The Broadcast Corner

[Maciek]

Sorry, it is not my link, got it off a Sokolov group actually. I'll upload to mediafire later.

Could you? That would be great!

[George]

Second part of Sokolov recital in Schwetzingen May 5th 2007.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MHQSPCJB

He plays the Scriabin programme as stated below.

Scriabin - Sonata Nº 3, in F-minor, op.23
Deux Poèmes, op.69
Sonata Nº 10, op.70
Vers la flamme, op.72

Plus all the encores

THANKS!! 

[m_gigena]

Sorry, it is not my link, got it off a Sokolov group actually. I'll upload to mediafire later.

A Sokolov group?

[orbital]

Since there is one long file I've made a 128kbs version (compared to the originalo 256) of it since it may take a bit long to download.

Here is the 128kbps version:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4yegsndtdxw

I will upload the 256kbps version later today.

[orbital]

A Sokolov group?

Sokolov Facebook group in fact. Not much going on in there; a few messages and concert schedules mostly.

[Maciek]

I will upload the 256kbps version later today.

[Guido]

Thanks Maciek for those cello files. Also the Piazolla - I have wanted to hear the orchestral versions of these for a while now. The Grand Tango is an arrangement of course (the original being for cello and piano, and Oblivion is also an arrangement).

I'm not sure how well Le Grand Tango works in its orchstral version - just seems too heavy, and the wrong 'feel' for this glorious music. Still enjoyable though. Oblivion is more successful I think, but I still prefer the version I play with cello and piano. I think the Tango's generally work better with smaller groups.

[Maciek]

Yes, don't know how I managed to leave this info out (I think I mentioned it when posting these links in the "listening" thread): this version of Le Grand Tango is in Andrzej Bauer's own arrangement. My impression is similar to yours - it doesn't quite work this way. Gubaidulina's violin and piano version (as played by Kremer) is breathtaking though (IMO) - do you know it?

I'm still not sure whose arrangement Oblivion is in here - it was played as an encore after Grand Tango. The ensemble writing here seems to be done with a bit more expertise (IMO), so I was thinking it could be Duczmal's version - her transcriptions are usually peerless.

[Drasko]

I will upload the 256kbps version later today.

Let me know when the day in question comes.

[Guido]

No I don't know the Gubaidulina arrangement. I love Kremeer's playing though, so it sounds like a winner. I've heard a lot of cellists play this piece, and for me, Carter Brey (principal cellist of the New York Phil.) is easily the finest version available on record. This is a superb CD, and comes coupled with other very beautifully played Tangos and also Ginasteras brilliant cello sonata. Brey premiered the work with the composer and even toured with piazolla in the 80s. He just gets the idiom and feel perfectly, and the playing is perfect.

http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Tango-Music-Latin-America/dp/B000005BIQ/ref=sr_1_1/102-9225518-5161709?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1189208337&sr=8-1

The review isn't mine, but I agree wholeheartedly!

[not edward]

A friend of mine sent me the BSO's recent Proms performance of Elliott Carter's Three Illusions for Orchestra.

I've uploaded it to http://rapidshare.com/files/54269757/Three_Illusions_-_BSO__Levine.mp3.html

[bhodges]

A friend of mine sent me the BSO's recent Proms performance of Elliott Carter's Three Illusions for Orchestra.

I've uploaded it to http://rapidshare.com/files/54269757/Three_Illusions_-_BSO__Levine.mp3.html

Thanks!  These are some of his best recent works and really should have the widest exposure possible. 

--Bruce

[Maciek]

Cool.

(Downloading.)

[Maciek]

Kazimierz Serocki - Piano Sonata (1955)
Jolanta Matacz piano
sample here:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/25/1381505/Serocki%20Piano%20Sonata%20excpt%20%28Matacz%29.mp3[/mp3]
full piece here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dleg91my4py


Kazimierz Serocki - Fantasmagoria for piano and percussion (1973)
Maciej Grzybowski piano
Cezary Dabrowski percussion
sample here:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/25/1381505/Serocki%20Fantasmagoria%20for%20piano%20and%20perc%20%281973%29%20Grzybowski%2CDabrowski%20sample.mp3[/mp3]
full piece here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6jr1ag1sngl

[Lilas Pastia]

Thanks!  These are some of his best recent works and really should have the widest exposure possible. 

--Bruce

What are the individual titles of the Three Illusions?  I think I already have one of them (micomicon), and was lamenting the omission of the other two.

[bhodges]

What are the individual titles of the Three Illusions?  I think I already have one of them (micomicon), and was lamenting the omission of the other two.

They are:

Micomicón
Fons Juventatis
More's Utopia

I just heard them with Levine and the Met Orchestra here, back in May.  Marvelous, and to think that Carter wrote them in his 90s...

--Bruce

[Lilas Pastia]

Great! Thanks for sharing them, Edward!

[orbital]

Let me know when the day in question comes.

100 MB limit  But the gentleman that I am, I will split the tracks (this will need a conversion to wav then back to mp3, will this affect the quality? )

[Drasko]

100 MB limit  But the gentleman that I am, I will split the tracks (this will need a conversion to wav then back to mp3, will this affect the quality? )

To wav and back? No, it shouldn't affect the quality. Thanks for the effort.

[m_gigena]

100 MB limit  But the gentleman that I am, I will split the tracks (this will need a conversion to wav then back to mp3, will this affect the quality? )

You can compress the file with Winrar and split the single audio file in 99mb fragments. Once all the parts are downloaded the file is reconstructed by normal decompression. You can also split the heavy file with Hhsplit (I've been downloading videos of 1,4gb each that way).