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Joined: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:34 am Posts: 3881 Location: Idaho Falls, ID
Sorin Ascended wrote:
smileyman wrote:
...in the four-hand piano arrangement of the Requiem, it's the choir singing, along with whomever they've got to play the fp.
Oh I see. So Brahms has reduced the orchestral component for piano four-hands, but retained the choral portion. Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose, though?
Not really. Brahms did his a lot with his music so that it could be sold to your average person to play in their homes. He did his with some of his symphonies, he did it with the Triumphlied, and he arranged some of his other orchestral work for piano too. It was a nice way for him to make an easy buck or two off of a successful premier of a work.
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Joined: Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:11 pm Posts: 506 Location: Liverpool, UK
Brian wrote:
I had an extra $7 somehow this week, so I ordered this after joining yourmusic.com.
Bartok's third concerto has been on my bucket list - things to hear before I die - so since I'm not getting any younger, now was the time to jump in.
Very nice. Boulez and Bartok are a formiddable partnership, so I hope it sounds as good as the coupling suggests. Please tell us which pianist on this release has the most appropriate 'feel'?.
I gave my first copy of this to a promising young clarinet player, hoping to inspire her further into classical music. Instead, she ended up on drugs and playing bass.
Come to think of it, I gave an Ernie Watts CD to a promising young tenor sax player, and he ended up alcoholic and playing bass.
I've got to stop handing out CDs. There are already too many substance-abusing bass players.
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Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:24 am Posts: 12782 Location: London, England
Bought this today whilst it is still at a give away price. I already have 1 and heard 2 more of the 5 disks, but at this price it's worth a speculative purchase for the other two alone...
Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:24 am Posts: 12782 Location: London, England
Rod Corkin wrote:
Bought this today whilst it is still at a give away price. I already have 1 and heard 2 more of the 5 disks, but at this price it's worth a speculative purchase for the other two alone...
Well I've had a quick scan through them all already. A few manufacturing problems - disk one had no graphics on the disk, it is blank both sides, and some of the tracks on disk 5 start/stop within the movements as opposed at the beggining/end of them! As for the performances I think only two of the disks are worthy of merit, the other 3 are average at best and utterly detached at worst. Audio quality is an issue too on some of the disks. Fortunately the one disk I was interested in (disk 4) was one of the good ones. but I have the other good one (disk 5) already. Worth considering at this cheap price for the last two disks, the other 3 are disposable.
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Joined: Sun May 04, 2008 5:44 pm Posts: 2171 Location: Old Blighty
As I made my way back from the tobacconist I nipped into the record shop and picked this up...
I promised myself that I would pick up a set of the concertos after I'd battled through Sorin's thread on the subject. And in case my bank manager is reading this, and to cut a long story short, I only had to pay £21.
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Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:45 am Posts: 5415 Location: Los Angeles, California
Melmoth wrote:
As I made my way back from the tobacconist I nipped into the record shop and picked this up...
I promised myself that I would pick up a set of the concertos after I'd battled through Sorin's thread on the subject. And in case my bank manager is reading this, and to cut a long story short, I only had to pay £21.
I'm confident you'll enjoy those performances, Mel. I have that album myself and, though not on period instruments, the quality is quite good. Keep in mind concerti 1-4 are arrangements of other composers' works, however!
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