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Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: The Dozen Most Neglected on CD Non-British 20th Century Symphonists
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on: May 16, 2013, 09:59:03 am
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Am listening to the Third Symphony by Benzecry. If you have a copy, listen to the second movement and then listen to the scherzo of the Dutilleux First Symphony! Benzecry's rip off of Dutilleux is even more obvious than Christopher Gunning's. Both composers should have been sued!
Karl I will try (not sue) them for myself, the few things I heard from Benzecry so far sounded very eclectic indeed. But ripping is another matter. :o
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Assorted items / Coming broadcasts and listen-later links / Re: RVW's 9th
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on: May 03, 2013, 08:57:53 am
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Um...believe it or not folks...it's 'Sinfonia Antartica', not Antarctica. Even though 'Antarctica' is actually correct. I think I read somewhere that RVW himself only discovered in a late stage that the Italian spelling is indeed Antartica, not Antar ctica as in Latin or English. Hello, I've recorded the RVW 9th yesterday and could upload it this weekend. Great news!
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MEMBERS' CORNER / Members' wish lists & requests / Re: Choral 'wish list' .
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on: April 28, 2013, 01:32:25 pm
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You are obviously much better informed than I am, but here's my two cents.
I found Nick Strimple's book Choral Music in the Twentieth Century inspiring and widening my focus in many respects. Some fresh and not-so-recent 'discoveries', apart from everything Strimple discusses, are (at random): Passion and Resurrection and other choral pieces by the young Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds and also his fellow Latvian Vasks; almost everthing my own compatriot Hendrik Andriessen composed in this field; also another compatriot, often more modern, namely Daan Manneke; about everything by the Estonian Veljo Tormis; Voices of Light by Richard Einhorn (US); Lennox Berkeley and Herbert Howells among the Britons; Villa-Lobos (Choros 10 and the late religious choral pieces) for Brazil; Osvaldo Golijov's La Pasión según San Marcos for Argentina, ASO. ;)
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Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Lesser known followers of RVW
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on: April 23, 2013, 06:43:31 am
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Braga Satos composed his First Symphony in 1946 at the age of 22. As far as I know he had never been out of Portugal. It is unlikely that he had ever heard any RVW in concert inside Portugal. Had he studied an RVW score ??? I have no idea.
He could have heard it on the radio, perhaps? The influence of VW 4 is so strong it would be surprising if it were coincidence. As far as I know (not that well, but I tried to find out, one day) he could hear British music on the radio. In that case, he might even have heard some Moeran - as the influences seem to be even stronger, there (e.g. the opening bars of Moeran's Sinfonietta compared to Braga Santos' Divertimento).
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MEMBERS' CORNER / Members' wish lists & requests / Re: Taktakisvilli
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on: March 21, 2013, 12:05:52 pm
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I was going to say the same - as I own this recording of the Concerto No. 2 for violin and chamber orchestra and love it dearly. The problem in finding it, perhaps, could be the German transliteration of his name, used for this German CD (Orfeo) and also in a few other cases, namely: Taktakischwili instead of Taktakishvili or Taktakishvilli (as you prefer).
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