Your Favorite Unusual Pairings?
I enjoy recordings with a eclectic mix of composers together on the one recording that I wouldn't normally put together. What are your favorite unusual pairings and who do you think has the best repertoire?
I apologise if this is a boring post trying to get some musical discussion going. That "dinosaurs" and non-dinosaurs alike may appreciate.
Last edited by Lenfer; Jul-30-2012 at 17:21.
Well I've made some mixes for friends that include Beethoven and Cage :3 both of whom I love and consider favorites, and personal musical heroes as a composer myself. I think I more consistently love Beethoven's repertoire, because I'm not a huge fan of many of Cage's strictly chance stuff, nor the happenings (I do like some of the chance pieces though). I mostly love Cage for his more personal works, the ones that are written down and you can hear his taste coming through, and his ideas about sound in general (along with the same from Varese) are very inspiring. Don't quite agree with this one though:
"Beethoven was wrong!" - John Cage
"Your opinion is WRONG Mr. Cage" - me :3
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Love both works, stunning combination of baroque and contemporary.
Und Morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen.....
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Last edited by Lenfer; Aug-02-2012 at 04:23.
Good thread. I'll be back but I'll put a thread I made before -
Interesting couplings on CD that you like, would recommend...
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress - Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Thanks your thread didn't show up in search but we all know how good the TC search is. I look forward to your post oh and I like this...Originally Posted by Sid James
Will have to check it out I have another good recording.
Last edited by Lenfer; Aug-02-2012 at 05:04.
Okay I will start with one of my best buys of last year, an album that freshly came out then. Pianist Francesco Tristano's bachCage album.
An earlier 'review' of mine on it here:
Current Listening...
& another one here:
Current Listening...
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress - Mohandas K. Gandhi.
I'm conservative on this issue. I haven't owned many "period-gapped" recs. IIRC, the one Art Rock mentioned, is the only one I currently have in my collection. Mutter tried to make a case for, by saying there was "profound spiritual affinity" with Gubaidulina and Bach. There may be, but they don't belong on the same rec.
The Gielen Mahler series has examples of odd pairings. I don't even care for mixing one composer's genre on a rec.
^^Funny re the Gubaidulina & Bach violin concertos coupling. I played it to a friend of mine, who's more into music of Romantic era and Modern period up to about 1945. He's okay with other things but that's his focus. Anyway, he really liked the Gubaidulina on the cd (well he liked both that and the Bach, actually). While me, more into post 1945 things, I liked the Bach far more than the Gubaidulina. It may be because its so different from her chamber things I've got on Naxos cd (eg. 'Seven Words') which are more pared down, obviously for smaller forces, & chamber tends to be my favourite of all instrumental music. But its interesting and I'll have to relisten to that cd again as my opinion might have easily changed (its been about 2 years).
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress - Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Vivaldi and Ligeti are quite different except for the i at the end of their name.
Cellist Pieter Wispelwey's album putting Walton's Cello Concerto (written for Piatigorsky in the 1950's - a superb combination of neo-romanticism and serial techniques) with works for solo cello by Bloch, Britten and Ligeti. The concerto was recorded live in Sydney with the Sydney Symphony Orch. under Jeffrey Tate and the others where done in Europe. On the ONYX label. Good stuff.
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress - Mohandas K. Gandhi.
I've posted my thoughts on the recent Schoenberg/Bruckner recording there, the works being orchestral pieces.
It's a fascinating thread Lenfer. For me, I'm usually one of those dinosaurs struggling thinking 'who on earth would buy such a wacky programming!'
But the great thing is..at least it's consistent.....violin concerto matched with violin concerto, or cellist playing different eras of concertos.
What really does my head in, is having a piano trio paired with a string quartet instead of a string quartet paired with another string quartet. It's really too much.
I remember thinking the Bach was really out of place there, but I have a fondness for the record because it got me in to Gubaidulina's work after a disappointing experience with her Stimmen Verstummen symphony.
Last edited by Crudblud; Aug-03-2012 at 23:53.
It's interesting how many pairings there are with Bach, especially since this is one of my favorite pairings: Bach with Nancarrow.
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Last edited by Manxfeeder; Aug-04-2012 at 03:09.
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