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931  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Contexts and settings / Re: Music by the Romanov royal family on: December 23, 2011, 08:51:45 pm
It is easy to romanticise the Romanov family, of course - especially after what happened to them.

But in truth they were as brutal and ruthless - not to say clueless - as those who shot them.
932  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Contexts and settings / Music by the Romanov royal family on: December 23, 2011, 09:21:46 am
A number of compositions by the Romanov royal family have been unearthed and revived
(St Petersburg Times, English)

The concert held at Tavrichesky Palace on Dec. 10 could probably have claimed a Guinness book entry: It took at least 15 years to put together. The cause was well worth the lengthy preparations. The performance, entitled The Imperial Musical Collection, showcased 20 long-lost musical works composed exclusively by members of the Romanov family, including Tsar Alexander II and Prince Konstantin Romanov
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933  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Hildegard of Bingen to be canonised on: December 22, 2011, 11:07:53 am
I think perhaps you have to be a Catholic to appreciate her fully? 
934  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: A little seasonal something for the Members on: December 22, 2011, 11:06:10 am
Season's greetings :)  Like all the best presents - an elegant surprise!
935  Assorted items / Individual composers / Hildegard of Bingen to be canonised on: December 22, 2011, 03:22:00 am
I know the dates don't fit this category - but it's the earliest one we have!

Hildegard of Bingen is to be canonised
[Gramophone]

Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th-century German Benedictine nun who was also known as a composer, philosopher, writer and physicist, will be named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI in September 2012. This will end a canonisation process that has been underway for many years
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936  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Performance and technique / The strange tasks one is sometimes set... on: December 20, 2011, 08:54:32 pm
The onset of the Festive Season seems to prompt all kinds of japes and half-considered ideas "that sounded good at the time".  Why just today I went to a casting where an "Englshman was essential", only to find out the role was for an African American speedskater (ehem).

But my other Impossible Thing To Do Before Breakfast was  "to knock out an instrumentation of JINGLE BELLS... in the style of the massed wind bands of the Armed Forces Of The USSR".  Two hours later, I was already mailing the thing back to them...  and I was quietly satisfied with the result :)   The all-reeds chorus on the main tune (doubled at the octave on an Eb clarinet) was especially fortuitous, but the secret ingredient was a simplified overlay of the melody on a marching glockenspiel... which captured the absurd sound of the band magnificently :)
937  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Performance and technique / Re: Gus Leonhardt calls it a day :( on: December 20, 2011, 08:39:54 pm
Good gracious me!   :o  Now that has really boggled me for the rest of the evening!  What a magnificent thing!! Rather like a C17th version of CakeWalk or Finale :))

"Vorpsprung durch Technik", as Froberger said in Germany :)
938  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Performance and technique / Re: Gus Leonhardt calls it a day :( on: December 20, 2011, 05:11:30 pm
The Wikipedia article about Froberger seems competent and well-written (unlike much of Wikipedia!), but it contains a phrase which mystifies me.

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In 1649 Froberger travelled back to Austria. On his way back he stopped in Florence and Mantua to show the arca musurgica, a powerful compositional device Kircher taught him, to some of the Italian princes.

Does anyone know what this arca musurgica, actually was?  Baz?
939  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Performance and technique / Re: Gus Leonhardt calls it a day :( on: December 20, 2011, 04:22:55 am

Now I have to find Froberger's Lament on the Death of Ferdinand III.
 

Hi Lena :))

The Complete Keyboard Works are here :)  But he was a prolific chap, and you may have to dig through them to find the Lament :)  I shall be looking too :)  Although I'm a ropey keyboard player, there is much to be learned by working your own way through a piece at the keyboard, rather than merely listening to a recording :)

But I will certainly listen to the new Leonhardt clip when I can - just at the moment I am in a location where I can't use the sound :)  But it gives me something to look forward to this evening :)

I shall be in the Netherlands over the New Year - perhaps I shall have the chance to enrich my cd collection with some of Leonhardt's recordings? :)
940  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Performance and technique / Re: Gus Leonhardt calls it a day :( on: December 19, 2011, 06:36:12 pm
Thank you so much for that specially-prepared YouTube clip, Baz :)  And for the chance to follow the print of Bach's own print with Leonhardt's inspiring performance :)
941  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Performance and technique / Re: Gus Leonhardt calls it a day :( on: December 19, 2011, 09:16:47 am
IT would be very interesting to hear!!! I don't know if people can contact him.

I've dropped him a line.
942  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Theory and tradition / Singer survives 8-foot fall on Met stage without serious injury on: December 18, 2011, 07:09:20 pm
The mezzo-soprano Wendy White fell from a platform eight feet above the stage during a performance of Gounod’s “Faust” at the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday night and was taken to the hospital. The Met said she did not appear to be seriously injured and was in stable condition but was undergoing tests
[New York Times]
943  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Performance and technique / Re: Gus Leonhardt calls it a day :( on: December 18, 2011, 07:04:51 pm
I believe Baziron had some interesting views about Leonhardt's Bach performances?  I was hoping he might rejoin us and lend his expertise to the discussion? :)
944  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Performance and technique / Gus Leonhardt calls it a day :( on: December 17, 2011, 08:50:54 pm
Gustav Leonhardt has been forced to cancel all his future engagements due to weakened health

Le Nouvel Observateur (French)
945  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Theory and tradition / Re: Grauniad interview with Pappano on: December 17, 2011, 06:24:32 pm
He is an extraordinarily gifted pianist, easily capable of making a solo career.  He's given a lot of song and Lieder recitals too.

Singers who have worked with him are passionately inspired by his ability to make music out of dots :)
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