»Betsy Jolas: Femme le soir« ce soir sur @francemusique.fr ! Many thanks to Arnaud Merlin for the broadcast featuring excerpts from the new double album by #AnssiKarttunen and @nicolashodges.bsky.social: www.radiofrance.fr/francemusiqu...
Rolf Riehm died last Saturday. May he rest in peace.
If any pianists out there are in the market for a German teaching job, there‘s one available here. Please forward to any likely candidates.
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Rehearsing Boucourechliev’s excellent and almost-vanished Sonata of 1959 in the Bulgarian Radio. It was in this hall in 1948 that he won the competition which made him famous in Bulgaria and enabled his escape to Paris - just as such escapes were about to become substantially harder (I’m told…)
bastille musique presents its thirty-seventh release »Betsy Jolas: Femme le soir« featuring world premiere recordings by #AnssiKarttunen (violoncello) and @nicolashodges.bsky.social (piano). Get it from @bandcamp.com or your local record store: bastillemusique.bandcamp.com/album/betsy-...
Tomorrow at WDR Funkhaus recording mostly songs (Bill Hopkins, Rebecca Saunders and Hans Thomalla) with Sarah Maria Sun.
In case any of you are looking for a place to study, this is an excellent course. There are still spaces: deadline tomorrow! Tell all your friends! 😎
Hot off the presses, new double CD of Michael Finnissy’s pieces for clarinet solo, and for clarinet and piano, and a little bonus just for piano because why not. Title is Runnin’ Wild, cover photo is Eadweard Muybridge’s Running at Full Speed, an ‘Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement’, the animal in this case being a chap who seems to have just remembered where he left his clothes and wishes to be reunited with them post haste.
Well hello there!
I was going to recommend exactly the same two discs.
Big Change in Trio Accanto / Große Veränderung im Trio Accanto
❤️ Big Change in Trio Accanto / Große Veränderung im Trio Accanto ❤️ www.trio-accanto.com/index.html ❤️
Did you lose the box? Want to borrow mine?
Release date 14 March 2025.
Indeed.
Ideally those two are the same, obvs. But pragmatically is the main thing.
Each of the two staves adds up correctly to two crotchets, a quaver and a triplet semiquaver (AKA two quarter notes, an eighth note and a triplet sixteenth note).
Bill Hopkins: Études en série (no. VIII)
I'm curious. How does the hive mind think this can be re-notated in a way which is "better" (as judged by me). No prizes. Correct answers only.
Malevich expressionist self portrait
Malevich expressionist self portrait, with box and arrow drawn on, pointing out the black square
Kazimir Malevich, "Self Portrait" (1911), earliest known version of the Black Square
Alexander Goehr (1932-2024)
'Little Harmonic Labyrinth' from 'Symmetry Disorders Reach' (2002)
a little from so much
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What isn’t beautiful is the price new old stock tapes go for, up to €300 for the best quality sealed cassettes. Yes that’s each, not a box of 10.
I am following it up with the US Premiere of "bTunes", the concerto she wrote for me. (A BBC Proms commission, premiered with BBC SO and Karina Canellakis.) philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-...
The other day I finished recording #betsyjolas 's solo piano music: 13 pieces written over the space of half a century. It forms part of a 2CD-set along with @AnssiKarttunen 's wonderful recordings of her solo cello works, and 4 duos for us both. Watch this space.
Still looking forward to Freire, but also Kovacevich/Davis, De Larrocha/Mehta and De Larrocha/Chailly. I’m going to start lacing all this with jazz, otherwise I’ll get Beethoven-deaf.
Didn’t get to Freire yet. But did Gieseking/Fluffy (good in some predictable aspects, but problematic), Long/Munch (surprisingly, no perversions - rather good in fact), Tan/Norrington, Arrau/Davis (magnificent playing and conducting, but you need patience, it lasts 40:35).
Sweet. Do you have it? And a cassette player? Retroman Rosman.
Many more to remind myself of.
Such a thing exists but I certainly don’t have it. (Cover from internet.)
Have also spun this which is extremely good.
That’s probably EMI? Then I have it in a Gieseking brick.
