Marieke [Original recording remastered] [Import]

1. Marieke

2. Le Moribond

3. Vivre Debout

4. On N'oublie Rien

5. Clara

6. Le Prochain Amour

7. L'ivrogne

8. Les Prenoms De Paris

9. Les Singes

10. Marieke (En Flamand)

11. Laat Me Niet Alleen

12. De Apen Les Singes

13. Men Vergeet Niets On N'oublie Rien

14. Le Prochain Amour

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Product Description
Digitally Remastered Edition of the Original LP that First Came Out in 1961.

Tracks:

Ansturmend, Ziemlich Rasch (Roter Wirbeltanz)
Schwer, Lastend (Tanz Des Grauens)
Intermezzo: Fliessende Achtel
Gemessen (Tanz Des Schweigens)
Intermezzo: Lebhaft
Massige Viertel (Tanz Des Erwachens)
Allegro Assai Moderato
Agitato
Adagio
Allegro Vivace

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A Vibrant Slice of the 1920's.......2006-11-30

The first question, who will want to own this album? Well...
--Whoever loves the cello will want it for this vibrant, expressive, noble concerto, the solo played by Christian Poltéra.
--Anyone engaged by such 1920-ish transitional pieces as Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat" or Milhaud's "Creation du Monde" will find the "Tanz-Suite" a very tasty addition to their collection.
--That perhaps rather small number of people who gather up their art experiences as a way of feeling and tasting our human progress through history - call them "hands-on cultural historians" - will want to hear Toch's very passionate and thoughtful engagement with the socially and artistically turbulent decade of the 1920s in central Europe.
--Whoever enjoys an important discovery will want to come this much closer to Ernst Toch, a badly neglected composer with a lot to say.
--And everyone who thrives on that intimate interplay of a small group of musicians which we are doomed to call "chamber music," will be gratified by the whole album, since Spectrum Concerts Berlin does this kind of thing at the prime level, well-rehearsed and truly together throughout this wide-ranging disc.

I'll say something more about each of these...
The cello doesn't have the breadth of repertory or the regular top billing of the piano or violin, but the great cello pieces take root in their own way. Concerto lovers have more to cheer about from the 20th century than the 19th, and this Toch concerto is wonderfully scored (despite its chamber size you don't miss the other fifty or sixty players) and very imaginative. The first movement is like an exotic garden passing through the seasons in time-lapse photography, the scherzo dapper and nonchalant with little explosions of energy, the slow movement thoughtful and intensely felt as any true Adagio, with a finale that gathers it all well and quickly. If it has a kind of "program," as Mahler claimed all music does, this piece is about creative ferment, the striving for expression. Toch was passionate about music in just that sense.

Speaking of "programs," the dance suite here is an ingenious six-movement tone poem, for a handful of instruments: flute, clarinet, violin, viola, double-bass and percussion. It works through the radicalism, despair and struggle for revival of the post-World War I moment with real psychological depth.

This fascinating and finally joyful music becomes, for me, even richer in its historical context. The opening (Red Whirlwind Dance) is shrilly assertive, and its energy is certainly impressive; but however the young composer might have felt about the very real political Red whirlwinds which were just dying down around him, he penetrates their cultural insufficiency.

The Dance of the Gray that follows is hard to fathom at first; it reveals its core of anguished mourning right at its center, and then the subdued and tentative outer sheaths may be understood for something like the hollow carrying-on of those who have lost what cannot be replaced. (Toch himself served on the Austrian-Italian front, a zone both terrible in its suffering and almost ignored by history. It has been memorialized quite wonderfully in Mark Helprin's novel "Soldier of the Great War.")
The flowing Intermezzo that follows has to work up toward real living again - and cannot sustain it. The Dance of Silence has its lugubrious pacing, but it reverses the second movement: at its heart is a new flowering of simple, gentle happiness.

There is still the legacy of the whirlwind to be digested, and a brief second intermezzo finds the first movement's sharp postures being reintegrated into the everyday circus of living.

The large finale opens mysteriously, as if in the darkness-before-dawn of a night ill-slept. These grays slowly fill with color, however, and the feeling reaches longing but not anguish - when the magic of music-at-dawn unfolds with the music of Richard Wagner. His wife Cosima, newly a mother, was just waking up when these first notes of the Siegfried Idyll sounded outside her window. Toch's awakening is somewhat more complex; there have been real and terrible losses. But birdsong at first light of day - can we close our hearts to this? And now the old waltz sentiment of Vienna mingles with the emotionalism of Wagner (the two old musical opponents reconciled) and together they must find a way to win over the edgy critique of post-war realism. The concluding whirl has some of the old warmth, some of the new energy, united in a simple confidence that life can find its meanings.

This suite is danceable, no doubt, and would serve a choreographer well; but the music alone is acutely timely and rich in emotional meanings, conflicted and resolving. It also illustrates what "modernism" was for composers like Toch: an enlarged palette of salt and sour and even bitter. It does not warm and embrace us as the old music does, but it wakes us up to live in modern times.

About the composer, "neglected" is sadly true, but rather off the point. Important is the word here. Gustav Mahler occupied a gilded "my time will come" penalty-box of composition for fifty years after his death, and Toch has my vote to succeed him. If so, Toch has been there now just over forty years. "The rest of Stravinsky" is also a candidate, since we love a handful of his works almost too much, and have never really had the case made for the rest of his music. But with Toch it is the whole life's work that is only beginning to come into view. Fine performances of the fascinating seven symphonies, also out of Berlin, have given us a first full experience there. The string quartets are on disc now, convincingly. And Spectrum Concerts Berlin will follow this CD in a few months with an album with Toch's violin-piano sonata, solo cello impromptus, and piano quintet.

Like other important composers Toch has his own voice and convictions. Self-taught (or should we say, taught by the scores of the Mozart quartets?), he is completely assured and free in his intentions. Neither in angst nor in delight does he want to lull us into dream-land. His melodies are beautiful and his setting of them is always intriguing. His energy and rhythmic sense is striking, and though he did not come from a "cultured" family, he brings a depth and breadth of perspective to his music which adds to its value.

[...]Christian Poltéra has recorded the concerto before, and Spectrum Concerts Berlin had performed it over a year before this live recording was made. The sound of the Berlin Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal is wonderful, and I never noticed the audience. My only quibble with the Spectrum recording is that the dynamic range is very wide in the Tanz-Suite, so that I find myself turning up the inner movements in my not-so-big listening space. Habakuk Traber's interesting notes give Toch's biography in brief along with many insights into the musical structures and contexts of the two pieces.

I will be listening many more times to this and the other new recordings, which encourage me to say, Mr. Toch, your time is really coming!

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Bach: Mass in B minor [SACD]

Manufacturer: Channel Classics Nl
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ASIN: B000N4S8PM
Release Date: 2007-04-10

Customer Reviews:

Valuable Rendition.......2007-07-12

Thoroughly enjoyed this interpretation of the Mass in B Minor by the Netherlands Bach Society. It is fresh and exciting. I do recommend it.

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The Best of 1930s Modernism
A happy revival of music by an exceptional talent

Ruth Crawford Seeger: Portrait

Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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Ruth Crawford Seeger: Violin Sonata; Piano Pieces; Two Ricercari; Sandburg Songs
The World of Ruth Crawford Seeger
Seeger: Two Movements for Chamber Orchestra/Musgrave: Chamber Concerto No. 2/Mekeel: Planh/Corridors of Dreams
Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music
Study of Counterpoint

ASIN: B000001GXW
Release Date: 1998-01-27

Tracks:

Music For Small Orchestra(1926): I. Slow, Pensive
Music For Small Orchestra(1926): II. In Roguish Humor. Not Fast
Three Chants(1930): 1. To An Unkind God
Three Chants(1930): 2. To An Angel (With Soprano Solo)
Three Chants(1930): 3. To A Kind God (With Soprano And Alto Solo)
Piano Study In Mixed Accents: Piano Study In Mixed Accents(1930)
Three Songs: 1. Rat Riddles(1930)
Three Songs: 2. Prayers Of Steel(1932)
Three Songs: 3. In Tall Grass(1931)
String Quartet 1931: I. Rubato assai
String Quartet 1931: II. Leggiero
String Quartet 1931: III. Andante
String Quartet 1931: IV. Allegro possibile
2 Ricercare (1932): Sacco, Vanzetti
2 Ricercare (1932): Chinaman, Laundryman
Andante For Strings (1938)
Rissolty Rossolty
John Hardy (1940)
Suite (1952): I. Allegretto
Suite (1952): II. Lento rubato
Suite (1952): III. Allegro possibile-Andante-Allegro-Meno mosso-Tempo primo

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Crawford is a neglected but significant figure in the development of American music in the 20th century. Perhaps it's that she took 15 years off from composing in the middle of her life to help found the American folk revivalist movement carried on by her children Michael, Peggy, and stepson Pete. But her early works define their own new territory next to contemporaries and friends Henry Cowell and Carl Ruggles. With a decidedly proletarian slant, Crawford's earlier works merge folk melodies and forms of meandering clarity and layer them between swirls of chamber dissonance. These include settings of her friend Carl Sandburg's conversational poetry, the political words of Daily Worker writer H.T. Tsiang, the curious and circular patterns in String Quartet No. 1, and the homespun-meets-high-art Rissolty Rossolty. The CD finishes with a song setting by her husband Charles, and her "comeback" work, 1952's Suite for Wind Quartet, which patchworks rolling contemplation, lyrical melody, and forceful irregular rhythms together. --Robin Edgerton

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The Best of 1930s Modernism.......2004-01-28

Ruth Crawford Seeger - A Portrait

The male-dominated atmosphere of most of the arts in history has made the search for women's voices often a very difficult one, even for women earlier in this century. So many women of original achievement or promising talent were eclipsed by the men in their lives; think of Alma Mahler for instance, who had a real talent for the human voice, but sublimated it to the promotion of the music of her husband, and then to the promotion of the arts of her other husbands. Sometimes this searching for earlier women's voices leads to the promotion of composers with somewhat dubious abilities such as Amy Beach. But other times it reveals composers of freshness and distinction. Such is the case with Ruth Crawford Seeger. Her output, though small, is some of the most distinctive and original of her generation.

Ruth Crawford began her career in Chicago, at the time, hardly a hotbed of musical experimentation. However, even in this out of the way location, she was able to keep abreast of the new musical experiments in Europe. Music for Small Orchestra represents her music of this time, impressionistic but non-tonal. There are echoes of Ives in the work, as well as Scriabin, and Debussy. The orchestral imagination is distinctive and both works show evidence of considerable formal innovation. The Three Chants continues in this mystical vein, but with even more evidence of development of craft.

In the 1930s Crawford Seeger moved to New York and became active in the most radical wing of American composition. Influenced by iconoclastic composers like Henry Cowell, Varese, Ives, and her husband, Charles Seeger, she adopted a technique of "dissonant counterpoint". This technique, though it tends to be forgotten now in favor of concentration on European serial procedures, was integral in the music of the American radicals. Crawford Seeger's work from this period makes the best case possible for the style, which she uses with facility and ingenuity. The Three Songs for Contralto and instrumental ensemble show her new-found abilities in this style. The work is highly expressive, with a constantly changing background "ostinato"...a truly impressive work.

Crawford Seeger's masterpiece in this style is her String Quartet of 1931. Tightly organized around pithy motives, this is one of the most impressive modernist works written by an American. Her freely atonal style is better developed than the styles of other similar modernists like Copland or Sessions at the time. Yet the work is also marked by logical clarity, and deeply felt emotional content. The Andante in particular is an impressive work and makes an even better string orchestra piece in its 1938 transcription.

As Crawford Seeger and her husband became more and more involved in Marxist politics, their musical interests changed as well. The Adorno influenced aesthetic they had both embraced in the early 30s (modernism in music linked with leftist politics) gave way to a more populist ideal, perhaps reflecting some of the political and artistic concerns in contemporary communist Russia. In any case, both Seegers gave up composing for a long while and became interested in the folk song revival. Moving to the Washington, DC area, the couple worked with Alan and John Lomax at the Smithsonian Institution, helping to collect and arrange a treasury of American folk music. This change to folk music deeply affected the music that Crawford Seeger did write at the time. Rissolty Rossolty from 1939 is an example of a rare piece of music from this time. Written in an idiom that suggests the forms of an Ives piece, with the harmonic restraint of Copland's American period, the work is pleasant, if not as strikingly innovative as her early work.

In the 1950s after taking time off to raise her children, the folk singers Peggy and Pete Seeger, Crawford returned to original composition with the intriguing Suite for Wind Quintet. This work suggests that she was on the brink of discovering a way to mix her early modernist style with her later interest in folk music. The melodies of the Suite are derived from folk music, but highly segmented and manipulated, so that all that remains of the original target tune is the mere suggestion of folkiness. Instead the work resembles a slightly more dissonant French-influenced music, rather like a spiky Poulenc. It is not a masterpiece, but it is an intriguing but ultimately sad picture of the composer. Tragically, she died soon after writing this work.

The performances on this disc are by the Schonberg Ensemble led by Oliver Knussen. They are exemplary. Crawford Seeger is one American composer from this period who I think that European musicians can "get" without much effort. The vocal music is sung by Lucy Shelton, who is terrific in modernist repertoire. I don't think one could ask for a better introduction to this wonderful composer than this disc.

A happy revival of music by an exceptional talent.......2003-12-25

In recent years, there has been something of a revival of interest in the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger, one of the less well known members of the American avant-garde of the first half othe 20th century. This disc collects a variety of her works from her brief career as an active composer--she largely retired from composition in her early 30s to become part of the folk music revival--and demonstrates what an extraordinary talent she had.

Music for Small Orchestra, written in 1926, was her first work for a sizeable ensemble. It is in two movements, a slow first that might remind some of Ives without the eclecticism; and a second, faster movement that develops irregularly. This is a remarkable and very individual orchestral debut, even if the following works on the disc do somewhat put it in the shade.

The Three Chants for Women's Chorus, written four years later, are a remarkable achievement. Written in phonetic speech and complex atonal counterpoint, they are as remarkable for their musical content as for the pre-echoes of later composers that occasionally emerge. Not only are they consistently more radical than most of the European avant-garde of the day, they are also outstanding music in their own right. The outer movements are mostly slow: the first often in two-part counterpoint, the third much more complex and climaxing with a twelve-note cluster; in contrast the central panel is fast and vigorous.

From the same year comes Piano Study in Mixed Accents, an irregularly rhythmic toccata which is great fun if hardly a major achievement.

The Three Songs, written between 1930 and 1932, are written for an ensemble of contralto, oboe, percussion and piano with optional orchestral ostinato. Once again, their radicalism is dramatic and combined with an infectious joy in the sounds the unusual ensemble can create.

Crawford Seeger's most famous work is probably the String Quartet 1931 (in its original form and in the version for string orchestra of the Andante from it). This is a superb work, full of variety, contrast and atmosphere in its four movements. The evocative Andante is the best known part of it, but the rest of the work is on the same elevated level. The orchestral version of the Andante (also recorded here) arguably is even more impressive than the original--a rare case of a transcription that makes its point.

The rest of the disc is more problematical. The Two Ricecare are attempts at avant-garde Leftist agitprop--a ranting vocal line against an unrelated and largely repetitive piano background. Unfortunately they do not reach the heights that, say, Luigi Nono's political music was able to. Rissolty Rossolty (written in 1939) is a brief orchestral fantasy based on folk songs, written in a conservative style and not very interesting. Largely similar in style is John Hardy, written by Crawford Seeger's husband Charles (a far inferior composer to his wife).

The disc ends with the Suite for Wind Quintet, a long-delayed return to concert music from 1952--the year before Crawford Seeger died. This is a sprightly, largely neo-classical work: tuneful and rhythmic but without totally abandoning the modernism of her earlier years. It doesn't strike me as close to the earlier works in quality, but if she had lived, it might have been part of a new beginning for her.

Tracks:

Symphony No. 38 in D major, K504 "Prague"
Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K543

Tracks:

Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K500
Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551

Tracks:

Beethoven - The Ruins of Athens Overture, Missa solemnis Benedictus, Symphony No. 7 (Allegro con brio) and Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rondo: Allegro)
Dvorak - Slavic Dances, Op. 46 no. 8
Vivaldi - "Summer" (Presto, tempo impetuoso, d'estate)
Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream and "Italian" Symphony Schumann

Album Description

This incredible package includes 2CDs of Mozart's most loved symphonies (numbers 38-41) plus an additional cd of extracts from some of the orchestra's greatest albums.

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Mozart: Wind Serenades

Manufacturer: Chandos
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ASIN: B000000AUS
Release Date: 1995-02-07

Tracks:

Adagio In B Flat Major K411
Serenade In E Flat Major K375: Allegro maestoso
Serenade In E Flat Major K375: Menuetto - Trio
Serenade In E Flat Major K375: Adagio
Serenade In E Flat Major K375: Menuetto - Trio
Serenade In E Flat Major K375: Allegro
Adagio In F Major K580a
Serenade In C Minor K388: Allegro
Serenade In C Minor K388: Andante
Serenade In C Minor K388: Menuetto in canone - Trio
Serenade In C Minor K388: Allegro

Janácek: Mládi; Rikadla; Concertino; etc.

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Spectacular!

Janácek: Mládi; Rikadla; Concertino; etc.

Manufacturer: Chandos
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ASIN: B000000AXP
Release Date: 1995-10-17

Tracks:

Mladi - Youth - Jugend - Jeunesse for wind sextet
Mladi - Youth - Jugend - Jeunesse for wind sextet
Mladi - Youth - Jugend - Jeunesse for wind sextet
Mladi - Youth - Jugend - Jeunesse for wind sextet
Concertino for piano and chamber ensemble
Concertino for piano left hand and chamber ensemble
Concertino for piano and chamber ensemble
Concertino for piano left hand and chamber ensemble
Capriccio for piano left hand chamber ensemble
Capriccio for piano left hand chamber ensemble
Capriccio for piano left hand chamber ensemble
Capriccio for piano left hand chamber ensemble
Pochod modracku - March Of The Blue Boys
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chmaber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Rikadla - Nursery Rhymes For Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble

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When he turned 70, Janácek decided to give himself a little musical birthday present. The result was his wind sextet Mladi (Youth), a typically fresh and vital product of the composer's miraculous old age. He then produced the Concertino and Capriccio, both miniature piano concertos eccentrically scored for soloist and chamber ensemble. Rikadla (Nursery Rhymes) sets a series of nonsense poems for voices and a few instruments. All of this music is passionate and directly communicative, and it's excellently performed and recorded. Janácek was one of music's true originals, and anyone looking for an entertaining change of pace will enjoy this disc. --David Hurwitz

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Spectacular!.......2007-05-20

Very seldom has a composer been able to write "humorous" instrumental music without lapsing into being corny. Janacek is the exception, the master of musical wit and novelty. Mladi and the two quasi-concertos for piano on this CD are jolly and outlandish, and yet full of musical subtilty and invention. Already nearly a century old, they are still fresh and full of surprises. The performance by the Netherlands Wind Ensemble is impeccable. Is every Dutch child born with a silver tuning fork in her/his mouth?

Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 25; Quintet for piano & winds, Op. 16; Clarinet Trio, Op. 11

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RARE, UTTERLY CHARMING BEETHOVEN CHAMBERWORKS...

Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 25; Quintet for piano & winds, Op. 16; Clarinet Trio, Op. 11

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Beethoven: Septet in E flat; Sextet in E flat

ASIN: B000F2C9S4
Release Date: 2006-06-13

Tracks:

Allegro Con Brio
Adagio
Theme And Variations On 'Pria Ch'io L'impegno' From Weigl's L'amor Marinaro: Allegro
Grave - Allegro Ma Non Troppo
Andante Cantabile
Rondo: Allegro Ma Non Troppo
Entrata: Allegro
Tempo Ordinario D'un Menuetto
Allegro Molto
Andante Con Variazioni
Allegro Scherzando E Vivace
Adagio - Allegro Vivace E Disinvolto - Presto

Customer Reviews:

RARE, UTTERLY CHARMING BEETHOVEN CHAMBERWORKS..........2006-06-18

The Clarinet Trio is fine; the Piano Quintet is wonderful; and the rarely heard Flute Serenade is exiquisite.

Quoting an unsigned review: "Beethoven clearly had Mozart's quintet K452 in mind when writing his quintet in E flat for piano and wind however despite the instrumentation and structure being the same Beethoven's voice and methods remain very much his own, writing on a more expansive scale, creating outer movements that at times resemble a chamber concerto for piano and wind. Also on this disc is the elegant and refined Trio in B flat major, composed for the then-rare combination of clarinet, cello and piano and the Serenade in D major, Op.25, for the airy combination of flute, violin and viola."

Quand on N'a Que l'Amour/Marieke/Jacques Brel 67

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Quand on N'a Que l'Amour/Marieke/Jacques Brel 67
Jacques Brel
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Release Date: 2006-11-01

Morton Feldman: Composing by Numbers - The Graphic Scores, 1950-67

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First-rate Feldman.

Morton Feldman: Composing by Numbers - The Graphic Scores, 1950-67

Manufacturer: Mode
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ASIN: B0007XGPNG
Release Date: 2005-04-26

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First-rate Feldman........2007-01-03

This CD collects most of the works composed by Feldman using the "graph" notation (boxes indicating general pitch range and number of pitches to be played in a given rhythmic unit). Four pieces (Atlantis, Ixion, The King Of Denmark, and one other work [unspecified in the liner notes]) are not included. Those included in this CD are key works, however. Some are orchestral works, performed by The Barton Workshop via overdubbing. All the works are poetic and the orchestral work "Out Of 'Last Pieces'" is performed here in a much more cohesive and fluent realization than the rather clumsy New York Philharmonic version issued in the 1960's. (This work, incidentally, is listed here as a "First Recording", but the NY Philharmonic version takes precedence.) Although the five "Projections" are also available in another recent Mode recording, every version of these pieces is bound to be very different, so having duplicate recordings is not a problem at all. In fact, it's a definite plus, in that one can compare the different versions and consider the similarities and differences. In any case, this recording is a must for any Feldman fan, and an important addition to any avant-garde chamber and orchestral (and piano; 2 of the works are for solo piano) collection.

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...Berwald is not a Baroque composer!

Berwald: Septet in Bf; Quartet in Ef

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ASIN: B000002ZX1
Release Date: 1996-06-10

Tracks:

Quartet In E Flat Major For Piano And Wind: Adagio - Allegro ma non troppo
Quartet In E Flat Major For Piano And Wind: Adagio
Quartet In E Flat Major For Piano And Wind: Finale: Allegro
Piano Trio No. 2 In F Minor: Allegro molto
Piano Trio No. 2 In F Minor: Larghetto
Piano Trio No. 2 In F Minor: Scherzo: Molto allegro
Piano Trio No. 2 In F Minor: Allegro molto
Grand Septet In B Flat Major: Adagio - Allegro molto
Grand Septet In B Flat Major: Poco adagio
Grand Septet In B Flat Major: Finale: Allegro con spirito

Customer Reviews:

...Berwald is not a Baroque composer!.......2000-10-06

...I own this album and it's fantastic to hear the music of this much neglected Swedish composer... Berwald lived from 1796 to 1868 and is through and through a Romantic composer. His four symphonies are quite inventive and his piano concerto in D Major is very exciting indeed. This poor guy never got the recognition he deserved in his lifetime, and it's high time people took notice if only to show that Sweden has produced some very fine composers.

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