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Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Stepan Sulek: Symphonies
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on: November 09, 2014, 10:33:15 pm
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For any of you who might hesitate to acquire the CD set because they already have copies of radio broadcasts of each of the eight symphonies, I cannot encourage you enough to go ahead. Even though some of the recordings in the Cantus box are 'historic', the sound quality is often nothing short of revelatory. I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to the whole set again and again since I received it, particularly symphonies Nos. 4 and 8.
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Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Estonian Music
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on: June 01, 2014, 06:00:38 pm
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It is on a 2 CD set called Estonian Orchestral Music 1896-2004 published by EMIK 2005. Since its a current release on CD, would be a copyright violation.
Sorry, I had not checked this page for some time :-[ I thought that the CD set only included one movement from Ilves's 2nd Symphony. And if it also features Lemba's 2nd, I definitely need to buy it!
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Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Swedish Music
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on: April 25, 2014, 05:11:27 pm
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This composer was totally unknown to me. I no I shood haf done spelt it rite, especially since I assume Andrea is femail and we all needs to moore "gender sensitive" deese dayz. I may have been thinkin Taboolie.
Mistake - it's the Italian equivalent of Andrew. I remember a meeting where a speaker referred to an Italian friend of mine called Andrea as "she", whereupon he stood up (he was in the audience), jabbed his finger at his chin, and called out, "I have a beard!". If it was confusing others, I would have changed my first name to remove all doubts..but I am not famous.. It is always unwise to add a pinch of salt to an already tasty dish, but let me try it all the same. Italians have a point here. After all, Andrew, Andrea, André, Andris and all this kind of names probably come from "andros", ancient Greek word for man (as opposed to woman, while "anthropos" is the human being in general). However, the safest is to remember that there are some national variants here. So, as a rule: Andrea from Italy is a man, Andrea from Hungary is a woman, Andreea from Romania is a woamn (mind the double "e"), André from France is a man, and Andrée a woman, Elfrida Andree from Sweden was a woman, but then, Andree was her surname ;D
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Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Estonian Music
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on: April 25, 2014, 09:24:47 am
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Hmmm, I was hoping that Heimar Ilves's symphonies would surface on muusika24. They have string quartets, Eesti Raadio has one movement of Ilves's second symphony on their website, but the legendary recordings which the late Roman Matsov has kept in precarious surroundings have not been published from what I know.
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Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Serbian Music
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on: April 25, 2014, 09:16:46 am
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Music of Aleksandar Obradović From the collection of Karl MillerSymphony No. 4 in 2 Movements(1972)Belgrade PO/Sivojin Zdravkovic Symphonic Epitaph for Reciter, Chorus, and OrchestraPerformers and venue unknown The Green Knight for voice and Strings(1990)(performers announced in intro track-- you can transcribe them!) Wind of Flame for Baritone and Orchestra(1955) Many thanks again for this! Obradović was one of Serbia's most brilliant symphonists, even though Mokranjac, for instance, may be somewhat deeper. Here is what I gather from the intros: Simfonija br. 4 (1972) Symphony No. 4Buktinje - Odjeci Torches - ClothesSimfonijski orkestar Radiotelevizije Beograd / Živojin Zdravković Belgrade Radio-Television Symphony OrchestraZeleni vitez (1990, Desanka Maksimović) Green Knight, on verses by Desanka MaksimovićZeleni vitez - Po rastanku - Prolećna pesma - Strepnja - Nabori Green Knight - Parting - Spring Song - Anxiety - WrinklesJasna Šajnović (sopran) Gudački orkestar Dušan Skovran / Aleksandar Pavlović Dušan Skovran String Orchestra
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Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Estonian Music
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on: April 22, 2014, 11:11:10 am
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Yes, many thanks for this work which I have been searching for more than 20 years! I had hoped to get a copy myself when two or three years ago, I finally got a recording of what was supposed to be the Evald Aav symphony, though the first three movements only. I listened to the piece and was somehow irritated because it didn't correspond to what I had actually expected, but then I just put it aside. A bit later, I came back to the recording and after analyzing things more in detail and thinking a little about it, I came to the conclusion that the piece I had could never be Evald Aav's symphony in fact because it was significantly too modern. (My guess is that it could be an Estonian symphony after all but rather from the 1960s - but I couldn't identify it so far.) Have you tried asking Vardo Rumessen? He might be able to identify it (if it is indeed Estonian, that is!). Wasn't it one of Els Aarne's symphonies? (Same initials :) ) No, I know both of them and these are different pieces. In fact, I have quite a bunch of Estonian symphonies and checked them all but the work in question is not among them. However, who knows, maybe chance will help also in this case one day...
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Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Estonian Music
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on: April 21, 2014, 01:18:11 pm
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Yes, many thanks for this work which I have been searching for more than 20 years! I had hoped to get a copy myself when two or three years ago, I finally got a recording of what was supposed to be the Evald Aav symphony, though the first three movements only. I listened to the piece and was somehow irritated because it didn't correspond to what I had actually expected, but then I just put it aside. A bit later, I came back to the recording and after analyzing things more in detail and thinking a little about it, I came to the conclusion that the piece I had could never be Evald Aav's symphony in fact because it was significantly too modern. (My guess is that it could be an Estonian symphony after all but rather from the 1960s - but I couldn't identify it so far.) Wasn't it one of Els Aarne's symphonies? (Same initials :) )
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MEMBERS' CORNER / Members' wish lists & requests / Re: Talivaldis Kenins
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on: December 31, 2013, 09:05:38 pm
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Yes, he had a lot of humour and wit. As a composer he was deeply serious and would probably not enjoy everything Milhaud wrote, neither spiritually nor technically (even though there are some really profound pieces by Milhaud). He regarded Tony Aubin as almost a second father and retained a lot of affection for him throughout his life, different as their musical styles were. And he was quite proud of being called a modern Romantic, even though formal rigour and virtuosity seem to come first and emotional display second in some of his most brilliant works. The nostalgic feeling is more evident in his later pieces, with open reminiscences of old masters he loved, for instance in his Schumann Paraphrases.
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Assorted items / YouTube performances / Re: Peruvian classical site
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on: October 10, 2013, 04:12:43 pm
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Garrido Lecca is quite an important composer. It would be nice to hear complete works (e.g., symphonies) by Rodolfo Holzmann. Then, there are the various works about Junin y Ayacucho, including the Iturriaga symphony performed in Madrid which definitely gains from repeated hearings. Sadiel Cuentas has composed some fine pieces. Not sure how much Olga Pozzi Escot qualifies as a Peruvian composer, but comments about her Fifth symphony certainly makes you want to know it. The few pieces I have heard by her are challenging and full of personality.
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Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Polish Music
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on: October 08, 2013, 01:40:37 pm
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Kazimierz Serocki (1922 to 1981): his final orchestral work, Pianophonie for piano, "elektronické zvuky" and orchestra (1978) http://www.mediafire.com/?ka3f78aaup17pziFrom a wireless broadcast. Performed by Szabolcs Esztényi and the Baden-Baden Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Bour. Duration thirty-one minutes. My Czech dictionary (Fronek) does not run to "zvuky" - the closest it comes is "zvykacka" meaning "chewing-gum." According to Grove's, "Pianophonie, with its incorporation of electronic transformation of much of the soloist's music, is a logical and memorable outcome of the composer's ceaseless and energetic application of performing techniques to expressive ends. Serocki was a musical abstractionist for whom colour was both decorative and substantive, both transitory and structural." So, this is posted in the hope that some will admire it - although I am impelled to confess that it doesn't appeal to me much . . . (I must now listen to the two early symphonies - thanks to Dundonnell - and see how they compare). This is surprising, "zvuk" does mean "sound" in Czech and in some other Slavic languages, albeit not in Polish... :-\
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Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Álvaro Cassuto (1938-): Orchestral Works from Naxos
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on: October 05, 2013, 09:41:10 am
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Well, not sure whether I am going to like Cassuto's works (one never knows before actually hearing), but I think that he was known as a composer (arguably, a modernist one) long before he came to the international scene as a conductor, and it had always seemed odd to me that Naxos would not consider recording his own music. While he may very well be a better conductor than composer, it is fair to at least give his own creations some exposure. Likewise, who remembers that one of the noted Venezuelan symphonists of the 20th century was José Antonio Abreu? I have not heard enough of the recent Weingartner CPO series to have an opinion, but Volkmar Andreae's orchestral works were definitely worth reviving. And then there are the more famous examples of Markevitch and, to a possibly lesser extent, Doráti and Furtwängler, or even Klemperer (even though I have not been bowled over by his 1st symphony), R. Kubelík, Matačić, Serebrier... A great conductor does not automatically hide a good composer, but when the composer "pre-existed", we should at least give him a try.
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