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Seán wrote: I must listen to Reich's music. My young lad likes it.

Off topic perhaps: I am not one for rock guitar however, I adore Pat Metheny's music and music-making.

Mornin' Seán, you may like this one:



Metheny tunes arranged for classical guitar in a baroque style (gavottes, gigues etc.)

Mark

markof wrote:

Seán wrote: I must listen to Reich's music. My young lad likes it.

Off topic perhaps: I am not one for rock guitar however, I adore Pat Metheny's music and music-making.

Mornin' Seán, you may like this one:



Metheny tunes arranged for classical guitar in a baroque style (gavottes, gigues etc.)

Mark

. Hi Mark, I do have a few of Metheny's recordings and a couple of DVDs, I find his live performances are superb. I don't have that recording and must investigate further, thank you.

Last night I listened to Kubelik and the BSO's superb recording from 1971:



Bedřich Smetana
Ma Vlast
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik conducting.
Oh I do LOVE Rafael Kubelik's music-making.

My music room is full of the sound from Orchestra Mozart led by the GREAT Claudio Abbado on BBC Radio 3:

11.45am Disc of the Week

SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great'
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 4794652

markof wrote:
Good morning Fergus,

Enjoyable listen for me. Reich always appeals to my rock music sensibilities - emphasis on complex rhythms and constantly changing melodic/harmonic structures.

The core of this album is based on some Radiohead tunes and is somewhat more "raw" than the usual Reich fare. The version of electric counterpoint is good but I probably prefer the Metheny version from the 1998 album Different Trains.

Sounds great on the HiFi - production wise and especially the separation of instruments is excellent.

Mark

Thank you for that informative response Mark. I do not have much of Reich's music in my collection at the moment.

Seán wrote:My music room is full of the sound from Orchestra Mozart led by the GREAT Claudio Abbado on BBC Radio 3:

11.45am Disc of the Week

SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great'
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 4794652

I am sure that you loved that broadcast Seán!

Delightful, charming music.

fergus wrote:

markof wrote:
Good morning Fergus,

Enjoyable listen for me. Reich always appeals to my rock music sensibilities - emphasis on complex rhythms and constantly changing melodic/harmonic structures.

Mark

Thank you for that informative response Mark. I do not have much of Reich's music in my collection at the moment.

Personally I think a good place to start with Reich is ..



http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reich-Drumming- ... h+drumming

You will love it or hate it .. the first movement of 'Drumming' is the best ..

James

Seán wrote:My music room is full of the sound from Orchestra Mozart led by the GREAT Claudio Abbado on BBC Radio 3:

11.45am Disc of the Week

SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great'
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 4794652

I just received it last week. A gorgeous performance, so different from the Chamber Orchestra of Europe cycle. I was surprised that this is a less HIP interpretation than the earlier one, here Abbado allows the usual tempo fluctuations of the Furtwängler era, but then I thought: when you grow older you remember fondly what you learned, and probably heard, in your youth. This is Abbado reminiscing the performances he must have heard in his youth by the likes of Scherhen and Karajan. And it is a lovely, warm and high spirited performance, the life long experience of a conductor who took music seriously.

Jose Echenique wrote:

Seán wrote:My music room is full of the sound from Orchestra Mozart led by the GREAT Claudio Abbado on BBC Radio 3:

11.45am Disc of the Week

SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great'
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 4794652

I just received it last week. A gorgeous performance, so different from the Chamber Orchestra of Europe cycle. I was surprised that this is a less HIP interpretation than the earlier one, here Abbado allows the usual tempo fluctuations of the Furtwängler era, but then I thought: when you grow older you remember fondly what you learned, and probably heard, in your youth. This is Abbado reminiscing the performances he must have heard in his youth by the likes of Scherhen and Karajan. And it is a lovely, warm and high spirited performance, the life long experience of a conductor who took music seriously.

It is an extraordinary performance by the Orchestra Mozart and, yes Pepe, it is so different from Abbado's previous recording of the Ninth. What a truly wonderful musician he was.