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991  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: New Chandos Releases on: May 09, 2013, 08:46:14 am
No offense to Casella at all (he is a wonderful composer), but could we please move on to someone else (I'm speaking to you too, Naxos!)? This is getting to the point of barrel-scraping ::)

And yet (unless I missed it) no modern recording of Italia, which was my first introduction to Casella's music many years ago. A piece which really needs to appear in the concert hall as a crowd-pleasing finale.
992  Assorted items / Coming broadcasts and listen-later links / Re: Sorabji's Sequentia Cyclica from the Netherlands on: May 08, 2013, 03:30:50 pm
But according to Mr. Hinton the complete performance lasted rather longer than seven hours, so we shall see what happens - perhaps it will be split between the two days.

The link is still working at present; not being able to spend the whole night up, I listened to it starting this morning. The seven hours of music begins with the beginning and ends with the final fugue, so it does not appear to have been broken up. Maybe the original performance had breaks which took it over seven hours.

Anyway, fantastic to be able to hear this piece at last. Ironically, I would say it is one of Sorabji's more accessible pieces, given that the familiarity of the Dies Irae chant makes it all easier to follow.

Strange piece of synchronicity: last night my wife was chatting to some internet friends, and jokingly claimed she was setting her phone ringtone to Sorabji's Sequentia Cyclica. She had no idea that the first broadcast of it was about to start within minutes!
993  Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Australian Music on: May 07, 2013, 11:00:49 pm
Equations I and Equations II ... those are really enticing titles are they not?  ;D
994  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Which American composer wrote this XXth century symphonic work ? on: May 06, 2013, 07:27:51 am
It's evidently from an LP rather than a radio broadcast - that should narrow the field a bit.
995  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Which American composer wrote this XXth century symphonic work ? on: May 05, 2013, 05:32:42 pm
It sounds American in orchestration, but not so much as to be conclusive. The first name that came into my head was Peter Mennin, but that idea evaporated soon enough. I agree, the B-A-C-H should be a helpful clue, but I am sure I've never heard this piece before, whatever it is.
996  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Which American composer wrote this XXth century symphonic work ? on: May 05, 2013, 12:59:19 pm
Why do you list so many paino+orchestra works, but so few violin+orchestra works (or just some common recordings)?

Maybe because he has more of them?
997  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Havergal Brian Symphonies 22-24 on: May 05, 2013, 07:53:19 am
If we only had one or two recordings of two or three Mahler symphonies and had to make do with poor quality radio broadcasts of the rest I don't think many people would be on to Mahler either.

Well, of course that was the case at one point.
998  Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: United States Music on: May 04, 2013, 07:44:21 am
I think it is the premiere. 1960s sound unfortunately.
999  Assorted items / Coming broadcasts and listen-later links / Re: RVW's 9th on: May 02, 2013, 07:46:59 am
Tomorrow night in Glasgow, Scotland I will have the rare pleasure (unlikely to be repeated :() of attending a performance of the Vaughan Williams 9th with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under the indefatigable Andrew Manze.

I would go to that myself but as bad luck would have it, I'm laid up with bronchitis. I would not be a welcome part of the audience!
1000  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958): Piano Concerto no. 2 etc. from Dacapo on: May 01, 2013, 06:44:29 pm
The two Eichberg symphonies are an interesting release also. So far I have only listened to the very dramatic first. I guess we are seeing that, as composers in the 1920s were influenced by the rhythms of jazz, today, composers are influenced by the rhythms of rock. Which is not to say this is a "rock symphony"; any influence is well absorbed.
1001  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Havergal Brian Symphonies on CD on: May 01, 2013, 04:04:22 pm
A very useful list. I didn't know the only Stokowski performance of #28 had made it onto disc; so far as I know it doesn't bear a strong resemblance to the score.
1002  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Penderecki Symphony no 6 on: April 28, 2013, 10:02:38 am
Those look like early ones.
1003  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Penderecki Symphony no 6 on: April 28, 2013, 12:18:50 am
Maybe he should start work on his 15th next. Or skip to 23rd ...
1004  MEMBERS' CORNER / Members' wish lists & requests / Re: Easley Blackwood on: April 25, 2013, 08:46:09 pm
Symphony No 2 and the piano concerto are also on Youtube, but the upload of the latter may be defective (when I tried to play it it conked out halfway through). Neither are very good recordings (60s mono).
1005  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Lesser known followers of RVW on: April 24, 2013, 10:03:48 pm
Does anyone know if there's a line, somehow, leading from RVW to Mongolian composer Sembin Gonchigsumlaa [Gonchiksumla]? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sembiin_Gonchigsumlaa

Two of his symphonies are on Youtube:

More likely Mongolian folk music shares some modalities with English.

But another point: in the Youtube performance of the 1st, it seems to me the last two movements have been switched. Can anyone confirm?
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