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Once again Garrett has caused me to come out of my CMG exile. Your comment on not wanting to "work" after coming home from "work" is perfectly natural. I composed quite frequently up to and including the first few years of marriage. I found it no problem to teach college by day and then compose at n...

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Yet another post that pulls me out of self-exile.

I knew Paul while we both were at Eastman. He was a kind person and at the time very much into music for the theater. I never kept track of him once I left there.

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I recently acquired my first Gouvy (the cpo recording of his 6th symphony & a Sinfonietta) and came away truly impressed by its quality. I plan to get more of his music.

Now back to my exile

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I've come out of my self imposed exile to say congrats to Garrett and the fact that the "Song of the Night" Symphony is one of my all-time favorites makes it all the more sweeter.

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Somewhat Cagean with some rhythmic grooviness starting in the late 3 minute area. I found nothing funny nor original about it, but I still liked it. Thanks for sharing.

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Is it true that musicologists believe that the only good composers are dead ones?

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Ah! You're a visuals kind of guy.

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What??? You mean you didn't read and recall all of my posts over the last 7 years??

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My collection is probably bigger than your collection. LOL

Quite frankly with the quirks that life throws at us composers, I tend to keep mum about any performance, publication, commission, recording, etc. until they've materialized.

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Frohlich - Concert Overture (Tschupp/Jecklin)
R. Schumann - Piano Trio #1 (Borodin/Chandos)
Sibelius - Cassazione (Jarvi/BIS)

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LOL! Don't take this thing so literally guys... I didn't

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Mine is "from Adams to Zwillich"

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LPs

Erb - Rhinoceros Overture (Johanos/Turnabout)
Feldman - False Relationships and the Extended Ending (composer/CRI)
Leichtling - 11 Songs from A Shropshire Lad (composer/Turnabout)

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Castelnuovo-Tedesco - A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture (Penny/Naxos)
Schuller - String Quartet #3 (Emerson/DG)
Persichetti - Piano Sonata #7 (Burleson/New World)
Piston - Violin Concerto #2 (Buswell/Naxos)

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dulcinea wrote:
I spent the morning of 31-08-12 listening ...musics that feature that bassoon-like instrument, the didgeridoo. Great fun!

Catch the start of "Earth Cry" by Peter Sculthorpe where that instrument kicks it off. It's way cool

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Moreira - Overture in D (Minsky/Koch)
Henrique, Ovaile & Barroso - Three Brazilian Songs (Battle & Parkening/EMI)
Surinach - Piano Concerto (de Larrocha/Decca Eloquence)
Ginastera - Estancia Ballet Suite (Gould/Varese Sarabande)

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Boyce - Overture to "The Shepherd's Lottery" (pinnock/Archiv) Lawes - Consort Sett in 5 Parts in C (Phantasm/Channel Classics) Holborne - Two Pavans and Three Galliards (Savall/Alia Vox) Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary (Longhurst/Philips) Abel - Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Oboe, Clarinet and Orchest...

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R. Wagner - Overture to "Die Feen" (Rahbari/Naxos)
R. Strauss - Cello Sonata (Schiefen/Arte Nova)
Wellesz - Symphony #4 (Rabl/cpo)

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Mehul - Overture to "Horatius Cocles" (Sanderling/ASV)
Saint-Saens - Piano Concerto #5 (Roge/London)
Ravel - Sheherazade (Te Kanawa/EMI)

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Chalkperson wrote: excellent ensemble, especially in East European and Modern repertoire...

Yep. Like this disc of Enescu's Octet & Quintet I have:

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Interesting sub-topic of "critic" vs" theorist". My take is that a critic without clear theoretical points to back them up is not worth my consideration which is why I enjoy such a one as Rosen.

As to the main topic, I'm a sucker for viol consorts like the ones Lawes and Jenkins explored.

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All Johann Sebastian

LPs
Bach - Orchestral Overture #2 (Harnoncourt/Telefunken)
Bach - Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue (Heiler/Mace)
Bach - Cello Suite #3 (Starker/Mercury)
Bach/arr. by King & Glasel - Contrapunctus 3 & 9 from "Art of Fugue" (Iowa Brass/U of I Press)

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Kabalevsky - Overture to "Colas Breugnon" (Mayer/CBC)
Shchedrin - Cello Sonata (Grigorian/Ars Musici)
Lyatoshynsky - Symphony #5 (Kuchar/Marco Polo)

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Fry - Macbeth Overture (Rowe/Naxos)
Gottschalk - Pasquinade & Mazuk (Marks/Nimbus)
Gould - Apple Waltzes (composer/RCA)
Carter - Two Thoughts About the Piano (Oppens/Cedille)
Corigliano - To Music (Werthen/Telarc)

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M. Haydn - Overture to "Andromeda e Perseo" (Gotitzki/cpo)
Beethoven - Cello Sonata #1 (Fournier/DG)
Burgmuller - Piano Concerto (Hokanson/MDG)

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No, not a lot of "Roumanian" flavor in his music but it is really tasty stuff. I have enjoyed his larger chamber music pieces. Tonal but with lots of chromaticism that sometimes moves in surprising ways. He really should be better known.

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Lilburn - Drysdale Overture (Southgate/Continuum)
Grainger - Ye Banks and Braes O Bonnie Doon & The Faeroe Island Dance (Rundell/Chandos)
Sculthorpe - Piano Concerto (Cislowska/Naxos)
Leifs - Dettifoss (Shao/BIS)

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Well, if that don't beat all.

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LPs

Barber - Overture to "The School for Scandal" (Schippers/Odyssey)
W. Barlow - Trio for Oboe, Viola & Piano (Sprenkle, Tursi & Faini/Mirrosonic)
Barati - Chamber Concerto (Ormandy/Columbia)
Bernstein - Three Dance Episodes from "On the Town" (composer/Columbia)

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Sallinen - A Solemn Overture (Rasilainen/cpo)
Dalbavie - Violin Concerto (Chijiiwa/Naive)
Lindberg - Fresco (Salonen/Sony)

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From all that I do know, all Mahler symphonies except the 1st & 4th (certain movements excepted) are quite hard. I once heard the Eastman Philharmonia play Mahler's 5th and while it was a good performance there were places that were strained.

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Vinyl Record Day

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While you can Google the answer, who knows which Spike Jones classic ends with the punchline: Beetlebomb. I know because I own the RCA LP called "Spike Jones is Murdering the Classics"

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Thanks, maestrob, I'll live vicariously through yours and other posters' listening lists.

And I just looked at your profile and see we are of the same age. Cool!

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LPs Schubert - Overture to "Die Zauberharfe" (Vaughn/RCA) R. Schumann - Novelettes, Op. 21, Nos. 1 & 2 (Rubinstein/RCA) Sibelius - Night-Ride and Sunrise (Dorati/EMI) R. Strauss - Olympische Hymne (Locke Brass/Chandos) Stravinsky - Movements for Piano & Orchestra (Rosen/Columbia) and with that I'm ...

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Parry - Overture to an Unwritten Tragedy (Lloyd-Jones/Hyperion)
Elgar - The Sanguine Fan (Lloyd-Jones/Naxos)
Foulds - Mirage (Oramo/Warner)

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Gade - Hamlet: Concert Overture (Schmidt/cpo)
Lange-Muller - Selections from "Once Upon a Time" (Atzmon/BIS)

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A. Scarlatti - Overture to "Clori, Dorino e Amore" (Biondi/Virgin)
Lotti - Credo (Hengelbrock/DHM)
Locatelli - Concerto grosso, Op. 7, No. 6 "Il Pianto d'Arianna" (Biondi/Opus 111)
J. S. Bach - Cantata #119 "Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn" (Herreweghe/Harmonia Mundi)

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Pugnani - Overture #1 in Eight Parts (Mangiacavallo/Opus 111)
Beethoven - Piano Trio, Op. 70, No. 1 (Trio Parnassus/MDG)
Goetz -Nenie (Albert/cpo)

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Telemann - Harpsichord Overture #1 (Hoeren/cpo)
Quantz - Flute Concerto in G (Galway/RCA)
M. Haydn - Singspiel: "The Bass Fiddler of Worgl" (Goritzki/cpo)

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John F wrote: " The best-known is probably the Seashore Tests of Musical Ability, which I took in high school. "

"READY NOW, for the PITCH TEST"

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LPs

Boieldieu - Overture to "Le Calife de Bagdad" (Bonynge/London)
Chabrier - Suite pastorale (Mari/Angel)
Debussy - Jeux (Boulez/Columbia)
Dubois - Saxophone Concerto (Rousseau/DGG)

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Reynolds - Overture for a Comedy (Sutherland/Marco Polo)
Veress - Hommage a Paul Klee (Holliger/Teldec)
Ligeti - 6 Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (London Winds/Sony)
Takemitsu - Archipelago S. (Knussen/DG)

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Ottani - Overture to "Amor senza malizia" (Goebel/Calliope)
F. J. Haydn - Piano Sonata in G, H: XVI:8 (McCabe/London)
Paisiello - Sinfonia in tre tempi (Mazzola/Dynamic)
W. A. Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante (Kantorow & Mendelsson/Denon)

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Shapero - Nine-Minute Overture (Previn/New World)
Sessions - Symphony #7 (Davies/Argo)
Tull - Trumpet Concerto #1 (Strieder/Albany)

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slofstra wrote: Now where is that CD?

Right beside the Rosner!

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And I wonder what Mr. Brain thought of Mozart..LOL!

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Weeeeee! Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces. - (Georg Solti) Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement. - (George Szell) Does it not see...

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