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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But I think as regards Ferneyhough, enough is as good as a feast.

A typo here, Oddy? Surely you meant "Ferneyhough is as good as a feast"?

[geofflikesmusic]

next episode will have a performance of some Morton Feldman solo piano by John Tilbury!

Wonderfully underrated composer, and for me his best interpreter for piano.

[Bryn]

next episode will have a performance of some Morton Feldman solo piano by John Tilbury!

Wonderfully underrated composer, and for me his best interpreter for piano.

I guess that will be a matter of spinning his London/Hall recording. If you have not already heard it, I highly recommend the recording of his 10 June 2006 performance of Feldman's Triadic Memories (St. John's, Smith Square) on the ATOPOS label (ATOPOS 012/013). Not the easiest of double CD issues to get hold of, but well worth the effort.

http://www.classical.net/music/recs/.../atp12013a.php

http://www.atoposmusic.com/catalogue_en.html

Scroll down and use the arrow at the bottom right of the page to navigate to discs 012/013.

[geofflikesmusic]

I guess that will be a matter of spinning his London/Hall recording. If you have not already heard it, I highly recommend the recording of his 10 June 2006 performance of Feldman's Triadic Memories (St. John's, Smith Square) on the ATOPOS label (ATOPOS 012/013). Not the easiest of double CD issues to get hold of, but well worth the effort.

http://www.classical.net/music/recs/.../atp12013a.php

http://www.atoposmusic.com/catalogue_en.html


Scroll down and use the arrow at the bottom right of the page to navigate to discs 012/013.

Thanks Bryn, I will check it out!

I kick myself almost every day, for not buying his 'All Piano' set of Morton Feldman's music

[Bryn]

Thanks Bryn, I will check it out!

I kick myself almost every day, for not buying his 'All Piano' set of Morton Feldman's music

Well, until you manage to get hold of a copy, content youself with the knowledge that John Tilbury picked Triadic Memories for the St. John's, Smith Square concert because it was the one recording in that All Piano set that he was somewhat unhappy with. The ATOPOS discs offer a considerable improvement upon the studio recording.

By the way, the liner notes for the "All Piano" set may be found here:

http://matchlessrecordings.com/node/271

The name of the recording venue which may get garbled in transcription there, should read "Tonstudio Ströher".

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

2006 was also the year that Tilbury and the Smith Quartet performed the complete works for piano and (the various members of a) String Quartet at Huddersfield - performances that sparked my love of Feldman's work. There is an Audio DVD (in order to accommodate the length of the works without side breaks) of their performances of Piano and String Quartet and For John Cage from the Festival on
http://www.matchlessrecordings.com/node/327

[Bryn]

2006 was also the year that Tilbury and the Smith Quartet performed the complete works for piano and (the various members of a) String Quartet at Huddersfield - performances that sparked my love of Feldman's work. There is an Audio DVD (in order to accommodate the length of the works without side breaks) of their performances of Piano and String Quartet and For John Cage from the Festival on
http://www.matchlessrecordings.com/node/327

It's the second volume of that series of audio DVD issues that I referred to earlier. Not only do you get the advantage of a lack of disc changes, the audio is 24 bit, so the dynamic gradations are even more clearly defined than they would be on CD. The Smith Quartet will be playing Feldman's Second String Quartet in Glasgow next March. I understand that Darragh Morgan will have left them by then. Anyone know who is to replace him?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's the second volume of that series of audio DVD issues that I referred to earlier. Not only do you get the advantage of a lack of disc changes, the audio is 24 bit, so the dynamic gradations are even more clearly defined than they would be on CD.

At the risk of "plugging" a store, if anyone does have difficulty getting hold of the Discs, I do know that Forsyth's in Manchester have access to it and might even have it in stock. You'll have to pay "store prices", however.

[Bryn]

At the risk of "plugging" a store, if anyone does have difficulty getting hold of the Discs, I do know that Forsyth's in Manchester have access to it and might even have it in stock. You'll have to pay "store prices", however.

If one can get to Cafe Oto next Sunday evening, I feel sure Eddie is likely to cave a copy or two available at his new book launch. Otherwise:

http://matchlessrecordings.com/node/327

[Oddball]

next episode will have a performance of some Morton Feldman solo piano by John Tilbury!

Wonderfully underrated composer, and for me his best interpreter for piano.

Yes an interesting instalment of H&N 50, although for me this music did not stand out from the crowd, the crowd in this case being the clutch of US minimalist composers '50s onwards.
But I guess it's easy to be too critical of minimalist music.

And may be I shouldn't rush to judgement, having listened to this a few more times.

The speakers were generally very interesting, but, I don't know why one of the speakers referred, incidentally, to an analogy with Ben Webster . As far as I can gather, Feldman had nothing overtly to do with Jazz (other than his first name "Morton"), and I couldn't detect a Jazzy influence in this composition.