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[Lethevich]

The Ondine 3 & 5 is my favourite Nordgren disc so far. The first movement of the 3rd is beguiling - it sounds like quite a slightly different composer to a lot of his other music, almost comparable to more moderate "modernists" in the surrounding regions in its heart-on-sleeve nature. It doesn't continue as strongly into the rest of the work, but I do get the feeling that the 3rd is a good access point.

[Subotnick]

Nordgren's 3rd is my favourite so far. I was entranced by the opening too. I loved some of the percussive sounds towards the end of it. The interlude is the perfect antithesis of the opening and the calm before the storm of the epilogue. Potential desert island disc material.

TTFN.
Me.

[Dundonnell]

Nordgren's 3rd is my favourite so far. I was entranced by the opening too. I loved some of the percussive sounds towards the end of it. The interlude is the perfect antithesis of the opening and the calm before the storm of the epilogue. Potential desert island disc material.

TTFN.
Me.

This is VERY interesting!! I had dismissed Nordgren as too much of a 'modernist' for my tastes but on what basis or what evidence I am blowed if I can remember

Can you help me at all by comparing his music to that by any other composer-either Finnish or another nationality?  Thanks.

[Subotnick]

I'm nodding off here, but I'll attempt to do that tomorrow. Unless Lethe would care to step in...

TTFN.
Me.

P.S.

I know he had private tuition from Joonas Kokkonen, if that helps. He became familiar with traditional Japanese music while in Tokyo which was to later influence his work as did folk music from his native Finland.

[Dundonnell]

I THINK that it may be that I have got confused between-

  Arne Nordheim(Norway, born 1931)

  Per Norgard(Denmark, born 1932)

  Pehr Henrik Nordgren(Finland, born 1944, died 2008)

Silly me

By all means, leave it until tomorrow

[Subotnick]

Just edited my previous post...

[Dundonnell]

Oh no!

And there's the Dane, Ib Norhom(born 1931) as well!

How on earth can we be expected to remember which is which?

[SonicMan46]

Grieg, Edvard - Complete Orchestral Music w/ Ole Ruud & Bergen PO on the BIS label - 8-CD offering at a great price - just getting through the first disc tonight - will take a while - 

Continuing my exploration of this wonderful box set tonight - listened to the last 2 discs (i.e. 7 & "8") tonight, all orchestral works (subsequent posts have provided links to the contents of the CDs in the set & also reviews) - absolutely no dimunition of the quality of this music or its performance by Ruud & Company; I only need to listen to 2 other discs of the entire Peer Gynt play (will do this weekend) - but, bottom line is that if you are a Grieg fan, this box set should please! 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Yes, I agree with you!

Ah, so I'm preaching to the choir. Awesome!

I know the work and have two renderings-the estimable Marco Polo version(Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra/Zdenek Kosler)...

I probably ought to look into this recording - I've heard so many good things about it.

If however you listen to the Czech Rhapsody as the work of a 28 year old Czech patriot, overjoyed at the forthcoming establishment of an independent Czech state and wishing to express that joy in a great outpouring of nationalistic fervour then Martinu can be forgiven for going(ever so slightly!) over the top

Your enthusiasm has me pining for this disc right now!

[val]

Arturo Benedetti-Michelangeli playing Chopin's First Ballade, a sublime version, deeply poetic.

Vladimir Horowitz, live in 1982, playing Chopin's First and 4rd Ballades: no global perspective, no coherency and Horowitz technique is already far from his legendary perfection.

[Christo]

Oh no!  And there's the Dane, Ib Norhom(born 1931) as well!   How on earth can we be expected to remember which is which?  

Not to mention Heraclius Djabadary, Manos Hadjidakis, or Jesus Arambarri! 

But in serious: Nordgren might be really a composer of your liking. When I first met Pēteris Vasks, he singled out Nordgren as a contemporary composer he admired, and that's how I came to him and learnt to identify him between the confusing lot of Nørholms, Nørgårds, Nordheims, Nystroems, and Norbys (to mention yet another Nor-therner  ).

[Que]

See my comments HERE.

Good morning!

Q

[Harry]

A very good morning to all.

From this box with the Concerti Grossi from Handel I play disc III.
His Opus 6, 5-8.
ASMF Iona Brown.
Recorded in 1994 on Hanssler.
Last listened to February 2003.

You might make the mistake of putting this to the old fashioned performances for which the ASMF was famous, and appreciated, but not so with these concerti, for they are played in a opposite way, lightfooted and sprightly and well recorded.
For anyone with a aversion against HIP performances this would come in very handy.

[Harry]

From this box disc I & II

[wintersway]

Good morning/day to all!

[Que]

For anyone with an aversion against HIP performances this would come in very handy.

Uhhh??    




Q

[Harry]

This is a major find for me, they captivate your imagination forcibly, and tear you away in unknown territory.
Really well performed and recorded.

[Dundonnell]

Not to mention Heraclius Djabadary, Manos Hadjidakis, or Jesus Arambarri! 

But in serious: Nordgren might be really a composer of your liking. When I first met Pēteris Vasks, he singled out Nordgren as a contemporary composer he admired, and that's how I came to him and learnt to identify him between the confusing lot of Nørholms, Nørgårds, Nordheims, Nystroems, and Norbys (to mention yet another Nor-therner  ).

Well, I like the Vasks I have heard. Does that mean I will like Nordgren?

Stupid question, I know

[Opus106]

An evening of interruptions.

I was listening to Bruckner's 9th - was in the middle of the second movement - when I had move away from the computer. Now I am going to sample Wagner-proper for the first time (T&I, from the Met.), but I know I have other stuff to do later.

[SonicMan46]

Starting the morning off w/ some seasonal music, both old & new - 

Then, will complete my initial listening of the Grieg box, i.e. 2 discs of the Peer Gynt play -