tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post8202159149967165868..comments2024-03-28T19:42:09.480-04:00Comments on The Shellackophile: The New Music QuartetBryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501152469280142504noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post-42217699355744431932013-12-22T20:42:42.556-05:002013-12-22T20:42:42.556-05:00It works now. Thank you. Great recording by the ...It works now. Thank you. Great recording by the sadly short-lived New Music Quartet. Too bad corporate music did not allow the New Music Quartet to record a complete Beethoven cycle.elliot Rothenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14385929063415019514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post-30088323344672104882013-12-20T19:34:59.227-05:002013-12-20T19:34:59.227-05:00Thank you for sharing this great recording. I hav...Thank you for sharing this great recording. I have attempted several times to download it, but it appears to be no longer available. Hope you can fix this. Thank you.elliot Rothenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14385929063415019514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post-57306977931661752432013-11-13T16:09:32.476-05:002013-11-13T16:09:32.476-05:00I am so used to the Balinese McPhee that I forget ...I am so used to the Balinese McPhee that I forget he once lived in the long shadow of the neo-classical Stravinsky. The Piano Concerto is a wonderful work with an especially notable slow movement. But a genius like McPhee had to find his own ground to stand on. The Sessions, on the other hand, is mature and non-derivative. The 12-minute opening contrapuntal lento is intensely mournful until it explodes in temporary release at around the 8-minute mark. To follow this slow movement with another even darker one ("tranquillo" hardly seems apt, although there is a serenity at the end) suggests deeply personal, possibly programmatic, reasons for composing this very inward, dramatic work. Except for the scherzo, this music stays very pensive. By the way, the playing strikes me as consummate. Sessions is in very sympathetic hands. Thank you for this wonderful recording. Please bring more of Columbia's many releases of contemporary American music in the 1950s out of mothballs. I would especially love to hear Eugene Ormandy's many definitive recordings of Virgil Thomson. And any and all Henry Cowell, especially his early enfant terrible stuff, would be appreciated.David Federmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08436365678466879799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post-15596955777062073612013-11-13T01:38:15.069-05:002013-11-13T01:38:15.069-05:00Hi Bryan ! and many thanks for this post. Contrary...Hi Bryan ! and many thanks for this post. Contrary to Session (always an interesting composer) finally not so many recordings of Mc Phee's music. Listening to it now, wonderful !!!centurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13385104488629963661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631827761986497493.post-49281245532237839272013-11-12T17:27:30.380-05:002013-11-12T17:27:30.380-05:00Fascinating. Many thanks, Bryan.Fascinating. Many thanks, Bryan.Philliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11695978009050320418noreply@blogger.com