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Old 12-10-2021, 02:54 PM
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Telemann - 12 Solo Fantasias
Caroline Eidsten Dahl, recorder
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I own these pieces on CD, played by the fantastic Héloïse Gaillard.
This is another splendid performance.
I'll have to listen to it on our living room system to better evaluate the sound, now it accompanied my cooking on our kitchen system (B&W speakers, driven by a Yamaha integrated).
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Old 12-10-2021, 03:19 PM
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Ensemble Peregrina - Codex 457 - Musik des Mittelalters aus Tirol
Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett
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This was very nice during dinner...
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Juliana Hodkinson - Angel View
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This is the kind of avant-garde I tried to like in the 80s, because it was... well, so new.
I could enter into it, and still can't.
We didn't finish this...
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Old 12-10-2021, 04:03 PM
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Terry Riley - In C (version for chamber ensemble)
Bang On A Can
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I still prefer Glass... by far.

If ever there were a popular work of minimalism, one that stated its purpose so clearly it could not be mistaken, Terry Riley's legendary composition In C is the one. It is a work that needs no explanation for its pulsing sequences of pitch all centering around the 53 phases of no duration played on the note and its performances have been numerous--even if there have been relatively few recordings of it. The Bang on a Can all-stars have recorded perhaps the most innovative version of the work thus far, after Riley's own, which was issued in the 1960s on Columbia's long defunct Odyssey label. This version reads minimalism as popular music and popular music as, finally, classical. The Bang on a Can version is outrageously wonderful. This single repeated note, meditatively engaged and then played upon in modulation, is taken by Bang on a Can and torn apart, with gritty, urban vision, rock & roll energy, and pure New York street smarts. Using a wide array of instruments (from piano, vibes, glockenspiel, cello, Wu man's pipa, clarinet, mandolin, soprano saxophone, electric guitar, marimba, chimes, and bass) for 45 minutes, this mind-flexing composition is moved through the sequence of all these instrumentalists, each coloring it just a bit, moving it a tad further outside and into the future, the dynamics shift subtly and change, direction becomes fluid, and the drama becomes white-knuckle tense after such a meditative beginning and then releases again. This is the creation of language, tonal, timbral, and spatial. There is an architecture at work in this version that erects small towers of meaning in sound and piles them atop each other until a sonic Tower of Babel is finally fully erected. The pulse never stops; it never disengages no matter which instrument or group of instruments enters or leaves the fray. It is there, constant, always being born and always dying and being transformed, reincarnated as some other sound, some other phrase, but always identified by the pulse. This is more hypnotic than any rock & roll, and more powerful than any Beethoven symphony is taken in with openness. This is music -- ultimately made by a truly gifted and disciplined ensemble that share a singularly optimistic vision for modern music -- that can, and will, change your life.

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Old 12-10-2021, 05:40 PM
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Mozart - The Magic Flute (arr.) - String Quartet No. 14
Quatuor Zaïde
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They play well, they are very elegant (we attended a concert last year and were enchanted on all accounts).
This is a nice album.

Streaming this again.
They're good!
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Gianandrea Noseda conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in Dimitri Shostakovich's opposite-mood Symphonies 9 and 10. Recorded and played back in DSD256. Competent readings (I slightly prefer Leonard Bernstein and the NYPO in the 9th and Andris Nelsons and the Boston in the 10th) and excellent playing illuminated by detailed sonics that flesh out the typically drier recorded acoustic of the Barbican.
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24/192 download.
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Brahms - Symphony No. 4
MacMillan - Larghetto For Orchestra
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
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This morning, I had a craving for some Brahms.
I found this a good performance, with good sound.
The MacMillan was a nice bonus (formerly unknown to me).

Since 2007, Manfred Honeck has been based in Pittsburgh and has developed an intimate relationship with the musicians of the American orchestra there, such that each of his releases on the Reference Recordings label is a distinctive, original piece of art. A true manifesto, his version of Bruckner's Ninth (2019) was fantastic in the rude power of its colours and its furious nature; his rendition of Beethoven's Ninth, released at the beginning of 2021, was made spellbinding by its sense for the theatrical and its biting modernity. Now Manfred Honeck and his Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra present this strange and exciting coupling of two diametrically opposed worlds: Brahms' Fourth (recorded 20-22 April 2018), alongside Scotsman James MacMillan's Larghetto for Orchestra (27-29 October 2017).

Under the Austrian conductor's baton, Brahms' Fourth radiates an extreme polyphonic abundance; it is reminiscent of Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt's work with the NDR Orchestra (EMI), which also shone a light on discreet exchanges, on dialogues in intermediary lines (second violins, violas, flutes, clarinets, etc). The orchestra achieves an unusual fullness here: the return of the theme (7'48) in the second movement (Andante moderato), and the path the discourse takes to its apotheosis, illustrate this. The soaring character of the following, truly giocoso Allegro confirms that Manfred Honeck's ardent performance is free of the slightest demonstrative tendency, and that it is the truth, and so far as possible the entirety of the musical text, is what matters. Supremely tranquil and majestic, the final passacaglia is the most beautiful homage to J. S. Bach, as dreamed of by Brahms, with a polyphony that celebrates the light. A very impressive outing.

Commissioned by the orchestra in 2017 to celebrate Honeck's tenth anniversary as music director, MacMillan's beautiful Larghetto for Orchestra is a wide-ranging meditation. Very American in spirit, it recalls such passages as Irving Fine's Lament or some of Aaron Copland's slower works. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is bewitching and splendid here. © Pierre-Yves Lascar/Qobuz
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John Rutter - Requiem - Five Anthems
The Turtle Creek Chorale
The Women's Chorus of Dallas
, Timothy Seelig
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Another Reference Recording.
Formidable bass on this one!
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Today was an 'all Mozart' program broadcast by WRTI, 90.1 out of Temple University. We are so fortunate to have such an outstanding FM station (along with WXPN out of Univ of Pennsylvania) locally. The interview with Kang & Chang was very entertaining, and Nézét-Séguin is always a delight.
Today's program on my superlative Yamaha T-2 tuner:
Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D (“Haffner”)
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra
Juliette Kang, violin & C.J. Chang, viola
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in g-minor
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézét-Séguin, conductor
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