Saturday, December 1, 2012

Playlist

Recorded

November 25, 2012
Gradus 179 - Neal Meyer

Sequence of incident serves dynamic configuration
how it goes by is only to get at how it hangs in space

Paradise, Mt Rainier National Park - October 2005
Suscipe quaeso Domino - Thomas Tallis - BBC Singers, Bo Holton

Lifting solid sound into thin air

Caligaverunt - de Victoria - [from Rassegna Internazionale di Capelle Musicali Loreto 15-19 Aprile 1998]

Short phrases make intimate conversation

Salve Regina - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana - [from Rassegna Internazionale di Capelle Musicali Loreto 15-19 Aprile 1998]

Clarity of encounter phrase to phrase voice to voice chant to canon

Violinkonzert in E Major BWV 1042 - Bach - Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane, Hilary Hahn
Violinkonzert in A minor BWV 1041 - Bach - Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane, Hilary Hahn

An interesting thing is that in the movements of these concerti the play of balanced answering phrases is not the default method of unification. Here, often, subsequent phrases echo or amplify, veer or renew. When they do answer and balance, they do so with a vengeance.

Florida - 1983
Also hat Gott der Welt geliebt BWV 68 - Bach - Gächinger Kantorei, Helmut Rilling

The headphrase provides a handle to which all else attaches, a hub, a stable configuration. The text for glossing.

Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild BWV 79 - Bach - Gächinger Kantorei, Helmut Rilling

There is some intensely complex music here, especially the opening chorus.

Süsser Trost, mein Jesus Kommt BWV 151 - Bach - Gächinger Kantorei, Helmut Rilling

Expressive, but not dramatic.

November 26, 2012
Weichet nur, betrübten Schatten BWV 202 - Bach - Gächinger Kantorei, Helmut Rilling

The introduction to this set of bucolic dance-y songs is devastatingly beautiful.

November 27, 2012
L'Amant malheureux - Sylvius Leopold Weiss - Lutz Kirchhof

It may have something to do with how a late baroque sense of what can count as music fits itself onto the exigencies of the lute, but there is something about how the melodies hang within the figuration that reminds me of much older music, Machaut perhaps.

Symphony in D Major Hob. I:104 - Haydn - Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

November 29, 2012
Symphony in E-flat Major Hob. I:103 - Haydn - Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

In number 104 the slow introduction is a way of setting up goal posts and corners on the field within which the tonality is then to play. Once the movement proper begins the introduction vanishes. In 103 the introduction becomes part of a much crazier, Romantic idea, turning the entire movement, and thereby the symphony inside out. For some reason I wrote in my notebook that "2nd movement is like breakfast" but I can't remember why.

Piano Concerto in C minor Op. 37 - Beethoven - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, Rudolf Serkin

Serkin is generous with clarity, almost to a fault.


Upcoming

Saturday May 4, 2013 at 8:00 PM
Keith Eisenbrey and Neal Meyer at The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Music for solo piano
Eisenbrey: Welcome to my planet. I come in peace.
Meyer: Cage - Solo for Piano

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