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Author Topic:   music, or lack of
mick
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Message 3 of 22 (224311)
07-17-2005 9:39 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by bobbins
07-17-2005 7:36 PM


hi bobbins,
Bach's violin partitas and sonatas
Bartok's string quartets
Janacek's solo piano music
Anything by Scriabin
Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated"
Gubaidulina's viola concerto
Basically, anything that makes me feel either cerebral or impassioned!
Mick
added in edit: unforgivably I forgot Shostakovich's preludes and fugues. To be honest, if you want to do a "desert island discs" kind of thing, I could survive quite happily for the rest of my life with nothing but the Bartok string quartets.
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mick
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Posts: 913
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Message 5 of 22 (224324)
07-17-2005 11:00 PM
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07-17-2005 9:50 PM


Get the Rzewski, it's worth it. I think only one Cd is available right now. He was (is?) a Chilean socialist who ran away from the dictatorship to the US, where he was a music Professor at some University, possibly Columbia. He wrote music for solo piano which uses the instrument in a very percussive manner inspired by Negro work songs and the like. It's cool, slightly jazzy and entirely unique. "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" is based on a Chilean revolutionary song, with variations on the theme. Some of the variations are incredibly moving, and others are virtuosic technically challenging things. It's all very weird - you'll like it.
Mick
Added in edit - here's the link
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos
Edited url to fix page width - The Queen
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