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not edward

#420
November 18, 2007, 06:37:48 AM
A follow-up to my earlier Rihm upload: Here's Vers une Symphonie fleuve IV, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jac van Steen at the 2000 Huddersfield Festival*.

http://rapidshare.com/files/70584299/Wolfgang_Rihm_-_Vers_une_symphonie_fleuve_IV.mp3.html

*I'm pretty sure these are the performers, though I've mislaid my notes on where the recording was sourced from.
"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

Kullervo

#421
November 18, 2007, 06:53:14 AM
Quote from: edward on November 18, 2007, 06:37:48 AM
A follow-up to my earlier Rihm upload: Here's Vers une Symphonie fleuve IV, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jac van Steen at the 2000 Huddersfield Festival*.

http://rapidshare.com/files/70584299/Wolfgang_Rihm_-_Vers_une_symphonie_fleuve_IV.mp3.html

*I'm pretty sure these are the performers, though I've mislaid my notes on where the recording was sourced from.

Thanks for this. Rihm is hard to find in the US, and, when you do find something, it is very expensive. :(

Lilas Pastia

#422
November 18, 2007, 07:25:53 AM Last Edit: November 18, 2007, 07:29:08 AM by Lilas Pastia
Downoads are available at eclassical:

DanielFullard

#423
November 18, 2007, 09:17:44 AM
Thanks for the link Edward. Much appreciated.

Lethevich

#424
November 18, 2007, 09:42:07 AM
Another thanks from me - I liked it more than the previously uploaded Two Other Movements - it's certainly a less abrasive incarnation of his style :)
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

BachQ

#425
November 18, 2007, 12:47:26 PM
Quote from: Lilas Pastia on November 17, 2007, 06:46:44 AM
Thanks for double-posting here, Thom. I would never have found this Foulds Requiem link otherwise :-*.

What is your opinion of the Requiem (if you've listened to it yet)?

Lilas Pastia

#426
November 18, 2007, 03:59:59 PM
Not heard yet, I'll give it a go next weekend. I only listened to the comments that frame it. I wanted to check if I should retain ior exclude them, but since they offer quite detailed comments on the work's structure, orchestration and text, I decided to keep them. It definitely whetted my appetite !

Guido

#427
November 30, 2007, 04:27:33 AM
I recently attended an LSO concert with Tim Hugh playing the Tischenko cello concerto no.1 and then Gergiev conducting Mahler 6 in the second half. Astonishing performances all round. It will be broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on January 31st 2008 - would someone be willing to record this off the air for me? I know it's a long way in advance, but I can't get my computer to do the capturing thing.
Geologist.

The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away

Maciek

#428
November 30, 2007, 04:32:54 AM
Incidentally, would you like me to upload an Arto Noras recital?

Guido

#429
November 30, 2007, 04:44:11 AM
YES! He is one of my favourite cellists. (His Bartok Rhapsody no.1 recording contains some of the most brilliant cello playing I have ever heard. His Sallinen and Bliss concertos are similarily superb)/
Geologist.

The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away

Lilas Pastia

#430
November 30, 2007, 04:26:55 PM
Just listened to a splendid version of Beethoven's 5th concerto by the formidable Dutch pianist, Cor de Groot (a favourite of Furtwängler) and the no less formidable Willem van Otterloo. This is from a 1951 Philips lp and is available on Rolf von Otter's web site [url-http://homepages.ipact.nl/~otterhouse/]HERE[/url].

Anyone who likes Serkin, Fleisher or Kraus accompanied by the likes of Munch or Szell will have a treat here. The sound is quite good.

Maciek

#431
December 01, 2007, 04:59:24 AM
I keep forgetting to check Otter's site, and every now and then I miss something... :-\

Here's the Noras recital.

Date: April 3rd 2007 (11th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival)
Venue: Royal Castle Concert Hall (Warsaw, Poland)
Performers: Arto Noras cello, Ralf Gothóni piano

Maciek

#433
December 01, 2007, 05:25:48 AM Last Edit: June 09, 2008, 04:28:18 AM by Maciek
And now some more contemporary stuff:

Marek Stachowski - Divertimento
Stachowski was very much a continuator of Bacewicz's line, see sample:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/25/1381505/GMG%20sound%20samples/Stachowski%20Marek%20Divertimento%20sample.mp3[/mp3]
(note: I've replaced the link above with one to a better quality recording - but the sample is still from the old, noisy one)


Aleksander Lason - Gory (Mountains)
A contemporary symphonic poem, no less. See sample:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/25/1381505/GMG%20sound%20samples/Lason%20Aleksander%20Gory%20sample.mp3[/mp3]


Jerzy Kornowicz - Figury w oplocie (Intertwined figures)
One of the more talented Polish composers of the younger (though not youngest) generation. His idiom seems related to post-minimalism and "new tonalism", see sample:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/25/1381505/GMG%20sound%20samples/Kornowicz%20Jerzy%20Figury%20w%20oplocie%20sample.mp3[/mp3]


Andrzej Dziadek - Stabat Mater (for soprano and orchestra)
A very well-done setting, if I may say so. See sample:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/25/1381505/GMG%20sound%20samples/Dziadek%20Andrzej%20Stabat%20Mater%20sample.mp3[/mp3]


And finally, two pieces representative of Gorecki's early ("second period") style:

Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki - Muzyczka (Little Music) I op. 22 (1967) for 2 trumpets and guitar
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/25/1381505/GMG%20sound%20samples/Gorecki%20Henryk%20Mikolaj%20Muzyczka%20I%20sample.mp3[/mp3]

Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki - Muzyczka (Little Music) II op. 23 (1967)
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/25/1381505/GMG%20sound%20samples/Gorecki%20Henryk%20Mikolaj%20Muzyczka%20II%20sample.mp3[/mp3]

hippydippy

#434
December 02, 2007, 11:04:48 AM
QuoteAulis Sallinen - Cello Sonata op. 86

have just downloaded and  listened to this, thank you very much.

Maciek

#435
December 03, 2007, 11:47:36 AM
You're most welcome! :D

BTW, the Sallinen seems to be everyone's favorite to download out of that recital, and by far!

Maciek

#436
December 06, 2007, 05:17:20 AM Last Edit: December 06, 2007, 05:21:25 AM by Maciek
Today, some presents from me...

First two little known piano concertos:

Henryk Wars - Piano Concerto
Henryk Wars is indisputably Poland's best film music composer ever. After an incredible career in Poland he left Europe during WWII for America where he led a bare existence, working as a copyist for most of the time. The fact that he also wrote concert music was only discovered a couple of years ago. This very short (10 min.) Piano Concerto will no doubt remind everyone of... I don't think I even need to say it - just listen to a sample of the opening:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/25/1381505/GMG%20samples%202/Wars%20PC%20sample.mp3[/mp3]



Jan Krenz - Concertino for piano and orchestra
1. Lento rubato. Allegro con spirito
2. Andante sostenuto
3. Allegro vivace
Krenz is best known, at least around these parts, as a conductor. In fact one of the best Polish conductors in history. But he is also a composer of both concert music and film scores (most notably: he wrote the music to Wajda's Canal). This piece comes from early on in his career when he wrote in a plain neoclassical idiom. Here's a sample from the finale:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/25/1381505/GMG%20samples%202/Krenz%20Concertino%20sample.mp3[/mp3]
The soloist is Karol Radziwonowicz, a wonderful pianist who, incidentally, also recorded my favorite version of the Paderewski PC.

Maciek

#437
December 06, 2007, 05:20:42 AM
Bolesław Szabelski's Concerto grosso - a neglected neoclassical masterpiece. And I do not use the word masterpiece lightly.
1. Allegro assai
2. Lento
3. Allegro

Here's a sample of the ending:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/25/1381505/GMG%20samples%202/Szabelski%20Conc%20grosso%20sample.mp3[/mp3]

Maciek

#438
December 06, 2007, 05:35:17 AM
And finally two contemporary pieces:

I have always greatly enjoyed the music of Lidia Zielinska but I believe with her latest piece she has almost surpassed herself. It is a sumptuously beautiful, colorful fresco written by a composer clearly at the top of her game... The Conrad in question is of course writer Joseph Conrad.
Lidia Zielińska - Siedem wysp Conrada (Conrad's Seven Isles)
Here's a sample:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/25/1381505/GMG%20samples%202/Condrads%20Isles%20sample.mp3[/mp3]

Kotoński's Compass Rose is probably his best known composition over here, with a history of countless performances. Though frankly, I think he has written many better pieces.
Wlodzimierz Kotonski - Róża wiatrów (The Compass Rose)
A sample here:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/25/1381505/GMG%20samples%202/Kotonski%20Compass%20rose%20sample.mp3[/mp3]
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