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Post by Zi on Feb 6, 2023 9:17:38 GMT
Goldberg Variations - Seldom Sene. Seldom Sene is a quintet of recorder players. We used to listen to this recording a lot when we were travelling between our old and our present home. It was a distance of about 100 miles so we used to come here - stay for a few days and then go back. This house was a complete wreck when we bought it and not a huge amount better when we moved in - but it had been rewired by then. It's strange listening to it now because it so evokes that journey. We'd be entertaining our little collie by pointing our big lorries - she loves them! And listening to this. It is a beautiful recording - they are a fantastic quintet and the recorders are exquisite together - extremely pure. I so wish I could play like that! As it stands I can stumble through Variatio 1 and possibly a couple of others I've now forgotten about - on the descant. I haven't as yet tried much Bach on the treble. But it will be a travesty of the original. edited to add
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Post by keff on Feb 6, 2023 11:58:56 GMT
The Bach works so well! I also liked the Bunny Berrigan and thought it was a very good recording from 1938. I have been transferring CDs to usb flash drive this morning; Sgt.Pepper and Abba Gold. Queen is next on the list.
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Post by Zi on Feb 6, 2023 12:26:56 GMT
ABBA are very clever. Wonderful harmonies. Absolutely adore Freddie! A definite favourite here! I'm glad you like Seldom Sene. They also are a favourite here. edit - Forgot to say that I hope you're feeling better today keff !
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Post by keff on Feb 6, 2023 13:06:02 GMT
Thanks Zi. Yes feeling ok today. I sometimes get very mild migraines, not very often, when my eyesight can degrade. It only lasted about fifteen minutes yesterday. I have had a couple where speech has been impaired and I couldn't tell people I had a migraine but that is quite a long time ago.
Just transferred one CD of Queen a few minutes ago. We only have a Windows 7 version of Media player and naming the files is a pain.
We were on the Magical Mystery Tour in Liverpool some years ago and the tour guide mentioned Freddy Mercury's a few times. He said that the Queen coat of arms was inspired (or perhaps copied, can't remember) from a Liverpool hotel's coat of arms.
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Post by Zi on Feb 6, 2023 13:42:45 GMT
Good! I had migraines as a youngster but I grew out of them. I do remember though - the darkened rooms, the nausea... my father sitting with me. They're not fun. I'm really glad you're feeling better!
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Post by pavane on Feb 6, 2023 14:02:48 GMT
Seldom Sene are great - I love their harmonising. It's also nice when music brings back memories - we had the French Suites as wedding reception music so listening to them is always a nice reminder of that.
It's amazing how well the Goldbergs transfer to other instrumentation. I've got Geert van Gele's CD of the whole set played by him on various recorders with harpsichord accompaniment, which naturally sounds different again. In fact, it's amazing in general how much Bach has been moved not just onto other instruments but other genres altogether - Modern Jazz Quartet, Jacques Loussier and Wendy Carlos to name but a few! I think the B♭- A - C - B♮has appeared in any number of things in any number of genres too.
Keff: glad to hear you are better today. Have fun with the CD ripping Some years ago I girded my loins (whatever that actually means) and spent about a week with CD transfers going on all over the house - I had 2 desktops and 3 laptops all on the go and got a lot of it done. Now I generally rip a CD as soon as I buy it - there are some that I buy from amazon where you get the mp3s thrown in with the purchase, so I download them and have listened to whatever it is long before the CD turns up, and I come across the occasional CD that has never been unwrapped, presumably having been plonked on a shelf on arrival having already been heard.
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Post by keff on Feb 6, 2023 15:08:18 GMT
Thanks pavane. Good choice of emoji for CD ripping.
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Post by Zi on Feb 6, 2023 15:33:01 GMT
Some years ago I girded my loins (whatever that actually means)
Well I can help and I have an illustration for you to show you how to do just that: HereThis site is a veritable treasure trove of things you might need on your journey through life... I particularly liked the bit how to survive if you fall through ice and matching a tie with your shirt... Sorted...
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Post by keff on Feb 6, 2023 15:43:14 GMT
How to clean your car (or detail as said in the US) is based on an early 70's VW Beetle. I owned three of them, one after another. Non of them had built in radios.
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Post by Zi on Feb 6, 2023 15:55:44 GMT
And that has to bring us to this!
Enjoy!
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Post by Zi on Feb 7, 2023 9:31:04 GMT
Dan Laurin - Telemann Twelve Fantasias, Bach BMV 1013 and CPE Sonata per il flauto traverso... This is a double CD. Telemann on one disc and the two Bachs on the other.
I'm trying to find a recording (on recorder) of TMV E Minor 33:21:4 - It's one of the Telemann Fantasias and so far all I've found is harpsichord (which is a bit percussive for my taste) and piano. I'm currently trying to play the last part (the Allegro) on the treble and I'd love to hear it played properly. However, any recorder players (or flautists for that matter) who've tackle the Fantasias often adopt an odd way of explaining which one they're playing and as they sometimes change the key as well, it's a bit of challenge finding whether or not anyone has actually recorded it. So far, we've hit a zero. My husband has the Fantasias on harpsichord - as I said - but I didn't enjoy hearing it like that. So, I'm now listening to any recording of the Fantasias I can find! They're all beautiful!
Anyway - here's Dan Laurin playing Telemann.
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Post by pavane on Feb 7, 2023 10:43:05 GMT
There is a recording of the complete set played by Erik Bosgraaf that is available from his webshop (see also my reply to your Critique post wrt EB).
I'm sure you know about this but the score, should you need it, is available from Peter Billam's website. The problem with many of the Fantasias is that they were composed for flute and thus feature an alarming number of high notes, in particular top C#s which are, to all intents and purposes, not playable on the recorder*. He has transposed them appropriately and offers some performance notes. It does mean that some of the pieces are moved from relatively easy keys to relatively difficult ones If you play them on your Yamaha tenor the C# is easy so you can play them in the original key!
*For those of you who don't play the recorder, most will play a little over 2 fully chromatic octaves with the unfortunate exception of the note a semitone above the tonic of the third octave, so for a C instrument, it won't play top C#, but will play the D above it and maybe one or two more notes. Given that pre-Boehm flutes were generally D instruments, there are lots of C#s in the music written for them. There are ways of getting the C# but they are really awkward as they involve blocking the bell with your knee, ideally while not knocking your teeth out.
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Post by Zi on Feb 7, 2023 10:53:32 GMT
Great! Thank you! There will be some more Erik winging this way. I have some of his recordings but not that Telemann.
I love this thread. It's had me listen to all kinds of things I'd forgotten about and it (and the classical thread) has suggested some new things! I am in awe of the Telemann I've come across for treble - some is so simple and yet so effective and some (like the allegro I'm learning) is really catchy - both of us keep humming it.
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Post by keff on Feb 7, 2023 11:40:30 GMT
Birdsong for the last 60 minutes as I cleared a flower bed for this year's growth. Had a robin for company.
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Post by pavane on Feb 7, 2023 12:34:40 GMT
Thanks pavane. Good choice of emoji for CD ripping. It is dire when you're trying to do lots of them at the same time! Some years ago I girded my loins (whatever that actually means)
Well I can help and I have an illustration for you to show you how to do just that: HereThis site is a veritable treasure trove of things you might need on your journey through life... I particularly liked the bit how to survive if you fall through ice and matching a tie with your shirt... Sorted...
Thank you for that - it's good to learn something new every day How to clean your car (or detail as said in the US) is based on an early 70's VW Beetle. I owned three of them, one after another. Non of them had built in radios.
My first decent car (ie not a wreck that constantly broke down) was a Beetle - great cars really, I loved the heating system that was just a couple of cables running back to the engine to operate flaps to direct the hot air out or in, until mine went rusty and stuck in the on position. Mine had an after-market addition of a pressured windscreen cleaner "powered" by the air in the spare tyre. No radio of course until you added one. Most cars in those days seemed to have things like radios added under the dash, powered by a tangle of wiring that connected to something it probably shouldn't have. I was being given a lift once in such a vehicle by a friend who was profoundly deaf, and the tangle of wiring caught fire. We had to stop on a motorway and ring the emergency services, and I had a very strange conversation with a police person who was getting quite grumpy about the fact that I was neither the owner nor the driver of the vehicle. Not a wonder Japanese cars caught on so quickly.
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