear some Luigi Nono music live at the end of February.

Two concerts, on February 27 and 28, the first at Frederick Loewe Theatre, the second at Judson Church.
A preconcert talk and performance on the 26th, too, at the Greenwich House Music School.

These shows are being put on by people who have been performing Nono in Europe for a number of years along with someone who's worked with Nono on the electronics part of things.

Stefan Litwin, pianist, Stacey Mastrian, voice, Alvise Vidolin, artistic director and electronics.

More information at http://www.emfproductions.org/ if you're interested.

petrarch

#61
February 05, 2012, 01:04:17 PM
Quote from: some guy on February 05, 2012, 08:54:35 AM
Couple of really cool looking concerts coming up at the end of February.
More information at http://www.emfproductions.org/ if you're interested.

Cool stuff, I might just hop to NYC to attend those.
//p
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bhodges

#62
February 05, 2012, 01:58:21 PM
And coincidentally, there's another performance of La lontananza around that time, too (March 3) with Mark Menzies of Ensemble Sospeso:

http://sospeso.com/macchina-sospiro/

At the moment I'm planning to be at this, plus the EMF concerts - will be interesting to compare.

--Bruce

petrarch

#63
February 23, 2012, 06:40:17 PM
Quote from: petrarch on February 05, 2012, 01:04:17 PM
Cool stuff, I might just hop to NYC to attend those.

Will be there for the Monday and Tuesday concerts. Anyone else going?
//p
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snyprrr

#64
February 25, 2012, 08:40:43 AM
I was just listening to the Schoenberg Variations.  Mm,... very spare, I don't really know what to say about it,... didn't really make such an impression. It certainly must have sounded pretty spare at the time, huh? Still, it

CRCulver

#65
February 25, 2012, 11:00:47 AM
I tried listening to Guai ai gelidi nostri today. But in spite of turning my stereo up beyond my usual settings for classical music, I couldn't hear a thing. Eventually I just gave up. Nono's late works seem to be powerful in concert, but home listening of anything starting with Fragmente-Stille is always disappointing.

petrarch

#66
February 25, 2012, 11:17:58 AM
Quote from: CRCulver on February 25, 2012, 11:00:47 AM
I tried listening to Guai ai gelidi nostri today. But in spite of turning my stereo up beyond my usual settings for classical music, I couldn't hear a thing. Eventually I just gave up. Nono's late works seem to be powerful in concert, but home listening of anything starting with Fragmente-Stille is always disappointing.

I have the opposite impression. I especially love the post-string quartet works, and are very enjoyable at home.
//p
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petrarch

#67
February 29, 2012, 06:26:47 PM
Quote from: petrarch on February 23, 2012, 06:40:17 PM
Will be there for the Monday and Tuesday concerts. Anyone else going?

These concerts were quite good, especially Lontananza, which worked really well on that space. But the highlight of both nights was to meet Brewski in person (the after-concert dinner and chat yesterday was a pleasure!).
//p
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not edward

#68
August 01, 2012, 05:20:18 AM
Another new Nono disc from Neos. Unfortunately I think the ...sofferte onde serene..... and Con Luigi Dallapiccola are the same recordings that were released on the col legno disc with Das atmende Klarsein.

"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

petrarch

#69
August 01, 2012, 06:29:07 AM
Quote from: edward on August 01, 2012, 05:20:18 AM
Another new Nono disc from Neos. Unfortunately I think the ...sofferte onde serene..... and Con Luigi Dallapiccola are the same recordings that were released on the col legno disc with Das atmende Klarsein.



Con Luigi Dallapiccola has a different set of musicians. ...sofferte onde serene..... is with Hinterhäuser on both, however the timings are different. In any case, I am sold on this one; having a properly recorded A Pierre is an opportunity that can't be ignored (the previous recording on Ricordi is not that great). The new recording of Omaggio a Kurtág is a plus.
//p
The music collection.
The hi-fi system: Esoteric X-03SE -> Pathos Logos -> Analysis Audio Amphitryon.
A view of the whole

snyprrr

#70
August 01, 2012, 07:08:49 AM
Quote from: petrarch on August 01, 2012, 06:29:07 AM
Con Luigi Dallapiccola has a different set of musicians. ...sofferte onde serene..... is with Hinterhäuser on both, however the timings are different. In any case, I am sold on this one; having a properly recorded A Pierre is an opportunity that can't be ignored (the previous recording on Ricordi is not that great). The new recording of Omaggio a Kurtág is a plus.

That's like the most utilitarian Nono disc I've ever seen. It's always nice to see that others know how to wisely program their...mm... 'product'! Yes, a GOOD recording would be sweet!!

What's that Luigi, I couldn't hear?! ???


I'm really finding his SQ to be one of my favorite musical expressions. It has everything I need; I'm always choosing it over others when I need a satisfying listen.

bhodges

#71
August 01, 2012, 05:29:46 PM
Quote from: petrarch on February 29, 2012, 06:26:47 PM
These concerts were quite good, especially Lontananza, which worked really well on that space. But the highlight of both nights was to meet Brewski in person (the after-concert dinner and chat yesterday was a pleasure!).

Petrarch, so sorry - somehow I missed this! I can only reply that the pleasure was mine as well. And I enjoyed meeting your marvelous wife, too.

OK, back to Nono...  ;D

--Bruce

Superhorn

#72
August 02, 2012, 08:16:59 AM
    What would you call it if Nono had written a work for nine instruments ?   The Nono nonette !










;D                                                                       ;D                                                        ;D

mjwal

#73
August 04, 2012, 02:35:16 AM
Quote from: Superhorn on August 02, 2012, 08:16:59 AM
    What would you call it if Nono had written a work for nine instruments ?   The Nono nonette !

I thought that was a musical...








;D                                                                       ;D                                                        ;D
The Violin's Obstinacy

It needs to return to this one note,
not a tune and not a key
but the sound of self it must depart from,
a journey lengthily to go
in a vein it knows will cripple it.
...
Peter Porter

petrarch

#74
August 05, 2012, 01:55:20 PM
Quote from: Superhorn on August 02, 2012, 08:16:59 AM
    What would you call it if Nono had written a work for nine instruments ?   The Nono nonette !

If we consider the live electronics as an instrument, there are two such nonets in Nono's oeuvre: Guai ai gelidi mostri and Risonanze erranti, two eminently worthy works.
//p
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petrarch

#75
August 05, 2012, 02:02:30 PM
Quote from: snyprrr on August 01, 2012, 07:08:49 AM
I'm really finding his SQ to be one of my favorite musical expressions. It has everything I need; I'm always choosing it over others when I need a satisfying listen.

Yes, there is something very special about the SQ. It would be one of my 'desert island' works.
//p
The music collection.
The hi-fi system: Esoteric X-03SE -> Pathos Logos -> Analysis Audio Amphitryon.
A view of the whole

petrarch

#76
September 08, 2012, 08:15:19 AM
Quote from: edward on August 01, 2012, 05:20:18 AM
Another new Nono disc from Neos. Unfortunately I think the ...sofferte onde serene..... and Con Luigi Dallapiccola are the same recordings that were released on the col legno disc with Das atmende Klarsein.



Just got this today. All works are brand new recordings, all from December 2010.
//p
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not edward

#77
September 08, 2012, 09:44:18 AM
Quote from: petrarch on September 08, 2012, 08:15:19 AM
Just got this today. All works are brand new recordings, all from December 2010.
Good to know. That pushes the disc into the 'must-have' category for me.
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

petrarch

#78
September 08, 2012, 05:36:21 PM
Gave this a listen today:



The recordings are all top notch. Finally, an A Pierre that is clean and transparent and with outstanding clarity, traits that are common to the other recordings presented here. This clarity makes me almost thoroughly enjoy ...sofferte onde serene..., a work which I never cared much for partly because of the muddled sound of the bass notes in the tape, which here come across much closer to what the tape sounds like in concert. Omaggio a Kurtág is one of my favorite works, and this recording does it great justice, although I think I prefer the slightly wetter reverberation in the Montaigne disc. Topping it all off, a stellar sounding performance of Con Luigi Dallapiccola, with its interplay of metallic ringing percussion and the drier, skin and wood percussion instruments.
//p
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snyprrr

#79
April 06, 2014, 10:46:22 AM
Watch me draw petrarch out with the Nono Thread (tee hee ;) :D ;D)
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