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Author: Tim2
Date: 1999-07-07 03:20
I just received two CD's I ordered, Neidich doing the Weber Concertos/Concertino plus the Rossini Intro, Theme & Var.
What a lot of energy. Double tonguing or not? I like the cadenza at the end of the Rossini. He really lets loose. The way he slows the tempo in many sections in all the pieces is taking a lot of liberty. I never heard "liberty" quite like that before. I attribute it to "that's Charles Neidich.
The second is Patricia Sands doing the Lutoslawski "Dance Preludes", and Babin "Hillandale Waltzes" among others. I am intrigued by both, never having heard them before. I got this CD because people refer to these pieces occassionally on the BB here. Also on the CD are Finzi's "Five Bagatelles", Benjamin's "Tombeau de Ravel" and Malcom Arnold's "Sonatina". I know the Finzi and am not a big fan of the piece. But the Arnold "Sonatina" sounds very workable. The Benjamin has 8 mvts. all varied and pleasant. Not disappointed at all. A lot of fine musicianship by Patricia Shands. Good sound. Pretty controled, where as Neidich lets loose a few times and it affects his pitch.
I wanted to get a recording of Shifrin doing the Copland. I heard it on the radio. He brought such life to it for me.
Any comments? Lutoslawski "Dance Preludes", and Babin "Hillandale Waltzes" are on my list of next music to buy. Good stuff. Never would have known about these except for this BB. Thank you, Mark.
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Author: Daniel
Date: 1999-07-07 04:48
Be prepared for a heck of a time with the Babin. Some of my friends and I like to add running commentary about the different kind of drugs and stages of drug use he was going through when writing each movement. :-) All in fun of course.... it's a fabulous piece. I heard Steven Cohen perform it at the OK Symposium a few weeks ago. Probably the best performance i've heard of the Babin.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 1999-07-07 06:32
Although I do not know what instruments they play for your CD's recording.my Japanese CD's liner note tells Charles Neidich uses an old style clarinet(tuned to modern pitch), and the accompaniment piano is also a real 'piano-forte'. not a modern grand piano, both of which emit more brighter tones usual in the era when the tunes were composed.FYI.
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Author: STuart
Date: 1999-07-07 20:25
Why don't you like the Finzi? I've heard the Waltz's and the Dance Preludes and neither of them made me want to dance as much as the Finzi. I like the honesty and tenderness it demands from the performer. Those melodies never leave you once you've felt them. But then again, I like Bruce Springsteen. a lot.
Have you heard Paul Meyer's Copland? tenderloin, baby.
How about Shifrin's recording of Bernard Hermann's quintet? Talk about strange feelings, this piece reminds me a lot of his music for Hitcock's Vertigo. It is one is in my top five for pillow music . Stuart
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Author: Tim2
Date: 1999-07-08 02:49
I have never had a real affection for the Finzi. I don't know, I'm not saying I don't like it. I like the middle 3 movements more, for the very reason the melodies remain with you. I guess I find other music out there more interesting form my point of view. To each his own. I bet with the right performance, I would love it. I'll work on it myself soon. Promise!
Paul Meyer's Copland? I will keep that in mind.
As for the Babin, it sounds like something really fun to work on. The 7th mvt with the cascades of notes really sends me. It's like the world is coming apart all around. I like your remark about what he might have been doing when he wrote this. I actually don't think it sounds that far out. But then I don't have the notes in front of me. Are they pretty bad. Is it really that much of a technique monster?
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Author: Daniel
Date: 1999-07-08 18:18
Well, the notes aren't as bad as some other contemporary pieces. It's the tempos that are killer. I haven't had the time to seriously work on the piece, i just read through it several months ago. It takes a bit of woodshedding to get the technique up to the tempos he has designated on someof the movements (like the 4th, 3/4 at 360!) And your face has to be rock solid to make clean skips like in the 6th movement at 176. Etc, etc, etc.
It's obviously not impossible, as it has been done plenty. But it takes some time to work up.
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