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Dr. Dread

#49140
June 15, 2009, 06:35:30 PM
Quote from: Coopmv on June 15, 2009, 06:33:39 PM
This is an excellent recording based on some of the reviews I have read.

I'm certainly not complaining.  0:)

Lilas Pastia

#49141
June 15, 2009, 06:38:04 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on June 14, 2009, 08:26:38 AM
Beauséjour: what a cool name!

Yes, but that's quite common here.

For some reason the French from the Hexagon don't have the evocative patronyms that are commonplace in Quebec. Like Beauregard  (beau = nice, cute, handsome, beautiful - depending on the context,  and regard = sight, look, glance - "regarder"  = to look at). Or the list of 'sans' that are always funny (sans = no (privative, as in without). Like Sansfaçon, Sansregret, Sansoucy (No Manners, No regrets, No Worries). Or the various positive (as opposed to the previous ones) or descriptive patronyms such as Lacharité, Lamoureux, Latendresse, Larivière, Lamontagne, Laroche, Lacaille, Lachaine, Lacasse, Labrosse, Labbé, Lachance, Ladouceur, Laflamme, Laterreur (and so many others!): Litterally (prefixed by the proper article): Charity, Tenderness, River, Mountain, Rock, Quail, Chain, Break, Brush, Abbott, Luck, Sweetness, Flame, Terror. etc.

Beauséjour is also the name of a New Brunswick francophone federal riding.

Coopmv

#49142
June 15, 2009, 06:45:56 PM
Quote from: MN Dave on June 15, 2009, 06:35:30 PM
I'm certainly not complaining.  0:)

I truly enjoyed watching Blomstedt conducting Mass in b minor at St Thomas Church, Leipzig, where JS Bach was Cantor ...

Dr. Dread

#49143
June 15, 2009, 06:47:06 PM
Quote from: Coopmv on June 15, 2009, 06:45:56 PM
I truly enjoyed watching Blomstedt conducting Mass in b minor at St Thomas Church, Leipzig, where JS Bach was Cantor ...

I can imagine. A very special performance, I'm sure.

not edward

#49144
June 15, 2009, 06:58:59 PM
Two performances that may not be the most technically perfect, but get to the heart of the music in a way I've rarely heard:

Hans Zender conducting RSO Saarbruecken in Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces.
Ronald Smith playing Alkan's Symphonie for solo piano.
"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

Brian

#49145
June 15, 2009, 09:14:47 PM
ATTERBERG | Symphony No 3
NDR Radio Philharmonic
Ari Rasilainen

Boy, do I love this piece!!

Christo

#49146
June 15, 2009, 09:51:07 PM Last Edit: June 16, 2009, 03:06:09 AM by Christo
Quote from: Lilas Pastia on June 15, 2009, 05:32:01 PM
Is this the same symphony that appears on another Lyrita disc (coupled with Brian symphonies)?

No, it isn't. That one is the Third (1967), coupled earlier (on the LP) with the Jabez and the Devil Suite.

Edit: Only now I found out, that these recordings of the First Symphony (1947) and Concerto for String Orchestra (1948), both by the LPO under Nicholas Braithwaite and recorded as long back as 1988 and 1989, were never released before!  :-X

That tells a lot about Cooke's low reputation, but nothing at all about the quality of the music.
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Lethevich

#49147
June 15, 2009, 10:27:04 PM


I love this symphony - I wonder whether it will remain my favourite of Simpson's now I am going through his cycle again...
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

mahler10th

#49148
June 16, 2009, 02:09:08 AM
Ancerl.  A name long associatd with Mahler.
This is a fine reason why.   8)

Drasko

#49149
June 16, 2009, 03:37:39 AM


I prefer Nezet-Seguin (maybe even Juan Pons) in La Strada Suite, Canadian gets more flexibility and swing from his band, but Muti does great in stravinskian Concerto for Strings and drop dead gorgeous echt-Strauß dances from Il Gattopardo.

owlice

#49151
June 16, 2009, 05:15:47 AM
This morning's listen:

Songs from the Japanese by Dean Rosenthal. This songcycle is just over 17 minutes long. All of the songs are short, in English, and are spare, open works; most are accompanied by a violin and those that are not are sung a cappella. (http://www.deanrosenthal.org/)

Edipo Re by Leoncavallo, this recorded off of Italian radio. I'd be very happy to buy a recording of this work, but have not been able to find one, alas.

karlhenning

#49152
June 16, 2009, 05:17:20 AM
How is our Dean these days?

Catison

#49153
June 16, 2009, 05:26:16 AM Last Edit: June 16, 2009, 06:23:16 AM by Que
-Brett

owlice

#49154
June 16, 2009, 05:52:38 AM Last Edit: June 16, 2009, 05:56:31 AM by owlice
Karl, I don't know! When I changed phones, I couldn't port numbers from the old one to the new one, so lost his. It's been a long while since I've talked with him. Will have to email him now that I've Googled for his website!

Ooo, Songs from the Japanese can be heard on his website! http://www.deanrosenthal.org/music.htm

Harry

#49155
June 16, 2009, 05:53:58 AM Last Edit: June 16, 2009, 06:22:52 AM by Que

Lethevich

#49157
June 16, 2009, 06:19:01 AM


The name is a a bit of a mouthfull, and so is the music...
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

Dr. Dread

#49158
June 16, 2009, 06:21:10 AM
Quote from: Lethe on June 16, 2009, 06:19:01 AM


The name is a a bit of a mouthfull, and so is the music...

Don't listen with your mouth full.

Opus106

#49159
June 16, 2009, 06:24:51 AM
Isn't the painting on the Klemperer/Bach Mass cover the same one -- at least for the part with Jesus in it -- featured on Solti's take on Verdi's Requiem?



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