Patrick -- thank you for this -- never heard it so crisp -- especially the last movement is rilly coherent -- !! ms ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
... quarter-tone ... Listened to MTT after the Brabbins. It's in the MTT, but not as clear or clean. Not Theremin, but very high and/or distant and/or muted ...
... Why do conductors feel the need to rush the ending of the fugue? In almost version I have ever heard (including two live performances), they rush through...
I think the problem with the 3rd Movement is conductors don't understand why it's there. They take Ives's comments about "reaction into formalism," or they...
Hello Thanks Kirk, Michael, Douglas, Gene, Christian, Frank,and mhberest (and the others members which download the file) to appreciate this recording and to...
From: "Patrick Petit" <patrpetit@...> ... (and the others members which download the file) to appreciate this recording and to be interested by this...
Let me add my thanks too, Patrick - have only just got round to downloading this (and burning CD so I can use my best equipment for sonic effect) - I agree...
Yes Kirk, for example the Holidays by Lukas Foss (first european performance in the festival of Royan in 1975), some short works by Bruno Maderna, the Fourth...
Further to the request of Kirk, here is the mp3 file of the analysis of the movement Hawthorne by Pierre Laurent Aimard recorded in the mid 90's (i dont...
Hello Here is a new performance from my archives of radio broadcast. This is the Second String Quartet by the Diotima SQ (Nicolas Miribel, violin Eiichi...
I discovered Takemitsu a long, long time ago (back in the early 80s, around the same time I discovered Ives), but have recently been listening to a lot of his...
Hi Kirk, Takemitsu was a fine composer. He was more known in Japan for his movie music than for his abstract works. Once in Seattle, at the Marzena Festival,...
I'm not exactly a fan, but I was at a performance (I think a premiere) of his work riverrun in Los Angeles. I actually hadn't gone to hear it, but the other...
... Thanks again for sharing your recordings. Sure wish my off-the-air stuff was so clean! I also like the applause and comments. First time that I've heard...
Since coming to San Francisco over ten years ago, he's played the Holidays, the Fourth, the 'American Journey' program which he released on disc, the Fourth...
Please see today's (Monday, April 24) blog at my web site, www.berestbeating.com It is a plea for funding for a second performance of Johnny's realization of...
Daniel --- I only had time to listen to your first piece, "Country Dance," but I just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed it -- the ending was certainly...
Hello From my archives of live recordings i have found this very interesting concert of the Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by david Robertson. The...
... Thanks again! (It's Carl, not Karl) :-) Kirk Read my blog: Kirkville -- http://www.mcelhearn.com Musings, Opinion and Miscellanea, on Macs, iPods and more...