[SunTanScanMan]

 
So the Prager is your fav for Dvorak? Which quartet pieces from Dvorak do you like most?

Yeah. But I haven't listened to the full sets by Panocha and Stamic.
1st SQ is what grabbed me at first, and opened the door for the rest of Dvorak's chamber works. It must have imprinted on me, as it remains my favourite. He composed it after avoiding the draft and according to the same liner notes it describes the his relief and joy. I get a lot more melancholy from the piece though which I love.
 
no. 10, and 14 are great too.

I don't think Prager recorded any of his quintets.. flipping love the op.97
 

 

[RRod]

For something entirely different:

 
The Nørgård piece is a trip so far.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

  For something entirely different:

 
The Nørgård piece is a trip so far.

This percussion? Jazz symphonic?

 

[RRod]

 
This percussion? Jazz symphonic?

 
The Nørgård and Xenakis are solo percussion. The G-H piece is percussion solo + orchestra (not jazzy at all). Kind of Rouse-ish or Rouse + Kalniņš.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

   
The Nørgård and Xenakis are solo percussion. The G-H piece is percussion solo + orchestra (not jazzy at all). Kind of Rouse-ish or Rouse + Kalniņš.

will check it out. Need some novelty outside of the usual suspects....

 

[SunTanScanMan]

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/apr/26/five-myths-contemporary-classical-music
 
http://www.theguardian.com/music/series/a-guide-to-contemporary-classical-music
 
I've recently been reading these article series, think Mortensen was mentioned in one of the articles. May be wrong. Trying to get some context so that I find some direction in my research into new music
 

 

[CanadianMaestro]

Scandinavian orchs/conductors, and composers (mostly "contemporary" music) have been completely off my radar and out of my collection. I just find many of the pieces too minimalist.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

That Norgard I Ching percussion piece was pretty good. As were the articles. Thanks. Will have to probe some more online. Sibelius and Grieg were as far as I got with Scand composers.

 

[RRod]

  That Norgard I Ching percussion piece was pretty good. As were the articles. Thanks. Will have to probe some more online. Sibelius and Grieg were as far as I got with Scand composers.

 
Norgard has some pretty out there stuff, well worth digging. On the more pleasant side I've been enjoying Geirr Tveitt, who's been getting the deluxe treatment on both BIS and Naxos lately.

 

[RRod]

Hold the phone, how has this existed for 9 years and I never knew about it‽‽ I'm slipping in my old age:

 

[CanadianMaestro]

 
 
Emil Gilels did a marvelous Lyric Pieces.
 

 

[RRod]

Yeah I guess I don't check out the accordion literature nearly enough

 

[CanadianMaestro]

  Yeah I guess I don't check out the accordion literature nearly enough

Would be interesting -- say, Beethoven's 9th on accordion. I've heard it on piano -- surprisingly good.
Harmonica....now  there's a novelty. 

 

[RRod]

  Emil Gilels did a marvelous Lyric Pieces.

 
Already have it. The one I'm trying to find is Ciccolini's complete set, which seems to have been dumped in the pit with the ET cartridges.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

   
Already have it. The one I'm trying to find is Ciccolini's complete set, which seems to have been dumped in the pit with the ET cartridges.

What are ET cartridges?

 
8-tracks? That was a looong time ago.