This is fascinating ...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA280_.jpg
Has anyone else here got an ancient organ?
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This is fascinating ...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA280_.jpg
Has anyone else here got an ancient organ?
^^ I must confess that I struggle with a lot of Britten's work - can you actually make any sense out of the cello symphony, Malcolm? :scratch:
If so, what's the secret?! :)
It's all about colour, mood and incident for me. It makes me feel quite different from, say, Beethoven or Rachmaninov (that seems blindingly obvious as I type it but I guess you know what I mean). I suppose it's the lack of 'melody' in a conventional sense and the unexpected and unsettling shifts that I enjoy/appreciate. Not something I turn to very often, but I do find it rewarding when I take the time to listen. I was 'in the zone' today after listening to the War Requiem.
Writing that little paragraph makes me want to revisit Schoenberg's Erwartung...
Hmm. :hmm: - Thanks for that, Malcolm. I think i'm just not sympathetic to Britten's unique soundworld. :)
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My, my, What will they think of next?
Brahms' mighty 4th symphony transcribed for solo organ. :eek:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA280_.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5PN22DGCe7jRowP3qAofxY
It works remarkably well, and some of it is quite magnificent.
The album also includes the finale of the 1st symphony and a very fine Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition.
This is growing on me mightily. Not just a great VC but wonderful mainly orchestral excerpts from The Kingdom and Gerontius. :thumbsup: For an Elgar vocals hater like me that is a fab thing cos the music itself is wonderful indeed. :)
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com
https://open.spotify.com/album/6n4GRaMYnzUg7zAqk4B1EA
This is mighty fine ...
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com
https://open.spotify.com/album/4e4Ug0aaDcvaEuDiEqYrpZ
and then
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com
https://open.spotify.com/album/07kDJgfjNpKYqIkup2LwPq
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5139kdtdNcL.jpg
I love the way a good surround recording can transport you into a different space. Lovely atmosphere.
Several sonatas from this set.
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The Appassionata and Op 2 sonatas were particularly fine.
Then Mahler 6th symphony for organ solo. ;)
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https://open.spotify.com/album/7Evv3YTkHGakeZ5ColZYkT
Oh dear. :doh: It just sounded a mess to me. I had high hopes of the glorious slow mvt, but no. :(
I needed reassurance of the music's romantic greatness and clarity of line after that, so I searched out on Spotify the longest/slowest rendition of the slow mvt I could find....
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA280_.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6y9Z4gQ3ogU9hfAPtLLm0n
Wow - yummeeeee! A bit OTT even for me. :eek: But wonderful. :D
Handel, sung by Ann Murray.
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com
https://open.spotify.com/album/4Uvsl6AtoiDQL50kyg4hBw
Perfect.
If track 16 doesn't have you wreathed in delighted smiles - then you have no soul - you have no heart, merely a fleshy, vilely palpitating thing that ticks away the dreary endless seconds of your pointless existence.
Then some grand, romantic gestures from Maestro Ashkenazy.
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com
https://open.spotify.com/album/5IoGzCfp23WX0y0KzHXH3d
My goodness, this is a dynamic performance & recording! :eek: