December 27, 2015
Banned Rehearsal 414 [February 1996, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer]
These clothes do not fit. Something is about to itch. Cabin fever. Stubborn drums. Finally boils over. Returns to the sullen wall.
Lauda Anima (midi version) - Keith Eisenbrey
When I finish a piece I usually like it pretty well, but I am always pleased when they get better upon re-listening. The sense I have is that this piece builds itself a delicately balanced ladder, one stick at a time, slowly and precariously ascending into darkness. It manages to live pretty comfortably in midi, but I will always regret that there is no recording of Marcus Oldham's superb performance of it at St. Marks a decade or so ago.Outrageous - Paul Simon [from The Essential Paul Simon]
Paul gets down to the funk.
December 28, 2015
Qixingshan - Benjamin Boretz - Momenta Quartet [on Open Space 32]
Uncanny intervals, inexorable stillness, ape rage exhausting itself on an empty landscape.
O voi, troppo felici - Gesualdo - Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley
I kept getting the sense that all these chromatic shifts would suddenly come into focus and be completely regular, if only one could find exactly the right point from which to hear it.
Such a small ensemble to make so many disparate sounds. It is as though there are more groupings than are mathematically possible. The secret is that he treats each register of each instrument as a new instrument, so that any two have among them a wealth of possibilities to work with. Thankfully, Herbert doesn't over-inflate his ensemble much for this one, so it comes across more like chamber than orchestra music, which is all to the good.
Petites Pieces "La Capricieuse" Wq. 117 #33 - C.P.E. Bach - Miklos Spanyi
Breaking the stranglehold of baroque practice in the name of private amusement.
December 29, 2015
Quartet in D Major Op. 17 #6 - Haydn - Tatrai Quartet
Concerto in C minor K. 491 - Mozart - English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Malcolm Bilson
Baroque combinations interrupted by articulating cadences. The soloist's opening salvo drives a wedge into a crack in the rhythm.
December 30, 2015
String Quartet in F major, Op. 59 #1 - Beethoven - Amadeus Quartet
The politics here are of intimates, not nations - familial social.
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