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- From: a4369@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley#2)
- Subject: Whatcha get for Christmas?
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 06:46:26 GMT
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- Every Boxing Day (the day after Christmas), most of the major music stores
- here (I almost said "record stores") have the usual slit-their-wrists sales.
- Here's what I got this year:
-
- Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen played by Mr. & Mrs. Messiaen (Ades 13.233-2).
- Despite the recent adulation heaped on this recording by another poster in
- this newsgroup, I still prefer the Serkin/Takahashi one (PLEASE, RCA ...
- hurry up and reissue it!). But in the meantime, this will do nicely. It
- brings back memories of when I heard it performed by the same team nearly 20
- years ago.
-
- Krenek: Piano Sonatas 2, 4, 6 and 7 played by Geoffrey Madge (Koch Schwann CD
- 310 048 HI). These four sonatas range in date from 1928 to 1988. I quite like
- the Sonata Number 2, which has a kind of mellow feeling about it. The
- companion volume, with Sonatas 1, 3 and 5 is a likely purchase at a future
- sale.
-
- Robert (sic) Gerhard: Don Quixote; Pedrelliana; Albada, Interlude I Dansa
- (Valois V 4660). An interesting program by one of my favorite lesser-known
- 20th century composers, played by the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra (that's in
- the Canary Islands) and played surprisingly well. The Don Quixote is a 1950
- ballet score recorded in suite form some years ago by Antal Dorati on
- Seraphim and Argo. Gerhard studied with Schoenberg and towards the end of his
- life (the 1960's) wrote several brilliant avant-garde pieces like the
- Concerto for Orchestra (Argo ... PLEASE!), but the works on this CD are all
- very tonal.
-
- Dutilleux: Mystere de l'Instant; Metaboles; Timbes, Espace, Mouvement ou "La
- Nuit Etoilee" (Erato 2292-45626-2). This was the number one "want" on my
- shopping list. Despite being an old geezer age-wise (born in 1916), Dutilleux
- writes music which is fresh-sounding and fascinating -- I almost wore out the
- CD of his Violin Concerto. The pieces on this CD, named Ainsi Dutilleux, are
- conducted by Paul Sacher and Mstislav Rostropovitch. A bit of a rip-off in
- terms of time -- only 46 minutes.
-
- Georges Delerue -- Les Deux Anglaises at le Continent (Hortensia FMC 600). I
- was especially pleased to find this, one of my favorite film scores. The way
- Delerue writes for strings in this score sends chills up my spine. I only
- wish that some of the dialogue excerpts had been removed and his equally
- memorable score for The Conformist was included as well.
-
- 400 Years of Dutch Music, Vol. 5 (Olympia OCD 504). An interesting
- cross-section of music (66'14"), containing my favorite piano concerto by
- Willem Pijper, well-played by Ronald Brautigam. Wagenaar's Cyrano de Bergerac
- Overture is reminiscent of Brahms and Richard Strauss, while Hendrik
- Andriessen's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Johann Kuhnau for String
- Orchestra and Daniel Ruyneman's Hieroglyphen (for 3 flutes, celesta, harp,
- cup-bells, piano, two mandolins and two guitars (1918!)) are both
- well-crafted. Vermeulen's Symphony No. 3 is a bit of a disappointment, the
- orchestral playing seems indifferent at the beginning, but it improves later
- on.
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