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Bruckner's 0th, the "Nullte" which he disowned!! .... one of my favourite symphonies
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https://open.spotify.com/album/1s9QgeroHYdjxPjOfYYJCI
Critically mauled, but I really like Venzago's Bruckner. He just sounds right to me, even if everyone else disagrees!
and an evening of G&S in a couple of superb performances on DVD-Video ...
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A reccie from a Wammer ...
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https://open.spotify.com/album/7a5nMZpohlYIxEa3xgf7B1
Amazon review here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hillborg-Ele...words=hillborg
Weird avantgarde shit is happily absent, Hillborg seems comfortable with tonality, just it's of the 21stC kind - lots of interesting things going on, very varied. Long lines - he has an attention span longer than many composers seem to have these days.
Consider me a bit of a Hillborg fanboy. :)
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https://open.spotify.com/album/6p8Q8JA89gcwcZqbjN1ooY
The opening track is remarkably like the start of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. It must be intentional.
... the problem is that it lasts for nearly half an hour. IgorS knew that he had to move on after a few minutes. OK, to be fair, there is some development and variety, and things do hot up after 20 minutes. Some tonalities and glissandi are very like Gloria Coates' music (which is a good thing!).
Yep, interesting music.
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Allegri - Miserere - Tallis Scholars
Quite wonderful and absolutely fascinating watching the technique of the singers :)
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This is interesting ...
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https://open.spotify.com/album/53bGKGt7H9gvl9PqI1rJhs
Franz Clement wrote his violin concerto a year before Beethoven wrote his own, and he commissioned and was the soloist in the 1st performance of the Beethoven concerto.
I've listened to the Clement concerto 3 times now, and each time it sounds increasingly like Beethoven just copied it and extended the ideas / emboldened it to create his own concerto! Astonishingly alike in places. Yup, plagiarism was alive and well back then, and Beethoven was not above a bit of borrowing. :eek:
I find it quite shocking, in fact!
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Solti's Das Rheingold (1958) on HFPA blu-ray. Like the gin and tonic of Wagner recordings - direct and refreshing. Beginning extended preparations for my first live Wagner in the summer.
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