What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol.VIII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 29 December 2011
With 2012 almost upon us, it's time to start a fresh thread. I've gone back to an earlier thread title because often the "why" is the most interesting part of the post.
Anyway, links:
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290
Haven't listened to this album in a while. A dear friend reminded me of it, so first silver disc of the day. Followed by Lost In The Trees - All Alone in an Empty House
More Stackridge on Original 1970's, Vinyl.
Graham.
First play on CD
Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: Cello Concertos
Truls Otterbech Mork (Cello), Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy
Cheers,
EJ
The Complete Methode Des Methodes De Moscheles Et Fetis: Mordecai Shehori (Piano)
20 Études de perfectionnement (Etudes for attaining perfection/ refinement / sophistication)
A little bauble of intrigue for me with this early romantic study put together by theorist and composer François-Joseph Fétis and pianist, composer, conductor and pedagogue Ignaz Moschelès. The intent was to commission one or two etudes from a group of pianist to expound what each one considered the most vital element(s) of refined piano playing.
Ultimately, this became of study of 19th century virtues of pianism. That is the refinement of execution, the ability to lead multiple voices in a coherent fashion, the facility to balance chords, the skill to negotiate poly-rhythms, the ultimate control of a large variety of simultaneous articulation strokes, the clever and invisible use of the pedal, and most importantly: the ability to make the piano sing (paraphrase from notes of Mordecai Shehori).
The composers were:
Ignaz Moscheles
Frédéric Chopin
Sigismund Thalberg
Felix Mendelssohn
Franz Liszt
Jacob Rosenhain
Theodor Dohler
Stephen Heller
Edouard Wolff
Adolf Henselt
Julius Benedict
Amedee Mereaux
Wilhelm Taubert
The notable core of this group stil today were, of course, Frédéric Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, and Franz Liszt. Chopin outdid everyone and submitted three Études. You can hear these on some Étude recordings tacked on to the end of his 24 Études as the "Trois Nouvelles Études.
Maybe it is my high familiarity with these three but the Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Liszt certainly stand out here but there is a lot of other interesting works here too by the group as a whole.
The music:
Cheers,
EJ
Cheers,
EJ
Why might anyone be interested? In three words...Five Star Jazz.
Jazz technique 101.
Stunning!
CD from 2003 : )
A quiet evening in with, so far:
steve
Tobias Hume (c.1569-1645)
The Spirit of Gambo
I... Musicke
II.. The Spirit of Gambo
III. Captaine Hume
IV.. Love
Emma Kirby soprano
LABYRINTO ~ directed by Paolo Pandolfo
Paolo Pandolfo bass & tenor viols
Guido Balestbacci bass & tenor viols
Juan Manuel Quintana tenor viol & consort bass
Alba Fresno consort bass
Eduardo Eguez theorbo, lute, Bandora & guitar
Recorded in the Church of Sornetan Switzerland in December 1995
28 tracks total playing time 77:33 / CD @ 2008 www.glossamusic.com
All on the mono re-issues:
Doing a bit of a chronology thing this evening...
Anyone else like these guys?
The XX - Coexist
Cheers
Flettster
Handel's Agrippina in a (studio) recording based on a run of staged performances with almost the same cast and crew. Alexandrina Pendatchanska (she currently calls herself Alex Penda) is also in Jacobs' new Mozart opera, La Finta Giardiniera.
Cheers,
EJ