The Broadcast Corner

[Lilas Pastia]

Maciek, I think the 2 Lason files are one and the same...

[Drasko]

Of course, these are major discoveries in the radio broadcast category. I could spill out a long list of discoveries in other realms... Like Pierné, or Alfven, or Pulkkis, or Leifs. Oh, I could go on... But won't. It's bedtime over here.

I've posted one Leifs piece (Hafis) somewhere on the forum. Check it out if you haven't run across it before.

[Maciek]

Maciek, I think the 2 Lason files are one and the same...

Oops, you're right - I'll correct that once whatever they're doing at MediaFire is over and I can access my account there...

I've posted one Leifs piece (Hafis) somewhere on the forum. Check it out if you haven't run across it before.

Thanks, Milos - I downloaded that right away when you posted it!

[Maciek]

Oops, you're right - I'll correct that once whatever they're doing at MediaFire is over and I can access my account there...

Done. They're doing some sort of upgrade at MediaFire and the server is down a couple of hours every day - which is why the links sometimes don't work. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Just so you don't have to turn back the page:
Aleksander Lason - Concerto Pablo Casals in memoriam (1985)
Roman Jabłoński cello
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit
http://www.mediafire.com/?ecenlno4tta

[George]

That's because the first and last letters are in order.

[Lilas Pastia]

Thanks, Maciek! Any more Lason? I have only 38 minutes' worth

And what do you make of Leifs? Have you heard Hekla (kabooom-badang ) ?

[Maciek]

Thanks, Maciek! Any more Lason? I have only 38 minutes' worth

Not at the moment.

Did you follow the link I gave on the previous page to more Kotonski?

And what do you make of Leifs? Have you heard Hekla (kabooom-badang ) ?

Hekla was the discovery!

[Lilas Pastia]

If you like Hekla and Hafis, there's plenty more Leifs to explode explore. I can help you with that .

Yeah, I have that Kotonski file downloaded, many thanks! What about the broadcast of this weekend: any details about the piece to be played?

[Drasko]

Hekla was the discovery!

Here is bit more Leifs for you, maybe the unexpected side.

http://rapidshare.com/files/51061757/Leifs.zip.html

[Maciek]

If you like Hekla and Hafis, there's plenty more Leifs to explode explore. I can help you with that .

Yeah, I have that Kotonski file downloaded, many thanks! What about the broadcast of this weekend: any details about the piece to be played?

Great news about Leifs.

The Kotonski is a piece called "Full Summer" for clarinet, cello, piano and electronics - but it's nothing certain until I have it.

The link I meant is this:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/polish.html

It's to a page that has lots of Kotonski's pieces (at least 4).

Oh, and don't miss the amazing Mykietyn song cycle posted above! Mykietyn is Vivaldi to Szymański's Bach. But Vivaldi was an great composer too, right?

Here is bit more Leifs for you, maybe the unexpected side.

http://rapidshare.com/files/51061757/Leifs.zip.html

Download in progress. Thanks!

(Did you find any use for the Chopin/Duczmal link, BTW?)

[Drasko]

(Did you find any use for the Chopin/Duczmal link, BTW?)

I'm expecting internet upgrade in a week or so, will see to get it then if still there.

[Maciek]

I'm expecting internet upgrade in a week or so

WOW! That's good news, no?

will see to get it then if still there.

I think they should be but have no way of checking...

[Maciek]

The link I meant is this:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/polish.html

It's to a page that has lots of Kotonski's pieces (at least 4).

And, if you go to the "sound" page of that site, there are loads and loads and loads and loads of contemporary music to download. Most of the names don't mean much to me but among the ones I do know are: John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Mick Jagger (?), Mauricio Kagel, John Lennon (??), Meredith Monk, Terry Riley, Erik Satie, Nicolas Slonimsky, Edgard Varése, Frank Zappa, Bernd Alois Zimmermann. It also has a subpage dedicated to "Contempoaray Chinese Experimental Music". And lectures by Roland Barthes! And Apollinaire reading his own poem! Philippe Sollers reading his own work! And Roman Opalka's (Polish painter and madman ) mutterings! And Ogden Nash reading his own poems! Glenn Gould's radio broadcasts! Eugène Ionesco and his friends reading La cantatrice chauve and Le Leçon!! An interview with Marcel Duchamp, and one with Jacques Derrida! And a TV interview with Lacan!!! Performances of literary works by: Beckett, Tzara, Kerouac and others. Radio talks by Burroughs! Talks and interviews with Marshall McLuhan! A conversation with Salvador Dali! An interview with Godard! Much, much more, and - best of all - a 1929 recording of Joyce reading a passage of his own prose!!!!!!!

[not edward]

Thanks for reposting that link. The site's bigger than when I was last there, and I see it now has the Gielen recording of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Musique pour les soupers de Roi Ubu, quite possibly the most bitter piece of music I have ever heard.

[mateusz182]

I'm looking for Moniuszko's opera: Straszny Dwór (the haunted manor), or Leszek Możdżer's and Lars Danielsson's "Pasodoble"
Does anyone have? If yes please give a link here, I'd be gratefull..


(I'm uploading now Bizet's "Carmen", (3CDs), the link will be here shortly if someone's interested)

http://rapidshare.com/files/51086624/Carmen__Disc_1_.rar.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/51089266/Carmen__Disc_2_.rar.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/51166213/Carmen__Disc_3_.rar.html

here You are, enjoy.

[Lilas Pastia]

The link I meant is this:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/polish.html

It's to a page that has lots of Kotonski's pieces (at least 4).

Thanks, that's an embarrassment of riches! Kotonski is downloaded. what about the rest? Any goodies, or has the polish avant-garde dated ?

[Maciek]

André, here's my short guide:

Kotonski: Etiuda na jedno uderzenie w talerz (Study for one cymbal-strike - the title is derived from the fact that the entire material in this is piece is a recording of one single strike of the cymbals) is obligatory as the first Polish electronic piece. Tierra caliente - IMO, Kotonski's best electronic piece. Though you should bear in mind that he's generally one of the top Polish experts in the genre (author of a textbook on the subject), so his pieces are always at least good.

Penderecki: Psalmus - a classic. Like it or not, it's in the canon.

Andrzej Dobrowolski: Penderecki wasn't the only Polish avant-garde composer, and if you ask me - he certainly wasn't the best of the lot. Dobrowolski was. Every single piece of his is worth a listen, they are all brilliant and, IMO, much better thought out than any piece Penderecki ever wrote. Beautiful music - and it's not often you can say that of avantgarde pieces!

Schaeffer - safe to skip, IMO.

Wiszniewski - even safer.

Tomasz Sikorski: obligatory! You've got to hear it.

Eugeniusz Rudnik: another expert in the genre. His stuff is even better than Kotonski's. Perhaps the best Polish electronic composer. You may give Ptacy i ludzie a pass - the piece relies heavily on spoken word (in Polish).

Mazurek: these are very short pieces, so why not try?

Knittel: I'm not very fond of him in general but Robak zdobywca is a very interesting sort of electronic tone poem - so if you'd like to give him a try, that would be my piece of choice.

There's also a piece by François-Bernard Mâche (Nuit Blanche) - obviously, he's not Polish. The site is not exactly dedicated to Polish electronic music - it's dedicated to the Polish Radio Experimental Studio. This piece was created there.

[Lilas Pastia]

Thanks, Maciek! Yesterday I made up a discful of Kotonski pieces (almost 80 minutes), in chronological order - it starts wit the Etudia - and of course I did my homework and read all about Kotonski I could possibly find - and understand (in French and English) . !!

I already have 3 Sikorski works. Is there more out there?

Next on the pathfinding journy will be Dobrowolski. Hopefully I can burn enough to fill an 80-minute cd??

and waht is the mystery track (# 17 ?)

[Lilas Pastia]

I'm looking for Moniuszko's opera: Straszny Dwór (the haunted manor), or Leszek Możdżer's and Lars Danielsson's "Pasodoble"
Does anyone have? If yes please give a link here, I'd be gratefull..


(I'm uploading now Bizet's "Carmen", (3CDs), the link will be here shortly if someone's interested)

http://rapidshare.com/files/51086624/Carmen__Disc_1_.rar.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/51089266/Carmen__Disc_2_.rar.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/51166213/Carmen__Disc_3_.rar.html

here You are, enjoy.

Mateusz, pray tell, what Carmen is this ?

[Maciek]

Next on the pathfinding journy will be Dobrowolski. Hopefully I can burn enough to fill an 80-minute cd??

Yes, I'll try to post some new links next week. (Maybe even tomorrow evening.) Dobrowolski is currently my favorite composer of the 1950-60s era. And I like his later pieces too (with Penderecki I find liking the later works very difficult... )

and waht is the mystery track (# 17 ?)

I have no idea. I don't think I've heard it before.